Download a movie in just 2 mins; BROADBAND.THE next generation of superfast broadband was given approval by Ofcom yesterday. The new pounds 1.5billion fibreoptic network will be 25 times faster than today's speeds. Songs will take just two seconds to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. and DVD-quality films less than two minutes in the 100 megabit per second A megabit per second (abbreviated as Mbit/s, Mbps, or mbps) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to 1,000,000 bits per second. Because there are 8 bits in a byte, a transfer speed of 8 megabits per second (8 Mbps) is equivalent to 1,000,000 bytes system. Ed Richards, Ofcom chief executive, said: "There are no regulatory barriers in the way of investment in superfast broadband." BT Group's Ian Livingston said: "This gives us the green light to push ahead with our pounds 1.5billion super-fast broadband investment plans to reach at least 40 per cent of households by 2012." |
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