Category: Broadband

Slow take-up for the VDSL based broadband project in South Yorkshire looks set to raise worries about the project hitting its 97% coverage target.

Government have announced that Wales will receive almost £57m of funding from BDUK's £530m pot of money for investment into next-generation broadband services.

The ASA have ruled that Virgin Media's speed claims to offering the fastest broadband are misleading and cannot be substantiated.

BT Openreach are to offer free setup for their fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) products at 24 telephone exchange for 3 months.

Ofcom are considering allowing the use of FM radio spectrum for use by broadband access companies through white space technology.

The Welsh Broadband Support Scheme which offers funding to broadband users who live in not-spots has been extended to include those who can't get broadband faster than 2Mbps.

BDUK will exclude smaller broadband suppliers from their tender if they cannot meet the £20m turnover threshold.

The government have put out a tender for up to 12 suppliers to act as delivery companies of broadband projects under a framework to be administered by BDUK with up to £2bn of funds.

The ASA have told Virgin that they can no longer use their 'stop the broadband con' campaign in its current form due to numerous instances of misleading, and exaggerating text which may discredit or denigrate other broadband providers.

BT Openzone have signed up Hilton hotels in the UK and Ireland to offer nearly 100 extra hotspots to their growing Wi-Fi access network.