Category: Broadband

It seems the world of takeover's has gained another deal, with an initial £594m in cash being paid for Energis.

As each week goes by more exchanges are offering ADSL services, two areas of the UK are promoting the 100% enablement of all exchanges.

ISPA UK (The Internet Services Providers' Association) has announced the launch of the 2006 ISPA Annual Awards. The awards will include six broadband categories as well as three new categories: Best Dial-up, Best Uncontended Service and Best Streaming Service. ISPs will be monitored by Epitiro (formerly Purple Sun) for performance which will form part of the judging process.

A £12.5 million project, launched in November 2003 in Devon to help harness broadband and how it can be exploited by businesses is to expand to cover the whole of Devon.

The UK passed a milestone in May 2005, when the number of broadband connections exceeded the number of dial-up connections.

A new 158 acre community that should have the first homes ready in 2007, looks set to be at the forefront of fibre deployment to consumers in the UK.

It seems Demon has been chosen to play host to the new style online content and interactive portal for Sky TV.

In a move that has attracted criticism from the South Korea's Information and Communication Minister, the significant broadband provider in the country looks set to introduce a Pay As You Go pricing model.

Today sees the news that BBC Three look set to premiere new programmes online. Alongside this is the news that Channel 4 may be about to stream all of its content online.

Ofcom has given the Universal Service Obligations for BT and Kingston Communications a review, and has decided to leave the benchmark for minimum Internet access speed at 28.8kbit/second.