News Archive - July 2011

Thursday, July 7th 2011

The average user spent almost 27 hours on the web throughout the month. More than 365 million Europeans used the internet in May 2011, according to new research from comSco...

Thursday, July 7th 2011

The money will be spent on bringing faster internet speeds to rural areas. An additional £500,000 of public funding will be made available to support trials of broadband...

Wednesday, July 6th 2011

The map details current levels of coverage in 200 administrative authority areas. Ofcom has utilised data from internet service providers (ISPs) to publish the UK's first ever in...

Wednesday, July 6th 2011

The communications minister said the internet service providers' attitude towards the Digital Economy Act is "quite odd". Communications minister Ed Vaizey has defended the Digital Economy Act (DEA) and queried the continu...

Tuesday, July 5th 2011

IMS Research has compared the differing use of white space technologies to the "saga" of LTE and WiMAX mobile broadband services. The use of white space technology for Wi-Fi and applications such as smart meters has been compared ...

Tuesday, July 5th 2011

The tennis tournament resulted in higher levels of data usage from Fluidata's business broadband customers. Businesses saw regular surges in data usage throughout the 2011 Wimbledon Championships as employees...

Monday, July 4th 2011

The ISP has rolled out its up to 24Mbps broadband service in Bridgnorth. Shropshire-based internet service provider (ISP) Aquiss has brought faster broadband speeds to the t...

Monday, July 4th 2011

Properties in Wales that currently receive download speeds of less than 2Mbps will be able to apply for government funding. An initiative to bring broadband access to parts of Wales suffering from slow connection speeds is s...

Friday, July 1st 2011

The telecoms giant is planning to retire the services by spring 2014. BT is set to phase out its older generation of up to 8Mbps broadband services, Trefor Davies of Timi...

Friday, July 1st 2011

The government is keen to ensure rural areas do not get left behind in its digital strategy. All rural communities in Scotland will gain access to high-speed broadband by 2020, Holyrood has bee...