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Article: Despite all the hype, free broadband will remain a pipe dream.(Business Report)
- Article from:
- The Star (South Africa)
- Article date:
- July 25, 2006
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In the UK, high-speed internet access not only gets faster every month, it gets cheaper as well.
Companies ranging from Rupert Murdoch's British Sky Broadcasting to France Telecom are now letting surfers on to their networks for nothing at all. Right now broadband is being given away in much the same way that credit card lenders offer free pens and fast food chains hand out toys.
Even by the standards of high technology, broadband has made a rapid descent from being a premium, high-price luxury to a disposable commodity.
Companies have become obsessed with convergence - the coming together of telecommunications, the internet and entertainment - ...