Jul 21

By: Nick C Experts have warned that the speed of Britain’s broadband is falling way behind that of our European neighbours.
With high-speed internet access becoming more and more of a necessity, we are running the risk of future internet developments accelerating away from what our aging UK networks can cope with.
Britain’s broadband is delivered [...]

Jul 12

By: Liam G According to statistics released by the BBC during the summer of last year, nine out of ten users connect to the internet using a broadband connection.
The simple reason for this is that over the year’s broadband has gotten cheaper and faster. Exactly how fast and how cheap your broadband package will [...]

Jun 20

By: Karra Maxim Ofcom has just released its regional communications market report and it boasts some rather unusual results. Indeed, the report shows that rural households have a higher rate of broadband connections than those who live in urban areas for the first time ever.
The report’s surprising results showed that 59% of rural households [...]

Apr 24

By: Fletcher Mak Broadband has reached more than 13 million homes in the United Kingdom. The proliferation is such that with very few potential customers left to be tapped, the growth rate has actually declined by 20% since last year. However, now that the benefits of a cheap broadband connection are known to all and [...]

Apr 3

By: Liam G According to the industry leading telecommunications operator, BT and the UKs independent regulator, Ofcom pressures to roll out what would prove a highly expensive fibre optic network throughout the UK could be premature.
The network in question would use “fibre to the home”, providing broadband speeds of up to 100Mbps. The main downside [...]

Mar 27

By: Liam G The average UK broadband speed is around 2 – 2.5Mbps, this is a far cry from the 8Mbps advertised and even further from the average 21Mbps users’ in other parts of Europe are experiencing.
Its old news that the UK is falling behind other developed countries in terms of broadband speeds. However, [...]

Mar 15

By: Andy Adams These days most households have the Internet with most of them getting a DSL line or Broadband for their homes. Broadband suppliers are like electricity suppliers, over the years the range of competitors all vying for your business has grown massively. In a test with one postcode I was able [...]

Feb 25

By: Sabrina Hinds For the uninitiated, the term broadband
phone is loosely used to describe the technology currently
available where one can make telephone calls from a telephone
system that sends the voice signal over your internet
connection. The call may terminate at a regular phone line or
another broadband phone.
Until recently, the technology was not being used widely because
of [...]

Dec 9

By: Fletcher Mak In this age of communication, the faster you communicate the quicker your move ahead in life. In this context Broadband has almost been a boon for every individual who needs to access the World Wide Web for professional or personal purposes. Just few years back there was a certain amount of irritation [...]

Aug 30

By: Fletcher Mak Broadband is often known as the high speed Internet due to its speedy data transmission. The normal Internet connection that is being offered to the customer is 256 kbit/s (0.256 Mbit/s) or more, and thus it comes to be known as the broadband Internet access. It has become a popular medium in [...]

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