Category: Broadband

The universal service commitment could increase the British digital economy by £1.4 billion through conversion of dial-up users to broadband which tends to increase their propensity to spend online.

The Business Innovations and Skills Committee believes the 'killer app' is not yet driving next generation broadband and cautions government against intervening too early. The report published by the committee supports the 2Mbps Universal Service Commitment however wants more clarity on what this means. Also, it suggests that a full time Digital Britain minister is needed.

The UK while having come a long way politically at least with respect to broadband services, has not set any target as clear or forward looking as that of the FCC in the United States. 100Mbps, while almost state of the art in 2010, will be what people desire in 2020, in the same way as people are finding dial-up is almost unworkable, ten years after the introduction of broadband.

Vtesse have lost their court appeal over unfair fibre taxes that are charged differently to smaller providers and BT

Google have launched a 1Gbps fibre broadband experiment which may reach up to 500,000 people and they hope will breed new technology and innovation in fibre deployments.

Almost everyday there is some news somewhere about about another super fast broadband product, but where are all the users of these services?

A government committee has raised concerns that the Digital Economy Bill currently tabled could breach human rights laws.

We have seen various P2P protocols appear and disappear over the years, and today encryption is commonly used. How does this affect the Digital Economy Bill currently being debated in the House of Lords.

TalkTalk have spoken to MPs and Peers about the Digital Economy Bill and how its plans are unlikely to have great affect at stopping copyright theft.

A fibre network is to be deployed in the Oxford Road area of Manchester to connect 1,500 homes and businesses to an open-access network allowing service providers to provide Internet access and novel new content.