Broadband in the UK leads the world

Daily Telegraph: [In the UK,] Southern Railway and T-Mobile will unveil details [this] week of the world's first train wireless broadband service. The T-Mobile HotSpot service will allow up to 8,000 daily commuters on the London to Brighton route to access the internet. It will be launched in the summer. Links: Southern Railway T-Mobile announced the forthcoming service last February and said they will be offering limited free trials. For the tech-curious, here's how T-Mobile says it will work: [...] T-Mobile's HotSpot service is made possible by the installation of Wi-Fi access points within the train's carriages, which in turn are connected to a train from Amsterdam to Paris? Or G7, ahead of Canada, Japan, the United States, Germany, France and Italy. Soon more than half of all British net users will have a broadband home connection. Price is no longer an obstacle for most people wanting to upgrade to a fast internet connection, the Telegraph says. And a price war that has seen the cost of broadband tumble recently is poised to change forever home use of computers. In the past two months, Virgin.net, Nildram have dropped their broadband prices, while NTL have doubled their connection speeds. (BT announced last week that it signed its five millionth home to broadband over the phone network. The Telegraph says that one million people were signed up in the past four months while another two million homes are connected via cable. A third of the UK's three million dial-up users are expected to switch by the end of the year, according to Ofcom, the UK communications and broadcast industry regulator. The NevilleHobson.com blog which focuses on business communication and technology.