Category: Broadband

Northern Ireland has had a contract with BT for 100% broadband coverage which is due to end in March 2009.

BT Openzone and The Cloud customers will have less hotspots to connect to from Thursday following the end of a roaming deal between the two companies.

Mobile broadband has overtaken Wi-Fi hotspots in the usage of Internet away from home and work. With the ever improving coverage, and lower costs, it's easier to see why users are favouring using their mobile network.

An update to our article yesterday, clarifying a delay to IPStream Connect on WBMC which won't be available until potentially August 2009.

The Fibre to the Home (FTTH) Council has today released figures indicating US fibre take up which puts the US second after Japan in number of true FTTH deployments (excluding Fibre to the Cabinet).

London Mayor, Boris Johnson wants to create London into a Wi-Fi city he announced today, with a wish that anywhere you go, you should be able to log on.

Gordon Brown is set to release plans of a £300m scheme that will provide broadband Internet access, software and computers to low income families.

The advantages of FTTC and FTTH are clear to anyone with a longer term view, but BT is courting regional assemblies after the recent BERR report.

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.