Category: Broadband
Carphone Warehouse reconsider a Tiscali bid
Carphone Warehouse may put forward a new bid for Tiscali in hope of a bargain before administrators step in.
First 50 homes in Bournemouth on fibre network
Fibrecity has its first 50 homes connected, and plans to be rolling out to 2000 homes per week.
Online gaming to crank up its bandwidth requirements
A fledgling service in the US may offer gamers a chance to play the latest games without having to keep pace with expensive graphics card technology.
Is 150meg from Virgin going to revolutionise broadband in 2012?
Virgin claim their network is ready for 200meg broadband now and are looking to enable 150meg speeds by 2012, but what will we use all that bandwidth for, and can the rest of the Internet cope?
BT announce first 29 exchanges for fibre deployment
BT have announced the first 29 exchanges where fibre will be deployed to their new VDSL based fibre broadband services which will go live in 2010.
VDSL2 reaches 0.5Gbps
Special noise cancellation systems have allowed Ericsson to run VDSL2 over bonded lines at rates of 0.5Gbps.
Manchester fibre network in next month
It is not clear as to the scale involved, but it seems part of Manchester looks set to get full fibre broadband.
Not all speedtesters up to the job – still!
Virgin Media has published details of a range of sites where it has completed speed testing of the speedtester websites at speeds of 10Mbps and faster.
Sheffield almost into 21st century
Sheffield has obviously been in the 21st century for a while, but a good chunk of the telephone network is catching up to the 21CN roll-out that BT is doing.
You Tube to block UK music videos
It seems that YouTube may soon be less appealling to music fans in the UK after a falling out between YouTube and the PRS over the amounts to be paid.