Government issues renewed SuperConnected cities push as March 2015 deadline for superfast broadband vouchers nears
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Virgin Media Uses ‘Narrow Trenching’ To Reduce Cost Of Fibre Rollout
Virgin Media lays fibre in Cambridgeshire village using new technique
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 on the cards
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
First Isle Of Wight BDUK Cabinet Goes Live
BT says it has connected at least one cabinet in all BDUK regions
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 tarrif?
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
Gigabit Jersey Celebrates 10,000th Fibre Customer
Jersey Telecom and Sure now have 10,000 customers on island's gigabit FTTP fibre network
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
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
Quiz Of The Week: BT
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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
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
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
Vodafone Agrees Fibre Sharing Deal With Portugal Telecom
Vodafone Portugal expands fibre reach to strengthen quad play and unified communications services
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
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
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
UK Broadband ‘Not Fit For Purpose’
Federation of Small Businesses slams the current state of broadband - claiming 45,000 are still on dial up
TalkTalk Chastised Over Budget Broadband Advert
Another week, another misleading broadband advert as TalkTalk is pinged by advertising watchdog
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 required
First Fibre Cabinet Goes Live In Go Digital Newcastle BDUK Project
Go Digital Newcastle BDUK targets 97 percent fibre coverage by summer 2015
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
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
BT, TalkTalk Welcome Ofcom Fibre Price Consultation
Regulator to examine fibre broadband pricing, after it rejects TalkTalk complaint against BT's fibre access charges
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
EE Offers Broadband To Other Networks’ Customers At No Extra Charge
The UK’s largest mobile network operator joins the unbundled broadband game
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
UK Broadband Relish Offers Unlimited Wireless Broadband Over 4G
Relish offers flexible, unlimited wireless broadband to homes and businesses in central London
CityFibre To Upgrade Coventry Council-Owned Fibre Network To 1Gbps
Businesses in Coventry to benefit from faster broadband after CityFibre acquires public fibre network