Category: Broadband

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Figures released show that in France, its Fibre to the Home roll out only accounts for around three quarters of a million connections.

Peer to peer techniques have normally been associated with distributing pirated material, but this may be changing even faster than has already started in the UK.

BT Retail added customers to its broadband service at an average rate of 2000 a day for the last few years.

A petition calling for the BBC iPlayer to be rolled out onto other platforms has now closed and is awaiting a response.

With the news that we spend £34m a year calling broadband customer support lines, the issue of customer service standards is once more in the spotlight.

A month after news of the sale surfaced, the Office of Fair Trading has given the go ahead for the sale.

Openreach is implementing a new policy that should see more DACS line sharing units removed to allow people to obtain 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.