Gadget speak

摘要

ON THE surface, the type of broadband offered up by the UK's biggest cable provider, Virgin Media, and the UK's main wholesale broadband provider, BT, are very much the same. Both offer an asynchronous broadband connection - selling the service mainly on the huge download speeds. There has always been a fierce battle between cable broadband and ADSL broadband. However, in the last 12 months the battle has reached new heights, particularly when Virgin Media announced in July last year that it was to commence rolling out 50Mbps broadband to its cable broadband customers - free of any traffic management whatsoever.