Category: Broadband

North Yorkshire will see the number of premises in the county with access to fibre broadband increase to more than 160,000 following the announcement of 34 new locations to be included in the rollout.

EE have seen a decline pre-pay mobile customers but an increase in contract customers. Their fixed broadband base has suffered though with a fall of 29,000 customers.

While FTTP on-demand is likely to be of interest to the SME market, among early adopters of broadband the costs and benefits may see lots of consumers who also work from home plumping for it.

Our recent poll on up to speeds in the broadband market has elicited a response from the Fibre to the Home Council for Europe.

The love of broadband extends to the House of Commons with Ed Vaizey fielding various questions today.

The war of words is breaking out on the Isle of Wight as the cable operator claims it will have its superfast service to meet council objectives years before any BT project.

Another small spot of broadband happiness is set to appear, this time in the Cotswolds as Calix roll-out a full fibre solution to villages.

While the broadband funding for the period till 2020 was not likely to only be a few hundred million, its lose means the UK needs to be more creative.

While the council website still claims an early 2013 roll-out, the reality is that the council is just entering the procurement phase.

On one hand UK politicians are happy that own contribution to the EU budget has been negotiated to have a smaller increase, but a side effect is that the 9 billion Euro budget for broadband has been annihilated.