Keeping you up to date with the most important wires coming in to your house. http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/ http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/images/header_logotip.jpg http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/ 130 64 Targeting the news that matters for the insurance companies you use. Research by Strategy Analytics has found that two thirds of households in the UK will be signed up to bundle services for their broadband, phone and entertainment systems by 2016. Currently slightly less than half of all UK homes have two or more services from one supplier and of these most have a double play. This me... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201108111.php 11 Aug 2011 10:15:00 GMT Broadband watchdog Ofcom has released the results of a survey which shows that the average broadband speed in the UK has increased by 10% in 2011. In May this year the speed was measured at 6.8MB which is higher than the 6.2MB it was in November of 2010. In addition they have discovered that more than half of the UK's... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201108041.php 04 Aug 2011 10:15:00 GMT Virgin Media has carried out a test of a 1.5Gb broadband speed via cable in a London trial. This is 24 times the speed of the average broadband connection in the UK. Virgin Media already provides the fastest available speeds in the UK at 100Mb, but this trial puts them far ahead of any other provider. The trial was he... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201107281.php 28 Jul 2011 10:15:00 GMT An Ofcom study has found once again that speed is the most important issue for customers and the part of the service they are most often dissatisfied with. However they did find that when it came to satisfaction, Orange has topped the list after coming bottom in 2009. Consumers also have problems with switching their ... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201107211.php 21 Jul 2011 10:15:00 GMT People in Wales who are dissatisfied with their broadband speed are being asked to contact their local Assembly Member to complain. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said that local people need to urge the Welsh Assembly to invest in broadband for Wales as it was an essential part of making sure that part of the count... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201107141.php 14 Jul 2011 10:15:00 GMT People in parts of Wales which are in broadband "notspots" can now apply for grants of up to GBP1,000 to help improve speeds. The money is available to anyone receiving less than 2Mb, previously it was offered to those on less than 512Kb. Edwina Hart, the Business, Technology and Science minister has commented tha... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201107071.php 07 Jul 2011 10:15:00 GMT The Advertising Standards Authority has made it very clear that they did not appreciate a recent campaign launched by Virgin Media. The series of ads claimed that rival ISPs were failing to match their advertised speed promises. It also promoted a website which showed how the advertised rates of rivals were comparing ... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201106301.php 30 Jun 2011 10:15:00 GMT A new report which looks into the 32 countries which make up the OECD has discovered that the number of people with a wireless broadband subscription had topped half a billion by the end of 2010. Fixed broadband subscription growth had slowed to just 6%, but had reached a level of 300 million. It was found that the Ne... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201106231.php 23 Jun 2011 10:15:00 GMT Virgin Media have announced that their superfast broadband service is now available to more than four million homes in the UK. More than 100 towns now have access to the service which runs over a fibre optic network. The company also expects that the rest of its 13 million home network will have availability during ne... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201106161.php 16 Jun 2011 10:15:00 GMT 91% of people in the UK now have their own email account and 40% of people have not sent a handwritten letter in the last six months. This is according to research from Sky who carried out a study to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first email. It was also found that 24 emails are sent every day by the average p... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201106091.php 09 Jun 2011 10:15:00 GMT Half of all homes in Cornwall will have superfast broadband by next year as 50 of the 100 telephone exchanges in the area are upgraded. Most of these will be in east Cornwall. BT have joined together with the EU, Cornwall Council and the Cornwall Development Company to improve access in the area. Most of these connections... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201106021.php 02 Jun 2011 10:15:00 GMT The launch of BT's superfast 100Mbps broadband has been delayed due to problems with the installation. The Fibre-to-the-Premises technology was expected to reach 270,000 UK homes by September of this year. However it has emerged that it take two engineers seven hours to install the service to just one home. In fact someti... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201105261.php 26 May 2011 10:15:00 GMT A new report from Point Topic has indicated that the uptake of super fast broadband has not been as quick as expected. New figures suggest that providers are seeing lower levels of demand than they had hoped. Forecasts for the future have been revised from 8.8 million by 2015 to just 6.7 million. It has also been suggeste... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201105191.php 19 May 2011 10:15:00 GMT BT Have announced a 71% rise in profits after a 4% drop in revenue was halted by more than GBP1 billion in cost reduction. The full year profit announcement was mostly down to the company's success with broadband. 252,000 new customers were added during the year by companies which use the BT network and 64% of those s... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201105121.php 12 May 2011 10:15:00 GMT BT have been recruiting for new engineers to help deploy fibre-based networks around the country and their main targets have been ex-army personnel. So far they have employed 181 people who were previously in the forces out of 202 who were interviewed. Olivia Garfield from BT Openreach has commented that they are proud to... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201105051.php 05 May 2011 10:15:00 GMT Finally a UK city has managed to make it into the top 100 list of broadband speeds in the world. Bradford has reached 99th place with an average speed of 6.2Mb according to the list released by Akamai. The State of the Internet report which is released 4 times each year showed that the country as a whole held on to 26th p... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201104291.php 29 Apr 2011 10:15:00 GMT Results of a survey by Ofcom have revealed that Talk Talk is the most complained about broadband provider in the UK. The company received the most complaints for their telephony and broadband services while Virgin Media received the least. The data was based on the 450 issues which Ofcom dealt with between October 2010 an... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201104251.php 25 Apr 2011 10:15:00 GMT A study by Carphone Warehouse has shown that around three quarters of those questioned say that their mobile internet usage has increased in the past year. 50% of men questioned said that the often logged on while they were on the toilet while 72% of women used their mobile internet service while they were in bed. Most of... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201104141.php 14 Apr 2011 10:15:00 GMT BT has announced that 20 million homes in the UK will have access to broadband speeds of 20Mbps by the end of this year. This equates to around 80% of UK homes. BT have said that an additional 30,000 lines are being upgraded each week and BT Wholesale have said that they have reached 1,000 live fibre Ethernet nodes; a... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201104071.php 07 Apr 2011 10:15:00 GMT Plusnet is now offering the cheapest fibre based broadband for just GBP16.49 per month. The company is offering speeds of up to 40Mb using the BT fibre optic broadband network. Jamie Ford from Plusnet has said that 96% of those who trialled the new service have said they would recommend it to a friend. He goes on ... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201103311.php 31 Mar 2011 10:15:00 GMT Virgin Media has claimed that more than one million households in the UK now have access to their 100Mbps broadband service. This service is 16 times faster than the average speed in the UK and is the fastest currently available. The company have said that they are on track to roll out its next generation service by t... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201103241.php 24 Mar 2011 10:15:00 GMT The new chief executive of BT Openreach Olivia Garfield has said that superfast broadband should reach 90% of the UK due to the company putting GBP800m towards the rollout. The government is matching this amount. Garfield said that working closely with the government to ensure the success of the rollout is a fanta... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201103171.php 17 Mar 2011 10:15:00 GMT BT has revealed that it will remove the fair usage policies on its BT Total Broadband package and for BT Infinity customers. This will remove the limits placed on people who are irregular heavy users, but traffic management rules will still remain. BT have said that the improvements to its network have allowed them to tak... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201103101.php 10 Mar 2011 10:15:00 GMT Ofcom is proposing a ban on rollover contracts which require the customer to opt-out if they do not wish to continue their broadband or landline contract. Usually once a contract term ends the customer is able to leave the provider giving one months notice, but more often the regulator is seeing contracts which renew at t... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201103031.php 03 Mar 2011 10:15:00 GMT Virgin Media customers who have taken advantage of a recent free upgrade to its 30Mb service are now questioning if it was a good move as the so-called super hub which was meant to provide the service has shown signs of not working. Those who upgraded paid a one-off connection fee of GBP30 to leave their 20Mb service ... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201102241.php 24 Feb 2011 10:15:00 GMT Virgin Media has described 2010 as the best ever year for the company after posting a GBP3.8bn revenue figure which is 5.8% higher than the previous year. In the final quarter of the year, the revenue was an impressive GBP1bn, the highest figure ever achieved by the company and 6.6% higher than the previous year o... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201102171.php 17 Feb 2011 10:15:00 GMT The government has allocated GBP10m of the GBP530m of funding put aside for broadband projects to be spent in Wales. The first round of funding was announced by the Chancellor George Osborne and it seems that it will be mainly focused on North Wales. The government has a commitment to bring fast broadband to most ... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201102101.php 10 Feb 2011 10:15:00 GMT Wi-fi provider The Cloud is now offering Londoners free wi-fi for 15 minutes everyday within the square mile. Those with netbooks, iPads, smartphones or laptops will be able to take advantage of the deal. Those who want to use more than 15 minutes can buy top-ups on a pay as you go basis. The Cloud believe that 350,000 ci... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201102031.php 03 Feb 2011 10:15:00 GMT It has been announced that Talk Talk will be cutting 580 jobs from its 4,500 employees as part of a restructure. Also, the business division now known as Opal Telecom will be re-branded as Talk Talk Business. Dido Harding from Talk Talk has commented that Talk Talk is currently three separate businesses, each with its own... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201101271.php 27 Jan 2011 10:15:00 GMT New proposals from Ofcom could mean that rural broadband customers will pay up to 15% less than they currently do for their service. In an acknowledgement that in some rural areas a lack of competition has meant that prices have not been driven down, Ofcom are suggesting that prices should be up to 15% less than inflation... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201101201.php 20 Jan 2011 10:15:00 GMT Virgin media has gone live with its 100Mbps fibre broadband in four locations around the UK. Heckmondwike, Farnborough, Colchester and Barry in Wales are the lucky chosen few to receive the upgrades. The service costs GBP35 for those who have a Virgin phone line and GBP45 for those without and should offer 100Mbps. It has bee... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201101131.php 13 Jan 2011 10:15:00 GMT Ofcom has opened up the radio 2G spectrum to allow mobile network providers to use it for 3G. This is expected to increase the current mobile broadband coverage and allow providers to offer higher speeds. Rural areas could also see significant improvement in reception. In the past providers have only had a limited amount ... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201101061.php 06 Jan 2011 10:15:00 GMT A report from the E-Learning Foundation has found that more than one million children in the UK have no access to a broadband connection or a computer. Those children from the poorest households were the least likely to have these items. Those children in more affluent homes were 2.5 times more likely to have a computer t... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201012301.php 30 Dec 2010 10:15:00 GMT A GBP200,000 grant is to be used to bring a wireless network to Clackmannanshire in Scotland. WiMAX technology will be used to deliver speeds of between 2 and 20Mbps. This will significantly improve broadband speeds in the area and bring broadband to areas which have not had it in the past. Eddie Carrick from the Clac... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201012231.php 23 Dec 2010 10:15:00 GMT Research by the Communications Consumer Panel has found that low income households and those who are older, find that finding a broadband service which suits them is confusing due to the amount of information available to them. It seems that more vulnerable members of society are signing up to packages which are unsuitabl... http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/news/201012161.php 16 Dec 2010 10:15:00 GMT Plusnet today reveals the best value fibre broadband package to enter the market – Plusnet Fibre is available from just GBP16.49 a month. [i] The new service utilises fibre optic technology to offer download speeds of up to 40Mbps. On average, this offers internet users in enabled areas the chance to triple their broadband speed. http://www.fibreopticbroadband.co.uk/pr/201104123.php 12 Apr 2011 10:15:00 GMT