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Broadband Prices Could Fall After Openreach Told to Slash Prices
Apr 5, 2017Telecoms watchdog Ofcom has published proposals that will see BT Openreach cut how much it charges rivals to use its network, suggesting broadband prices for customers could fall. BT-owned Openreach runs the UK's entire broadband ...
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Check Broadband Speeds and Mobile Reception with Ofcom's New Interactive Map Tool
Apr 5, 2016If you're moving house, or going to stay somewhere and want to know if you can stay connected, then this new tool is for you. It's an interactive map that lets you check broadband speeds and mobile reception levels in an area. Just head ...
Tags: Ofcom, Interactive Map Tool, Broadband Speeds, Mobile Reception Levels
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Bt Has Announced The Next Stage of Its £2.5bn Fibre Broadband Rollout
Feb 17, 2013BT has announced the next stage of its £2.5bn fibre broadband rollout, which will extend availability to a further 1.2 million premises. The company said 99 new fibre-enabled exchanges will bring fast broadband to 600,000 premises ...
Tags: BT, Fibre Rollout, company news
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BT Group Dropped in The Three Months to 31 December 2012
Feb 4, 2013Revenues at BT Group dropped in the three months to 31 December 2012, according to a statement released today, but the firm still managed to produce a profit thanks to cost cutting and lower operating costs. The statement presented ...
Tags: BT Group, operating costs, revenues
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Broadband Is No Toy for Early Adopters
Dec 27, 2012Broadband 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 ...
Tags: Broadband, UK, Virgin Media, BT, EU
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BT Openreach's Fibre to The Premises Is Now Available to Communications Providers
Dec 26, 2012BT Openreach's fibre to the premises (FTTP) is now available to communications providers, supporting 40Mbps to 330Mbps downstream and 2Mbps to 30Mbps upstream in a select few areas of the UK. The service will initially be available in the ...
Tags: FTTP, BT Openreach, rural broadband, network
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The European Commission Gave The Green Light to The Broadband Delivery UK Scheme
Dec 26, 2012Local authorities could pay double that of central government to fund the broadband roll-out across the UK. The European Commission gave the green light to the Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) scheme, which will see a £530m pot of ...
Tags: Internet infrastructure, Computer Products, Broadband Bill
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The Openreach Division of The Company Has Committed £2.5bn to Fund The Deployment
Dec 24, 2012BT today confirmed it would be running fibre broadband to a further 163 exchanges as part of its roll-out scheme across the UK. The Openreach division of the company has committed £2.5bn to fund the deployment, which BT claims will ...
Tags: BT, fibre broadband, 163 Broadband Exchanges, fibre-based broadband
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Business Reaction to DCMS Announcement Could Hold Back Broadband Roll-out
Dec 24, 2012Business reaction to DCMS announcement Local government reaction to DCMS announcement Consultation could hold back broadband roll-out The broadband industry has said goodbye to Jeremy Hunt as he takes Andrew Lansley's old job as secretary ...
Tags: DCMS, broadband industry, cabinet reshuffle
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Maria Miller Announced Legislative Proposals, Hoping to Remove Bureaucracy
Dec 21, 2012The department for culture, media and sport (DCMS) introduced its new minister to the broadband industry today with controversial rules aiming to speed up deployment of superfast connections across the UK. Maria Miller, who takes over ...
Tags: DCMS, broadband industry, superfast connections, legislative proposals
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Bamforth Had Doubts as to Whether Following The BT Model for Mobile Networks
Dec 17, 2012Mobile operators in the UK are not known for being the best of friends. Be it fighting for the latest exclusive handset or threatening court action over 4G rollouts, the big guns have never been at the top of each other's Christmas lists. ...
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BT Will Cut The Wholesale Cost of Its "Ultra-Fast" 330mbit/S FTTP
Dec 5, 2012BT 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 ...
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BT Recorded Revenues of £4.47bn for The Second Quarter of 2012
Nov 1, 2012BT's sales have fallen across all of its divisions, despite being ahead of schedule with its superfast broadband roll-out. BT recorded revenues of £4.47bn for the second quarter of 2012 – ending 30 September – which is ...
Tags: BT, superfast broadband, broadband, fibre broadband network
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Garfield Says 'We Weren't Meant to Be The Choice'
Nov 1, 2012The head of BT's broadband division has defended itself against claims of favouritism when it comes to the awarding of Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) contracts. Questions arose about BT's dealings with the national scheme, which will see ...
Tags: broadband, BDUK contracts, BT, Fujitsu
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Maria Miller Looked to Make Her Mark as Culture Secretary
Sep 7, 2012Maria Miller has already looked to make her mark as Culture Secretary as the government promises to remove the need for local councils'approval to install broadband cabinets. Miller,who replaced Jeremy Hunt as part of the ministerial ...