Good news coming from Sky – as it has announced that it planned on expanding its broadband services to a shiny 88 per cent of the nation by June 2013.
Let’s talk numbers: at the moment, Sky provides services to roughly 3,651,000 homes around the country and in Q3 of 2011 alone it added 166,000 new subscribers.
The telecoms titan has now revealed that in April it is planning to start rolling out its own fibre optic offering (based on FTTC) which would provide speeds of up to 40Mbps.
Meanwhile, the firm…
Geoff Slaughter - 31 January 2012 | comments. Read more
According to eight out of ten respondents, hotels with Wi-Fi access are great – but only if they provide the service for free, as it sways the customers’ decision as to which guest house to stay with.
The Mystery Dining Company has created the aforementioned study in order to show hotel owners what their clients really wanted and wireless broadband seemed to be one of the top priorities.
The majority of the respondents (76 per cent) said that they preferred slow but free to use Wi-Fi to the premium version, and…
Edita Lozovska - 30 January 2012 | comments. Read more
It seems that a further £100m worth of funds has come UK’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) way, and it’s now ready to be distributed among councils with defined broadband plans… the only issue is that three councils already “have slipped behind schedule”.
As a quick reminder, the risk of not hitting the set targets is none other than being crossed out of the “to-be-funded” list.
The broadband goals that the Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) office is keen on achieving are to provide superfast broadband to 90 per cent…
Edita Lozovska - 27 January 2012 | comments. Read more
Some of you might remember BT being keen on the expansion of its FTTP (fibre-to-the-premises) to skyscrapers in the Isle of Dogs (East London).
It started off the scheme by lining up a few buildings in West India Quay, Canary Riverside and Port East to be the first ones to take advantage of the project.
As a quick reminder, FTTP gives customers access to speeds of up to 100Mbps, as it delivers fibre directly to the premises (i.e. household or apartment in this case).
Now the telecoms giant would like to expand…
Geoff Slaughter - 27 January 2012 | comments. Read more
More court drama is heading BT’s way, as Transport for London (TfL) has successfully prosecuted the telecoms giant along with Cable & Wireless (abbreviated as C&W) saying that the roadworks both were performing were “badly managed”.
In fact, the Westminster Magistrate’s Court found that the firms were at times working without permits and failed to make TfL aware that roadworks were carried out, among others.
The court found the firms liable (they pleaded liable too) and they will now have to cough up thousands of pounds in the form of fines.
More…
Edita Lozovska - 26 January 2012 | comments. Read more
It seems that more than a half of us doesn’t really care whether or not a public Wi-Fi hub is secure as long as it connects us to the sweet world wide web.
The study conducted by UK2 and YouGov based its findings on 2,124 UK adults and found that we cared more about getting online rather than whether or not the network was encrypted and safe to use.
This means that surfing the web came first despite the risk of costly technology and the data within getting hacked into, stolen,…
Geoff Slaughter - 26 January 2012 | comments. Read more
Local councils are being urged to get behind Government broadband projects or risk losing their funding.
As the deadline for councils to submit their ‘local broadband plans’ to the Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) office approaches, Socitm, an association of public sector ICT workers, wonders how will councils submit their plans if there is a vast issue: lack of local cash.
In more detail, despite the fact that some authorities may struggle to cough up the money, local councils will be required to raise an equal amount of money to the amount…
Anna Sheldrick - 25 January 2012 | comments. Read more
Some of you might remember KC launching 100Mbps fibre broadband and now it seems that Plusnet has too decided to up the ante.
The ISP which claims that its “broadband won’t be beat on price” has announced the expansion of its own 100Mbps trial based on FTTP (fibre-to-the-premises) technology.
Plusnet is currently testing the services and has not confirmed as to when they will be ready for lift off.
More detail on the product is as follows:
Plusnet’s Extra Fibre 100Mbps (£34.49 per month)
Up to 100Mbps downloads
Up…
Geoff Slaughter - 25 January 2012 | comments. Read more
Good news is coming Hull and East Riding’s way as KC, the area’s dominant broadband provider, has announced that it is launching a range of 100Mbps capable superfast broadband packages.
KC Lightstream and KC Lightstream Business both will be based on FTTP (Fibre-to-the-Premises) technology and will open doors to ultrafast speeds for an extra fiver per month.
If all goes according to plan (which KC said it should as it has been trialling the speeds for some time now), as many as 15,000 local households and businesses will have access to…
Geoff Slaughter - 24 January 2012 | comments. Read more
It seems that the days of sweet_bird84 are over, as all Twitter-like microblogging sites in China have been ordered to accept only those users who registered accounts under their real names rather than nick names.
The Chinese censorship body, the State Council Information Office, has launched a pilot scheme in major cities such as Beijing and Shenzhen to forbid primary accounts with nicknames.
The scheme is expected to go nationwide shortly after, making sure that primary accounts are registered under real names, however additional registries with fake names or nicknames will…
Edita Lozovska - 20 January 2012 | comments. Read more
