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DSL provides broadband Internet access to people around the world.

1 Australia

ADSL became available in Australia in 2000. The infrastructure is owned by Telstra, whose retail branch BigPond was the only reseller until early 2002. Since then, main ISPs to resell ADSL include:

Speeds available are 256/64, 512/128 and 1.5/256. 512/512 is available but at quite a premium cost. Most ISPs have data caps or some sort of traffic shaping after a certain data limit.

In 2003, Internode began experimenting installing their own DSLAM equipment into Telstra exchanges. In 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co, iiNet announced a very large rollout of DSLAM equipment nationally - the company hopes to have half of its ADSL customer base on its own DSLAMs by the end of 20052005 is a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). It has been designated: The World Year of Physics The International Year of Microcredit The International Year for Sport and Physical Education The United States Year of Foreign.

As at April 2004, Telstra had 370,000 customers, iiNet had 50,000, TPG had 37,000, iPrimus , Internode and Swiftbroadband all had 21,000 customers, Netspace had 17,000, Westnet 15,000, and Optus 13,000 customers.

See WhirlpoolWhirlpool is an Australian Broadband user web site, started in 1998 by Simon Wright. Since then, it has grown exponentially and has remained independent ever since. It started as a pun on the name of Telstra's cable service, BigPond. It soon expanded to c for more information about Australian broadband.

2 Belgium

ADSL first appeared in BelgiumFor alternate meanings, see Belgium (disambiguation). Belgian redirects here. For the horse breed commonly used as a draft horse, see Belgian. The Kingdom of Belgium ( Dutch: Belgi French: Belgique German: Belgien is a country in Western Europe, bordered in 1999For the album by Prince, see 1999 (album 1999 is a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the UN. Events Kosovo War Former child star Gary Coleman files for bankruptcy Y2K prep, named Turboline . The first network was set up by Belgian telecom operator BelgacomBelgacom is a Brussels-based Belgian telecommunications company. History Prior to becoming Belgacom, the company name was RTT and was state-owned. RTT was formed in 1930 by the Belgian government. It changed its name to Belgacom in 1991. See also Tele2 Sk and has been expanding ever since. In 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co nearly 90% of the entire territory has access to ADSL from BelgacomBelgacom is a Brussels-based Belgian telecommunications company. History Prior to becoming Belgacom, the company name was RTT and was state-owned. RTT was formed in 1930 by the Belgian government. It changed its name to Belgacom in 1991. See also Tele2 Sk. Belgacom daughter Skynet was the first officially supported ADSL provider, but now many more have gained popularity. Download speed is usually capped around 3 Mbit/sec.

Alongside the Belgacom ADSL network, Scarlet has created a secondary network, with higher download and upload rates, sometimes up to the maximum 8 Mbit/sec. Several providers use this network, like Scarlet and Adsl2Fit .






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