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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 copper network to fibre would be an expensive business. [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 fibre cabling in the sewer - is touting the launch of its... [23 Jan 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 speed of up to 100Mbps on a mixed development including 10,000 homes. [28 Jan 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 aim to give 10 million UK homes fibre access by... [15 Jul 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 move" until Ofcom changed the rules to ensure a... [17 Jul 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 fibre. [22 Feb 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 communications platform - a delivery method that proposed to use... [06 Mar 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 (NGA) - to homes and businesses is preventing such speeds from... [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 Fibre [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 The analyst said the UK's telecoms landscape is set for... [01 Feb 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 customer relationship 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, chief executive of BT Wholesale and board sponsor of the 21CN... [28 Nov 2006]
BT lags in broadband satisfaction stakes
News F is for Fibre BT has come bottom of the eight major UK broadband providers in a customer satisfaction survey. BT declined to comment on the findings. B is for BT Behind Tiscali comes Virgin Media with a score of 660, then Sky (657), AOL (646... [06 Dec 2007]
BT rings up more than a million VoIP customers
News F is for Fibre More than one million consumer customers have signed up for BT's VoIP service since June last year. A BT spokesman told silicon.com the reason for the rapid uptake is largely down to the launch back in June of Total Broadband... [10 Jan 2007]
Is online TV throttling broadband networks?
News F is for Fibre 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 said it manages its network to "ensure the... [28 Jan 2008]
