Category: Broadband

Broadband users are paying up to £4 million a year in costs to technical support lines, but many are unhappy at the level of service received.

The Westminster eForum meeting this week appears to have been an interesting one with BT suggesting it could provide more fibre coverage with wholesale access to the Virgin Media network.

Its not the first time that BT has been called a big bad wolf, and probably not the last. In the broadband world these latest comments are a re-run of 2002/2003 when many nascent Wi-Fi projects were overrun by the ADSL roll-out.

While £530m seems a lot, when you consider this pot may need to be used by some six million properties the realisation should arrive that it is not much.

This question may never be answered now as the Ministry of Sound is apparently suspending plans to pursue sending letters to those identified as the account holder behind a large number of IP addresses.

At first it seemed like an outage that lasted for just a few hours affecting 10,000 to 20,000 users, but it has dragged on for some people.

The BET long line solution while something of a technological cul-de-sac does offer some advantages over for example the two-way satellite services that are touted for extremely rural locations.

Ofcom have given guidance to the government to encourage liberalisation of rules restricting 900MHz spectrum to only be used by GSM.

France top the VoIP charts with a massive 92% penetration into broadband users, whilst the UK falls way below this mark

Fibrecity was an impressive attempt to bring fibre to the home cheaper than previously possible by utilising the mains sewer as ducting. Alas an agreement fell apart meaning that Bournemouth will be connecting using traditional trenching, but Dundee was expected to go ahead. Alas Dundee is entering a stasis period of four weeks due to company restructing.