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Virgin Media to increase upload speeds to 5Mbps and introduce traffic management

Virgin Media has today announced it will be upgrading all its cable broadband packages to at least double the upload speeds. Customers on its 'up to 50 meg' service will see an increase from 1.5Mbps to 5Mbps.

16 years ago 95 comments

Zen joins providers offering Fibre to the Cabinet

Slowly but surely more providers are adding themselves to the list of firms offering a FTTC VDSL2 solution.

16 years ago 12 comments

North Dorset seeking input for super-fast broadband services

North Dorset are looking for information on what broadband speeds people are seeing and will be using a grant to investigate what can be done to help improve these.

16 years ago 14 comments

FCC approve white space for use for ‘Super Wi-Fi’

FCC open up some lower frequency UHF spectrum for unlicensed use in the US.

16 years ago 3 comments

Airline opts for high-speed Ka-band satellite broadband

JetBlue to deploy satellite broadband to their aircraft fleet in America.

16 years ago 0 comments

DSL research boosts speeds to 700meg

Faster speeds can be achieved using DSL on phone lines by bonding phone lines together.

16 years ago 57 comments

ISP in Australia taken to court over ‘supersonic’ broadband claims

Australian ISP Optus have been taken to court over 'supersonic' broadband claims when they implement shaping on their broadband connection.

16 years ago 30 comments

Pigeon faster than rural UK broadband

Pigeons can send data faster than a rural UK broadband connection following a test by Trefor Davies, CTO of Timico

16 years ago 43 comments

Broadband can cost more than $5,000 in emerging markets

Broadband in emerging markets costs are much high than those seen in the rest of the world

16 years ago 4 comments

Openreach give Erbistock users option of migrating to another exchange

BT Openreach is offering Erbistock broadband users the chance to change the exchange they are using from Bangor-on-Dee to Overton-on-Dee.

16 years ago 112 comments