Category: Broadband
Jeremy Hunt announces 2015 target to give UK fastest broadband in Europe
So far the talk from Government has been for the UK to have the best broadband in Europe. Jeremy Hunt has now gone a step further and stated his aim for the UK to have the fastest broadband of any major European country by 2015.
BT Wholesale continues its 21CN ADSL2+ roll-out
BT Wholesale may have been late to the ADSL2+ game, but it is continuing its roll-out of ADSL2+. Though its coverage is behind that of TalkTalk.
Average UK broadband speeds rise to 9 meg due to package upgrades
The average UK residential broadband speed has risen to 9meg according to the latest Ofcom broadband speed report due to consumers choosing to upgrade to faster broadband packages, or the service provider pushing ahead with speed upgrades.
Plusnet launch 76meg Extra Fibre product
Plusnet launch 76meg fibre broadband service with 250GB usage limit for £19.99 a month
Fibrewave seeks powers to put new fibre network in the ground
Fibrewave appeared on the UK scene earlier in 2012, and is currently involved in some FTTC deployments, but is now seeking code powers to allow them to carry out street works for deploying a full fibre network.
2015 to 2017 broadband funding agreement signed by BBC Trust
The trend to announce the same money several times continues, the £300m that has been talked about for broadband rollout in 2015 to 2017 has that honour. The difference now is that the BBC Trust has signed paperwork to say it will actually pay the money.
Akamai reveals picture of global internet speeds
As we hurtle towards a totally connected society, data on how different countries are fairing will influence business and political decisions, so into this mix we find that Akamai rates the UK as only 15th in Europe for average speed.
Scotland announces £5 million fund for remote next gen broadband solutions
A community broadband initiative has been announced for the remotest parts of Scotland, the aim being to bring next generation services to areas struggling no or slow broadband.
Over 10% of UK broadband counts as superfast
As much as some will complain about the lack of 100% coverage, the UK broadband landscape is improving, and latest data from Point Topic supports this.
Geeks require speed: Fibre-to-the-tent at EMFcamp
EMFcamp is a volunteer-run event taking place at the end of August and hundreds of attendees will decent on a field in a Glastonbury-style festival for geeks, but rather than music being at the centre of the festival, talks by participants alongside workshops are planned to take place during the three day event. We look at the network infrastructure being put in place to support these bandwidth-hungry geeks.