Category: Broadband

While the dates for the BDUK project in Essex have slipped significantly, the project is still progressing and may still result in a universal speed of 8 Mbps across the county by 2018.

While the headlines always push the notion that BT is winning all the public subsidy money, another fixed wireless provider is benefiting from a contract to supply wireless services in rural Lincolnshire.

It seems at least one community in the area ravaged by Hurrican Sandy in 2012, has the storm to thank for removing its copper telephone network.

Ofcom originally announced a sharp rise in Q4 2012 for broadband subscriptions. This rise of 659,000 has subsequently been corrected to a more normal figure of 356,000.

The need to be prepared not just at the physical building level with stadiums but at the Internet connectivity level is very important and it appears Brazil may have a solution.

Cheshire is the latest set of councils to sign a contract with BT to increase the penetration of fibre based broadband services to levels well beyond the current commercial footprint.

The initial list of locations where Fibre on Demand will be available for those wanting to upgrade from a FTTC service to the more reliable and faster full fibre service has now been published.

So Ofcom has announced a pilot to look at who varying TV White Space kit can work together as part of a possible roll-out commercial in 2014.

O2 appears to be gearing up for the explosion in data usage that 4G may result in, to date in the UK the data bundles via EE are such that you cannot truly embrace watching good quality video every day on your mobile - without winning the lottery that is.

A combination of eight local authorities across the North East have now signed a single contract with BT to extend coverage of super fast broadband to a wider area.