Category: Broadband

VNUnet has details of a speech Lord Currie chairman of Ofcom made this week at the Communication Management Association.

Perhaps not totally new, we have seen 'Internet Radio' units for Hi-Fi units, and wireless media adapters that will play locally sourced content on your televsion. Akimbo are now promising a package of streamed content direct to your TV.

It seems Gorebridge in Midlothian is set to benefit from the roll-out of wireless broadband by Accelerate.

edNET working through Scottish Borders Rural Broadband Ltd, a subsidiary of Scottish Enterprise Borders will be bringing broadband to a number of communities in the Borders region.

Today, The Discovery Channel, well known for its programming on cable and satellite launched a broadband service for the U.K. audience. Discovery Broadband seems to be an excellent example of what broadband can do and is fuelling the trend for more companies to provide broadband content on-line in what one could describe as 'viewable' quality as opposed to staggering images than we are all used to.

The TISC has published its second report on the state of the UK broadband market place.

BBC News carries a news item indicating that Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment for Northern Ireland has chosen BT as its preferred broadband supplier. The contract if it makes it through the final hurdles should see NI reaching a 100% broadband coverage figure by the end of 2005.

BT has announced that following successful trials in a number of locations that it is roll-out the service to a number of areas in the UK.

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The Independent.co.uk website has a news item looking at the Powerline broadband trial that is running in Winchester at present.