fibre to the home
RSS fibre to the homeBT offers free fibre to Glasgow businesses
News Fibre broadband comes in two flavours: FTTC, where optical cable is laid as far as the curbside cabinet, with existing copper lines being used for the last mile; and... [05 Nov 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... [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... [28 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... [23 Sep 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... [07 Aug 2009]
Microsoft after Gates, Google Chrome, ID cards, printer woes and more
News BT was also making the headlines last month on two fronts: revealing the next lot of towns and cities to get fibre broadband and announcing it's cutting its call centre... [03 Aug 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Singapore's fibre paradox
Comment They are rolling out fibre everywhere and the target is 1Gbps to every home and office over the next few years. This didn't stack up - optical... [30 Jul 2009]
Cheat Sheet: BT's £1.5bn fibre plans
Cheat Sheet The downlink speed a user will actually get will depend on whether BT lays fibre to the cabinet (FTTC), where fibre only goes as far as... [14 Jul 2009]
BT kicks off London fibre pilot
News FTTP has been deployed at the Ebbsfleet housing development in Kent, where BT has taken advantage of the new build to trial taking fibre right to... [06 Jul 2009]
BT doubles broadband speeds to 20Mbps
News The faster speeds are based on BT's next-generation 21CN platform but have nothing to do with fibre-to-the-home, a technology currently... [04 Jun 2009]
Shocking iPods, netbooks and an offshoring backlash
News For those not blessed with a head for DIY telecoms engineering, this month saw news that BT is to double the speed at which it rolls out fibre to the... [01 Jun 2009]
Inbox: Brits ditching mobiles? Fat chance
Comment Maybe they could combine this with fibre to the home and insulating houses in the UK as eco-driven job-generation programmes - with the... [18 May 2009]
Carphone Warehouse buys Tiscali for £236m
News Carphone Warehouse has also claimed the acquisition will help spur a nationwide rollout of fibre access to the home. Carphone Warehouse is working with... [11 May 2009]
Virgin Media trials 200Mbps broadband
News However BT has been making noise on the speed front - pledging to roll out fibre to 10 million homes by 2012, enabling speeds of up to 100Mbps and... [08 May 2009]
Cheat sheet: Digital Britain
Cheat Sheet There are a number of areas that have fallen under Carter's watchful eye: the future of broadband - including whether the UK should put money into fibre and whether broadband should be a... [21 Apr 2009]
