bt adsl cable homes
UK fat pipes sluggish from lack of fibre
News The BT plan aims to give 10 million UK homes fibre by 2012 with bandwidth of up to 100Mbps - and potentially up to 1,000Mbps in the future. A is for ADSL C is for Cable... [30 Sep 2008]
Ofcom hatches plan to woo telcos to fibre
News A is for ADSL Ofcom is also working on ensuring newly built homes are equipped with fibre connections rather than traditional copper - such deployments are already happening in Belfast, Kent, London and... [23 Sep 2008]
Broadband Britain: UK needs wireless patchwork
News BT recently announced a £1.5bn investment in rolling out NGAs to 10 million UK homes, and Virgin Media is about to provide speeds of up to 50Mbps to its customers. A is for ADSL C is for... [12 Sep 2008]
Third of UK homes still without web access
News A is for ADSL 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... [27 Aug 2008]
Ofcom: Copper capable of high-speed broadband
News Industry pressure group the Communications Management Association (CMA) has called for a £15bn government-led initiative to run fibre to all the nation's homes, and BT has begun a £1.5bn programme to... [22 Aug 2008]
Mobile broadband threatening fixed line?
News A is for ADSL The regulator has also charted the rise of homes without landlines in the UK - as more people opt to rely on mobile phones for voice calls - and puts the figure at 12 per cent of... [20 Aug 2008]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News Following BT's Tuesday announcement that it was to plough £1.5bn into a fibre-access rollout to 10 million homes, an O2 spokesperson told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk that O2 was "not going to... [17 Jul 2008]
BT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News A BT spokesman told silicon.com these barriers include a universal service obligation to put copper wire into new homes, something which is high cost but which fibre takes away the need for. A is for... [15 Jul 2008]
UK business lacking high fibre diet
News A is for ADSL Although the backbone of the UK's broadband infrastructure is being upgraded to fibre, the current impasse over the provision of fibre access - or next-generation access (NGA) - to homes... [07 Jul 2008]
Thin clients switch on digitally excluded
Case Study A is for ADSL A project to tackle digital exclusion in socially deprived regions of Merseyside has brought free plug-and-play internet access to hundreds of homes with children of school age. The project... [17 Jun 2008]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment A is for ADSL Well over half of UK households in the lowest earning bracket (of less than £11,500 per year) are without internet access, yet just 10 per cent of homes with incomes more than £30k go... [23 May 2008]
Five weird ways to bridge the digital divide
News A is for ADSL Several companies are donning gloves and wellies and poking around in the murky subterranean depths of towns and cities in order to pipe high speed broadband into people's homes. Therefore... [06 Mar 2008]
Fibre connectivity set to change, says EC
News A is for ADSL The European Commission is to issue a recommendation on how member states should go about rolling out fibre connectivity to homes and businesses. C is for Cable & Wireless... [28 Feb 2008]
Broadband Britain cheaper and faster than ever
News When it comes to connection speeds, cable broadband provider Virgin Media's planned 50Mbps rollout - set to be available to some nine million homes by the end of the year - is keeping it at the head of... [01 Feb 2008]
Virgin touts free broadband speed upgrade
News Even faster speeds are also on the cards for cable customers too - Virgin is touting a forthcoming 50Mbps rollout, which it said will be available to more than nine million homes in the UK by the end of... [28 Jan 2008]
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