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16th December, 2014 (0 Comments)

The Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) project in England has successfully raised an extra £700,000 to help roll-out “superfast fibre broadband” (although curiously the speeds are stated as sub-superfast “up to 24Mbps“) across hard to reach communities in the Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks.

16th December, 2014 (4 Comments)

The European Commission has published its annual report into the coverage of superfast broadband (Next Generation Access) services around the EU, which again shows that the United Kingdom is making good progress on 30Mbps+ capable Next Gen (NGA) service delivery but still lags miles behind most other EU28 countries in terms of pure fibre optic connectivity (FTTH/P/B).

18th September, 2014 (0 Comments)

Travellers looking to fly with Virgin Atlantic may be pleased to learn that Richard Branson’s airline has become the first European carrier to deploy Gogo’s new in-flight connectivity technology (2Ku), which uses a mix of ground and space (satellite) based stations to deliver on-board Internet access speeds of up to 70Mbps over a local WiFi network.

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23rd July, 2014 (0 Comments)

Oxfordshire-based broadband Satellite ISP EuropaSat has announced that customers who take either their Tooway (Eutelsat) or SES based packages will now be able to benefit from half-price monthly rental for the first three months of service.

24th June, 2014 (0 Comments)

The National Farmers Union (NFU), satellite broadband ISP Avonline and farming retailer Massey Ferguson have teamed up to modify two tractors, which will be positioned at key locations along Yorkshire’s (England) Tour de France route, to act as free wifi wireless Internet hotspots with a considerably wider than usual area of coverage.

6th June, 2014 (43 Comments)

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IEF) will next week host a Rural Broadband Debate that will look at current government policy and propose a solution for bringing “reasonable” broadband access to the most remote communities at a “reasonable” price, which could involve combining technologies and greater mobile spectrum sharing between network operators.

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5th June, 2014 (2 Comments)

England-based Inmarsat, a global Satellite communications provider, has announced that they’re in “advanced discussions” with British Airways in the hope that the airline will become the first to adopt their new in-flight passenger broadband service, which is due to be rolled out across the 28 Member States of Europe by 2016.

4th June, 2014 (5 Comments)

Internet provider Broadband Everywhere (Box Limited) has announced that its SES (Astra Connect) based broadband Satellite platform (ASTRA 2E at 28.2 degrees East), which offers download speeds of up to 20Mbps, has now also become available to rural communities in Scotland.

30th April, 2014 (3 Comments)

Satellite operator Avanti has signed a new partnership deal with ISP Avonline that should result in the latter being able to introduce a range of new broadband services and a “promise” to give all Avanti-based customers a minimum average download speed of 9Mbps and an upgrade to a “fibre alternative” when it becomes accessible.

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14th April, 2014 (1 Comment)

European Satellite operator Eutelsat, which supplies the United Kingdom’s “Tooway” (KA-SAT) based ISPs, has confirmed that they’re helping to retrain almost 50 former British Armed Forces personnel in the fine art of installing Satellite broadband infrastructure for homes and businesses.

6th March, 2014 (0 Comments)

Broadband provider Satellite Internet, which delivers its service via the SES (ASTRA) platform of spacecraft, has followed the example of some rival ISPs and launched their own optional “low-cost equipment rental scheme“. The new method effectively replaces the large one-off setup cost with a monthly rental payment of £12.50 on a 24 month contract.

27th February, 2014 (4 Comments)

Satellite Internet, an aptly named broadband provider that makes use of the SES (ASTRA) platform, has called on local councils across the United Kingdom to spend some of the latest £250m in broadband funding on connecting the last 5% of rural areas to the Internet via Satellite instead of land lines.

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12th February, 2014 (0 Comments)

Satellite broadband ISP Avanti, along with several other space communications firms, can rest a little easier today after landowner BT agreed a new 999-year lease for the Goonhilly Earth Station, a large telecommunications site located at Goonhilly Downs on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall (England).

5th February, 2014 (4 Comments)

It’s well known that Satellite ISPs can place strict Traffic Management style measures on their Internet access services and now the Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in to stop one provider, Avonline Broadband, from promoting the products alongside “UNLIMITED” usage claims on their website. Other providers take heed.

4th February, 2014 (0 Comments)

Satellite ISP HySpeed Broadband has launched a new range of faster and more flexible Internet access packages that offers top download speeds of up to 15Mbps (Megabits per second) by harnessing the power of the UK Avanti Communication’s HYLAS 1 spacecraft.

21st January, 2014 (0 Comments)

Ofcom has today given the “green light” to the introduction of a new regulatory framework that will support the launch of “up to 10-times faster” Satellite-based broadband technology (i.e. a maximum speed of 50Mbps to a single earth station or more than 10Mbps to an individual passenger) on moving vehicles like Trains, Aircraft and Ships.

20th November, 2013 (38 Comments)

The Government’s on-going “digital by default” strategy to push more services, such as tax management and farming subsidies, into an online-only state of availability has once again incurred the wrath of farmers due to the lack of adequate broadband provision in many isolated rural areas.

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