{"id":548116,"date":"2006-03-01T08:36:04","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T08:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548116-broadband-overtakes-dial-up-in-the-uk.html"},"modified":"2006-03-01T08:36:04","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T08:36:04","slug":"broadband-overtakes-dial-up-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548116-broadband-overtakes-dial-up-in-the-uk.html","title":{"rendered":"Broadband overtakes dial-up in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The BBC reports that dial-up connections are \u201cin terminal decline, with connections down by a third compared with last year\u201d. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Over the 12 months between December 2004 and December 2005 broadband grew by 59% while dial-up fell by 34%.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Overseas broadband connections are eating into the dial-up sector which analysts attribute to increased availability of broadband and competitive pricing.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">In South Africa most users still connect to the Internet using dial-up connections. South Africa\u2019s failure to fall in line with international trends is mainly due to the high cost and lack of availability of ADSL in South Africa.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Telkom has however vowed to remedy this situation with a target of 1 million Telkom broadband users by 2008.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=38514\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the UK\u2019s Office of National Statistics (ONS) 64% of all Internet connections in the UK are now broadband connections. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}