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Getting faster(Guardian (UK) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) From Kansas in the US to Seoul in South Korea - and now York - cities around the world are being wired up to ultra fast fibre optic broadband. One Gigabit internet, which Sky and TalkTalk are planning to offer in York, gives download speeds equal to 1024 Megabits per second, or 57 times what is available to a typical household - the average UK broadband service now downloads at 18Mbps, according to Ofcom. Fibre can upload much faster than the typical copper broadband service, so collections of music and videos, home movies and photo albums can all be painlessly stored and backed up on Cloud servers many hundreds of miles away. Juliette Garside (c) 2014 Guardian Newspapers Limited. |