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RSS 100MbpsBT to unleash superfast fibre broadband on 2.5 million homes
News BT has announced it is rolling out superfast fibre broadband directly to 2.5 million UK homes and businesses. FTTP (fibre to the premises) will allow for for download speeds of 100Mbps by 2012, BT said on Friday. [12 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: BT's £1.5bn fibre plans
Cheat Sheet Fibre. It's the new copper, I hear. Yes indeed - it's the next generation of broadband technology, where connectivity is delivered over fibre optic cable rather than copper. With fibre, Britain could be looking at downstream broadband... [14 Jul 2009]
Is BT's super-fast broadband coming to your neighbourhood?
News BT has revealed the towns and cities which 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... [09 Jul 2009]
BT kicks off London fibre pilot
News BT began a fibre broadband pilot on Monday in the north London suburb of Muswell Hill and the Cardiff suburb of Whitchurch. The pilot follows an internal Openreach trial in Ipswich of fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) technology, which... [06 Jul 2009]
Critics slam Digital Britain over file-sharers and tax plans
News The Digital Britain report has drawn criticism from politicians and technology experts over its proposals for dealing with fibre rollouts and illegal file-sharing. The report, published on Tuesday, outlines the government's plans for the... [18 Jun 2009]
Cheat Sheet: LTE - beyond 3G
Cheat Sheet LTE? Isn't that a Chinese mobile maker? No, no, that's ZTE but you're in the right industry at least. LTE stands for Long Term Evolution - which, in itself, is short for Long Term Evolution of Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network. [12 Jun 2009]
BT doubles broadband speeds to 20Mbps
News BT has upgraded its broadband network to offer home and business users download speeds of up to 20Mbps and uploads of up to 1Mbps. The shift to ADSL2+ technology brings BT's speeds closer to those of competitors such as Virgin Media,... [04 Jun 2009]
BT to expand 2010 fibre 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. The move comes after the telco... [15 May 2009]
Virgin Media trials 200Mbps broadband
News Broadband speed freaks take note: cable broadband purveyor Virgin Media has upped the ante by announcing a trial of 200Mbps broadband - four times faster than its current fastest fat pipe service. The company said it will use the trial... [08 May 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Become a bandwidth scavenger
Comment Never has a subject been so studied, debated and reported with such little understanding and positive action as broadband in the UK. For me this came to a real head recently with the publication of the Carter Report, compounded by my... [06 May 2009]
Colorado's Wiggins Telephone Association Offers Rural America True, End-to-End Fiber Optic Internet Access Up to 100Mbps With D-Link Equipment
White Paper Wiggins Telephone Association's copper telephone network was at the end of its 30-year lifecycle. Demand for new data services was placing new burdens on the existing telco network. Many of their customers were still using dial-up... [03 Apr 2009]
Ericsson racks up 500Mbps speeds over copper
News Ericsson has successfully demonstrated data-transfer speeds of more than 500Mbps over copper, the communications company said on Monday. The data-transfer rates were achieved using a version of digital subscriber line (DSL) technology... [17 Mar 2009]
WWF wild about comms upgrade
Case Study Since embarking on a project to upgrade its corporate network two years ago, conservation organisation the WWF has achieved much more than it originally intended. Working with the telecommunications company Telstra International, the WWF... [09 Mar 2009]
Operators pledge LTE love in 4G race
News Twenty-six operators are committed to the long-term evolution 4G standard. While the forum for GSM and 3G suppliers worldwide decidedly has a stake in promoting LTE, the number indicates growing momentum for the standard, which promises... [06 Mar 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Digital Britain? Not quite
Comment Compiled in a San Diego coffee shop where bandwidth seems plentiful and the connectivity is free. Dispatched the next day via a free wireless LAN at my hotel. On 11 February the UK government publicly committed to broadband for every... [19 Feb 2009]
