Broadband Blog

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, [...]

3 Mobile is currently offering a great incentive to sign up for mobile broadband. If you take out a contract with the internet provider then you will be granted three months of full free access to both The Times Online and The Sunday Times Online websites. Okay, so lots of people argue that such news [...]

Vodafone have rolled-over some of their 3-month-free mobile broadband internet deals if you don’t mind signing up for an 18 month contract. Anyone who subscribes with Vodafone to their Standard, Premium or Ultimate mobile broadband service for 18 months gets a free dongle and the first three months free. The Vodafone Standard mobile broadband package [...]

Fast Broadband Is Digital Oxygen, essential for Europe’s prosperity and well-being! Well, that’s what Neelie Kroes, the European Commissioner for Digital Agenda thinks at least. Speaking at a press conference last week, Kroes explained how the European Commission wants everyone in the member states to have access to fast broadband internet by 2020. By that [...]

Reform Scotland, a think tank based in Scotland, has recommended that the government spend more money to improve the infrastructure of broadband internet access in the country. As we blogged about just last month, the UK has fallen to 14th in the digital economy rankings of the Economist Intelligence Unit. The think tank says that [...]

You would like to think that the UK would be forging the way when it comes to broadband internet access. Unfortunately, it turns out that we are actually slipping down the chart against 70 countries ranked in the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) digital economy listings. Last year, the UK managed to rank 13th in the [...]

With mobile broadband being a huge hit in 2008 it looks set to continue into 2009 with improved offerings and more competitive prices from all the broadband giants in order to satisfy consumer needs. Finding the best mobile broadband package to fit your download limits and speed requirements at a reasonable price has become even [...]

With the majority of UK phone networks now offering some sort of mobile broadband offering, this ever growing market is becoming more and more competitive and operators are having to do everything in their power to secure customers. O2 have just cut the price of its mobile broadband dongle from £97.96 to £29.99 for pay [...]

With mobile broadband rushing on to the scene from all the top networks, it seems that as ever, each network is striving to be one step ahead of the other. The weapon of choice to attract new customers is currently the speed of the connection, measured in megabytes per second (mbps) which equates to the [...]