Broadband Availability

As the UK market continues to grasp the potential for broadband, with speeds of 2 Mb per second hopefully accessible across the UK over the next couple of years, the Korean market is grappling with 1 GB per second broadband speeds by 2012. While this broadband speed is literally light years away from the UK [...]

Zen Internet has revealed plans to offer free upgrades to its 20 Mb per second Internet broadband service for existing and new customers. While not all customers will be able to access the top speeds it has been shown that average speeds of between 9 Mb per second and 13 Mb per second are readily [...]

A recent survey suggested that many UK broadband users believe that the Internet, and broadband in particular, is now as essential a part of everyday life as electricity and water. This is a very interesting observation by the general UK public and is almost certain to speed up the rollout of broadband to all areas [...]

As more and more UK consumers and businesses continue to accept broadband as an everyday aspect of life we are seeing more and more people working from home. The ability to grab an Internet connection in your home, either working at home using your own information or logging-on to your employer’s servers and using their [...]

As more and more homes across the UK logon to the Internet superhighway the issue of secure connections is something we should all be considering. As broadband speeds continue to improve and progress, we are seeing more and more instances of unauthorised third parties making use of Wi-Fi broadband connections in the UK. While there [...]

As the UK government’s hopes of delivering broadband services to every home in the UK at speeds of no less than 2 Mb per second by 2012 continue to struggle, culture minister Andy Burnham has stepped forward with an alternative idea. He believes that one potential route into the more rural areas of the UK [...]

It has been revealed that the Scottish government has spent in excess of £25 million over the last five years in a bid to increase broadband usage and broadband availability across the country. A report in August 2001 confirmed disappointing news with broadband available to just 43% of the population, highlighting a significant underinvestment in [...]

As the number of broadband packages and broadband offers on the market continues to grow there is a debate as to whether it is sensible to be loyal to your broadband provider or whether you should be looking around on a regular basis. While there is no doubt that the “churn rates” of the leading [...]

There are strong rumours in the market that Deutsche Telekom, the owner of T-Mobile, and France Telecom, the owner of Orange, could be about to enter talks about a change in ownership of the T-Mobile business. The UK is one of few European countries where five mainstream mobile phone networks are still in operation and [...]

In a worrying development for the UK mobile broadband sector it has been revealed that the UK’s leading mobile broadband providers have been unable to come to an agreement regarding the carve up of the frequencies available. As we covered in some of our earlier post, Vodafone and O2 have been under pressure for some [...]