fibre broadband
RSS fibre broadbandBT offers free fibre to Glasgow businesses
News Back in 2008 BT announced it would be spending £1.5bn to bring fibre broadband to around 10 million homes and businesses by 2012. BT business customers in the Glasgow Halfway exchange area are being... [05 Nov 2009]
BT takes superfast fibre broadband to 2.5 million homes
News BT has announced it is rolling out superfast fibre broadband directly to 2.5 million UK homes and businesses. FTTP (fibre to the premises) will allow for for download speeds of 100Mbps... [12 Oct 2009]
Lord Stephen Carter
AS Profile As the driving force behind the report, Lord Carter has championed the cause of high speed broadband connectivity - setting out a commitment to broadband access for all and calling for a 50p levy on... [08 Oct 2009]
iPhones unshackled, IT wages revealed and outsourcing explained
News Another high-speed connectivity of interest to silicon.com readers last month was fibre - superfast broadband which could deliver downlinks many times those available today - with the news that Digital... [06 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo Superfast fibre broadband connections are available in London's Muswell Hill as part of a pilot of the technology. The sale includes Sinclair computers such as the ZX81 machine and a ZX Spectrum 48K... [02 Oct 2009]
BT's home fibre tests: Coming in London and Milton Keynes
News BT has revealed more details on its planned brownfield pilots of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband tech. Fibre broadband is the superfast successor to the current... [02 Oct 2009]
One in five of world's households now wired to the web
News According to the research firm, fibre-based services will grow steadily over the next few years, with FTTH (fibre-to-the-home), FTTP (fibre-to-the-premises) and Ethernet connections... [28 Sep 2009]
Digital Britain fibre tax 'to be law before next general election'
News The proposed fibre tax to pay for next-gen broadband in the UK could be law before the next general election. The fibre levy was included in the government's Digital Britain report,... [23 Sep 2009]
BT fibre broadband pilot: charges for ISPs revealed
News BT Openreach has released details of the fees it plans to charge other ISPs for its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) pilot in London. Access to its Generic Ethernet Access Fibre to The Premises product will cost... [23 Sep 2009]
Photos: BT previews superfast fibre broadband... in Muswell Hill
Photo BT has opened a new high street shop to promote fibre broadband in London's Muswell Hill - the location for one of its two fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) pilots, along with Whitchurch in... [17 Sep 2009]
Snow Leopard, Windows 7, Microsoft Word ban and BT broadband
News Meanwhile, BT's superfast broadband rollout received a boost when the company revealed that around 15,000 homes in Glasgow will be hooked up earlier than first planned, and are now expected to be... [01 Sep 2009]
BT rolls out superfast broadband even faster in one UK city
News Some areas of Glasgow, which were due to become part of BT's fibre deployment this year, will now find themselves connected up with superfast broadband by the autumn. The city was first earmarked to... [17 Aug 2009]
BT superfast fibre broadband destined for London brownfield pilot
News BT is to begin its first brownfield pilot of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) in the Highams Park area of north-east London. BT's fibre rollout will therefore mostly entail fibre-to-the-cabinet... [07 Aug 2009]
Digital Britain: Treasury's Timms set to be next broadband ambassador?
News This 'phone tax', as Carphone Warehouse has described it, is intended to create a centralised fund for subsidising the rollout of fibre-based, next-generation broadband across most of the country. The... [04 Aug 2009]
Rural Britain needs faster, more reliable broadband
Comment Even BT has cast doubt on whether the 50p tax on phone lines proposed under the Digital Britain plan will be enough to pay for fibre links needed to bring the UK into the era of superfast broadband.... [04 Aug 2009]
