England broadband speed
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.10.09
Round-Up Broadband speed is becoming a key factor in where we Brits choose to live, believe it or not. Broadband speed is now the number one national preoccupation, just ahead of... [23 Oct 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... [09 Jul 2009]
WiMax speeds Cybermoor's rural broadband
News The Cybermoor network at Alston Moor in Cumbria is a community-owned venture that claims to have the highest penetration of broadband in any rural area in England. The region is one of the most sparsely... [19 Mar 2009]
LTE gets a tryout in Swindon
News Motorola has launched UK trials of the leading candidate for 4G mobile broadband technology, known as LTE (long term evolution of 3G). LTE is one of the standards proposed for the fourth generation of mobile... [04 Feb 2009]
North Wales fires up high speed fibre network
News Broadband service providers can gain wholesale access to the fibre infrastructure - which stretches for more than 200 miles between Holyhead in Anglesey and the UK's core network in Manchester - via a pricing structure... [27 Nov 2008]
Orange beefs up 3G network for Northerners
News In addition to improving 3G performance in the three regions, Orange said it will be rolling out a faster variant of 3G/HSDPA (aka 3.5G) before the end of 2009 to better support mobile broadband. The operator recently... [04 Aug 2008]
GNER Chose THUS to Provide a Next-Generation Network to Transfer Business-Critical Data Up and Down the Country, 365 Days a Year..
White Paper GNER deployed an MPLS IP VPN network with service level agreements and Private Access Broadband as backup. Great North Eastern Railways (GNER) provides high-speed train services along the East Coast Main... [11 Jul 2008]
Broadband Blighty gets a rural flavour
News The watchdog claims this marks an important shift for Blighty as, back in 2000 when broadband was introduced, urban households were first to sign up - prompting fears of a digital divide opening up based on high... [22 May 2008]
Norwich gets free city-centre wi-fi
News It was originally meant to stimulate economic development in the region by providing free broadband for local businesses but has since had its scope extended to council employees and the general public. [02 Aug 2006]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Richard Granger
News The true test of Granger's acumen would be to see through the implantation of the key electronic patient record and e-booking systems, and the high-speed NHS broadband network. That is where Granger's... [12 Sep 2005]
Northern Ireland hits broadband jackpot
News Northern Ireland has become the first region after London to have all its local telephone exchanges broadband-enabled. This gives the area 98.5 per cent broadband availability, as some people will live... [28 Feb 2005]
Bookies stand firm against attacks and user demand
News William Hill performed best in terms of homepage availability (100 per cent) and the speed the site took to access (0.58 second average over a broadband connection). In these days of widespread... [22 Jun 2004]
Bulldog takes a bite out of SDSL market
News Bulldog has been trialling its SDSL services in London for many months, but Tuesday marked a larger rollout, with the company now offering its symmetrical broadband services in parts of Manchester, Merseyside, Yorkshire,... [31 Mar 2004]
Broadband restored after 'unacceptable' BT delays
News FDM Broadband, which offers wireless broadband services to a number of villages in rural southern England, said on Tuesday that the problem had been fixed by BT on Monday night. Wireless... [10 Dec 2003]
High-speed hay-seeds get Devon broadband
News A project designed to give West Country businesses a helping hand with their broadband has been launched today - with several millions of pounds worth of backing from the public and private sectors. Broadband4Devon will... [17 Nov 2003]
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