Category: Broadband

Wales is supposed to have all its telephone exchanges enabled for ADSL but suffers from some areas where the distance is too great for ADSL technology to work.

Streaming television services via the same peer-to-peer (p2p) technology that file sharing networks use has been the recent distribution model for broadcasters such as Sky Anytime on PC (formerly "Sky by Broadband"), 4oD and BBC's iPlayer. Over the last couple of days, several national news sources have carried stories of criticism by service providers on the shifting of distribution costs to service providers.

Following an EGM, Pipex shareholders voted in favour of the sale of the Pipex broadband and voice services to Tiscali UK.

O2 may not extend its LLU broadband reach beyond the current commitments of Be's roll out to try and help keep costs down. An agreement signed with BT to enable a larger coverage for the service is not expected to be available all exchanges.

TalkTalk are offering an exclusive deal to new and existing customers, giving access to Setanta Sports, and a free digital Freeview box if you sign up in August 2007.

On the back of figures showing only a 34,000 increase in new UK mobile customers for Q2 2007, O2 has announced a further delay in the roll out of its broadband service to October.

ISPreview reports that All Fast Access (www.allfastaccess.com) has started advertising an almost unbelievable offer. They claim to offer 'totally unlimited broadband, guaranteed'.

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) announced today that it will investigate the recent acquisition of the Pipex broadband and voice customers by Tiscali.

Epitiro has published its latest ranking of ten of the larger broadband providers.

If you value your mega bits per second and the cash in your pocket it looks like Japan gives you the best return at around 11p per Mbps.