In Britain mobile operator Vodafone is doubling its mobile broadband capacity to 14.4Mbps (Megabits per second).
The speed on the LTE networks is super-fast, running at 100 megabits per second.
Such services would start at speeds of 100 megabits per second (mbps), said Mr Helsen.
By contrast, in Europe, networks capable of 30 megabits per second reach only 50% of households.
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Speeds proposed range from 108 megabits per second--about twice the current limit--to more than 300 megabits per second.
C. suburbs averaged just 6.96 megabits per second, versus 20.81 mbps for an iPhone 5 running Verizon LTE.
The lasers are designed to be efficient and ultra-fast, with speeds as high as 1, 000 megabits per second.
Bluetooth transmits data far more slowly than Wi-Fi, about 720 kilobits per second versus 11 megabits per second.
The technology offers speeds of around 16 megabits per second but has the potential to be much faster.
Under both standards, data can move at up to 54 megabits per second.
But at 800 megabits per second the new Firewire is about twice as fast as its already speedy predecessor.
WiMax promises a high-speed Internet connection of about 75 megabits per second.
Top speeds in some cities have already gone from 30 to 50 megabits per second, without picking up a shovel.
Results: At 2.27 megabits per second (mbps), the pigeons handily trumped the 1.5 mbps speed of a typical DSL connection.
The data is read, and possibly updated, by anyone with another coil, at a rate of 10 megabits per second.
In Digital Britain the government pledged that all areas of the UK would get 2mbps (megabits per second) broadband by 2012.
By contrast, the system being offered for free by Three will deliver an average speed of just 2Mbps (megabits per second).
Plus, Bluetooth can transmit at up to 3 megabits per second, which means it can accommodate any data or media requirement.
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In tests in Massachusetts its fibre network has run as fast as 10, 000 megabits per second, and it could go faster.
Though it now transmitted data at 10 megabits per second, the rapid evolution of personal computing meant it was becoming a bottleneck.
The newest standard at that time could move 11 megabits per second.
Both have been designed to use Verizon's fast EV-DO (Evolution-Date Optimised) network capable of speeds in excess of 2.4 megabits per second.
On the wired side, broadband networks capable of 100 megabits per second speeds passed less that 20% of U.S. homes in 2009.
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Superfast refers to speeds in excess of 24 Megabits per second (Mbps).
Many of the companies bidding claim they will give people access to the internet at speeds of up to 2 megabits per second.
Cisco says the average speed for fixed broadband will jump 4x from 7 megabits per second in 2010 to 28 Mbps in 2015.
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The UK government has pledged to provide broadband running at a minimum speed of 2Mbps (megabits per second) to all homes by 2012.
In a smaller loop of, say, 4, 000 feet, data can hum along at up to 6 megabits per second, nearing cable modem speeds.
Virgin Media has upgraded its cable network to support speeds of up to 50Mbps (megabits per second) and is trialling 200Mbps in Kent.
The G standard has a faster maximum data transmission speed--54 megabits per second--than the B standard, which topped out at 10 MB per second.
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