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BT racks up another 114 exchanges for fibre broadband

...telephone exchanges that will offer super-fast broadband, as it continues its fibre rollout. Photo credit: David Meyer More than a million homes and businesses... Read more

14 September, 2011 by David Meyer

Sky offers 'secret', faster broadband to new customers

...Sky is offering an up-to-76Mbps fibre broadband connection to new customers who call its sales hotline, but not... Read more

26 April, 2012 by Ben Woods

Virgin throttles broadband for high-speed customers

...get the high quality of service they expect from Virgin Media's fibre-optic broadband without being negatively affected by extremely heavy users using more... Read more

2 April, 2012 by Ben Woods

Virgin Media to double broadband speeds in 30 towns

...ISP beat its own target of making its 100Mbps hybrid co-axial fibre service available to more than 10 million homes in the UK. BT... Read more

1 March, 2012 by Ben Woods

Sky set to launch cap-free fibre broadband

...Sky is set to introduce a fibre-based broadband package that promises download speeds of up to 40Mbps and... Read more

12 April, 2012 by Ben Woods
BT passes <endeca_term>fibre</endeca_term> milestone as profits rise

BT passes fibre milestone as profits rise

...BT's wholesale fibre service is now available to 10 million households and businesses in the... Read more

10 May, 2012 by David Meyer

BT doubles download speeds for Infinity broadband

...speeds for Infinity broadband customers from Thursday, ramping up its super-fast fibre rivalry with Virgin Media. BT is doubling download speeds for Infinity broadband... Read more

11 April, 2012 by Ben Woods

27 cities to compete for 'ultra-fast' broadband funding

...large cities that will get part of a £100m pot for the fibre broadband upgrade, and it plans to choose another 10 smaller places that... Read more

8 May, 2012 by David Meyer

Vodafone buys Cable & Wireless for enterprise boost

...mobile operator offload increasing mobile traffic onto the Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW) fibre network in the UK. "The acquisition of Cable & Wireless Worldwide creates a... Read more

23 April, 2012 by David Meyer
UK's broadband blackspots named

UK's broadband blackspots named

...UK broadband download speed is 6.7Mbps, and that the deployment of fibre by BT and Virgin is, for many people, "not causing so much... Read more

24 February, 2012 by David Meyer

BT sees fibre finish line with addition of 73 towns

...BT has revealed the next 73 exchanges to be upgraded to fibre, saying it has now named almost all the places to be covered... Read more

20 March, 2012 by David Meyer

Hyperoptic offers Londoners 1Gbps fibre broadband

...Be Broadband, has launched with an offer of one-gigabit-per-second fibre-to-the-premises connectivity for some properties in London. No other ISP... Read more

14 September, 2011 by David Meyer

BT names 156 towns for next fibre rollout phase

...released details of the next 156 locations that will receive super-fast fibre broadband connections before the end of 2012. The "majority" of the exchanges... Read more

7 April, 2011 by Ben Woods
Be Broadband delays <endeca_term>fibre</endeca_term> rollout again

Be Broadband delays fibre rollout again

...Broadband will not be able to deliver a wide-scale rollout of fibre-based services before 2013, due to unforeseen delays to its schedule. On... Read more

11 April, 2012 by Ben Woods
Submarine cables tie the world together

Submarine cables tie the world together

...that the vast majority of the Earth's communications are carried by fibre, rather than over the air. The global communications network depends in a... Read more

22 January, 2011 by Jon Yeomans

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