Category: Broadband

The RCBF which exists as a broadband kick-starter programme is taking its last round of requests for funding and appears to have extended the submission deadline.

Lord's Cricket Ground is the latest to gain free WiFi coverage from The Cloud.

Some six months after the contract was signed Cumbria County Council and BT can get working on the actual deployment of faster broadband across Cumbria.

The latest TalkTalk results round off the figures from the major broadband providers and show that YouView sales are outpacing sales of their Fibre products.

The Government would like us all to know that the broadband transformation roll-out in the UK has passed the halfway mark. That might be a surprise to the millions outside the commercial deployment areas thought.

West Sussex with the signing of the contract to improve broadband across the county looks set to bring fixed line broadband to some areas of the county for the first time.

The competition for our broadband and telephone customer continues and Tesco are the latest to launch a mind bending offer, where mobile customers can get 12 months broadband for free (voice line rental still to pay of course).

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.