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UK Broadband plans 'portable' service
News UK Broadband, which launched the first phase of its high-speed wireless service in the Thames Valley on Thursday, is working on a second product to give its customers limited roaming ability. The company's chief executive, Mike Butcher, said on...
[May 7, 2004, 16:10]
Ofcom: UK broadband speeds lower than promised
News Ofcom has published the initial findings of its research into the real speeds UK consumers are getting from their broadband connections. According to a preliminary version of the telecommunications regulator's UK Broadband Speeds 2008 report...
[January 8, 2009, 14:51]
UK broadband take-up on the rise
News The watchdog found more UK homes connected to broadband last year than in 2005, with the divide between the nation's fat pipe take-up narrowing from a 12 percentage point range in 2005 to a three percentage point range last year.
[May 25, 2007, 13:20]
UK's broadband capital revealed
News And the most broadband-happy place in the UK is. Healthy coverage and furious competition between BT and cable company ntl:Telewest has led to the Wiltshire town having 51.1 percent household broadband uptake — the highest level in the UK...
[August 2, 2006, 11:15]
UK's broadband boom rockets
News The UK's broadband market is booming, with an estimated 34,000 new customers signing up for a high-speed Internet connection each week. According to their own latest figures, the UK's two cable companies are collectively matching BT Wholesale for...
[November 15, 2002, 12:06]
UK wholesale broadband uncompetitive - regulators
News The UK's wholesale broadband access market is not effectively competitive because of BT's dominance in the sector, Ofcom and Oftel have concluded in a consultation paper that was published on Tuesday.
[December 16, 2003, 12:25]
UK rural broadband penetration overtakes urban
News Ofcom's report, The Nations & Regions Communications Market 2008, shows broadband take-up has increased across all regions of the UK, with England up 13 percentage points to 58 percent penetration; Scotland up 11 points to 53 percent; and Northern...
[May 23, 2008, 8:27]
Broadband prevails for UK internet
News Nearly nine out of 10 connections to the internet in the UK are now made via broadband, according to the latest quarterly survey from the Office for National Statistics. In a survey of internet connectivity carried out in September 2007, the ONS...
[November 21, 2007, 7:48]
UK moving up broadband rankings
News When it comes to broadband penetration in Europe, the UK is woefully trailing 12 other nations. Now four percent of UK households have broadband connections -- whether via ADSL or cable or the less popular access technologies of wireless and...
[December 11, 2002, 14:12]
Broadband access dominates UK tech awards
News The issue of access to broadband dominated the inaugural CNET UK Technology Awards ceremony on Wednesday night. The access to broadband theme continued as the Access to Broadband Campaign, led by John Wilson and Lindsey Annison, took the...
[October 9, 2003, 10:00]
Broadband boom makes UK worst for hacked PCs
News The explosion in broadband take-up in the UK has been blamed for a sudden rise in the number of computers that have been taken over by hackers, according to Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report.
[March 21, 2005, 12:10]
UK trails Europe in broadband uptake
News The number of households with broadband Internet connections in the UK is lower than any other country in Europe, according to the latest research from Nielsen//NetRatings. Even France, which has a far lower overall level of Net penetration, has a...
[September 9, 2002, 11:38]
UK on brink of broadband milestone
News An official announcement is expected this week, and the event is likely to be hailed by both government and telcos as proof that broadband is thriving in the UK. An Oftel spokeswoman told ZDNet UK on Monday that Britain will soon have one million...
[October 7, 2002, 11:08]
UK 25th in global broadband quality and reach
News The UK has scored 25th out of 66 in a worldwide study of national broadband services. The Broadband Quality Score study, performed on behalf of Cisco by the Saïd Business School and the University of Oviedo, also placed the UK 31st in terms of...
[October 1, 2009, 13:16]
UK gets nationwide 22Mbps broadband
News UK Online's announcement follows a spate of news from ISPs looking to boost broadband speeds. A research note published last month from broadband watchers Point Topic said speeds of 24Mbps will only be available to homes and businesses within 300...
[November 9, 2005, 13:25]
UK still lags in broadband extensiveness
News The UK government's target of making Broadband Britain a world leader has moved a little closer. A new report by research group Analysys has found that the UK now boasts the third most competitive broadband market of all the G7 industrialised...
[May 21, 2003, 16:58]
UK trails peers in broadband speed
News The UK is lagging behind its peers in terms of broadband download speeds as well as value for money when it comes to "always-on" internet access. In terms of the maximum broadband speed offered, the UK is sixteenth out of the 30 member countries of...
[July 18, 2007, 17:04]
UK shrugs off American broadband troubles
News As broadband slowly edges across the UK, early adopters of cable modems will see a significant increase in performance. Yet despite the experience over the pond, the UK telecomms industry is confident that it can sustain a high level of quality as...
[March 20, 2000, 8:42]
UK leads Europe in satellite broadband
News In its latest Internet and broadband benchmarking study, the regulator has found that both one-way and two-way satellite services can be bought for less in the UK than in France, Germany or Sweden. Oftel cited Bridge Broadband as the cheapest...
[June 4, 2003, 12:51]
UK operators miss out in wireless broadband auction
News Hong Kong-based Pacific Century Cyberworks (PCCW) has seen off almost all its fellow bidders in the 3.4GHz wireless broadband auction, which kicked off on 6 June. However, without control of all 15 regions the company will not be able to offer...
[June 16, 2003, 17:15]
