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posted on 18 April 2011
Time to address the issues with terrible broadband speeds, if
there actually is an internet connection at all, thought the
Oxfordshire County Council.
David Robertson, Deputy Council Leader, has teamed up with Local
Enterprise Partnership to launch a campaign which would give the
opportunity for locals to voice their views on the broadband an... [read more]
posted on 15 April 2011
Warrington North Labour MP has shown her eagerness to get the
area fibre-connected and welcomed BT's plan to bring high speed
internet to the region.
The Warrington Guardian has reported Helen Jones as saying that
she was nothing less than "pleased" regarding BT's decision to
upgrade the exchanges to fibre in Warrington as well as 155 other
l... [read more]
posted on 14 April 2011
Outdated broadband infrastructure no more, thought Councillors
in Staffordshire while thinking of ways how to improve broadband
connectivity within the area.
Burton Mail has reported that local house owners and businessmen
said that they were experiencing "woefully slow" broadband speeds,
which could potentially prevent regional companies fro... [read more]
posted on 13 April 2011
Broadbandwatcher has recently reported on Fujitsu's recent grand
plan to put together a fibre broadband network to rival that of BT
Openreach's.
The ISPs which collaborated on the project also said that
especially rural areas are going to see the benefits of the fibre
scheme.
Virgin Media and TalkTalk, which have teamed up with both
Fujitsu ... [read more]
posted on 12 April 2011
Fibre optic broadband is the future of high-speed internet. Just
as ADSL broadband internet was an enormous step forward compared to
the original 56k dial-up connections, fibre optic broadband has
been a massive leap in the evolution of how we get online.
Standard ADSL broadband is limited to 24Mbps but fibre
connections in the UK can provide... [read more]
posted on 12 April 2011
It has recently been claimed that the key to encouraging
businesses expand or move to Malvern is high-speed broadband.
Additionally, it will help local companies flourish, according
to recent reports.
Economic Development Manager at Malvern Hills District Council,
Simon Smith, has recently been reported as saying that superfast
broadband wou... [read more]
posted on 11 April 2011
It seems that getting fibre-connected is not something that
small (SME) Lincolnshire-based businesses think is worth
celebrating, despite the region has been scheduled in for a
superfast 40Mbps upgrade.
It has been said that it took three years for campaigners'
voices to be heard with BT finally including the county into its
latest list of lo... [read more]
posted on 11 April 2011
The super-fast broadband will provide in-excess of 2k homes in
the area with estimated download speeds of up to 40Mbps and upload
speeds of 10Mbps.
The little Buckinghamshire town has been chosen by the British
telecommunications company as a part of its £2.5bn BT Openreach
project.
The company has laid out plans to provide two thirds of the... [read more]
posted on 07 April 2011
It seems that the broadband summit to take place in Suffolk is
going to be big news, as according to recent reports, even
Communications Minister, Ed Vaizey, is going to be among the
attendees.
Peter Aldous, Waveney MP, is the main organiser of the Suffolk
Broadband Conference, which is set to have an impressive guest
list, for instance, expe... [read more]
posted on 31 March 2011
A new private sector focused open market review is set to show
what businesses are really doing in order to invest in the
deployment of Next Generation Access (NGA) broadband internet
services.
The Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) hoped that the data gathered
would help those in power to see what areas will be blanketed by
private investors an... [read more]