Category: Broadband

We are some months on from a voluntary code of practice that encouraged providers to be up front about fair use policies and traffic management but no big signs of this yet. A report for the government is calling on Ofcom to make this mandatory.

The full report making recommendations on what the government should so in respect to next generation broadband is now available.

In some ways it will be of no surprise to many people, that the UK does not lead the world in broadband speeds.

Worldwide value added services to broadband products totaled $25.7 billion in 2007.

Are providers starting to see the end for being able to use the word FREE to pull in customers?

An advert for a mobile broadband offer that ended in March 2008 has only just had an adjudication by the ASA published.

A study by the BSG has indicated a full fibre to the home deployment in the UK could cost as much as £28.8bn.

Ask4 is unique in the UK in providing high speed symmetric broadband to student halls and apartments. Its current fastest product at 25Mbps looks set to increase to 50Mbps during 2009.

The Ofcom Consumer Panel has published a document that broadly says that to avoid a digital divide, next generation broadband should be used now to bring broadband excluded areas into line with the best of what is available.

The news of a 250GB on the US cable service run by Comcast is just the latest move to catch up with the UK broadband market.