Few households are likely to get top speeds because of the limitations of the ADSL technology.
No existing cable operator or TV player or ADSL -- there's nothing, there's just mobile.
ADSL, a technology that turns a standard telephone line into just such a fat pipe.
Once they have access, companies will be able to offer their own brand high-speed ADSL net surfing services.
The telco's next move, in the summer, will be to offer ADSL services, including video-on-demand, to residential customers.
The entire cost for installing the ADSL equipment and upgrading the plant was 4 million pounds, said Ashcroft.
Take-up has increased 300% since November last year and ADSL has come down in price by 30% since then.
Consumers can switch between cable, fiber optic broadband or ADSL without having to reconfigure their home network or replace their router.
ENGADGET: Netgear D6300 mates 802.11ac WiFi with ADSL, risks one heck of a mismatch
Levy plans to move all of his Internet access to ADSL eventually.
But some analysts question whether this service heralds a big shift in Europe, which has been very slow to adopt ADSL for Internet access.
Currently BT is connecting around 20, 000 users to ADSL every week.
It will also offer standard broadband via ADSL in non-fibre areas.
And the product examples you cite attest to Alcatel's U.S. market leadership in the fast-growing optical submarine network, ADSL broadband Internet access and digital-loop carrier product areas.
Take-up of ADSL is up 300% since this time last year and the price has already fallen by around 30% according to a recent report commissioned by the government.
About 80% of the UK is now able to get broadband access through ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line), while about 40% of the country is covered by cable broadband connections.
It found that 2003 was a good year for consumers, with competition driving down the cost of a high-speed net connection over the phone line via ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line).
Defending BT's position as the dominant player in the ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) market, chief executive Ben Verwaayen said looser regulation would encourage BT investors to create a 21st Century network.
And as modem speeds climb, with ISDN, Cable, and ADSL becoming the new speed standards in the short years ahead, it looks like this next generation of "multiplayer gaming" will continue to soar well into the next century.
The latest addition to NETGEAR's family of high-speed 802.11ac wireless devices, the D6300 is designed to meet growing customer demand for a highly integrated WiFi ADSL modem router for better and faster wireless on Internet-enabled WiFi devices in the home.
ENGADGET: Netgear D6300 mates 802.11ac WiFi with ADSL, risks one heck of a mismatch
"Deutsche Telekom, for example, has been very vocal about DSL, but they haven't moved beyond announcements, " said Parnaby, who also believes that this is the first commercial ADSL service in Europe, although there are trials of the service in several countries.
The speed of ADSL gives websites the chance to make much greater use of video and audio, but so far few sites are geared up to offer more than low quality video or short clips that do not take too long to download.
This is a company which has had its fair share of critics in the past few years (not least from those who, like Clarkson himself, lobbied the company to provide ADSL in their area), so it may be feeling refreshed by this new-found self-confidence.
"The reason DSL hasn't been launched elsewhere in Europe is because the incumbents don't want to cannibalize their revenues and the competitive entrants don't have enough access to the network, " said Gavin Parnaby, an analyst at Datamonitor, who wrote a report earlier this year on ADSL and cable modem access in Europe.
"An increase of 3.1Mbps (34%) in UK broadband speeds is significant, but this is entirely down to the increased availability of fibre optic services and these do not come cheap - you could end up paying five times as much for fibre optic as you would for standard ADSL, " said Dominic Baliszewski, the website's telecoms expert.
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