Articles about "fibre optic broadband"

News released today shows just how far Britain’s broadband speeds are behind the rest of the world with the Solomon Islands recording a much higher average speed than the UK. Coming in at an average speed of 100Mbps the sun drenched residents of the Solomon Islands are enjoying broadband… Read the rest...

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The government advisory body the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG) has published an excellent 118 page report on the pros and cons of investment in fibre-optic broadband infrastructure in the UK. They used detailed financial and broader economic analysis to estimate the potential “private value” to businesses and Read the rest...

Lord Carter’s Digital Britain Report set out the objective of bringing 2 Mb/sec broadband to all in the UK by 2012.  This universal service commitment is a good thing, but falls far short of the much more ambitious broadband infrastructure plans in other economies.  The… Read the rest...

Thousands of people in East London are unable to use their ADSL broadband connection after workmen damaged cables lying 32 metres underground. Most East enders are now back online following the outage, which hit over the weekend, although BT Openreach – the BT division that look after the… Read the rest...