According to a report released by Telecommunications governance company Ofcom, up to fifty percent of people within the UK find the idea of switching broadband providers or landline services too complicated to consider. (more…)

The global disparity in fixed broadband access and cost has been revealed by UN figures. According to research undertaken by the UN, broadband costs some areas almost forty times the average income, compared with more reasonable pricing structures elsewhere. (more…)

Broadband has hit the news a number of times over the past few weeks, following the government turnaround on pledges to make it more accessible, faster and cheaper for Britons. (more…)

Despite some ambitious and wide-reaching plans for broadband access in the UK being bandied around by the government, the project has now been delayed. The 2 megabytes per second broadband scheme, which aimed to provide access to fast broadband to every person within the UK, has now been put on hold due to a lack of funds. (more…)

Jon James, director of Virgin Media’s broadband, has issued a statement saying that broadband services will be enhanced with speeds of up to 400 megabits per second (Mbps)by the end of the year. Currently, Virgin Media provides broadband services to 70,000 customers across the UK, at a speed of 50Mbps. (more…)

Chancellor George Osborne announced yesterday that plans for the proposed tax on next-generation broadband in the UK are to be scrapped. As part of his budget plans, Osborne confirmed that the 50p monthly charge which was scheduled to be levied on broadband use is no longer to be implemented. (more…)

The ‘big 3’ mobile phone networks in the UK have all announced that they have signed up to supply the iPad on its release. (more…)

British Telecom is extending its super-fast broadband services, making the 100 megabits per second service available to double the number of people. The extension of the ‘fibre to premise’ service will make super-fast internet available to in the region of 2.5 million households. This is all coming as part of BT’s £1.5 billion pound investment in broadband networks through which they hope to connect 10 million homes to their fast broadband service by 2012. (more…)

According to recent research from Cisco UK, Great Britain’s broadband service is not fit for the country’s future needs. Whilst the current broadband speed is sufficient for today’s sites and internet capabilities, Cisco believes we will struggle to compete with the next generation, Web 3.0, if you will. (more…)

France is continuing with its hard line stance against Internet piracy, seeking to pass a ‘three strikes’ rule that could see illegal downloaders banned from the Internet if they persist. The proposed new law would seek to revoke the broadband service of anyone caught downloading copyrighted material three times.
(more…)

Thousands of South Wales residents will be amongst the first customers to reap the benefits of BT’s new ‘super-fast’ broadband trial. The Internet users of Cardiff and Taffs will find themselves exploring the Internet and downloading files at unprecedented speeds early on in 2010 after BT have installed the fibrotic broadband.
(more…)

According to PointTopic, a UK based broadband think-tank, the government is going to have an ‘uphill struggle’ to fulfil its pledge to bring broadband of a minimum speed of 2 Megabytes per second to its Great Britain. The company has produced a breakdown of all the areas in the country that are not yet up to that speed and it makes for troubling reading.
(more…)

If any of you were having doubts about just how big an online market China has become, let me put it into perspective for you. According to the China Internet Network Information Center, China currently have 298 million citizens online, that’s around the total population of the US.
(more…)

It’ll come as no great revelation to anyone that the public are more dependent on Internet access than ever before. However, did you know that 61% of American women would rather go without TV for two weeks than Internet for one? Or, that 65% of adults in the US actually say that they ‘could not live without’ Internet access?

(more…)