Category: Broadband

The Country Land & Business Association has some interesting conclusions from a survey it has carried out.

One part of a Digital Inclusion Project was to provide broadband to those otherwise excluded from access to it. Proxim has deployed a wireless system covering five square kilometres to meet the needs of Renfrewshire Council.

Statistics are always difficult to work with, especially when speaking to someone who is in the 0.6% of households where broadband is not possible.

The existing Flash based streaming service that makes iPlayer content available to a wider audience may change later this year.

North Yorkshire County Council has entered a 10 year contract for broadband services from the NYnet project.

Freewire TV has signed up 40,000 to its service but is it more of an IPTV service than BT Vision? Or BBC iPlayer, Channel 4oD?

Epitiro have released combined performance figures for Q3 & Q4 2007, with BT coming out on top of the 11 providers tested and O2 entering the top 5.

Screen Digest research has shown The BBC iPlayer has helped boost the free-to-view TV consumption in the UK.

Some 40 per cent of businesses have cited price as the most important reason for changing their broadband provider. We ask the question is this the best way of doing business?

A report by EDUCAUSE stimates that delivering a 100Mbps broadband connection to homes and businesses in the US using a fibre connection could cost up to $100 billion.