BT to speed up next-gen broadband rollout
News BT is planning to double the pace of its forthcoming next-generation broadband fibre rollout, bringing up to 100Mbps broadband within reach of more than a million premises next year. He said: "We will examine doubling the pace of the rollout of...
[May 15, 2009, 18:24]
Ofcom: Copper can support high-speed broadband
News Ofcom placed the average broadband speed at 5.9Mbps as of March 2008. An Ofcom assessment has predicted that DSL over normal copper phone lines could take virtually the whole country to broadband speeds of 50Mbps or more, as long as optical fibre...
[August 21, 2008, 17:49]
BT fibre broadband coming to 69 more towns
News BT revealed on Wednesday the towns and cities that will get high-speed fibre broadband in the second stage of its £1.5bn rollout. The rollout of fibre — whose high speeds are expected to enable a new range of online business and consumer services...
[July 9, 2009, 18:20]
Cheap broadband to prevent BT fibre 'monopoly'
News The watchdog on Tuesday announced it will be imposing no price controls on super high-speed broadband services, allowing BT to resell fibre access to other ISPs at whichever rate it sees fit. According to Richards, any attempt at excessive pricing...
[March 4, 2009, 7:29]
Report maps out Britain's broadband future
News He refused to give his definition of 'high-speed broadband', calling it a "moving target". A major, independent review into the delivery of next-generation broadband access in the UK has been completed, with the resulting report recommending a...
[September 12, 2008, 16:10]
Virgin launches 50Mbps broadband service
News Virgin Media has finally launched its long-anticipated '50Mbps' cable broadband service, but analysts have warned that the headline speed may not be attainable for very long. As the first ISP to roll out next-generation broadband access, our 50Mbps...
[December 15, 2008, 13:57]
Ofcom launches fibre-access consultation
News The Broadband Stakeholder Group, an industry lobbying association, recently stated that it wants to see an NGA rollout begin within the next two years, and government minister Stephen Timms also weighed into the debate a week ago with a hint that...
[September 26, 2007, 15:17]
UK warned: Broadband speeds will dive without fibre
News While fibre will play a role in the future of Britain's broadband — telco BT recently announced a £1.5bn investment to give 10 million UK homes fibre access by 2012 — a consensus is emerging the UK will end up with a 'patchwork quilt' of...
[November 7, 2008, 14:16]
Europe broadband to boom by 2005
News Europe's rollout of high-speed, or broadband, Internet access may continue to be dogged by delays and bureaucratic bungling, but industry analysts see a silver lining -- namely, the £10bn of revenues the European broadband industry will be...
[May 24, 2001, 16:16]
Tech investment would boost jobs, says LSE
News The report, The UK's digital road to recovery, presents an economic model for working out how many jobs could be created if the government put major investment into a high-speed broadband rollout, a smart power grid and intelligent transport systems.
[April 29, 2009, 16:19]
Ofcom seeks to encourage telco fibre investment
News Ofcom has said the rollout of fibre-based broadband — which could offer speeds of up to 100Mbps — should bring fast web access to communities previously unable to benefit from high-speed internet access.
[September 24, 2008, 11:28]
Murky future for online console games
News The persistence and speed of the broadband connection is going to be really important to the gamers," Pidgeon said. Jupiter analyst Billy Pidgeon said the success of such efforts will hinge largely on the growth of broadband Internet access...
[December 18, 2001, 14:26]
Manchester to get £500k high-speed fibre network
News David Carter, head of the MDDA, said in a statement: "For Manchester to keep its competitive edge on the national and global stage, we need an effective high-speed broadband infrastructure. The next-generation broadband rollout will plug superfast...
[March 26, 2009, 8:09]
PM's spending plans may pave way for fibre rollout
News According to The Observer, Brown's investment in digital infrastructure will take the form of a high-speed broadband deployment, which has been interpreted by some as a move towards the rollout of fibre.
[January 6, 2009, 11:28]
Gov't urged to consider 'spectrum for speed' swap
News The briefing's authors, James Meadway and Juan Mateos-Garcia, claimed the universal provision of "super-fast broadband" across the UK would have a baseline cost of around £5bn, but would directly create 600,000 new ICT jobs and add £18bn to the...
[January 20, 2009, 13:29]
'Dongle mania' may threaten Wi-Fi hotspots
News This mobile broadband "dongle mania" is being driven by ongoing 3.5G rollouts (aka HSDPA networks, or high-speed downlink packet access). The mobile broadband market is hotting up with data card sales set to jump fourfold in the next three years as...
[March 31, 2008, 8:48]
