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UPD BT Demo 10Gbps Fibre Optic FTTP Broadband ISP Speeds in Cornwall

9th November, 2012 (53 Comments)

BT has used the latest XG-PON (i.e. 10G-PON or ITU-T G.987) hardware from ZTE to demonstrate its “hyper-fast” Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband service delivering speeds of up to 10Gbps (Gigabits per second) to a business in Cornwall (Arcol – based outside Truro), which equates to around 10,000Mbps (Megabits).

UPDATE Ofcom UK to Improve its Identification of Slamming and Mis-selling

9th November, 2012 (0 Comments)

A new report created by Mott MacDonald (MM) has advised Ofcom on how to improve its identification of mis-selling and slamming in the UK phone and broadband market. The research found several issues with the regulators tracking of such complaints and revealed some interesting details about the scale of related problems.

Wales to Prioritise Superfast Broadband in the Powys Local Growth Zone

8th November, 2012 (4 Comments)

The Welsh Government (WG) has announced that its £425m Next Generation Broadband Wales project will prioritise faster internet connectivity to the Powys Local Growth Zone (PLGZ), albeit only after the country’s seven Enterprise Zones have received similar treatment.

VIDEO BT and Timico CTO Showcase an FTTC Superfast Broadband Install

8th November, 2012 (3 Comments)

The Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of business ISP Timico UK, Trefor Davies, recently had a BT film crew turn up to record the events as his local street cabinet and home connectivity were upgraded to support superfast broadband (FTTC) technology; that video has now been posted.

UK Culture Secretary to Lobby EU Over Delayed Broadband Funding Approval

8th November, 2012 (8 Comments)

The UK government’s Culture Secretary, Maria Miller MP, will today fly out to Brussels with the hope of persuading the European Commission (EC) to grant final approval for the release of state aid funding, which would allow local authorities to proceed with their national roll-out of superfast broadband services.

Go ON UK Say 16 Million People Need Basic Internet Skills to Help Boost GDP

8th November, 2012 (0 Comments)

Charity Go ON UK (RaceOnline 2012) has estimated that 16 million people in the UK still don’t have the basic online skills needed to benefit fully from the internet. The economy (GDP) could, it claims, be £63 billion better off if the nation reversed this. The solution? A new Digital Skills Charter.

Top 50 UK Slowest Broadband Streets by Download Speed for 2012

8th November, 2012 (21 Comments)

A new study has used data from 2,261,336 internet speed tests to determine a list of the top 50 slowest streets for broadband ISP services, which saw Cromarty Road in Stamford (Lincolnshire) record the lowest score of just 0.132Mbps (Megabits per second). A list of the top 10 fastest streets has also been included.

Virgin Media UK Launch Broadband TV Anywhere Service At No Extra Cost

7th November, 2012 (1 Comment)

Cable operator Virgin Media has today announced the launch of its new Virgin TV Anywhere service, which allows the operators existing TV package subscribers to watch their favourite shows and channels from almost anywhere and at no extra cost; provided your fixed line or wifi can handle it (streaming over 3G is “not supported“).

Virgin Media Broadband Customers See Peak Time Latency Woes Return

7th November, 2012 (0 Comments)

Customers on Virgin Media’s UK cable broadband platform report that problems with high latency during peak times, which first struck the ISP last month when one of its public peering providers (Atrato) suddenly switched most of its traffic flow, appear to have returned.

ISP O2 UK Suffers Another Sharp Broadband Subscriber Decline to 579500

7th November, 2012 (5 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP O2 UK (BE Broadband) has released its latest financial results to the end of September (Q3-2012), which revealed yet another fall in their fixed line broadband ISP subscriber base to 579,500 (down by -22,500 in the quarter). This is even worse than the -15,800 lost during Q2-2012.

UK Fixed Line Broadband ISP Connections Top 21.07 Million in Q2 2012

6th November, 2012 (0 Comments)

Ofcom’s latest quarterly Telecoms Market Data Tables Q2 2012 report has revealed that the UK is now home to a total of 21.067 million fixed line home and small business broadband ISP connections (up from 20.91m in Q1-2012), which includes 601,000 superfast fibre optic based services (e.g. FTTC/P).

An Independent Scotland Could Result in Higher Broadband Prices

6th November, 2012 (9 Comments)

The debate over whether or not Scotland should become independent from the United Kingdom is generally marred by political division, which often overlooks some of the more technical and economic questions; such as what happens to the cost and speed of broadband in Scotland, England, N.Ireland and Wales if the former separates?

UK Scientists Claim to Develop 2000 Times Faster Broadband via Fibre Optic

6th November, 2012 (6 Comments)

A team of scientists working out of Bangor University in Wales has developed a commercially affordable method of using Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OOFDM) over fibre optic lines, which could deliver broadband ISP speeds that are 2,000 times faster than current services.

European ITRE Committee Wants 100Mbps Broadband for All by 2020

6th November, 2012 (20 Comments)

The European Parliament’s Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE) has supported calls for a “radical” boost to Europe’s Digital Agenda strategy, which could see “ultrafast” broadband ISP speeds of 100Mbps (Megabits per second) being made available to 100% of UK and EU households by 2020; with 50% able to get speeds of 1000Mbps (1Gbps).

Radio Spectrum Worth £52bn to the UK But Mobile Broadband to Get Cheaper

6th November, 2012 (0 Comments)

A new Government commissioned report from Analysys Mason has revealed that the total radio spectrum (e.g. wifi, digital tv, 3G etc.) market was worth £52 billion a year to the UK economy in 2011 (up 25% in real terms since 2006) and rising. But Mobile Broadband is going to get cheaper.

Microsoft and Google Plan UK White Space Wireless Broadband Network

6th November, 2012 (3 Comments)

Software and Internet giants Microsoft and Google are understood to have expressed “extreme interest” in the UK development of a potentially national wifi style wireless broadband network using the unused White Space (IEEE 802.22) radio spectrum that exists between Digital TV (DTV) channels.

Tory MP Wants UK Social Housing Tenants to Have FREE Broadband

5th November, 2012 (26 Comments)

The Conservative MP for Rossendale and Darwen (South East Lancashire), Jake Berry, has called for all social housing tenants (e.g. people in poverty or those with low incomes) to be given either a low cost or even free broadband internet access service.