Category: Broadband

While there is lots of criticism of what the BDUK projects aim to achieve, the projects are progressing as fast as local authority projects always do.

Those businesses and communities in the notional final 10% of the UK, have until 6th July to make an application for funding to help bring superfast broadband to their area.

TalkTalk is calling on Ofcom to start a consultation on how much Openreach, BT Wholesale and BT Retail charge for their services. It views the pricing as too high, eroding its previous position of being considerably cheaper than BT Retail products.

Magnet Networks has this morning announced it will be offering a Fibre to the Home (FTTH) service to a development in Wembley. The service will be operated by Velocity 1, a company in which Magnet Networks will retain a 90% ownership whilst the developer of the site, Quintain Estates and Development PLC, will retain a 10% shareholding.

While some parts of the UK are pinning all their hops on the BDUK projects, Suffolk continues to see improvements in advance of any project ran by the County Council.

A letter from INTUG to the EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes calls into question the oft stated statistic that 99.6% of the UK has access to basic broadband.

While it is not surprise to see a council centered around Fibre to the Home promoting, it is not every day they make such blunt statements.

The twenty seven cities that can compete to be one of ten cities that will share a £50m pot to provision ultrafast services has been announced.

A paper commissioned by Convergys and written by the LSE identifies a shortfall in funding for the USC and superfast broadband projects.

Cambridge and the surrounding area has played host to a white space trial from a consortium comprising 17 companies. The trial has reached a successful conclusion.