Monthly Archives: February 2009

According to new research by Point Topic the Government faces a “massive challenge” in its pledge to ensure that all UK households receive broadband up to a minimum of 2Mb/s. The research provides a regional breakdown of broadband speeds which show big variations in availability.  London is best placed with… Read the rest...

We reported last month Virgin Media’s deal agreed with ITV to provide ITV Player content to Virgin Media’s 3.5 million digital TV customers.  Under the terms of the deal, around 40 hours of ITV content will be made available through the service… Read the rest...

Dial-up connections endured a spectacular fall in 2008, declining 17.5% in Q4 and a huge 51.7% for the year.However there are still over 800,000 households using dial up, either because they are forced to, due to the lack of a DSL or fibre-optic broadband connection to their property, or… Read the rest...

Fibre to the home (FTTH), is to broadband what the bullet train is to rail transport. It allows ultra fast broadband connections at speeds far in excess of anything available in the UK.Indeed the average residential broadband speed in the UK is 3.6… Read the rest...

Currently Sky offers the only real alternative for true high definition TV fans, as it has 31 HD channels, including premium sports and movies content.Virgin Media still only offers BBCHD – and the free to air alternative Freesat has… Read the rest...