Broadband's Unintended Consequences

Makarand writes "BBC News is reporting on the result of a long term study conducted to find how ordinary people and small businesses in and around London and Leeds used broadband. They found that broadband was actually slowing down user interaction with the Net as they are no longer afraid of spending too much time online anymore. People did not really care about the speed at which they could download from the Net. Broadband's selling points- like speed and the capacity to be always-on, were something that the average person did not care about."

Comments

Not one word about mp3, unbelievable!

[musicmaster]

I can't take this article serious. It has not one word about downloading music.

I guess this guy doesn't have a clue what people are doing on the internet.

Re:Confessions of a dialup switcher

[jez9999]

Hehehe! You people use Euros! Why didn't you stick with your perfectly good currency like us in Britain, instead of buying into the United States of Europe? Now, your markets are going down the toilet (well Germany's anyway) and there's fuck all you can do about it!