Category: Broadband

Broadband users now stand strong at over 509 million worldwide with IPTV subscriptions also increasing to over 40 million.

Clackmannanshire in Scotland will benefit from improved broadband following a grant of nearly £200,000 to help fund a wireless network in the region.

43% of broadband users we queried in a web poll voted that they prioritised faster download speeds from their broadband provider as the most wanted thing in 2011.

An exchange fire caused by water damage has knocked out services in central London

Google have delayed their decision on which communities will receive fibre until next year

Some BT Infinity broadband users have had their speeds limited down to 2meg due to a 'technical fault'

Rutland Telecom announce their first rural fibre-to-the-premises deployment in the village of Hambleton

While still in the planning stage, Cumbria county council is setting itself the ambition to have 10Mbps universally available across the county by 2015.

The pure fibre broadband service in Bournemouth via FibreCity which went into stasis in October is set to resume roll-out and connections in early 2011.

The first areas to go live with a 100Meg service from Virgin Media have now gone live, and at £45 for just the broadband, this is some 200 times faster and the same price as broadband was back in 2000.