According to the UK’s voluntary trade association for providers of internet services, the Internet Services Providers' Association (ISPA), 2008 will see more TV delivered over the internet while more internet and business-orientated technologies will become more commonplace in the home.
"Broadband has made web technologies – such as streaming media, telephone over the internet, downloading movies and music and also consuming movies and music – [possible],” said an ISPA spokesperson.
"There are developments going on all the time to improve connectivity, and that has a consequence of driving technological innovation on the content and applications side. So, there's potential to see more remote working; there's a variety of different things that can happen."
ISPA has also predicted the rise in technologies such as video conferencing that will enter the home. "People around the world can potentially get together virtually for Christmas," the spokesperson added.
uSwitch predicted in 2007 that 21 million UK households are likely to have an internet connection by 2010. Furthermore, just one million of those connections will be dial-up.
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Date Published: January 02, 2008
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