Monthly Archives: March 2009

While the broadband industry as a whole has performed very well during these difficult economic times we are starting to see signs of consumer unrest with regards to long-term contracts which lock-in customers for anything up to 12 months and beyond. Many of the major players in the broadband industry are reporting increased popularity for [...]

A survey by Ofcom has shed some light on a situation which many people seem to have ignored for some time. Apparently of the 40% of the UK population who do not have access to broadband services, 50% of this group do not actually want broadband in their homes. This is a rather surprising statistic [...]

The subject of IPTV has been in the headlines on and off for some time now and while it has suffered from a number of false starts it appears as though the BBC is set to pick up the baton and take it forward. The BBC Trust is currently debating a project named “Project Canvas” [...]

As the shackles are taken off BT broadband wholesale charges there is some debate as to whether we will see a substantial price hike in broadband subscriptions in the short to medium term. A number of surveys of late have suggested the fact that BT will be allowed to increase connection charges to rivals from [...]

No sooner had news of Tiscali’s financial worries hit the newswires than a number of UK broadband operators were immediately trying to entice confused Tiscali customers to their operations. Be Broadband appears to have been one of the first out of the blocks with a £40 credit offer to those transferring their broadband account from [...]

BSkyB has walked away from the potential acquisition of Tiscali’s UK broadband operations after the two parties were apparently unable to agree a price. Tiscali had expected in the region of £500 million but it is believed that BSkyB was unwilling to pay more than £350 million. Consequently the talks were aborted which has had [...]

Telecoms regulator Ofcom has teamed up with specialist broadband company SamKnows Broadband to carry out a survey of the U.K.’s broadband providers, allowing them to monitor the varying degree of speeds available on the market today. While there is some concern amongst the broadband industry regarding publication of the data it appears as though Ofcom [...]

In a surprising development it has been revealed that Gateshead County Council, in the North of England, is looking to extend what was initially a business fibre-optic network into a new housing development in the city. The fibre-optic network offers access to broadband speeds of 100Mbps and if the expansion goes ahead, into the housing [...]

It has been revealed that Orange is in the process of testing a fixed line broadband service in the UK which can operate at speeds of up to 20Mbps. While perhaps better known for its mobile broadband service the company has access to its own “unbundled” network which effectively means it does not depend on [...]

In a rather surprising move it has been revealed that Ofcom have no plans to introduce pricing restrictions regarding BT’s next-generation fibre-optic network. There had been speculation that Ofcom would severely limit the return on investment which British Telecom seeks from its new fibre-optic network which is about to be rolled out across the UK. [...]