Articles about "Fibre optic"

The Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG) are reporting how both major political parties are putting an increasing emphasis on providing all UK households with broadband access, as the election looms.  David Cameron recently announced that the Conservatives would commit to connecting the majority of households to… Read the rest...

Fibrecity is a small business with the courage to try to bring genuine fibre to the home (FTTH) broadband connections to the nations’ homes, via the sewer system.  This theoretically allows speeds of 1,000 Mb/sec upwards and downwards, which is far greater than even Virgin Media can offer… Read the rest...

As with most things technological, it’s sad to say it, but the UK lags the best in the world. Recent research by the BBC shows that the average broadband speed in the UK is just 3.5 Mb/s. Some commentators have decreed this to be more than adequate and… Read the rest...

Point Topic the international research company, released their latest worldwide broadband statistics in December 2008 and they make for interesting reading. The UK rankings are respectable rather than stellar. Broadband growth Overall by Q3 2008 there were approximately 400 million broadband subscribers worldwide, up by approximately 16 million subscriptions on… Read the rest...