Broadband

Slow Rural Broadband Affecting Education, Says Survey

Rural broadband gives urban children an advantage in education says new report

11 years ago

BT Calls For End To TalkTalk And Sky’s £623m Copper Broadband ‘Subsidies’

BT says if Ofcom does not act over unbundled lines, the UK broadband market could be distorted to the tune…

11 years ago

Slow Broadband Can Knock 20 Percent Off House Price

Estate agent Rightmove finds broadband speed has become a key factor for prospective homeowners when considering a property

11 years ago

Virgin Media Boosts Top Fibre Optic Speeds to 152Mbps

Virgin Media to offer free speed upgrades to customers - and parental controls too

11 years ago

Vodafone Bids £5.8bn For Spanish Cable Company Ono – Report

Vodafone reportedly looks to boost European fixed line network with another acquisition

11 years ago

BT Denies Copper ADSL Switch Off Will Be ‘Catastrophic’ For Businesses

BT says businesses have had plenty of time to upgrade to faster services

11 years ago

First BDUK Fibre Cabinets Go Live In Warwickshire And Northamptonshire

Two BDUK projects reveal the locations of the first government-funded fibre cabinets

11 years ago

70,000 Properties In Devon And Somerset To Receive BDUK Fibre By Summer

BDUK rollout in the West Country to reach more homes and businesses even quicker

11 years ago

Government-Funded Superfast Broadband Rollout Reaches 300,000 Premises

DCMS says rollout is now likely to have reached more than 300,000 homes and businesses

11 years ago

Ofcom: Mobile, Broadband, Landline Services Cheaper Than Ten Years Ago

Ofcom says consumers are getting more for less thanks to strong competition

11 years ago

BT To Invest Another £50m In Urban Fibre Rollout

BT to connect 400,000 more homes and businesses across 30 cities to its fibre network

11 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: Fibre Broadband

Thanks to optical fibre we have superfast broadband. How well do you know it?

11 years ago

Ofcom Protects Consumers And SMBs From Mid-Contract Price Hikes

New Ofcom rules allow telecoms customers to exit if contracts change

11 years ago

BT And Alcatel-Lucent Set 1.4Tbps Fibre Bandwidth Record

Researchers say it is possible to achieve such speeds across the whole of BT’s core network

11 years ago

Ofcom Authorises Faster Satellite Wi-Fi For Ships, Planes And Trains

Ofcom expects to issue first licenses for earth stations in February

11 years ago

EE Admits To Security Flaw In Brightbox Routers

EE says it is working on fix to security flaw that could expose customers' personal information

11 years ago

Sky And Vodafone Discuss Possible Alliance To Combat BT – Report

Fearing challenges to their TV and mobile businesses, Sky and Vodafone could team up

11 years ago

39,000 Scottish Homes And Businesses Set To Receive BDUK Boost

Digital Scotland reveals the next Scottish BDUK locations

11 years ago

BT Awards £26.9m Contracts For Scottish Highlands And Islands Subsea Fibre Rollout

BT is to work with three companies on laying 250 miles of fibre-optic cables off the west coast of Scotland

11 years ago

O2, Virgin Media And Sky Top Ofcom Customer Service Charts

Ofcom research reveals pay TV and mobile users are happier than landline and broadband consumers

11 years ago

Ofcom Tells BT To Repair And Install Fixed Lines Faster Or Risk Fines

Ofcom seeks to shortern the time telephone and broadband line repairs, as well as finish new installations

11 years ago

Government Boasts Of 200,000 BDUK Premises As Rollout Accelerates

The government celebrates ‘Super Switch-on Day’, promising 25,000 homes and businesses will be added each week from spring 2014

11 years ago

BT And Eight Local Councils Team Up For £15m BDUK Manchester Deal

An additional 39,000 premises to receive fibre by March 2016 as part of BDUK Manchester project

11 years ago

BT Forces Customers To Make Parental Controls Choice

BT will offer network level parental controls to customers - and there's no sitting on the fence

11 years ago

BT Complaints Rise Following BT Sport Launch

Complaints about BT's landline, broadband and pay TV service increase, according to Ofcom

11 years ago

Sky Customers Cut Off As Failed Copper Thieves Steal BT Fibre

At least the dimwitted criminals didn’t make any money

11 years ago

Another 31 Communities In Devon And Somerset To Get Fibre Broadband

Local councils plan to have 91 percent superfast connectivity by 2016

11 years ago

Labour Telecoms Proposals Call For Reduced BT Line Rental Charges

Shadow Communications Minister Helen Goodman publishes proposals to protect consumers from fixed line and mobile operators

11 years ago

TalkTalk Business Pitches Cheap Ethernet Over FTTC Service

TalkTalk Business offers a symmetric Ethernet service without laying fibre to your door

11 years ago

BT Openreach CEO Liv Garfield Leaves For Severn Trent

Garfield will leave in the spring after overseeing BT fibre deployment

11 years ago