Thread: Happy Birthday UK Broadband

From last 10 years : 56 Kbps to 200 Mbps change in Britain

Broadband is ten years old, with Britain's first broadband customer celebrating a decade of high-speed internet access this week.

Like many Brits, single parent Mark Bush was frustrated with slow and expensive dial-up in the late nineties and agreed in March 2000 to become NTL's sole broadband client during a test period before the ISP began the full commercial roll-out of its high-speed service.

Bush was not charged for broadband access during the testing period, a far cry from the £300 per month he had been paying for dial-up access at the time.

"It was pretty impressive in the early days, with having the whole pipe to myself," he told BBC News - Introducing UK broadband's first customer, 10 years on

Happy Birthday UK Broadband: From 56K to 200Mb in 10 years - Broadband Genie

Where is UK and where are we????????