By Dan Ilett
Published: Tuesday 22 February 2005
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London
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Secretary General
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According to the INTUG presentation at the CMA annual Conference the UK is 15th out of 30 in number of actual broadband connections per hundred of popolution.
But what is broadband?
Until 1997 the target was competing full motion, broadcast quality, video networks to the home by 2002.
Now is appears to include always-on, contended Internet connections capable only of streaming, small screen, herky jerky images.
If we go back to the 1997 definition then anything under 2 megs uncontended does not count and the UK has barely entered the race.
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