Category: Broadband

Hardly new news, as it was originally announced back in April 2011, but Innerleithen is doing the rounds again as the first part of Scotland to get Openreach FTTP.

The landscape of options continues to increase, as another small broadband project adds coverage to a rural area.

If there was one county in the UK that you would expect fixed wireless broadband to work in, it would be Norfolk.

Ofcom have release the latest customer satisfaction of services providers, looking at landline phone, broadband and the mobile and pay TV markets.

Derbyshire has received some 1800 responses to its broadband survey and in an effort to increase the number of submissions had added five £50 high street vouchers to tempt people to fill in the survey.

The current availability of satellite services means that there is no long delay to get infrastructure in place, other than launching satellites every couple of years.

Scotland other than complaining about the size of funding allocation from the BDUK has generally been quiet about plans for 2015 and 2020, but it seems the silence is to break with a cacophony of activity.

Broadband add-on services like Voice over IP added 37% to broadband subscription fees worldwide, according to Point Topic

The Fibrenet project is enticing businesses to sign up for the service with free service for the first year on the fibre network, as a way of giving them a taster of the difference between standard business products and those using full fibre.

The Borders and Dumfries and Galloway now know how much money they are to receive from the Scottish government to fund the USC and superfast broadband projects.