Charlie is a regular contributor to BroadbandWatcher. He is also the CEO of Simplifydigital so has a lot to say about the broadband market. Charlie writes across the Simplifydigital family of sites and is also a guest contributor for MSN Money (if indeed you were looking for further evidence of his sector-gravitas).
Website: http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/about-us/our-team/charlie-ponsonby/
Contact: cponsonby@simplifydigital.co.uk
According to Akamai, the UK’s average broadband speed has grown from 4.6Mbps in the first quarter to the current number of 5.0Mbps. It might be also worth adding that the global Content Delivery Network (CDN) also found that the average world broadband speed is currently 2.6Mbps which again is higher than its predecessor – 2.1Mbps in Q1. Lest we forget, there…
Charlie Ponsonby - 11 October 2011 | 0 comments. Read more
Picture yourself browsing through some websites on your smartie. Now what do you see? A fully-loaded site or a loading page? According to a new study, conducted by YouGov on behalf of Acision, 77 per cent of mobile broadband users encountered one issue or the other when browsing on the go, which is actually down from last year’s 84 per cent. More…
Charlie Ponsonby - 26 September 2011 | 0 comments. Read more
According to Timico UK, EFM (also known as Ethernet in the First Mile) services are gaining momentum, as the business broadband provider reported that the Ethernet product sales have risen by 53 per cent. Timico has also stated that EFM services are becoming more popular than ADSL services among businesses mainly because these offer up to 10Mbps symmetric connection speeds…
Charlie Ponsonby - 1 September 2011 | 1 comments. Read more
Exciting news coming from Three (3) as the mobile operator and broadband provider has joined forces with the Countryside Alliance as well as the Race Online 2012 in order to grant free mobile broadband services (as well as dongles) for a whole year to 11 rural communities. The lucky places will also get public Wi-Fi access in community centres and…
Charlie Ponsonby - 30 August 2011 | 0 comments. Read more
Following on from our story yesterday, the funding breakdown for rolling out broadband to ‘not-spots’ has been released today. £295m will go to English counties whilst Scotland can expect to receive £69m in order to get the entire UK broadband speeds of at least 2Mbps. Wales and Northern Ireland will share the rest of the pot valued at around £530m…
Charlie Ponsonby - 16 August 2011 | 0 comments. Read more
The West Midlands will enter the digital TV switchover phase on the 7th of September but despite this, 32,000 homes still aren’t ready for it. Peter Last, chairman of the Walsall Pensioners Convention, has stressed that the majority of the 32,000 homes are most likely occupied by elderly people who won’t know what to do once the first phase of…
Charlie Ponsonby - 15 August 2011 | 0 comments. Read more
Those who still remember Ribbit, the web-based phone firm BT has bought a couple of years ago, might as well forget it, as the former has been forced to scrap its developer program. This is because BT has decided to concentrate mainly on revamping its own VoIP (Voice-Over-IP) services. Ribbit will now shut its doors to any external access, SDKs and…
Charlie Ponsonby - 12 August 2011 | 0 comments. Read more
BT Openreach has recently announced the wholesale prices of its latest product – FTTP (fibre-to the premises, also known as FTTH). The speeds of the service reach 110Mbps and in March it has been added to BT’s product list. The secret to superfast speeds that FTTP can deliver is that the fibre optic cable is connected directly to households rather than…
Charlie Ponsonby - 14 June 2011 | 0 comments. Read more
It seems that eBay is not happy that prospective customers cannot shop properly on the go, which is why it asked telecoms authority, Ofcom, to make sure its auction of 800MHz and 2.6GHz radio spectrum fills in the gap in mobile broadband speeds. Verdict Research on behalf of eBay, has conducted a study which found that 16 per cent of…
Charlie Ponsonby - 31 May 2011 | 0 comments. Read more
And the winners of the BDUK’s funding this time are: * Wiltshire (England) – £4m * Norfolk (England) – £15m * Devon (England) – £30m shared with Somerset * Somerset (England) – £30m shared with Devon Just to remind you, BDUK’s (Broadband Delivery UK) budget equals to £530m and is set to grow to £830m by 2017, is to help boost broadband nationally, especially…
Charlie Ponsonby - 27 May 2011 | 0 comments. Read more
