UPDATE *4th July 2011*: On 13th May 2011 the UK government
finally set upon a definition that agrees with our own
conclusions. BDUK said that 90% of "people in each local
authority area" should have access to superfast (25Mbps+)
broadband ISP services by 2015. Thank god for that.Article
Index: Here is an incredibly simple question, what is a bicycle?
At this point your mind has probably conjured up something
resembling a two wheeled vehicle that is powered by foot pedals
and you'd be correct. Now try this one, what is broadband? Are
we having fun yet, what did your mind come up with this time?
Some of you probably came close but we can almost guarantee that
nobody got it perfectly correct because the term "broadband"
can, it appears, have different meanings depending on the
context. There was a time when broadband came synonymous with
"fast internet access", albeit spoken in comparison to 56Kbps
dialup connections, yet crucially what was fast then is slow
today. A small selection of broadband definitions from