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News F is for Fibre A few years back, UK-based company SkyLinc was touting its Low-Cost Integrated Broadband Radio Access communications platform - a delivery method that proposed to use inflatable base stations, tethered to fibre-optic poles, to bring... [06 Mar 2008]
Mobile broadband threatening fixed line?
News F is for Fibre Click on the links below to find out more. B is for BT Not least because UK households seeking to install or reconnect a landline can face a BT connection charge of almost £130. Results from YouGov's DongleTrack report show while the... [20 Aug 2008]
'Unlimited broadband' thing of the past?
News F is for Fibre Click on the links below to find out more. B is for BT At conferences where the likes of Tiscali and BT are present, you hear them say these things - 'We must move to a new tariffing scheme' - and that tells me they're working hard... [17 Mar 2008]
Broadband growth fastest in Eastern Europe
News F is for Fibre But the market for FTTx - faster fibre-optic connections - grew almost twice as fast (12.6 per cent) as DSL, and topped more than 27 million subscribers during the period. Point Topic analyst Vince Chook said the increasing demand... [20 Dec 2006]
Ofcom and ISPs kiss and MAC up
News F is for Fibre Click on the links below to find out more. B is for BT A BT spokesman told silicon.com that the company was fully behind the proposals. The MAC is required by customers wanting to switch ISP, which they take over to their new provider. [13 Dec 2006]
Telco packages overwhelm customers
News F is for Fibre Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about broadband. B is for BT Ofcom has called for simplifying the process of switching providers and recently received support from BT for the cause. [17 Nov 2006]
Is online TV throttling broadband networks?
News F is for Fibre Click on the links below to find out more. B is for BT BT told silicon.com the full launch of iPlayer hasn't had any impact on the service its customers receive. Although BT wouldn't say whether it employs traffic shaping, the telco... [28 Jan 2008]
Photos: The legendary satellite dishes of Goonhilly
Photo The undersea fibre optic cables which enter Britain along the Cornish coast also run into the Goonhilly site. Some of the antennas have been given names including Arthur and Guinevere because of the links between Cornwall, King Arthur and Celtic... [22 Aug 2006]
Huawei's $1bn R&D pot 'matches Western rivals'
News However, the company now has a comprehensive product portfolio - from optical switching technology capable of maintaining tens of millions of lines through one fibre cable, to 3G and HSPA (mobile broadband) USB modems no bigger than a box of matches. [06 Sep 2007]
Smaller ISPs: The secret to our success
News F is for Fibre Click on the links below to find out more. The UK broadband market witnessed a lot of consolidation last year, including Thus grabbing two rivals in a £70m spending spree, BT snapping up PlusNet for £67m, and Pipex forking out £10m... [26 Jan 2007]
2010: UK dial-up's dying days
News F is for Fibre Click on the links below to find out more. B is for BT BT has actually done a very, very good job in terms of getting very wide broadband availability," he told silicon.com. And only around one million of those will be using dial-up... [26 Nov 2007]
TalkTalk is UK's least-liked broadband provider
News F is for Fibre Click on the links below to find out more. B is for BT Telewest was followed by AOL, Tiscali, BT and Orange, with NTL and then TalkTalk at the bottom of the rankings. Customers have voted TalkTalk and NTL the worst UK broadband... [05 Dec 2006]
Fibre connectivity set to change, says EC
News The European Commission is to issue a recommendation on how member states should go about rolling out fibre connectivity to homes and businesses. F is for Fibre Ducatel said the Commission had "concerns" about the relative rates of fibre rollout in... [28 Feb 2008]
Fibre - coming to a home near you
News Fibre to the home (FTTH) will reach more than 14 million homes in Europe by 2012, research predicts. Broadband was delivered via fibre optic networks to more than 2.5 million European homes in 2006 - and demand for the high-speed technology is only... [10 Jul 2007]
Ericsson CEO hails mobile broadband 'breakthrough'
News F is for Fibre Click on the links below to find out more. B is for BT Ericsson president and CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg has called 2007 a breakthrough year for mobile broadband. The list from A to Z A is for ADSL [11 Feb 2008]
