Broadband Society is evolving in the UK,
one of the principal markets in the international framework. We analyse it in
collaboration with Gerard Mulvihill. We can still recall the days prior to broadband
when dial-up connection was the means by which we accessed the Internet.
Dial-up speeds were pain staking slow and came with the added inconvenience of
not being able to utilise ones landline whilst on the Internet.
The rolling out of broadband in 2000 saw
the dial up connection being replaced by broadband which is termed by
Ofcom.org.co.uk as “a way of connecting to the Internet that allows information
to be carried at high speed to your personal computer, laptop, tablet,
smartphone, smart TV or other web-enabled device”, changing the way we work,
shop and play in an instant. It opened up a whole new world of streaming songs
and movies and skyping loved ones abroad.