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The Weekly Round-Up: 30.05.08
Round-Up Promptly moving the goalposts, the spokesperson added: "That is not to say that other divides will not appear in the future - differences in broadband speeds between urban and rural areas, for example. [30 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Rural v City fat pipe row and ID cards
Comment Just because you have broadband access doesn't mean you get broadband speeds. All this reduces the quality of speech calls but is disastrous for dial-up or for broadband. So, many people have signed up for broadband with ISPs offering "up to 8Mbps... [29 May 2008]
Rural fat pipe claims - "beggars belief"
News The CLA released a statement in which it suggested the report "fails to take into account that broadband connections often do not deliver the high speeds advertised, and also that many rural businesses cannot get broadband at all because they are... [28 May 2008]
Google bigs up 'white space' wireless plans
News Proponents of the new class of wi-fi devices say the airwaves could eventually offer data transmission speeds of billions of bits per second - far faster than the millions of bits per second available on most current broadband networks. [23 May 2008]
Council plugs free internet for tenants
News The residents of the eight multi-storey buildings around North Solihull, near Birmingham, will be able to get internet access at broadband speeds through an internet connectivity unit that plugs into the wall sockets, with a three-pin interface on... [21 May 2008]
Vodafone gets speedy with broadband
News Vodafone is also simplifying the way it markets its mobile broadband to help customers understand how they can use the service, rather than focusing on speeds. Vodafone is extending its fast mobile broadband coverage to a further three million... [12 May 2008]
Virgin Media to ramp up capacity on core network
News But now Virgin Media, which already offers the fastest broadband speeds in the UK with its 20Mbps service and has a 50Mbps rollout planned for this year, has completed a trial of bandwidth-boosting kit which increased capacity on its long-haul 10G... [09 May 2008]
Carphone Warehouse plans broadband boost
News But keeping up with other UK broadband players such as O2 - which Fogg said has recently started heavily marketing its ADSL2+ product - the company will need to upgrade equipment in exchanges and boost line capacity to cope with demand for higher... [09 May 2008]
BT adds smart phone to home broadband package
News However it admits broadband speeds will only be achievable in areas with a wireless broadband network. BT is talking convergence again - the telco has added a smart phone option to its consumer broadband package. [08 May 2008]
O2 hits 3G target at last
News O2 has finally met the 3G coverage obligation that was part of the licence it acquired in 2000 for providing mobile broadband. Broadband from A-Z Click here for all there is on broadband, from fibre to zombies. [06 May 2008]
O2 woos SMEs with broadband deal
News Mobile operator O2 UK has launched a business broadband service and extended the coverage of its home broadband offering to the whole of the UK from today. The Business Broadband offering is targeted at SMEs and, as with O2's Home Broadband service... [01 May 2008]
Mobile market ripe for femtocell loving
News The rise of HSDPA (aka 3.5G) is also a driver for femtocells as the souped-up speeds it offers are fuelling mobile broadband. Infonetics says market conditions are looking up for the backhaul tech which piggybacks on a broadband connection to boost... [23 Apr 2008]
O2 to launch mobile broadband offering
News O2 will launch its mobile broadband service on Friday, becoming the last major UK operator to do so. Opting for an 18-month contract, users will get a free USB modem and pay £20 per month for a 3G broadband service with a 3GB-per-month "fair use" cap. [17 Apr 2008]
Ofcom - high-fibre diet ordered for Broadband Britain
News The speed offered by fibre optic cable - up to 100Mb - is much faster than broadband speeds of existing copper networks, and is able to deal with multiple high-definition video streams and near-instant music downloads. [16 Apr 2008]
WiMax to pip LTE 3G at the post?
News Raising the example of Korea, he noted the availability of models which combine both HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) and WiBro (wireless broadband) functionality. While the market waits for LTE, WiMax will serve as a "data overlay" for 3G... [11 Apr 2008]
