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RSS 24mbpsUK fat pipes sluggish from lack of fibre
News The majority of UK consumers appear to be making do with home broadband speeds of 8Mbps or less. According to the latest silicon.com poll that asked readers what speed home broadband they'd signed up for, 50 per cent numbered themselves... [30 Sep 2008]
Broadband pace lagging in the countryside
News A broadband speed report by UK fat pipe watcher and advice website thinkbroadband claims the countryside still lags some way behind urban areas - contrary to last week's Ofcom report hailing the end of a geographical digital divide in... [04 Jun 2008]
Virgin touts free broadband speed upgrade
News Virgin Media has announced a free speed upgrade to 10Mbps for some of its broadband customers. The list from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. A is for ADSL B is for BT C is for Cable & Wireless [28 Jan 2008]
Does superfast broadband Britain stink of sewage?
News Plans are afoot that could see something speeding out of the UK's sewers and into people's homes. Not a plague of rabid rats but superfast broadband. The list from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. [23 Jan 2008]
Where next for broadband Britain?
News UK web fans could miss out on the 'next big thing' on the internet if serious money isn't thrown at the nation's broadband infrastructure. That's the warning from Ian Fogg, research director at JupiterResearch Europe, who was speaking... [22 Nov 2007]
Got 8Mbps broadband? Are you sure?
News The average speed of an 8Mbps broadband connection is just 2.7Mbps, according to a survey released by Which? the consumer rights group. Which? surveyed 300 people who had signed up to broadband services advertised as being "up to" 8Mbps... [03 Aug 2007]
BT chief hints at fibre rollout
News BT is seriously considering a rollout of high-speed fibre connectivity across the country, according to the company's outgoing chairman. Sir Christopher Bland, who relinquishes his role at BT in September, said on Wednesday that BT could... [19 Jul 2007]
Cheat Sheet: FTTx
Cheat Sheet Fibre then. Good for your digestion, so I hear. Apparently so. But we're not talking about that sort of fibre. We're talking about fibre in the broadband sense - as in fibre to the home (FTTH), fibre to the premises (FTTP), fibre to the... [11 May 2007]
Europe not pushing enough fibre to the home
News Europe is lagging behind other continents for fibre to the home (FTTH) technology. Europe had roughly half the number of new FTTH subscribers as North America in the last quarter of 2006 and of those sign-ups more than three-quarters... [18 Apr 2007]
21CN knocks BT home fibre chances
News BT's investment in its all-IP next-generation network - known as the 21CN - has hit its move towards fibre to the home (FTTH), a type of technology for delivering broadband that could supercharge the UK's internet connections. [12 Apr 2007]
Be extends next-gen fat pipes to third of Blighty
News Be, the next-generation broadband network operator purchased by O2 last June, has extended its network to reach a third of the UK population. Be announced this week it has now installed its equipment in 500 BT telephone exchanges. [16 Feb 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: The operators' new clothes
Comment In the fast-moving mobile market, 'follow the leader' isn't good enough anymore. Jo Best looks at how well two operators - O2 and 3 - are doing in coming up with new strategies. Recently, it seems, the mobile operators are starting to... [03 Dec 2006]
Cheat Sheet: BT's 21CN
Cheat Sheet I'd like to talk about BT's 21CN. Good for you. What would you like to talk about? I'd like to know what it is, for a start. It's a good question - BT's 21CN is just shorthand for BT's 21st Century Network. [14 Nov 2006]
Broadband wireless gets spectrum boost
News More of the ether will be made available for broadband fixed wireless links, communications watchdog Ofcom has decided. Ofcom plans to open up more spectrum for very high capacity point-to-point wireless links.silicon.com's A to Z of... [10 Nov 2006]
A System Solution for High-Performance, Low Power SDR
White Paper One central challenge in the realization of Software Defined Radio (SDR) is to provide a programmable solution that meets the challenging high-performance, low-power requirements, while providing an efficient software development interface. [10 Nov 2006]
