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The Isle of Wight Council, which represents a small island just off England’s central south coast that is home to around 140,000 people, has named the first communities to benefit from their local Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) supported deployment of BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) network.
BSkyB (Sky Broadband) has confirmed last week’s report that it has an interest in merging with Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland, which are all broadly owned and controlled by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox (although Murdoch’s stake in BSkyB is just over 39%). But no agreement has “ever been reached“.
Banking giant HSBC has put out a short announcement today to confirm that over 650 of its branches across the UK are now able to offer customers free wireless Internet (wifi) access, which is thanks to the installation of a premium BT Wi-fi network.
Do you live in the English county of Derbyshire? If so then aside from a very tentative deployment map you’re probably starved for information about the progress of your local £27.67m Digital Derbyshire project, which is working to make BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network available to 95% of local premises by the end of 2016.
The standard for the next generation of 5G mobile communications technology is still being debated, yet that hasn’t stopped telecoms giant Ericsson from teaming up with Japanese mobile firm NTT DOCOMO to test its own 10Gbps+ (Gigabits per second) capable solution in Yokosuka; albeit using the 15GHz radio frequency band.
Budget ISP TalkTalk has announced that its “totally unlimited” Simply Broadband and phone bundle has been reduced from £3.50 to just £1.75 per month for the first six months of service, although customers will still need to pay line rental on top from £11.75 when pre-paid a year in advance or £15.95 monthly.
Customers who shelled out £9.99 for a Sky Sports Day Pass on Sky’s broadband-based Internet video streaming service NOW TV have been promised a refund after another spate of network congestion took the service offline just as the final Barclays Premier League Football matches of the 2013/14 season were kicking off.