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Archive - March 2001
29 March 2001
Broadband Wireless to the home - Florida Trials
Integrated Homes, Inc. have recently announced its deployment of a beta test site in Florida USA to prove out its new wireless broadband connection to the home. It uses the Nokia system network which supports up to 12 megabits per second and has been proven to deliver as much as 2 Mbps to each home on the node. (see press release)
Celerity VOD System to Launch in Ohio Local School District
Celerity through their distributor, Kidston Communications, will deploy a closed-loop Digital Education System including digital head end server and 100 T 6000 set-top boxes to all Kindergarten (5 year olds) through 12th grade (17-18 year olds) classrooms in the small town Adena, Ohio, local school district. Set-top boxes will contain a Pentium processor and connect to the Internet. Deploying such systems enable teachers to explore a variety of rich video resources.
Other companies are looking towards the same horizon. For example, ITV middleware developer, WorldGate, has also deployed several WISH-TV Internet TV systems to school districts, though their set-tops are distributed directly to students' homes. WISH stands for WorldGate Internet School to Home TV. Participating partners on this project include Scientific-Atlanta, and cable providers, Charter and Buckeye Massillon. Deployments to school systems include Louisiana, Ohio, and Illinois.
28 March 2001
UK Internet uptake strong but digital TV growing even faster
Durlacher Research’s most recent residential internet survey, involving interviews in 3,750 homes around the UK, has revealed the extent to which the mass market has begun to flock online with 2000 registering record growth in residential internet uptake. 25% of homes are now internet-enabled, up from 17% last year and, far from tailing off, the trend appears to be accelerating - respondent expectations indicate that the proportion of internet enabled homes in the UK should rise to 35% by the year-end.
But, the adoption rate for digital television, which smashes records set by the internet. 25% of homes now have a digital television service up from only 9% last year and 1% the year before. (see press release)