Category: Broadband

With 250,000 homes passed, this may be small but it is a start, and hopefully this will rise swiftly once the Openreach product is launched properly.

Gigaclear and Rutland Telecom have begun the deployment of fibre-to-the-home in Hambleton in Rutland with the project expected to be complete with residents connecting in mid-October.

It appears that the BDUK has corrected its glossary to reflect what everyone thought was the case, i.e. that superfast broadband is a service running at 25 Mbps or faster.

People in the Woodmansey area are among the first in the Kingston Communications area to access the firms fibre to the home and kerb products.

For websites looking for PR material, league tables are a gold mine, and broadband with the relative ease with which measurements can be made, though easy measurement does not always mean accurate.

If high-speed broadband means superfast broadband at 20Mbps and faster than it is possible the government is considering investing more money in broadband upgrades.

Rutland and the much larger Suffolk have been allocated funds to bring superfast broadband to them, with Rutland Telecom pursuing a total fibre solution.

Avanti the satellite service provider and VFast who have wireless coverage already in a number of parts of Kent have been chosen as providers in initial not-spot pilots in Kent. Two other firms will also be taking part in the pilot.

TalkTalk will use a system from Agama Technologies to monitor in real-time their TV over broadband service which will be based on YouView.

Orange, looking to be the cheapest broadband provider in the UK, have introduced a new £5 per month broadband product.