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Broadband speeds going down toilet without fibre
News While fibre will play a role in the future of Broadband Britain - telco BT recently announced a £1.5bn investment to give 10 million UK homes fibre access by 2012 - a consensus is emerging the UK will end up with a "patchwork quilt" of... [06 Nov 2008]
London Olympics fibre hub 'template for UK broadband'
News The London 2012 Olympic Games is set to turn the capital into a high-speed fibre network hub. The Olympic Park network and its links to 94 venues across the UK could become the template for a... [23 Oct 2008]
Who will win the LTE vs WiMax grudge match?
News It also reckons HSPA (high speed packet access) - aka 3.5G - could delay LTE rollouts and may therefore become mobile WiMax's "true competitor". The future of 4G is a tale of two technologies: LTE and... [23 Oct 2008]
No compliance or cost blues for Turquoise comms
News The network, supplied by integrator Fabric Technologies, will by used by the trading platform to support its strategy of giving small order, high frequency traders the level of speed of transaction... [22 Oct 2008]
Bournemouth's sewer Fibrecity kicks off
News For the residents of Bournemouth, super high speed internet access is creeping closer after work officially started on the Fibrecity project. The scheme will give the town's residents a chance to connect... [17 Oct 2008]
'Mobile broadband is not the same standard as fixed'
News We understood that mobile broadband was unlikely to offer speeds comparable with those of a high speed fixed-line service and that, due to the technology's reliance on obtaining a signal from mobile... [16 Oct 2008]
3G glitch halts BlackBerry Bold sales
News The BlackBerry Bold is the first in RIM's line of smart phones to include high-speed 3G, or HSDPA, connectivity. Orange has temporarily stopped selling the BlackBerry Bold while it tries to figure out a... [14 Oct 2008]
Google's vision for an open wireless world
News And it's been investing in its own fibre infrastructure as well in the form of undersea cable deployments, which could eventually be used to create high-speed backhaul networks. That said, Google has... [29 Sep 2008]
Asus Eee PC to get HSDPA next month
News But Asus said it plans to add HSDPA connectivity to its Eee PC 901 netbook to enable "convenient and high-speed access to the internet anytime, anywhere". Computer maker Asus has announced its Eee PC... [26 Sep 2008]
Cisco's collaboration launch squares up to Microsoft, IBM
News Cisco plans to add soft phone, video phone, speed dialling, and federated presence widgets. Cisco has also found a way to make its high-end, $300,000 Telepresence videoconferencing product more... [25 Sep 2008]
T-Mobile backtracks on 1GB limit for Android
News The statement said: "Our goal, when the T-Mobile G1 becomes available in October, is to provide affordable, high-speed data service allowing customers to experience the full data capabilities of the... [25 Sep 2008]
Ofcom hatches plan to woo telcos to fibre
News Ofcom has said the rollout of fibre-based broadband - which could offer speeds of up to 100Mbps - should bring fast web access to communities previously unable to benefit from high speed internet access. [23 Sep 2008]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... John Chambers
News Not just software as a service… service as a service, bandwidth as a service, compute power as a service, storage as a service - changing business models at a speed we've not seen before. Throw in eco pressure to reduce... [18 Sep 2008]
Firefox 3.1 to jump on privacy bandwagon?
News Such functionality is already included in the beta of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) and in Google Chrome, the most recent high-profile entrant into the browser wars. Other enhancements planned for Firefox 3.1 include... [16 Sep 2008]
Broadband Britain: UK needs wireless patchwork
News NGA, the focus of Caio's report, is a term used for the technology that gets that high-speed connectivity from the exchange to the customer's premises - also known as the 'last mile'. He refused to give... [12 Sep 2008]
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