If you live in any of the following cities then you will soon benefit as part of a £5billion increase in infrastructure spending. George Osborne said he would improve the broadband in 10 cities across the UK, including London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast. Further cities, likely to include Milton Keynes and Bristol, are set [...]
Broadband Archive
25th July 2011
Ofcom caps BT’s broadband prices for rural Britain
Good news for subscribers in rural Britain was the ruling that Ofcom had imposed a cap on BT’s wholesale prices to internet service providers (ISPs). The regulator said that BT must reduce its prices to 12pc below inflation by mid-August in areas where it is the only wholesale provider of broadband, or 11.7pc of the [...]
22nd February 2011
Is Britain’s broadband broke?
If you thought that a poor broadband connection was something that only internet users in the country suffered, you would be wide of the mark. The average broadband speed in Britain is 3.8 megabits per second, well behind South Korea, which leads the world with an average of 12mbps. Britain falls behind Romania and Latvia [...]
29th January 2011
Broadband Offers and Packages
Choice is all very well, but when there’s too much of it problems such as headaches are often the result as we are left in a state of paralysis over which way to jump in case we miss the best deal. This is especially the case with broadband providers these days, with everyone from Orange [...]
20th January 2011
Getting Broadband
Broadband is now fairly ubiquitous, as there’s a limit to what you can do with a dial-up connection, and in business it is indispensable. The type of cutting-edge software that is now deployed across the internet for everything from casino-style gambling to social networking assumes you have broadband to run the applications. Dial-up still works, [...]
12th January 2011
Broadband Provider Buying Tips
There are many internet service providers available that sell an even larger number of packages. To make things even more confusing for shoppers, many providers will provide free gifts and incentives to choose their services. Do not choose a broadband provider just for the free gifts or extra minutes. It is important that you choose [...]
28th December 2010
BT Seeks Funding
BT are offering to match £830 million of government funding in order to help deliver super-fast broadband to the nation by 2017. The offer has not yet been formally made, but will be discussed next week. If BT are given the go ahead, TV licence funds will be tapped into. Initially it was thought that [...]
16th December 2010
Improving Your Broadband Speed in the UK
One of the main reasons people choose broadband over dialup is that broadband is much faster. This means if you are downloading videos from the internet, it can take a matter of seconds over a broadband UK connection, instead of the many minutes it takes to download the same video on a dialup connection. The [...]
3rd December 2010
What You Need to Know About Broadband
If you have yet to take advantage of the services offered by broadband providers you may want to familiarise yourself with some facts. Broadband is a high speed internet connection which allows you to access the World Wide Web. The two most common types of usage involve connection either via copper wires from your local [...]
28th November 2010
Is Mobile Broadband a Better Option?
Mobile broadband is a relatively new innovation in the world of online communications. Basically, it provides a way to access the internet wherever you might be, from a portable computer such as a laptop or a netbook, as long as you have connection to a mobile service. This can be a great advantage to certain [...]