Category: Broadband

Point Topic has gone on the record to suggest that it views the current local loop as only having scrap value within 10 years unless BT does invest in fibre.

It would seem Tiscali are taking offence to marketing letter BT sent out to an unknown number of people.

Tying people into long contracts is an attractive idea for companies, even if a large chunk of the monthly revenue pays for bundled freebies.

Be Broadband sees new fibre services as a way of expanding their service, while Virgin Media points to its previous investment history.

BT has announced a £1.5bn fibre rollout programme which is expected to give up to 10 million homes access to fibre by 2012. These will deliver speeds of up to 40Mbps and 100Mbps depending on location in the first instance but have the potential of going far further.

Entanet will launch their new 21CN based broadband service to resellers on Tuesday 15th July which will give users the ability to get up to 24Mbps on a more widespread scale than the existing services of O2/Be.

Epitiro has spent the last year analysing email performance for a number of providers and has now published the results.

The Scottish Government have taken a step further to iron out the last 1% of users who cannot get broadband at all by the signing of a contract with Avanti Communications to deploy satellite based services to users.

The FCC in the United States has proposed the use of wireless spectrum to be used to provide free wireless Internet access to 95% of the U.S. within 10 years.

It would appear that someone somewhere is running a scam trying to get debit/credit card details off of unsuspecting broadband users.