Monthly Archives: January 2009

The UK’s first triple-play service offering broadband, digital TV and telephone services across a fibre-to-the-home (“FTTH”) broadband network has been launched to the first 286 of 4,200 homes at Wembley City, London, by Velocity1, a joint venture between Quintain Estates & Development plc and Industria Media Ltd. The new… Read the rest...

A key theme of Lord Carter’s Digital Britain Report is the Government’s commitment to ensure all UK homes are broadband connected, with a 2 Mb/s service by 2012 the so called Universal Service Commitment. As families’ daily lives become ever more entwined with the internet… Read the rest...

TalkTalk is launching an ‘Emergency Plan’ today designed to help existing broadband customers who are struggling to keep up with their bill payments.  The plan offers a six month period of free subscription to the broadband service and TalkTalk, leaving customers to pay just… Read the rest...

Government plans to inject funds into the digital and communications industries are due to be outlined at 12:15 today. Combined, the industries inject an estimated £50bn a year to the UK economy and the interim digital report will outline areas such as broadband development, public service broadcasting and digital… Read the rest...

How to choose between a mobile broadband service and a home broadband service Sales of mobile broadband have been running at over 150,000 subscriptions per month in the last few months, as more and more people opt for a broadband connection straight to their laptop via the mobile… Read the rest...