Category: Broadband

A campaign has been launched to connect the remote island of St Helena to bring it into the modern broadband world.

Even though the sole remaining bidder in the Highlands and Islands to provide superfast broadband is BT, the project will not be starting working until 2013.

After the council shunned the previous BDUK funding, it seems a new funding arrangement that is thought to be better has been approved.

Norfolk which was allocated £15m is moving on with its BDUK project, with appointment of a private sector partner expected in the Autumn of this year. For now they are looking for people in the county to express their interest to try and encourage the best possible private partner.

The amount of full fibre to the home is still amazingly small in numbers, a mixture of trials and roll-outs are progressing slowly, so news to bring Gigabit to 20 new build sites around the UK is a welcome boost to the numbers.

Virgin Media is embarking on an 18 month programme to further boost speeds for its existing cable broadband customers, with most seeing a doubling of speeds.

The announcement of approval for the first phase of the HS2 London to Birmingham link appears to be very much at odds with how broadband, which is now regarded as a utility by many is treated by those in Westminster.

O2 are creating a Wi-Fi zone in London which will offer free wireless access to visitors and residents in the boroughs of Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea.

The VOA have proposed improvements to the fibre tax system which could see networks in the final-third paying less tax for next-generation networks than those in urban areas.

TalkTalk do not have the safest broadband service the ASA have decided, after TalkTalk were unable to show a suitable basis for the claim.