The government was celebrating its own broadband milestone earlier this year as it announced that one million Britons had fast net connections.
Ian Fogg, from Forrester Research, said the advantage of super-fast net is that two people can be using one connection "without having any impact" on each other.
England secured a shortened version Fast Net win over Australia at the World Netball Series in Manchester in October before their rivals gained revenge in a third-place play off.
According to a team of experts from Brunel University's Department of Information Systems and Computing a radical new approach to marketing broadband is needed if fast net services are going to appeal to the half of the population yet to get connected.
In countries such as France and Italy, which have traditionally been slow to accept the Web, as well as Central and Eastern Europe, Net growth is now fast-paced, Dataquest said.
This means that the main PC in your den and a second PC in your kid's bedroom can both have the same fast access to the Net.
Fast forward to today: the 2013 Net Impact Conference anticipates hosting nearly 3, 000.
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The amount of content available online is growing fast, and devices for accessing the Net are getting better and cheaper quickly.
The Net will get it by way of cheap, fast connections to homes and small offices--blink fast, fast enough for TV-quality videoconferencing.
Like almost everything else associated with the net, e-radio has come up so fast nobody can be sure what will happen with it next.
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Don't believe the bandwidth gurus who tell you that the computer you hook up to the Net no longer matters, as long as your connection is fast.
His friends would ask him about "the game with the fishing net" and he would explain it was like ice hockey - fast and hazardous.
If my erstwhile acquaintance and his ex-editor advisor want to make big fast money, maybe they should be investing in a law firm specializing in the Net.
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