THE Bury Times Group has joined the broadband revolution to allow our Internet audience even greater levels of interaction, service and entertainment.

For our www.thisislancashire.co.uk domain is one of the leading regional web sites to benefit directly from broadband.

NTL Home claims that local web sites are improving and adapting their sites to meet the increasing rise in broadband Internet usage.

NTL Home, the UK's leading broadband services company, has experienced a significant rise in broadband customers with the number in the North West having doubled in the last six months.

Alan Grant, managing director of NTL Home in the North West, said: "The Internet has traditionally been slow to access during normal dial up connections, but high-speed broadband eliminates this problem by making web sites more interactive and nearly 20 times quicker to access."

Broadband allows web sites to introduce new flash animations and offer visitors the latest audio and movie entertainment over the web. The amount of information contained within each site is also being increased to accommodate the thousands of broadband Internet users who can surf the web in minutes, rather than hours.

Speed of Internet access is vital. For those who know about such things, NTL Home's new 1Mb broadband facility downloading a typical mp3 music file at 46.5 seconds, compared to dial up which takes more than 14 minutes.

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