Broadband Blog

Virgin Media claims it has run a successful trial of the “world’s fastest” cable broadband. Running at 1.5Gb/s, the trial was carried out at selected business premises on Old Street in London. One of the businesses taking part in the broadband trial was TechHub, a firm which provides a physical hub for technology start ups. [...]

Ofcom could level the playing field for the price of broadband internet in rural areas as it moves to reduce how much BT charges to internet providers for the use of its services. Broadband internet is often more expensive in remote areas since BT sometimes demand a higher price from internet providers than they do [...]

TalkTalk has been losing broadband internet customers at an average rate of over 8,000 a month between October 2010 and April 2011. The troubles for the broadband provider began with its takeover of Tiscali in 2009. Over 60 thousand broadband customers were billed for internet services which they had cancelled. TalkTalk had to shell out [...]

BT has been on the hunt for ex-forces recruits to help them deliver their super fast broadband internet services. The ex-armed personnel will start this month with the Openreach branch of BT and will aid the telecoms company and internet provider to step up its fibre broadband rollout to companies and houses throughout the land. [...]

The United Kingdom is lagging behind in the broadband internet stakes according to the latest State of The Internet report from Akamai Technologies. Their list of 100 top cities around the world for broadband internet penetration and content delivery contains only one solitary UK city. Is it London? Could it be Edinburgh? Possibly Manchester? No, [...]

Some of the UK’s biggest names in broadband internet deals have signed up to a new code which aims to bring more transparency to broadband speeds. The signatory’s have pledged to provide details, in a common format, of what traffic management they carry out and what effect it has. BSkyB, BT, Everything Everywhere, O2, TalkTalk, [...]

A survey of over 2,000 people has revealed that the UK public think home broadband internet has been the biggest innovation of the last decade. Innovation and growth company, The Foundation, canvassed the opinions of consumers to try to work out what products and services had made the biggest contribution to their lives over the [...]

Virgin Media has continued to roll out its fast broadband connections in more towns and villages across the country. So Virgin Media could be the internet provider to go with if you need fast broadband internet deals in Southport, Cheshunt, Hatfield in England or Treforest and Pentwyn in Wales. According to Virgin Media, these broadband [...]

Anyone thinking about switching to new broadband internet deals who are worried about potential pitfalls in the handover will be glad to hear that it has apparently become easier over the last year. According to an Ofcom study, 86 per cent of people surveyed who had switched from an existing broadband internet provider to a [...]

Fibre optic broadband internet could reach download speeds of 100Mbps according to Liv Garfield, BT’s group director of strategy, policy and portfolio. Garfield did, however, say that the regions of the UK that got the broadband facilities first would not climb to those speeds as they are on slower broadband connections. BT are using two [...]