Broadband

Graphene Links Could Enable Super-Fast Internet

Researchers in Manchester and Cambridge show graphene's potential for superfast broadband

13 years ago

BT Installs Free Wi-Fi In London Pubs

BT and Heineken have teamed up to offer BT Broadband customers Wi-Fi access in 100 London pubs

13 years ago

Orange Confirms Email Outage For Broadband Customers

Orange has confirmed its broadband customers are having problems accessing their email accounts

13 years ago

Security Most Pressing Issue For Readers

Security concerns you more than broadband coverage and patents. Next up: Did you take work on holiday?

13 years ago

Scotland Complains Over Broadband Cash Allocation

The Scottish government is not happy over the amount of money it has been allocated for broadband

13 years ago

Dodgy Bills Land Talk Talk And Tiscali £3m Fine

Billing customers for phantom services has landed Talk Talk and Tiscali with a multi-million pound fine

13 years ago

Emerging Markets Drive Mobile Phone Uptake

Global mobile phone shipments will hit 1.77 billion in 2016, driven largely by growth in emerging markets

13 years ago

England And Scotland Get £362m Broadband Injection

The UK government has published details of how its rural broadband investment will be allocated

13 years ago

Pricey Broadband Stifles Uptake In Developing Nations

Ovum has warned that the high cost of broadband in developing markets has put it out of reach for many

13 years ago

Ofcom Slams ISPs For Phoney Broadband Claims

Broadband speeds in the UK are improving, but the advertising still misleads consumers, says Ofcom

13 years ago

TalkTalk Shamed For Poor Broadband Service

Talk Talk finished bottom of an Ofcom survey of broadband customer satisfaction

13 years ago

Ofcom Demands Rural Broadband Price

Rural broadband bills should fall after Ofcom "significantly" cut the broadband wholesale price BT charges other ISPs

13 years ago

Ofcom Mulls FM Frequency For Rural Broadband

The white spaces around the FM radio frequency could be utilised to provide broadband to rural areas

13 years ago

Over-60s Struggle With Online Public Services

So-called 'silver surfers' are being left behind as local authorities move their services online

13 years ago

One In Seven Brits Lag 2Mbps Broadband Benchmark

Around 14 percent of UK homes are missing out on the government’s minimum broadband access speed

13 years ago

AVM Denies GPL Violation Claims

German router maker AVM says GPL campaigners are backing software which would break the Fritz!Box

13 years ago

Welsh Rural Broadband Access Scheme Expands

The Government has extended the Broadband Support Scheme to those with less than 2Mbps

13 years ago

EC Forces Mobile Carriers To Lower Roaming Charges

The EU has once again reduced the price of roaming, as it prepares to discuss competition in the market

13 years ago

Virgin Media ‘Stop The Con’ Site Banned By ASA

A Virgin Media website that exposes misleading broadband marketing has been banned - for being misleading

13 years ago

White Space Radio Trial Checks Nuts And Bolts

The Cambridge test is not designed to convince Ofcom, but to check the practicality of white space radio, says Glenn…

13 years ago

BT, BBC and Microsoft In Cambridge White Space Trial

Cambridge will test whether "white space" radio systems can communicate and solve Britain's broadband crisis

13 years ago

Will White Space Radio Be Green?

Smart Grids won't happen without cheap ubiquitous networking. White space technologies could deliver that, says Peter Judge

13 years ago

BT Spreads Fibre, Tests White Space For Broadband

BT enlists spare TV spectrum as a possible way to connect the last remote UK residents

13 years ago

Surrey Council Seeks Tenders For Fibre Rollout

Surrey County Council is inviting bids to get the final 20 percent of its residents connected to fibre broadband

13 years ago

BT Tests Low-Energy Broadband, Charts Progress

BT is testing an energy saving option for broadband lines as part of its ongoing green drive

13 years ago

Eutelsat Launches Tooway Satellite Broadband Service

Eutelsat's KA-SAT satellite went live today, delivering Tooway broadband to remote areas of Europe

13 years ago

Government Extends Rural Broadband Scheme

The government has freed up nearly £50m to help push superfast broadband into three rural counties

13 years ago

Are Governments Over-Investing In Fibre?

Mobile and satellite operators reckon fibre is getting a leg-up at national level, but fibre broadband isn't always a winner,…

13 years ago

Satellite Broadband Providers Lobby EC For Funding

Satellite broadband needs public funding to close Europe's digital divide, say the vendors

13 years ago

Vodafone Warns Against Excessive Fibre Investment

A new report by Vodafone suggests that mobile is a better way to patch broadband not-spots than fibre

14 years ago