News Archive - August 2011

Monday, August 8th 2011

The telecoms giant has twice delayed the upgrade of the Eversley exchange. A Berkshire broadband campaigner has branded BT's decision to delay an exchange upgrade in the a...

Monday, August 8th 2011

The county council is aiming to deliver fast broadband to 99 per cent of local properties. Rutland County Council (RCC) has urged local residents and businesses to get behind a project to bri...

Friday, August 5th 2011

Just 61 per cent of Scottish households have a broadband connection. Scotland is lagging behind the rest of the UK with regards to broadband take-up, new figures from Of...

Thursday, August 4th 2011

Some 71 per cent of households in Wales are now signed up to broadband. A sharp increase in the take-up of broadband in Wales has been recorded by Ofcom over the past 12 mo...

Wednesday, August 3rd 2011

Employees are being encouraged to adopt remote working solutions rather than travel into the capital during the Olympics. Fibre optic broadband can help businesses cope with potential disruptions to their daily operations ...

Wednesday, August 3rd 2011

The wireless broadband service can achieve speeds of up to 800Mbps. Scientists in Germany have created an optical wireless broadband network offering speeds of up to 80...

Tuesday, August 2nd 2011

The Conservative MP claimed Ofcom's latest study on broadband speeds "airbrushed" over connection issues in rural areas. Ofcom has been accused of ignoring the lack of broadband access in and around Henley on Thames in it...

Tuesday, August 2nd 2011

The telecoms giant is considering increasing its investment in Hertfordshire's broadband infrastructure. BT would be prepared to spend more money on Hertfordshire broadband services if it can create the &q...

Monday, August 1st 2011

The government's rural broadband funding has been welcomed by local economic decision-makers. Faster broadband speeds will help to attract more high-quality jobs to rural areas such as Richmonds...

Monday, August 1st 2011

Doug Legge of Berkeley Group Holdings claimed BT bases its deployments on locations that will earn it a return as quickly as possible. BT has been accused of focusing its fibre optic broadband rollout on parts of the UK that it deems t...