Good news for those living in rural or remote areas as satellite broadband provider, Eutelsat has made an official announcement – the first patch of its KA-SAT powered internet services is now available and ready for grabs.
The ISP is offering speeds of up to 10Mbps (with 4Mbps uploads) and it is thought that satellite broadband providers such as Broadband Wherever and AVOnline will follow suit.
The satellite has been successfully in its orbit since December last year and will be able to provide broadband to as many as 1m consumers.
Prospective…
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It has recently been said that BT Openreach is to pump up the price of its connection fee to £80 +VAT from the 1st of September 2011 which might slow down the rate at which consumers are currently subscribing to BT’s FTTC (fibre-to-the-cabinet) services.
At the moment, there are significant cuts when setting up FTTC for UK ISPs, which used to cost £75 to £35 +VAT, however with BT Openreach raising the fee, other providers will subsequently follow suit.
Over price hikes include the cost of the Managed Install, which will…
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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 the nation, mostly in rural areas, were not engaging in mobile internet shopping as eagerly as the rest of the UK.
This means that the UK economy could be £1.3bn fatter…
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Autumn next year is the deadline BT has set for itself to get the majority (90 per cent) of businesses based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly connected to its superfast broadband services, as a part of the £132m investment scheme.
The first 50 firms were connected in Chiverton Cross as well as Chacewater back in March, with BT eyeing up seventeen telephone exchanges in Liskeard, Callington, Gunnislake as well as Launceston to take advantage of the upgrade by March next year.
Other destinations from the lucky seventeen include St…
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Good news for Guernsey and Jersey as Jersey Telecom (JT Group) has recently revealed its latest partnership with Alcatel–Lucent to test LTE (Long-Term-Evolution) mobile broadband technology on the two Channel Islands.
The plan is a part of a wider strategy called Gigabit Isles which is to provide high speed broadband to the islanders who currently face slow internet connections.
ISPreview has also reported that the radio spectrum to be used will be the 1800MHz band which will give way for speeds of up to 50Mbps.
Mobile Europe quoted the chairman of Jersey…
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It has recently been said that Android owners were not that keen to splash out on the Android app market.
According to the recent reports, most paid-for apps were downloaded as little as 100 times or less.
Analyst firm, Distimo revealed that while the majority of paid for apps (80 per cent) was downloaded have not scored popularity points, free apps are being gobbled up at a significantly higher rate, with only a fifth not being as popular.
Distimo’s report read:
“Looking at paid applications in the Google Android Market, downloads are significantly…
Geoff Slaughter - 27 May 2011 | comments. Read more
No good news for South Derbyshire as it has recently been named as the second worst constituency in England for its measly internet speeds.
According to recent research conducted by the Labour Party, which studied the broadband situation throughout the country, more than a half (55.7 per cent) had to face broadband speeds which were less than average.
The only place to beat South Derbyshire in the woeful list was said to be Carlisle in Cumbria which had an even bigger number of bad broadband sufferers.
Amy Plenderleith, the District Councillor of…
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Orange’s parent company, France Telecom (FT) predicts some gloom for the broadband consumer as it warns that ISPs might have to raise prices for their services.
According to the General Secretary of the FT, the UK branch of which recently joined forces with T-Mobile and formed Everything Everywhere, consumers demand for data has been increasingly sharply and thus broadband providers must upgrade their infrastructure capabilities with investments.
The Daily Telegraph reported that the number of online gamers and video streamers has grown substantially putting a tremendous amount of pressure on ISPs.
Mr…
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It seems that the UK and France are the leaders of the Over-the-Top (OTT) broadband television (otherwise known as IPTV) pack, at least according to a media and telecoms analyst firm, SNL Kagan.
Mohammed Hamza, Media and Communications Analyst at SNL Kagan, said:
“Multi-platform video continues to gain momentum, as operators and broadcasters take the lead role with their own VOD, live and catch-up TV services, while also pursuing a TV Everywhere strategy.”
The UK is on top of the list thanks to the developers which are working hard on YouView (previously…
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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 in local authorities, and get people connected to superfast broadband of 25Mbps or more by 2015.
The target is to get 90 per cent using speedy internet, with the other 10…
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