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This 12 page paper considers how DSL ay be of value so small office or home offices, SOHO. The paper looks at the ways in which DSL may benefit small businesses and uses two case studies to show this benefit. The paper ends with consideration of the future. The bibliography cites 11 sources.
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File: TS14_TEdslint.rtf
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and leased lines, however the development of DSL has facilitated a greater take up and reduces many of the differences seen in terms of the way that technology can be
harnessed and used by the small or at home offices. DSL itself is growing rapidly. In 2000 of all internet users, there were only 1.1% with broadband connections, and
these were though cable models (Hobley, 2001). By 2002 the picture was changing. By 2002 the figures that were released for the UK by Oftel indicates a change in direction,
with June 2002 seeing a total of 709,000 broadband connections. These were individual users as well small and medium sized businesses (Wearden, 2002). This is only a very small percentage
pf all users, with great difficult in separating the home office and the home user, but it did represent an increase of 113% on 2001, when June only had 332,000
broadband connections (Wearden, 2002). In terms of demand the DSL has been equal to the cable broadband access, but overall DSL is behind cable, with 290,000 users compared with
419,000 cable users (Wearden, 2002). This may be seen as a result of the earlier lead that cable companies managed to gain before the release of DSL. Consumer
are benefiting from reductions in prices due to increased competitions, but it is also the way in which there are increasing attractions to the facilities in terms of applications. Howeve,r
even with the high take up, but the figures by September 2002 also indicated that there was still a very low take up, with only 10% of businesses making use
of broadband technology and of all the DSL enabled lines only 2.3% are being used (Arnott, 2002). This means there are 97.7% of lines unused, meaning hat there is a
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