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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 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... [01 Nov 2006]
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]
London to get citywide Ethernet LANs from BT
News The Ethernet Virtual LAN (Evlan) service extends BT's existing LAN/SAN extension service, which uses fibre connections to make Ethernet links between places up to 25km apart and is currently being rolled out to all London schools in a government... [15 Sep 2005]
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]
Universal broadband: BT targets trouble-spots
News Back in 2003, BT announced it was planning to run copper alongside the TPON fibre links to allow ADSL signals to be supported. In other cases, it's because they are connected to their local exchange by legacy fibre-optic cables known as TPON... [14 Sep 2005]
Broadband wireless gets spectrum boost
News The links could potentially be used as alternatives to fibre-optic cable, with possible data speeds ranging from 1Gbps to 10Gbps over distances of one to two kilometres. F is for Fibre B is for BT More of the ether will be made available for... [10 Nov 2006]
BT to go all IP, promises universal broadband
News This network will make a significantly greater use of fibre-optic connections than today. In some cases fibre will reach as far as the end user's premises, superseding today's legacy copper lines. A second trial will investigate fibre-to-the-home... [09 Jun 2004]
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]
Devil's Advocate: BT strikes out with 21CN
Comment The combination of digital signals and optical fibre made long-distance communications far easier and cheaper than previously. The changes we are seeing now are primarily the culmination of the move to digital transmission and the deployment of... [01 Mar 2005]
Devil's Advocate: The broadband gap
Comment With large improvements in the speed of the optical devices used to drive fibre optic cables, each cable has been able to carry much more traffic than originally anticipated. We all suffered as telecoms companies dug up roads to install more and... [08 Jun 2004]
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]
