Category: Broadband

BT Group has published its second quarter results.

A survey that looked at whether the speed of broadband at a property would influence their buying decision is very revealing of what the general public expect from broadband in 2009.

TalkTalk a year after launching its boost range, is merging a number of these to create a new TalkTalk Pro product.

Its no surprise really, but cutting the price of the Virgin Media 50Mbps service saw more people signing up to it, with some 20,000 customers.

Many of our readers will no doubt already have read about the weaknesses with WEP encryption for wireless networks, but TalkTalk has taken it mainstream when illustrating how dangerous it may be if disconnect for filesharers ever becomes the norm.

Finland introduce a legal right to broadband providing citizens with at least a 1meg broadband connection from July 2010.

Openreach update on fibre to the cabinet rollouts, including when service will be available at the first 29 announced exchanges.

The UK ranks 25th in quality of broadband networks, with broadband that meets the needs for today, but is not ready for the future.

Global broadband connections have reached 445 million at the end of June 2009 with the UK recording 17.8 million of these, ranked 6th in the world based on total number of connections.

BT is to open broadband shops on the high street to showcase it's new faster broadband services.