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A new online survey of 2,000 Multi Dwelling Unit (MDU) residents in the U.S. and Canada, which was conducted by RVA LLC on behalf of the FTTH Council Americas, has claimed that apartments with pure fibre optic FTTH broadband suffered fewer service woes and attracted a higher value.
Villages in the rural Blackdown Hills, which represents a 370km2 area of natural beauty that straddles the border between Somerset and Devon in South West England, appear to have become tired of waiting for better broadband and have instead put in a bid for £4.6m from the EU to support their own plan.
A new study, which examined the environmental performance (i.e. corporate sustainability and environmental impact) of the world’s largest publicly-traded companies by market capitalisation, has ranked BT Group as the 3rd best in the world and Sky PLC (Sky Broadband) 8th from a total of 500 companies.
Mobile operator Vodafone has claimed that some small UK businesses could suffer as much as £12,310 in lost revenue by not having access to their mobile phones for a day. In order to tackle this the operator has launched ‘Rapid’, which gets a replacement device to the business within 4 hours of an approved insurance claim being made.
The senior bosses of telecoms and broadband giant BT have joined with the leaders of the CWU and Prospect unions to issue staff with a new letter that warns about the possible impact upon their business of a vote to leave the EU, which if recent polls are to be believed may now be looking more likely.