Business leaders in the broadband sector are this week attempting to put in place a number of alternative arrangements to protect the UK broadband network should the swine flu epidemic force more and more people to work from home. If UK government forecasts are correct, we will see hundreds of thousands of new cases announced [...]

PlusNet Broadband has announced the activation of a fourth additional 155Mbps segment of central broadband capacity to its network. While there may be some balancing issues in the short term as customers are redirected to the appropriate area of the enlarged network this is very much a case of short-term pain for long-term gain. The [...]