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2nd Aug 2012 (2 Comments)
Fixed wireless ISP Diamond Net has started the introduction of its new “ultra fast” 4G based broadband service for the public sector, businesses and potentially up to 10,000 homes of North Lincolnshire Homes (NLH), a registered social landlord (charity), in the Scunthorpe area of North Lincolnshire.
2nd Aug 2012 (8 Comments)
The latest batch of anecdotal UK consumer broadband ISP speed testing data from Broadband.co.uk, which covers the past month of July 2012, reveals that the average internet download speed has declined slightly from 17.662Mbps (Megabits per second) in June 2012 to 17.262Mbps now.
1st Aug 2012 (8 Comments)
The Court of Appeal has largely rejected BT’s latest attempt to appeal two judgments of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) from June 2010 and March 2011, which challenged an Ofcom ruling that found the operator had charged rival ISPs too much for access to its network (i.e. Partial Private Circuits – trunk segments market).
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1st Aug 2012 (1 Comment)
The Hampshire County Council (HCC) has quietly launched a new Alternative Broadband Pilot scheme, which borrows an idea from Wales by offering grants worth up to £300 to help “Not Spot” homes in rural areas install an “alternative” broadband service that can provide broadband speeds of more than 2Mbps+.
1st Aug 2012 (10 Comments)
Consultancy firm Analysys Mason has warned that yesterdays scathing House of Lords Select Committee report into the UK’s embattled superfast broadband strategy, which proposed to blanket the country with truly open-access fibre optic hubs, would require “substantially more public funding” (£1bn) than is currently available.
1st Aug 2012 (0 Comments)
Avanti Communications UK has just been given the green light to launch its second broadband satellite (HYLAS 2) into space, which will be sent aloft within the next couple of days aboard Arianespace’s heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana.
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