Archive: broadband
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Nov 23, 2012
No CommentsSpotters guide to fibre broadband
With the recent announcement of the blanket EU State Aid Approval we should be able to talk about the Openreach fibre based broadband products without always having to refer to information from Cornwall. The reason why Cornwall features in fibre broadband news so heavily is that by starting its own Superfast Cornwall project well before...
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Nov 08, 2012
1 CommentHow do people connect their smart TV or Internet enabled set-top box?
While obviously no-one will have attempted to use a piece of wet twine to connect their TV to the Internet, we thought it was worth seeing what were the most popular methods for connecting, and perhaps highlighting some of the pro’s and con’s. In one of our regular polls we asked people whether they had...
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Sep 24, 2012
9 CommentsPoll Results: Are you worried about BT winning BDUK contracts?
With the BDUK pilot projects announcing BT as the contract winner, and other local authorities announcing BT as the sole remaining bidder it is becoming clearer that the predictions from some quarters that the BDUK process is going to hand all the money to BT is becoming true. We asked our readers over the course...
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Aug 20, 2012
3 CommentsPoll Results: The London 2012 Olympics and your broadband experience
The London 2012 Olympics is over and the UK Internet appeared to survive the experience. During the second week of the extravaganza we ran a poll looking into the online experience of our visitors in relation to the games. The poll received over 1,000 responses and offers some insight into perhaps why the Internet did...
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Jun 28, 2012
No CommentsMarket share of the big six UK broadband providers
As we launch our first broadband factsheet today, I thought it would be a good opportunity to look at the market shares of the largest operators. One of the purposes of the factsheet is to let people see the trends in the relative market shares and understand how providers are doing. We’ve included data over...
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Jun 25, 2012
2 CommentsDigital Agenda Assembly 2012 – being inclusive in Europe
A few months ago there was the opportunity to discuss broadband issues on yet another online forum, the difference this one was hosted by the EU. The discussions were designed to be used to set the agenda for the Digital Assembly 2012 meeting in Brussels. The discussion in the High Speed Connections area focused on how...
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Jun 10, 2012
3 CommentsIs 4G worth the wait?
Last week, I was in the States and took my U.S. T-Mobile mi-fi-like “4G” broadband device with me to be able to use the Internet on my laptop without running up a huge bill on my U.K. mobile broadband dongle. As it happens, this was probably unnecessary as almost everywhere I went, from hotels to...
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May 08, 2012
No CommentsPoll Results: Broadband Universal Service Commitment
Our recent poll featured a question we had originally asked back in 2009, giving us an opportunity to see how the public’s attitudes and expectations of the UK Broadband Universal Service Commitment has changed. We received over 2,400 responses to the poll, which closely matches the response level in 2009, allowing us to compare the...
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May 01, 2012
Comments OffPoll Results: Telephone and broadband slamming
The rise of the broadband and telephone bundles has highlighted the problems that can occur if a users telephone or broadband or even both services are slammed. The disruption this can cause is immense, particularly in cases where none of the parties involved appear keen to go out of their way to help the paying...
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May 01, 2012
No CommentsUK broadband speeds slide backwards – are we a failure?
Akamai who operate a massive Content Delivery Network (CDN) regularly publishes an update on the State of the Internet. The fourth quarter for 2011 report has recently been released, and it is getting a lot of coverage in the UK but looking at places like the US it seems to be barely covered. Is this...