Broadband

Virgin Media Uses ‘Narrow Trenching’ To Reduce Cost Of Fibre Rollout

Virgin Media lays fibre in Cambridgeshire village using new technique

10 years ago

Independent Scotland Could Face Higher Mobile And Broadband Charges

BT, TalkTalk, O2, Vodafone, EE and Three say independence could increase their costs while others suggest roaming charges could be…

10 years ago

Ofcom Plans To Help SMBs Get Better Broadband And Mobile Services

Ofcom says it wants SMBs to receive better value, higher quality communications services, even if they take consumer offerings

10 years ago

First Isle Of Wight BDUK Cabinet Goes Live

BT says it has connected at least one cabinet in all BDUK regions

10 years ago

Virgin Media Raises Prices For Broadband-Only Customers

Is Virgin Media trying to push its broadband-only customers onto one of its bundled services, after it raises its monthly…

10 years ago

Brantingham Village Claims Broadband Speed Crown

An ancient hamlet mentioned in the Doomsday book claims to have the fastest Internet village connection, but BT disagrees

10 years ago

Gigabit Jersey Celebrates 10,000th Fibre Customer

Jersey Telecom and Sure now have 10,000 customers on island's gigabit FTTP fibre network

10 years ago

Google-Led Consortium To Build 60Tbps Trans-Pacific Subsea Cable

Google and partners club together to build a cable connecting the US and Japan which will go live in 2016

10 years ago

Virgin Media Expands Network To 100,000 More Premises In East London

Virgin Media starts biggest ever expansion of its cable network as it announces Q2 results

10 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: BT

Do you know much about Britain's incumbent, BT? Try our quiz!

10 years ago

Superfast Cymru Announces Next 66 Welsh Towns To Benefit From BDUK Fibre

Rural areas in Wales are set to receive a superfast broadband boost from BDUK

10 years ago

City Of London Says BT Is Failing With Superfast Broadband For The Square Mile

City of London says a lack of affordable superfast broadband is harming the square mile as a financial centre

10 years ago

Subsea Cable Diversion Brings Superfast Broadband To Isles Of Scilly

Isles of Scilly will be able to receive superfast broadband later this year after undersea fibre cable is diverted

10 years ago

Vodafone Agrees Fibre Sharing Deal With Portugal Telecom

Vodafone Portugal expands fibre reach to strengthen quad play and unified communications services

10 years ago

Scottish Government Pledges £2.5m For Rural Broadband As BDUK Rollout Continues

Scottish broadband boost as Holyrood provides more funding and plans for a post-independence Scotland

10 years ago

The Guardian And GCHQ Named Internet Heroes And Villains At 2014 ISPA Awards

Hyperoptic, Sky and Plusnet all receive gongs as the 16th annual ISPA Awards for the Internet industry

10 years ago

EU Offers Finance And Support For Community Broadband Projects

EU invites proposals for support and funding from broadband organisations as it seeks to improve superfast coverage

10 years ago

UK Broadband ‘Not Fit For Purpose’

Federation of Small Businesses slams the current state of broadband - claiming 45,000 are still on dial up

10 years ago

TalkTalk Chastised Over Budget Broadband Advert

Another week, another misleading broadband advert as TalkTalk is pinged by advertising watchdog

10 years ago

Alcatel-Lucent Sends 10Gbps Over Copper Telephone Lines

Prototype XG-FAST technology could be used to vastly improve connection speeds between the street and the premises – no fibre…

10 years ago

First Fibre Cabinet Goes Live In Go Digital Newcastle BDUK Project

Go Digital Newcastle BDUK targets 97 percent fibre coverage by summer 2015

10 years ago

BT Apologises For ‘Major’ Broadband Outage

Many BT broadband customers reported being unable to access a range of websites for several hours on Saturday morning

10 years ago

New Openreach Repair And Installation Targets Come Into Force On 1 July

BT Openreach faces fines if it doesnt repair or install phone and broadband lines quicker

10 years ago

BT, TalkTalk Welcome Ofcom Fibre Price Consultation

Regulator to examine fibre broadband pricing, after it rejects TalkTalk complaint against BT's fibre access charges

10 years ago

Broadband Crisis Affects Cities Too, Ofcom Reveals

It is not just those people living in rural areas that suffer from the scourge of slow broadband, study reveals

10 years ago

EE Offers Broadband To Other Networks’ Customers At No Extra Charge

The UK’s largest mobile network operator joins the unbundled broadband game

10 years ago

CityFibre Raises £30m To Build 20 Gigabit Networks Across UK

Following York and Peterborough, CityFibre plans to build 1Gbps networks in 20 more UK towns and cities

10 years ago

UK Broadband Relish Offers Unlimited Wireless Broadband Over 4G

Relish offers flexible, unlimited wireless broadband to homes and businesses in central London

10 years ago

CityFibre To Upgrade Coventry Council-Owned Fibre Network To 1Gbps

Businesses in Coventry to benefit from faster broadband after CityFibre acquires public fibre network

10 years ago

Google To Spend Billions On Satellite Internet Effort

Google reportedly has an initiative underway to launch a fleet of at least 180 satellites to provide Internet access across…

10 years ago