Oct. 14th 2009
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.
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Oct. 2nd 2009
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.
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Apr. 15th 2009
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.
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Mar. 22nd 2009
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.
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Feb. 27th 2009
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.
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Jan. 16th 2009
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.
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Dec. 16th 2008
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?
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Dec. 13th 2008
It is widely anticipated that a prominent Democratic lawmaker is to request that the FFC (Federal Communications Commission) postpone the vote on a planned radio spectrum auction. The proposal, as it stands, is that eventual buyer would be required to devote a portion (about 25%) of the AWS-3 segment of airwaves to providing free broadband services across the United States. The vote is currently scheduled for next Thursday.
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Dec. 3rd 2008
The dream of free broadband across the US is a step closer to becoming a reality today after a debate lasting two years has finally led to a vote on the issue being scheduled. If the vote passes and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approves the plan then free broadband could be rolled out across America before 2009 is out.
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