Category: Broadband
1 Gbps and more for every person in 2020 Tokyo Olympic Stadium
The EU is investing research that has the aim of ensuring every person in the 2020 Olympics stadium has access to more than 1 Gbps of bandwidth.
9,000 premises which comprise phase 3 of Superfast Dorset announced
The programme to extend the reach of superfast broadband services in Dorset is continuing and hopes to have reached some 30,000 premises by Christmas 2014.
Every Welsh exchange to have fibre work begin in September 2015
While many outlets seem to think the Welsh broadband programme target is 96% at superfast speeds the current £425m project is actually aiming at a 90% figure, with 96% being connected to a fibre service.
1 in 3 homes and businesses in Shetland gain access to fibre based broadband
The Shetlands are distinctly rural and qualify for the added adjective of remote but they have now seen 17 of the phone cabinets on the island start to offer a FTTC service.
Experience Gigabit while staying overnight in London
Hyperoptic has not lost focus on London, an interesting change has seen a serviced apartment operator now offering free broadband with apartment rentals and options to upgrade to 100 Mbps and 1000 Mbps speeds.
Pass the parcel continues with BDUK project debate
If there was one thing needed to be done different with the BDUK process it is the way that the press has been briefed, the result has been pictures of laptops in fields when the reality of the goals was always going to be different.
Cabinet Century for Shropshire but more needed
While many in positions of power are celebrating the news the UK average speed is going up, there will be millions questioning that and the progress we can see in places like Shropshire show the battle is far from won.
ASDL2+ from street cabinets to solve 2 Mbps USC
There are signs that Openreach is looking at offering an up to 12 Mbps download service from its fibre cabinets with the aim of uplifting the speed for those who are too far from cabinets to benefit from VDSL2.
£1.2 million to provide 2 Gbps to Derby start-ups
The cause of business broadband is one with lots of criticism, but with the pressure to reduce costs businesses all too often cut back on telecom communications infrastructure costs only to complain when service and repair levels are below par when it all goes wrong.
Connecting Cumbria progress report
The BT and council projects in the North West to improve broadband speeds have been some of the most controversial attracting a good number of complaints that the predominantly FTTC roll-out is not going to help and is a waste of money.