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The A to Z of broadband
News F is for Fibre F is for Fibre F is for Fibre F is for Fibre F is for Fibre Columnist Peter Cochrane is a fan of fibres but switching all of the existing... [01 Nov 2006]
Does superfast broadband Britain stink of sewage?
News F is for Fibre Last year, H2O Networks won a contract to connect a student hall of residence at the University of Aberdeen via fibre laid down the drains. H2O Networks - a company that lays... [23 Jan 2008]
Faster speeds on the cards for Broadband Britain?
News Tiscali CEO, Mary Turner, recently told silicon.com fibre to the cabinet - aka backhaul - needs to be "commercialised" as BT is not currently obliged by Ofcom to resell it. It is also sniffing around... [22 Feb 2008]
BT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News A BT spokesman told silicon.com these barriers include a universal service obligation to put copper wire into new homes, something which is high cost but which fibre takes away the need for. The plans... [15 Jul 2008]
Virgin touts free broadband speed upgrade
News BT's forthcoming ADSL2+ tech will offer speed of up to 24Mbps, though the telco is also dabbling with fibre. A planned BT fibre deployment at Ebbsfleet, Kent, will offer... [28 Jan 2008]
Five weird ways to bridge the digital divide
News Click here to see photos of fibre-down-the-drains deployment. F is for Fibre A few years back, UK-based company SkyLinc was touting its Low-Cost Integrated Broadband Radio Access... [06 Mar 2008]
Ofcom: Copper capable of high-speed broadband
News When laying fibre from an exchange to a cabinet, BT may prefer to cable up the nearest cabinets - referred to as the 'best is first' scenario - as this would be cheapest, the report states. Industry... [22 Aug 2008]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News Following BT's Tuesday announcement that it was to plough £1.5bn into a fibre-access rollout to 10 million homes, an O2 spokesperson told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk that O2 was "not going to... [17 Jul 2008]
UK fat pipes sluggish from lack of fibre
News The BT plan aims to give 10 million UK homes fibre by 2012 with bandwidth of up to 100Mbps - and potentially up to 1,000Mbps in the future. F is for Fibre B is for BT... [30 Sep 2008]
UK business lacking high fibre diet
News F is for Fibre Although the backbone of the UK's broadband infrastructure is being upgraded to fibre, the current impasse over the provision of fibre access - or next-generation access... [07 Jul 2008]
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". F is for... [22 Nov 2007]
Broadband Britain cheaper and faster than ever
News F is for Fibre But other companies are also looking at boosting the UK's fat pipes by laying fibre cabling in sewers - which could realise connection speeds of up to 100Mbps. B is for BT... [01 Feb 2008]
Broadband Britain: UK needs wireless patchwork
News In a statement, BT said it welcomes the Caio report as "a useful contribution to the NGA debate, and agrees with the broad conclusion that the market, rather than the state, should be the catalyst for... [12 Sep 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... [22 Apr 2008]
BT hooks up first 21CN customers
News F is for Fibre BT has moved its first customers to its 21st Century Network (21CN) in the initial phase of the next-generation network's national rollout. B is for BT Paul Reynolds,... [28 Nov 2006]