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The Comms Business magazine has once again announced the winners of their annual 2015 Comms Business Awards event, which took place last Tuesday in London. In the end Virtual1 picked up the gong for ‘Best Internet Service Provider’, but there were plenty of other awards too.
Contractors who appear to be working for Sky (Sky Broadband) have been spotted building new telegraph poles and fibre optic cable ducting around the civil parish village of Woodville, Midway and the Swadlincote areas of Derbyshire in England. Some 5,000 local homes will benefit.
The latest global Q1 2015 State of the Internet report from Akamai has revealed that the world’s average fixed line broadband download speed is now 5Mbps (up by 10% since Q4 2014), while the United Kingdom increased by 6.7% in the quarter to 11.6Mbps. Overall the UK is now the 21st fastest in the world, which is down three places from the end of 2014.
Telecoms operator EE has announced that their offer of a free portable 2600mah Smartphone charger (Power Bar) for existing mobile and fixed broadband customers, which suffered a huge supply shortage shortly after it was first introduced in April (here), has returned.
The Government’s Broadband Delivery UK programme has today released a breakdown of regional uptake for their Connection Voucher scheme, which offers grants worth up to £3,000 to help SME businesses get a superfast broadband (30Mbps+) service installed. So far 25,000 vouchers have been taken, with 8,857 being gobbled in London.