News Archive - December 2011

Tuesday, December 6th 2011

Rural communities could miss out on the benefits of 4G mobile broadband. Hundreds of thousands of rural residents risk being left without super-fast mobile broadband coverag...

Tuesday, December 6th 2011

Free Wi-Fi is now available to all customers visiting Tesco Extra shops. Tesco has announced the nationwide rollout of a wireless broadband service based on a technology pla...

Monday, December 5th 2011

Derbyshire County Council is encouraging residents in Erewash to complete an online survey on broadband connectivity. Residents and businesses in the Derbyshire borough of Erewash are being urged to get behind the coun...

Monday, December 5th 2011

Broadband providers can now put themselves forward for one or more of the 13 categories at the 2012 ISPA Awards. Broadband firms will have the opportunity to battle for prizes in two new categories at the 2012 Int...

Friday, December 2nd 2011

More funding is needed if the government is to achieve its broadband goals, according to CityFibre. Fibre optic broadband infrastructure provider CityFibre has argued the government's newly announ...

Friday, December 2nd 2011

The UK's average download speed of 11.36Mbps is just the 37th fastest in the world. The UK is still lagging behind many of its European counterparts in terms of average home broadband ...

Thursday, December 1st 2011

A new government broadband map shows super-fast connectivity is available to 58 per cent of the population. The government has published a map that charts the availability of super-fast broadband across the U...

Thursday, December 1st 2011

Participants in the Cornish trial of 4G mobile broadband are receiving average speeds of 6Mbps. BT and Everything Everywhere's trial of 4G mobile broadband technology in Cornwall is offering s...