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RSS fibre in newsParliament websites go to the polls
News Click here for all there is on broadband, from fibre to zombies. Parliament and politicians are increasingly making use of the web but it's now the public's turn to have a say on which MP has the best website. [20 Jun 2008]
Ultra fat pipes to squeeze through Dundee's sewers
News Dundee has been selected as the first Scottish 'Fibrecity' - meaning 100Mbps-plus broadband connectivity will be speeding out of fibre-optic-stuffed sewers and into every home, business and organisation in the city as... [18 Jun 2008]
ISPs face fresh threat from file-sharing laws
News F is for Fibre The government has renewed its threat to introduce laws to force ISPs to control online music and film piracy and file-sharing. But the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) has hit back, warning... [18 Jun 2008]
Stolen music still big with MP3 generation
News F is for Fibre Young people are getting almost half of their music collection through illegal means. Record industry artist and publisher group, British Music Rights (BMR), claims the average 14- to 24-year-old now has... [16 Jun 2008]
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News It has 10,000 connections, both infiniband and gigabit Ethernet, with 57 miles of fibre-optic cable. Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop - 1,000 trillion floating point... [11 Jun 2008]
Network Rail on track with IP
News The IP network will be integrated into Network Rail's FTN project which aims to replace 16,000km of copper cabling with 11,000km of fibre optic cabling to support a digital driver-to-signaller radio system. [10 Jun 2008]
Next gen broadband benefits outweigh cost
News Click here for all there is on broadband, from fibre to zombies. Widespread deployment of next-generation broadband - which is significantly faster than current fat pipes - is critical for the UK economy, according to... [09 Jun 2008]
Broadband pace lagging in the countryside
News Click here for all there is on broadband, from fibre to zombies. A broadband speed report by UK fat pipe watcher and advice website thinkbroadband claims the countryside still lags some way behind urban areas - contrary... [04 Jun 2008]
Virgin Media to ramp up capacity on core network
News As web users' thirst for bandwidth soars, cable broadband purveyor Virgin Media is looking to squeeze four times the capacity out of its optical network - but without the expense of ripping out and upgrading its fibre. [09 May 2008]
Carphone Warehouse plans broadband boost
News He added: "In the longer term what's going to happen is that at some point the UK ISPs will decide to invest in fibre in the UK. Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is to sell 50 per cent of its retail business to... [09 May 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... [08 May 2008]
O2 hits 3G target at last
News Click here for all there is on broadband, from fibre to zombies. O2 has finally met the 3G coverage obligation that was part of the licence it acquired in 2000 for providing mobile broadband. Broadband from A-Z [06 May 2008]
Euro e-health getting the right attention
News F is for Fibre An EC e-health survey has found the vast majority (87 per cent) of European doctors use a computer - and almost half (48 per cent) have a broadband connection. The report - entitled Benchmarking ICT use... [28 Apr 2008]
BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software
News F is for Fibre BT and NetSuite have joined forces to bring web-based on-demand software to the telco's 1.6 million business customers. BT is offering NetSuite's business management applications and will soon provide... [22 Apr 2008]
Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010
News F is for Fibre The US telecoms giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the internet's current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on web 2.0 this... [21 Apr 2008]
