Broadband

Government Opens ‘Super-Connected Cities’ Competition

Ten cities, including Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester and Glasgow, are eligible to compete for high-speed broadband funding, according to the Department…

13 years ago

Councils Must Submit Broadband Funding Bids By February

English councils have until February to submit proposals to receive rural broadband funding

13 years ago

Sky Blocks Newzbin2 After Court Order

Sky says it blocked file-sharing site Newzbin2 to protect copyright holders and consumers

13 years ago

BT Adds Another 178 Exchanges To Fibre Rollout

BT has revealed the latest tranche of telephone exchanges in the UK that will be fibre enabled

13 years ago

Lobby Group Slams Rural Broadband Rollout Hitch

The Countryside Alliance has hit out at the lack of progress made in rolling out rural broadband

13 years ago

Virgin Launches Flat Fee VPN Offering

Big Red VPN offers business fixed rate payment terms and unconstrained bandwidth

13 years ago

100Gbps Trans-Atlantic Link For NY, Ireland, Iceland

Emerald Express shaves milliseconds off trans-Atlantic latency, and links to Icelandic data centres

13 years ago

Osborne Plans Open Data and Connected Cities

George Osborne's Autumn statement launched an open data project, and promised connected cities

13 years ago

Orange Complaints Double, Says Ofcom Report

Fixed broadband satisfaction is lower than mobile, and TalkTalk comes bottom

13 years ago

Ofcom Will Act To Regulate Net Neutrality

ISPs can use traffic management, but they have to make it clear to users how they will be affected otherwise…

13 years ago

Onion Anonymous Internet Uses Amazon Cloud

Users of the Tor anonymous project can give back to the community by bridging to Amazon's cloud

13 years ago

Scottish Broadband Plan Gets £5m Funding Boost

The Scottish Government has allocated £5m to kickstart rural superfast broadband

13 years ago

Geo Lashes Out At BT And Quits Broadband Scheme

Geo has announced it is “reluctantly” quitting BDUK, as Fujitsu successfully completes a trial using BT's ducting

13 years ago

UK Broadband Speeds Drop By Third At Peak Times

Connection speeds drop by 35 percent in the evening thanks to TV streaming, says uSwitch

13 years ago

Europe Likely To Miss Broadband Targets

Europe might not get there, but the UK seems strangely complacent about broadband delivery before 2015

13 years ago

Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Asked To Block Newzbin2

Three more ISPs have been asked by the MPA to block illegal file-sharing site Newzbin2

13 years ago

Virgin’s 100Mbps Broadband Reaches 20m Brits

Virgin's superfast broadband network is now available to 20 million people in Britain - or a third of the population

13 years ago

Internet Traffic In The UK Increases Seven-fold

A report by Ofcom shows an increase in Internet traffic and has revealed the extent of the UK's mobile coverage

13 years ago

BT Accelerates Fibre Broadband Rollout

BT is to bring forward its fibre broadband targets by a year, hiring hundreds more engineers

13 years ago

Super-fast Broadband Comes to Cornwall

Super-fast broadband will arrive in parts of Cornwall three months ahead of schedule

13 years ago

UK Internet Speeds Disappoint As UN Sets Challenge

An Akamai broadband report reveals poor rankings for the UK, as the UN Broadband Commission sets targets

13 years ago

EU Confirms Plans For Huge Broadband Investment

The European Commission has confirmed plans to pump billions into broadband projects across the region

13 years ago

Rats Cause Virgin Broadband Outage In Scotland

Some Virgin Media customers in Scotland were briefly left without broadband when rats chewed cables

13 years ago

BT Broadband Suffers UK-Wide Outage

A power outage at a BT exchange in Birmingham has left consumers and businesses with no web access

13 years ago

Carry On Lying In Broadband Adverts, ASA Tells ISPs

ISPs can mislead users by advertising broadband speeds that are only available to a few, in new ASA rules

13 years ago

EC To Study Europe-Wide Broadband Speeds

The EC is to carry out EU-wide broadband tests following disappointing results from an Ofcom probe

13 years ago

Ghana To Lead LTE Deployment In Africa

Ghana could be the first country in Africa to get 4G mobile technology, and Alcatel Lucent is eager to get…

13 years ago

TalkTalk And 3UK Top Ofcom List Of Shame

TalkTalk and 3UK are still attracting more complaints to Ofcom than other telecoms companies

13 years ago

TalkTalk Boss Slams BT Fibre ‘Monopoly’

Government support could give BT a monopoly, warns TalkTalk boss

13 years ago

Virgin Provides Fibre To Everything Everywhere And 3

T-Mobile, Orange and Three will get faster mobile broadband, thanks to a network deal to use Virgin's fibre

13 years ago