Overall the research found that broadband users are not getting the speeds they are paying for.
Broadband users are constantly seeking higher internet speeds that can handle data intensive applications.
Cluley says a personal firewall should be installed by home broadband users.
The sector is thriving partly due to the rising number of broadband users, particularly in emerging economies like Brazil, India, China, and Russia.
FiOS is gaining momentum among broadband users who are consuming more data by downloading movies, playing music, gaming and using other multimedia rich applications.
Orange have 2 million internet subscribers, one million of which use the company's broadband service. 10% of its broadband users are on an LLU network.
EarthLink currently has 4.8 million dialup and broadband users.
Potentially more exciting is the fact that NFLX may need to redefine its target market from broadband households to broadband users as each household may have more than one broadband user at a time.
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The problem for broadband users is that relatively few homes have the home network needed to connect both a PC and a handful of other devices to a single cable modem or digital subscriber line.
That means users of broadband providers that haven't patched their servers may be increasingly vulnerable.
If users and broadband providers buy in, the results look promising.
For rural users, mobile broadband is a much more cost-effective option to build, whether via cellular or satellite technology or both.
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The astonishing achievement, however, is that while there were practically no mobile or Internet connections in 1984, globally there are now 86 mobile telephones, 33 Internet users and 24 broadband subscriptions (fixed and mobile) per every 100 people.
The embedded video player is available to BBC News users who have a broadband connection.
T-Mobile USA aims to attract business users by offering mobile broadband services at more affordable prices than its rivals.
"We need to understand how to harness broadband to successfully cater for end users' changing needs and preferences, " she said.
It will deliver broadband coverage from space and connect users in remote areas across Europe not served by wire-based networks.
Korea Telecom replaced an Oracle database with Hadoop after a five-year project to support 17 million telephone subscribers, 7.2 broadband subscribes and 15 million mobile users.
In addition to the cash payments described above, Verizon and TiVo are exploring, among other things, future distribution of Internet video services developed through Verizon's joint venture with Redbox by making content distributed via that service part of the diverse selection of linear and broadband-delivered content accessible to users of TiVo's retail DVR products.
While many businesses are being affected, Sasser has also hit home users, especially those with broadband connections.
Still China, with 135 million DSL users, is the biggest broadband market.
But, on the positive side, operators may raise prices for broadband especially at the high end where users are price insensitive.
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Verizon claims that laptop users on its 4G mobile broadband network will experience connectivity that's up to 10 times faster than the company's current 3G network.
The U.S. leads the world in high-speed mobile broadband, with almost twice the number of users of second-place Japan.
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Broadband providers haven't wanted to give users access to the geography of their network--a move that could reveal elements of their business to competitors.
The solution: For a few billion dollars, Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) could get into the phone business itself, buying the spectrum it needs to offer not just voice service for all those iPhone users, but to build the broadband wireless links it needs to offer next generation, network-centric computing, communications and entertainment.
If broadband speed is lower than 2Mbps per second, users are unable to access video or other multimedia at a reasonable speed.
It's precisely this threat of forcing companies that have made big investments in broadband to hand over that capacity to rivals or users at government-fixed prices that is preventing progress.
Our aim is to allow as many people as possible to have access to our broadband-quality content, so rather than charge users to subscribe we decided that an advertising model was the best way to fund the upgrade.
According to Ipsos Insight, a marketing research consultancy, 56% of Internet users in the U.S. subscribe to broadband service, and that number is expected to climb to 70% by early 2006.
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