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As first promised in February 2016, the Government’s culture (DCMS) and business (BIS) departments have today jointly opened a new consultation, which seeks to understand “what barriers businesses are facing in accessing superfast broadband.”
Rights holders will be pleased to learn that a leaked draft of the European Commission’s new Digital Single Market policy, which is expected to be published before the end of May 2016, looks set to exempt video streaming providers (e.g. Netflix) from the plan to ban geo-blocking of online content.
Some 6,000 premises in parts of Swindon (Wiltshire, England) should soon benefit from a new superfast broadband (24Mbps+) capable wireless network, which will go live on 6th June 2016, after UKB Networks confirmed that their early network deployment phase had begun.
The United Kingdom’s telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed to add an extra sub-band to the 5GHz radio spectrum band used by many internal home WiFi wireless networks, which would increase the number of 80MHz channels available from 4 to 6 and deliver faster speeds.
Rochdale-based ISP Zen Internet has appointed the former Director of Technology at TalkTalk, Jon Bauer, to take up a similar role within its own business, where he will help with a multi-million pound investment programme to “build a new national network” for Zen.
Cable operator Virgin Media Business has announced that nearly 1,500 businesses in 125 buildings located inside the Leeds City Centre area will gain access to their symmetric 100Mbps or faster broadband service, thanks to the operator’s on-going network expansion.