Broadband

Its Official – Brits Have Abandoned The Landline

The home phone is dead, long live the mobile phone, Relish survey finds

10 years ago

Virgin Media Expands Network In North East England

Virgin Media brings 152Mbps superfast broadband to 5,000 more properties

10 years ago

Fibre Upgrade Work To Start On All Wales BDUK Exchanges By September 2015

Welsh government promises more BDUK progress as it tries to meet its target of 96 percent superfast broadband coverage by…

10 years ago

BT Provides Somerset Village With Microwave Superfast Broadband

BT connects Northlew with a 4km microwave link, providing speeds of 80Mbps

10 years ago

BT Wins Welsh Public-Sector Broadband Contract

BT is to take over from Logicalis in running Wales' public-sector broadband scheme, the Welsh government has confirmed

10 years ago

Argos Offers Free Broadband And Tablets To Help Elderly Get Online

Argos Internet Workshops aim to help educate the 9.5m Britons who still have no access to the Internet

10 years ago

BT And Huawei Achieve 3Tbps Fibre Record

BT says flexgrid compression techniques could squeeze even more bandwidth out of its fibre network

10 years ago

Huawei Says Net Neutrality Is Preventing Development of Internet Services

Huawei says carriers should be able to provide different levels of service to different customers

10 years ago

Hyperoptic To Offer 1Gbps Fibre In Birmingham, Newcastle, Sheffield And Nottingham

Hyperoptic doubles the footprint of its FTTP network to 75,000 premises

10 years ago

UK Cable Broadband “Now Faster Than Fibre”, Says Ofcom

Watchdog survey also finds average UK broadband speed rose over last six months, with Virgin Media offering the fastest service

10 years ago

UK Broadband “Among Best In Europe”, Says Culture Secretary

Although improvement is still needed to take on likes of Japan and South Korea, says Sajid Javid

10 years ago

Black Country Gains Extra Broadband Funding

More funding announced to extend the superfast broadband push in the West Midlands

10 years ago

Huawei Invests £2.4bn In Broadband Research

Huawei plans to help service providers cope with 5G, M2M and 4K video

10 years ago

TalkTalk Aims To Connect 60 Percent Of The UK With 1Gbps FTTP Broadband

TalkTalk discusses plans to connect 10m homes with gigabit fibre as part of national rollout

10 years ago

SMBs In SuperConnected Cities Urged To Apply For Broadband Vouchers

Government issues renewed SuperConnected cities push as March 2015 deadline for superfast broadband vouchers nears

10 years ago

Virgin Media Uses ‘Narrow Trenching’ To Reduce Cost Of Fibre Rollout

Virgin Media lays fibre in Cambridgeshire village using new technique

10 years ago

Independent Scotland Could Face Higher Mobile And Broadband Charges

BT, TalkTalk, O2, Vodafone, EE and Three say independence could increase their costs while others suggest roaming charges could be…

10 years ago

Ofcom Plans To Help SMBs Get Better Broadband And Mobile Services

Ofcom says it wants SMBs to receive better value, higher quality communications services, even if they take consumer offerings

10 years ago

First Isle Of Wight BDUK Cabinet Goes Live

BT says it has connected at least one cabinet in all BDUK regions

10 years ago

Virgin Media Raises Prices For Broadband-Only Customers

Is Virgin Media trying to push its broadband-only customers onto one of its bundled services, after it raises its monthly…

10 years ago

Brantingham Village Claims Broadband Speed Crown

An ancient hamlet mentioned in the Doomsday book claims to have the fastest Internet village connection, but BT disagrees

10 years ago

Gigabit Jersey Celebrates 10,000th Fibre Customer

Jersey Telecom and Sure now have 10,000 customers on island's gigabit FTTP fibre network

10 years ago

Google-Led Consortium To Build 60Tbps Trans-Pacific Subsea Cable

Google and partners club together to build a cable connecting the US and Japan which will go live in 2016

10 years ago

Virgin Media Expands Network To 100,000 More Premises In East London

Virgin Media starts biggest ever expansion of its cable network as it announces Q2 results

10 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: BT

Do you know much about Britain's incumbent, BT? Try our quiz!

10 years ago

Superfast Cymru Announces Next 66 Welsh Towns To Benefit From BDUK Fibre

Rural areas in Wales are set to receive a superfast broadband boost from BDUK

10 years ago

City Of London Says BT Is Failing With Superfast Broadband For The Square Mile

City of London says a lack of affordable superfast broadband is harming the square mile as a financial centre

10 years ago

Subsea Cable Diversion Brings Superfast Broadband To Isles Of Scilly

Isles of Scilly will be able to receive superfast broadband later this year after undersea fibre cable is diverted

10 years ago

Vodafone Agrees Fibre Sharing Deal With Portugal Telecom

Vodafone Portugal expands fibre reach to strengthen quad play and unified communications services

10 years ago

Scottish Government Pledges £2.5m For Rural Broadband As BDUK Rollout Continues

Scottish broadband boost as Holyrood provides more funding and plans for a post-independence Scotland

10 years ago