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14th November, 2012 (3 Comments)

Wispa Limited, an outspoken group of consultants who believe Wales (UK) deserves better broadband, has today launched a new UK focused talent pool (ALLc) that has been designed to help “customers” (councils, private companies, community groups etc.) find the skills and information they need to build better rural networks.

14th November, 2012 (10 Comments)

Genesis Technical Systems (GTS) has uploaded some new information and a short video demonstration of its patented DSL Rings (DSLR) technology, which could one day conceivably deliver superfast broadband speeds of up to 400Mbps (Megabits per second) into UK homes by improving BT’s existing FTTC (VDSL2) broadband ISP technology.

14th November, 2012 (0 Comments)

The £1m European Rural Broadband Challenge Fund (RBCF) and Outer Hebrides LEADER programme have successfully helped to fund and develop a new fibre optic network, which has been used to bring superfast broadband to five of the six houses in the tiny Highlands and Islands village of Dalmore (Scotland).

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14th November, 2012 (1 Comment)

The publicly owned and cash strapped Digital Region network, which delivers superfast broadband services to 80% of homes and businesses in South Yorkshire, has confirmed that its ISPs (e.g. ASK4, Origin Broadband, Fluidata etc.) can now offer a free connection to new business customers in the area.

14th November, 2012 (1 Comment)

The busy town of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire could soon benefit from the installation of a free wireless internet (wifi) service that would cover its retail heart. But unlike most projects this one will be funded by members of the public and local businesses. The model could potentially work for rural broadband too.

13th November, 2012 (0 Comments)

BT WiFi has announced that its global wifi network is now home to 7.5 million public wireless internet hotspots (4.5m in the UK), which are offered free to the ISPs existing fixed-line broadband ISP customers but everybody else has to pay a small fee.

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13th November, 2012 (1 Comment)

LN Communications (I Love Broadband) has announced that the North Yorkshire (England, UK) communities of Kettlewell, Starbotton and Buckden can now access faster wireless broadband speeds of more than 20Mbps (Megabits per second).

13th November, 2012 (3 Comments)

Wandsworth Council has announced it is “considering options” for partnering up with an ISP that could help to make superfast fibre optic (FTTH/P) broadband services available to the borough’s council flats and possibly also local businesses. But will doing so boost broadband uptake?

13th November, 2012 (1 Comment)

Budget internet, tv and phone provider TalkTalk has today released its latest Q3-2012 financial results, which reveal that their broadband subscriber base declined by -4,000 in the quarter to total 4,043,000 (that’s a big improvement from the -19k lost in Q2). Thankfully superfast broadband (FTTC) customers doubled to 30,000.

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13th November, 2012 (8 Comments)

The government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) office, which is responsible for overseeing the national and publicly funded roll-out of superfast broadband services, has revealed that a whopping £9.8m of its £680m budget until 2015 has been spent on 70 external consultants (between May 2010 and September 2012).

13th November, 2012 (5 Comments)

BT has said that the United Kingdom is already in the “vanguard of fibre deployment” within Europe and called upon the European Parliament’s ITRE Committee to release detailed economic modelling to support their latest proposal, which demands speeds of 100Mbps for every home in the EU by 2020.

12th November, 2012 (3 Comments)

The South Gloucestershire Council (SGC), in partnership with Wiltshire Council (WC), have become the latest local authorities to pick BT as the “preferred bidder” for their joint UK Local Broadband Plan (LBP), which aims to make superfast broadband speeds of 24Mbps+ available to 90% of local people by spring 2015.

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12th November, 2012 (0 Comments)

Analyst firm Point Topic has released its report into the coverage of superfast broadband (Next Generation Access) services in the EU, which is intended to assess how close Europe is to achieving its Digital Agenda goals. Apparently the EU as a whole is just “half-way towards the goal” of 30Mbps+ for all by 2020.

12th November, 2012 (0 Comments)

Ofcom has today announced the final regulations, reserve prices and timetable for its imminent auction of superfast 4G (LTE or WiMAX) compatible Mobile Broadband spectrum (800MHz and 2.6GHz), which will officially get underway on 11th December 2012 with the first services to launch in May or June 2013.

10th November, 2012 (7 Comments)

The network director for BT’s Superfast Cornwall project, Jeremy Stevenson-Barnes, has suggested that the operators trial of new Broadband Regenerator equipment could in the future be used to boost some of the slowest copper ADSL or ADSL2+ broadband speeds from hundreds of kilobits per second (Kbps) to 3-4Mbps (Megabits).

9th November, 2012 (4 Comments)

The editors and readers of Computer Shopper magazine have awarded PlusNet the Best Broadband Supplier of the Year accolade at their annual 2012 awards ceremony.

9th November, 2012 (4 Comments)

The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has today launched two new reviews that aim to examine the effectiveness of competition between telecoms operators in both the Fixed Access Market and the Wholesale Broadband Access Market (WBA). A major focus will be on the impact of new super-fast broadband services.

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