Category: Broadband

Two million pounds’ worth of hardware has now arrived in Stornoway as work gets underway in building a Western Isles-wide fixed wireless broadband network.

ACNielsen NetRatings figures are showing that more than half of the UK's online population are now using broadband connection. This is around 11 million connections.

The consortium of BT competitors that form BIG has issued another press release.

The European commission has approved the release of funding for broadband projects in Scotland and the East Midlands.

ntl: has published to its investors a document which lays out their vision for how their network should evolve.

Ofcom has published the next part of its strategic telecoms review.

Reading some of the write-ups on Silicon.com it almost sounds like a cross between a hippy pilgrimage and a gathering of backroom techies.

The Access to Broadband Campaigns conference in Aviemore has produced a wealth of presentation material that may be of use to people working to get broadband to there area.

Broadband brings a new threat into each home as an always-on Internet connection is opening the way for children to browse the net perhaps without the same supervision as before. iomart has launched NetIntelligence Home Edition, a new packaged designed to help parents in this difficult task which combines protection against undesirable content not suitable for children as well as including Kapersky's Anti-Virus software.

The BBC appears to be on the verge of unleashing a new video viewer, that will allow people to view BBC content for up to 2 weeks after its original air time.