Nottingham hoping to win in the Super Connected Cities project
Nottingham is hoping to become Britain's "first 4G city" through the government's Super Connected Cities project. This was revealed by the chief executive of Nottingham City Council, Jane Todd, at the Nottingham Business Summit. The goal of the Super Connected Cities project is to improve the broadband services and Internet speeds ...
BT speeds up fibre-to-the-cabinet deployment
As part of their £2.5bn broadband roll-out, BT's Openreach division will be deploying faster fibre-to-the-cabinet broadband to various internet service providers starting early April. This will push current downstream speeds from 40Mbps to 80Mbps. The upload speeds will get a boost, reaching up to 10Mbps. This news comes as Ofcom has made ...
PlusNet invites more users to join its 80Mbps broadband trial
Broadband providers who are looking to give new technologies and areas a shot conduct trials first to determine if it would be worth the investment. Two firms that recently went ahead with their respect trials are BT Broadband and O2. BT is conducting a trial in Cornwall for a technology ...
Superfast broadband headed to Colchester town centre
Colchester is set to get a broadband boost, and the town's businesses couldn't be any happier. Poor broadband connections and slow Internet speeds have been known to hinder businesses, especially in the tourism industry. The Colchester Council has made known its desire to hire a provider who can upgrade its 5.5km ...
Mid Calder gets a superfast broadband upgrade
BT Broadband has been working hand in hand with the government to improve the broadband infrastructure in the country and provide faster broadband services through Broadband Delivery UK. The BDUK has the following goals: -to provide universal broadband access with speeds of at least 2Mbps to the entire country -to bring next-generation ...
High school students get on the Say Yes to Better Broadband campaign
A lot of people are getting on board Norfolk's Say Yes to Better Broadband campaign, which was launched early this year. This part of Norfolk's bid to get better broadband services and improve their broadband infrastructure so that users in the area will be able to get access to faster ...
TalkTalk offers 80Mbps broadband boost for just £15
It's no secret that TalkTalk has had it rough over the past couple of quarters. Just last month, it was revealed that the provider lost another 50,000 subscribers in the three months leading to the end of December last year. TalkTalk chief Dido Harding took it all into stride, however, and ...
Ofcom gives the green light, 4G coming to the UK this year
In late February, Everything Everywhere sent in a proposal to Ofcom stating that they wanted the regulator to consider allowing 2G-license holders to start making use of their GSM spectrum for LTE mobile broadband. A spokesperson for the firm had said: "Everything Everywhere has made a request for Ofcom to take ...
Hunt questions North and South Tyneside’s broadband plans
The Department for Media, Culture and Sport announced the February 2012 deadline for local councils to turn in their broadband proposals so that they can still apply for a share of the funding set aside for the Broadband Delivery UK project. Secretary of State Jeremy Hunt said: “Superfast broadband is fundamental to our ...
Suffolk County Council gives final push for broadband campaign
The folks over at Suffolk have been hard at work to push for a broadband project that will equip their county with superfast broadband. And they should, considering that Suffolk road was named as having the slowest broadband in the UK last year. The Suffolk County Council first announced their survey ...
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