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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 Marek Vaygelt, head of technology and telecommunications consulting at YouGov, said in a statement: "Customers find mobile broadband easy to use and install but transmission speeds and, to a lesser extent, network coverage reduce the... [20 Aug 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]
Faster broadband demands more bandwidth
News The study, by market development organisation the FTTH Council Europe, compared usage by consumers with FTTH (fibre to the home) with ADSL users across four European countries and found fibre homes currently drive three times more traffic than... [08 Jul 2008]
UK business lacking high fibre diet
News Many European countries have already deployed fibre to the home (FTTH), and a European body that deals with NGA issued a report on Friday in which it said such improvements in broadband speeds clearly resulted in more usage. [07 Jul 2008]
Bournemouth to be UK's first Fibrecity
News H2O Networks, a company that lays fibre optic cabling in the sewers, said work will begin to hook up every house and business in Bournemouth in the next six months - enabling speeds of up to 100Mbps. Bournemouth Borough Council is no stranger to a... [08 May 2008]
Ofcom - high-fibre diet ordered for Broadband Britain
News The speed offered by fibre optic cable - up to 100Mb - is much faster than broadband speeds of existing copper networks, and is able to deal with multiple high-definition video streams and near-instant music downloads. [16 Apr 2008]
Faster speeds on the cards for Broadband Britain?
News The government has also asked industry lobbying association the Broadband Stakeholders Group to look at the economics of fibre deployment - specifically whether laying fibre to the home is viable without first deploying fibre to the cabinet. [22 Feb 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Christmas wish list
Comment F is for Fibre Real broadband to my office and home at speeds above 100Mbit/s dedicated to me and me alone - no contention, please. But I have always been able to stay ahead of the game and keep on top of technology and business. [20 Dec 2007]
BT lags in broadband satisfaction stakes
News F is for Fibre BT declined to comment on the findings. The survey also found the average broadband subscription cost has fallen to £21.10 per month - down from £25.91 last year - and average broadband speed has risen by 40 per cent to 4.87 Mbps. [06 Dec 2007]
Where next for broadband Britain?
News Without investment to improve broadband infrastructure - such as fibre to the home and fibre to the cabinet - Fogg said the danger is "the next big thing on the internet may not work in the UK". Issues such as broadband 'not spots' - areas not... [22 Nov 2007]
Ofcom consults on next generation access
News BT is reluctant to spend billions of pounds installing fibre to the home (FTTH) or fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) while regulations state it would have to give rival providers equivalent access to those connections. [27 Sep 2007]
UK minister dreaming of a high fibre diet
News However, the price of copper is rising and BT's outgoing chairman, Sir Christopher Bland, hinted recently that fibre to the home (FTTH) could become a reality in the UK, as it has elsewhere in Western Europe. [19 Sep 2007]
BT chief hints at fibre rollout
News Such a rollout would mean faster connectivity for users than that provided by the existing all-copper connections between premises and exchanges but not as fast as that promised by "fibre to the home" (FTTH). [19 Jul 2007]
Cheat Sheet: FTTx
Cheat Sheet We're talking about fibre in the broadband sense - as in fibre to the home (FTTH), fibre to the premises (FTTP), fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) or FTTx, the overarching term for any or all of these terms. [11 May 2007]
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