Category: Broadband

Another County Council is looking for residents and businesses to tell them how good, bad or indifferent the current broadband coverage is.

CityFibre holdings is looking to expand beyond its usual metro fibre ring provision and start to offer open access fibre to the home as part of a £0.5 billion investment plan.

Far too often people assume that those out of reach of landline based broadband are consigned to high latency satellite services. Northern Ireland is showing that fixed wireless can address these otherwise hard to reach areas.

Averages for the UK regions and counties in terms of broadband speeds are easy to produce, the devil is in the detail since that is what affects home owners and businesses. Northumberland residents are being called to make their situation known.

Point Topic has published a projection that gives the optimistic figure that some 60% of broadband lines will actually be using a superfast connection in 2016. A bold statement given the low take-up at present.

As part of Ofcoms remit to update policy makers every three years it has published a report showing the state of various Digital services across the UK.

The roll-out of smart meters and a smart grid to make control of micro-generation schemes easier looks set to stall, and along with it the hope of extra investment in fibre infrastructure.

While not everyone needs the Gigabit speeds that fibre can bring, having it available to every address in an area can remove what is a growing problem for people, which is does the property they are looking to rent/buy have good internet access.

The spending of £2.5bn by BT that is well under away is apparently due to end up to a year earlier than previously expected in 2014 now.

Entanet has entered a strategic relationship with BE Wholesale to add the firms ADSL2+ products initially to their BT based services.