Category: Broadband

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.

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 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.

Special noise cancellation systems have allowed Ericsson to run VDSL2 over bonded lines at rates of 0.5Gbps.

It is not clear as to the scale involved, but it seems part of Manchester looks set to get full fibre broadband.

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 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.

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.

As part of the development of a former Freightliner depot in Gateshead, new homes on the site will be able to benefit from fibre based connections.

The way is now clear for BT to start deploying fibre to the cabinet from 2010 with plans to reach 40% of the UK by 2012.