Texas Instruments (TI) is opening a DSL (digital subscriber line) modem factory in Bejing, China, with Legend Group - the country's largest PC maker. The two companies will work together on a DSL consumer modem based on TI's DSL chips.
AOL France and French cable company NC Numericable are for the first time to offer cable modem Internet access to the towns surrounding Lyon. The service is the latest stage of a countrywide roll-out of high speed cable Internet access.
Lucent Technologies has unveiled a chip set which combines V.90, ADSL Lite and full ADSL access technologies in a PC or single modem. It eliminates the need for a separate analogue modem and DSL circuit board technologies.
The Swiss-based International Telecommunications Union is expected to accept new modem standard V.92 next month (July 2000). IDC predicts there will be 100 million analogue modem users in Europe by 2002.
Charging for the number of bytes transmitted per month, rather than a specified level of service, as Vodafone is doing, is GPRS at its most simplistic form. Vodafone is offering consumers free software that turns GPRS phones into modems.
Sky Digital customers who sign up for BT's "no-frills" broadband package will get their DSL modem for free, under an agreement announced today. The special offer, which is available to subscribers to Sky Digital's Sky World package, means a saving...