broadband fibre
RSS broadband fibreFibre era fraught with roadblocks: EC
News The European Parliament has been debating EU Telecoms reform proposals ahead of a vote later this month which could usher in an era of fibre broadband for European citizens and mandatory data breach reporting for the continent's operators. [04 Sep 2008]
Home broadband gives kids better GCSE results
News F is for Fibre Broadband from A to Z Becta, the organisation that advises the government on educational IT, says six years of its research have established a strong link between educational attainment and access to technology - especially when it... [28 Aug 2008]
Third of UK homes still without web access
News F is for Fibre While broadband continues its march into ever more homes in Blighty, new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also reveal that more than a third of households are still going without a web connection. [27 Aug 2008]
Ofcom: Copper capable of high-speed broadband
News An Ofcom assessment has predicted that DSL over normal copper phone lines could take virtually the whole country to broadband speeds of 50Mbps or more, as long as optical fibre is laid to the street cabinets used by the phone network. [22 Aug 2008]
Mobile broadband threatening fixed line?
News F is for Fibre Asked what they intend to do in the next 12 months when their mobile broadband subscription expires, the majority of users (65 per cent) said they intend to continue consuming fixed line ISP and mobile broadband. [20 Aug 2008]
£68m 'snooping' database: Little impact on serious crime
News F is for Fibre Broadband from A to Z Powers to snoop on the UK's email and internet records will be of limited use in tackling serious crime, the government has admitted. Home Office proposals for phone, email and internet records - including VoIP... [13 Aug 2008]
Companies urged not to ban Facebook
News F is for Fibre Broadband from A to Z Companies shouldn't ban staff from using social applications such as Facebook and MySpace because of concerns about how they might be used. Instead businesses should view employee participation as part of the... [08 Aug 2008]
Generation Y setting tech agenda
News Click here for all there is on broadband, from fibre to zombies. Broadband from A-Z Companies are having trouble keeping up with Generation Y consumers who are now setting the technology agenda. Generation Y consists of 18- to 28-year-olds who are... [25 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: Back to the future
Comment Perhaps the editor of silicon.com in 2108 will even write about a new use for the quaint old fibre networks built way back in the early 21st century… I was down there to check out a broadband network that is being routed through the sewer - much... [24 Jul 2008]
Photos: Broadband in London's Victorian sewers
Photo Geo recently announced further extension of its fibre network, connecting into a major data centre on London's South Bank. And Icelandic Telco provider Siminn uses the network to provide a dedicated fibre connection between its two London data... [22 Jul 2008]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News Virgin Media did, however, claim that it, rather than BT, was "spearheading" the "super-fast broadband movement", as it had already rolled out a fibre network that would be offering a 50Mbps service to 12 million UK homes by the middle of 2009. [17 Jul 2008]
BT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News The plans aim to give 10 million UK homes fibre access by 2012 with bandwidth of up to 100Mbps - and potentially up to 1,000Mbps in the future. F is for Fibre These measures include removing barriers to investment and making sure organisations... [15 Jul 2008]
The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher
News Terabytes of data are streaming through dedicated fibre optic links between laboratories and universities globally in preparation for the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), being switched on in August at Cern in... [15 Jul 2008]
Law firm gets SaaSy with email security
Case Study F is for Fibre Broadband from A to Z International law firm Ashurst LLP has turned to web-based email management to help drastically reduce spam and free up time for its tech team. Ashurst has been using technology from email management specialist... [15 Jul 2008]
Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News F is for Fibre Brits are still not satisfied with broadband speeds - and with good reason since actual line speeds are still on average 50 per cent less than the headline speeds advertised. The survey also found nearly a third (30 per cent) of... [14 Jul 2008]
