An EU-funded research project has created a system for higher broadband speeds that could be able to connect to many different devices in the home. Researchers on the HOME Gigabit Access (OMEGA) project have managed to develop a network ...
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Global internet connection speeds around the world slowed in late 2012, according to a survey that suggested a temporary stall in broadband gains. Akamai Technologies' third quarter "State of the Internet" report also found Brazil and ...
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BT is wrong to claim that the UK does not have the demand to justify rolling out a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) product nationally, according to the director general of the non-profit organisation FTTH Council Europe, Hartwig Tauber. The ...
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IDG News Service - A U.S. Federal Communications Commission cap on rural telephone subsidies will cost jobs in rural areas and lead to higher prices for customers in those areas, a group of rural carriers said. The FCC's cap on payments ...
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Broadband speeds in the UK have more than doubled over the past four years as a result of the roll-out of superfast networks. A report published by Ofcom today (15 August 2012) claimed the average download speed reached 9Mbps in May 2012, ...
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BT is trialling a 10Gbps broadband connection to a business in Cornwall in an attempt to future proof its network. The line runs from the Truro exchange in the centre of the county to Arcol's factory in Threemilestone, where the firm ...
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Broadband is no toy for early adopters.More citizens in the UK have access to the internet than ever before and those in the industry have had to move at a rate of knots to keep up with demand for better coverage,faster speeds and necessary ...
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In the last five years mobile data has grown significantly and now generates just under 700 petabytes per month. According to internet firm Akamai, there is now four times as much data as voice traffic on mobile networks. In the first ...
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Geo Networks is teaming up with Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN) to provide superfast internet connections to remote areas in Lancashire. The company is known for its dark fibre installations – recycling pre-installed fibre ...
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The government has hit back against comments from former BT CTO Peter Cochrane that it is 'visionless' in its attempt to implement broadband across the UK, by insisting that it has a clear plan. Meanwhile, BT has slammed Cochrane over his ...
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Former CTO of BT, Peter Cochrane, has responded to the government and BT who had hit back at his claims that UK's broadband plans were "visionless", by sarcastically encouraging the government to show off its plans to fast-growing economies ...
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U.S. broadband providers are delivering close to their advertised speeds, according to a U.S. Federal Communications Commission report, but not everyone trusts the numbers. The FCC's new broadband performance study, released Thursday, ...
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The UK is to have the fastest broadband network of all major European countries by 2015,culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has claimed. Speaking at the Google Campus in Tech City,Hunt defended the government after criticism from a Lords ...
BT will cut the wholesale cost of its "ultra-fast" 330Mbit/s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) by over a third. From June 2013, the service aimed at small to medium-sized businesses will drop from £60 a month to £38 a month. That ...
IDG News Service - Alcatel-Lucent has upgraded its implementation of the VDSL2 vectoring noise cancellation technology in order to make it easier to implement, and as a result let operators offer higher broadband speeds over phone lines to ...