Communications and Media regulator Ofcom UK has just published a new guide called ‘Keeping Consumers Connected‘ (PDF), which offers advice for consumers who suddenly get trapped when their broadband ISP or telephone operator goes bust. The information is very spares and ultimately amounts to little more than Ofcom telling people to switch ISP; though in [...]
ThinkBroadband have launched a survey to collate information on locations without broadband (notspots) or with speeds below 2 Mbits/s (slowspots). A support forum and other tools such as their speedtester are available to help with diagnosis.
http://www.broadband-notspot.org.uk/
It will be interesting to see how ThinkBroadBand manage to sort out people with their own technical problems from genuine [...]
The UK’s luckiest Internet users live in Ashford, Kent. Virgin Media announced this week that it is trialing 200Mbps cable connections in Ashford, where 100 “lead adopters” will help Virgin test and evaluate the system. This is a real-world trial that has already escaped from the lab, but it won’t be coming near you any [...]
has revealed new information about the roll-out of its £1.5bn programme to deploy super fast fibre optic (Fibre to the Premise/Cabinet, FTTP/C) broadband to as many as 10 million UK homes (40%) by 2012. Scotland will become one of the first places to benefit from early next year, with more than 34,000 homes and businesses [...]
The latest study by Redshift Research has revealed that the majority of small businesses (79%) use their home broadband connection for professional use. In contrast, just under half (48%) use pure office/business broadband.
When asked which the most frequent method of connection is, two thirds (64%) stated home broadband and only a third (30%) said office/business [...]
Its ten years since the first consumer broadband services surfaced in the UK during 1999. Back then the majority of people didn’t have Internet access and those who did connected through slow 56Kbps narrowband dialup or 64/128Kbps digital ISDN links.
It was during this period that Virgin Media’s precursors (NTL, Telewest) became the first to launch [...]
Ofcom have today released a report with some conclusions based on the first month of data collected from its research in October/November last year.
UK consumers get an average actual broadband speed of 3.56Mbit/s
Customers with an ‘up to 8Mbit/s’ package received, on average, a speed of 3.6Mbit/s
Consumers living in urban areas receive speeds which are on [...]
The European Commission’s recently announced Recovery Plan includes a €5 billion injection of unspent EU funds “to improve energy interconnections and broadband infrastructure”.
A little more detail is available in the FAQ where it is stated that “The strategy will be supported by public funds in order to provide broadband access to under-served and high cost [...]
