rural broadband

BT Reveals Lower Pole And Ducting Access Prices

BT has lowered the price it will charge rival service providers to access its ducting and telegraph poles

13 years ago

BT Promises 300Mbps Broadband For The Lucky Few

BT is to increase the speeds of its FTTC and FTTP offerings, but questions remain over its reach

13 years ago

Alcatel-Lucent Touts Broadband Boost With VDSL2

Alcatel-Lucent has launched VDSL Vectoring equipment which should deliver faster broadband speeds

13 years ago

Hunt Laments Slow Rollout Of Superfast Broadband

Jeremy Hunt has urged rival telecom firms to put aside their differences as the UK lags in the fibre race

13 years ago

TalkTalk Boss Slams BT Fibre ‘Monopoly’

Government support could give BT a monopoly, warns TalkTalk boss

13 years ago

Ofcom Proposes Enhanced Wi-Fi On Whitespace Radio

Gaps in TV broadcast spectrum could fill the rural broadband map - if Ofcom can get the technology agreed

13 years ago

3UK Gives Villages Free 3G Broadband

3UK has promised free 3G broadband to 11 rural communities, as it seeks a competitive advantage in the 4G race

13 years ago

White Space Opportunties Touted In New Report

White space radio could soon yield innovative and important business opportunities for many sectors

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

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

IEEE White Space Standard To Fix Rural Broadband

Rural broadband could receive a boost after the IEEE formally published its white space standard

13 years ago

BT Extends ADSL2+ Deployment, But Deadline Slips

BT is extending its ADSL2+ copper network deployment, meaning faster broadband for more people

13 years ago

Ofcom Faces Criticism Over Rural Mobile Coverage

An advisory panel has urged Ofcom to ensure that rural areas suffer no more mobile 'not-spots'

13 years ago

Virgin Media Says Ofcom’s Rural Broadband Price Cut Won’t Help

Virgin Media has warned that Ofcom's change to rural broadband pricing does little to address the problem

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

Wales Gets £57m Broadband Injection

The UK government has given Welsh broadband a boost, with a cash allocation of nearly £57 million

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

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

Welsh Rural Broadband Access Scheme Expands

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

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

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

Government Extends Rural Broadband Scheme

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

14 years ago

BT Set To Trial LTE To Bridge Rural Not Spots

BT is to trial LTE in conjunction with Everything Everywhere, as it seeks to bridge rural broadband not spots

14 years ago

MPs Debate Rural Broadband And 4G Licences

The government says 4G technologies could play a crucial role in extending broadband provision to rural areas

14 years ago

Nine Out Of Ten To Get 25Mbps Broadband By 2015

The culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has set a target of 'superfast' broadband for 90 percent of UK citizens by 2015

14 years ago

Fujitsu To Build 1Gbps Rural Broadband Network

Virgin Media and TalkTalk back Fujitsu's bid to take rural broadband away from BT Openreach

14 years ago

ISPs Criticise BT Pole And Duct Sharing Charges

Some ISPs warn that the government's rural broadband push is in danger, because BT's prices are too high

14 years ago

BT Customers In Cornwall Get Fibre Broadband

The first customers in Cornwall have been connected to BT's high ‘ca-pasty’ broadband service in that area

14 years ago

Rural Broadband Time-Scales In Danger Of Sliding

The Broadband Stakeholders Group believes the rural broadband scheme is already falling behind schedule

14 years ago