Category: Broadband

The story of how those in the Bath area are going to get faster broadband, and bring not spots up to a mimimum of 2 Mbps continutes.

The Isle of Dogs was at one time one of the worst places to live with regards to broadband, particularly when you consider it is a stones throw away from the heart of modern commerical London.

Broadband coverage in the UK is a quiltwork of speeds, much like any other country, the BDUK scheme was meant to ensure a good degree of coverage, but it seems one Council does not see the need to invest its own money.

Wiltshire as an area receiving £4.6m as part of the BDUK pilots is likely to be one of the first areas rolling out broadband services to meet the 2015 targets.

Airtel-Vodafone claims that since the future of the internet in mobile platforms like smartphones and tablets that investing in fibre to every property on Jersey would be a waste of money.

That BT Retail manages P2P traffic on its broadband services will be of little surprise to the majority of our readers, but The New York Times appears surprised.

Suffolk was allocated some £11.68m of BDUK funding, which with council investment and private investment gives the county £45m to spend on meeting its broadband targets for the county.

Sunderland City council have announced they intend to offer blanket coverage of superfast broadband across the city using both fibre-to-the-cabinet and fibre-to-the-premises products from BT to meet this.

Cornwall is never far from the news at present, and it surfaces again today with it being announced as Project of the Year in the World Communications Awards.

In themselves each innovation may not appear to be ground breaking, but for a company the size of BT, small innovations at the sharp end are often too few.