Category: Broadband

A call for evidence to investigate how the UK is progressing with superfast broadband and whether the current plans are enough has been started by the House of Lords.

With some 112.6m FTTx users around the world out of some 361.7m homes passed, fibre based services have some way to go to approach the take-up levels of ADSL based services.

It seems that finding a suitable location for a VDSL2 cabinet can be a lengthy process in conservation areas.

The full fibre trial in Jersey, that should see every property on the island receiving a fibre service is underway with 24 homes connected so far.

The original MAC process was meant to make broadband switching easy, but for almost six years now there has been no simple solution for those switching away from a full LLU service.

The internet and congestion on networks is something that is attracting attention with the Olympics a few months away, but Cabinet Office appears to be using scare tactics to make companies embrace backup scenarios.

How we all work is changing with more and more people working from, due to a variety reasons from people simply wanting to spend less time commuting, through to it allowing them to work for the few hours each day once their children are at school or nursery.

The Welsh Government is extending its Broadband Support Scheme that offers a £1000 subsidy to those who need broadband in a not-spot and do not want to wait for the Next Generation Broadband for Wales to start delivering.

Three is expanding its range of mobile broadband devices, with a new HSPA+ enabled device that should provide plug and play broadband.

A way of words is erupting over the claim last week by the Department for Culture Media and Sport that North Tyneside was a local authority set to miss the deadline for BDUK funding.