Category: Broadband
Surrey launches broadband survey with aim of 100% coverage by 2013
Surrey County Council has launched a survey to study broadband quality and coverage in a bid to ensure that the council can reach 100% coverage by 2013
Google announces Kansas City to receive gigabit fibre broadband
Google's fibre broadband experiment will deliver 1Gbps broadband to Kansas City, Kansas with competitively priced fibre-to-the-home connections expected to be live in 2012.
Progress being made on Superfast broadband in Cornwall
Plans to provide super-fast broadband to Cornwall are progressing, with pilot areas seeing fibre-to-the-cabinet connections live.
CWU call for spectrum auction profits to be invested in broadband
The CWU suggest that the 900MHz and 2.6GHz spectrum auction announced by Ofcom could be used to help fund investment in to UK broadband.
World Broadband subscribers reach 523 million at end of 2010
Asia is seeing continued surges in broadband growth and will likely soon take over as the country with highest penetration in IPTV.
Sky call for an end to Virgin’s ‘stop the broadband con’ campaign
Sky have approached the ASA over Virgin Media's campaign against broadband speed marketing which it deems as an "unjustified denigratory attack on Sky".
BT release update on data provided to anti-piracy companies
BT detail work it has undertaken with regards to customer data released to anti-piracy companies
Enterprise Zones to deliver super-fast broadband for businesses
Announced in the budget were 'Enterprise Zones' to be set up which will bring tax relief to businesses with a promise of the areas to be enabled for super-fast broadband
BT call charges to go up by 9% from April
BT are to increase the standard line rental charge by 30p from 28th April 2011