Posted on 16 April 2011. Tags: bt, Fujitsu, Internet
Just recently, there was a report underlining the wide variation in the internet speed throughout the UK. However, this might change if Fujitsu has its way. The company, in collaboration with TalkTalk, Cisco and Virgin Media, is planning to introduce fibre optic cable internet across the country. It is also likely to cover rural areas, [...]
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Posted in Broadband, Future Technology, Internet, News
Posted on 29 March 2011. Tags: Access, bt, free, Music, Service, Spotify, To
BT is looking into launching a non-for-profit music download service in a bid to beat online piracy and file sharing networks a leaked paper has suggested. In what has been a difficult week for the music industry where statistics have shown that the music sales fell by 15% from last year. BT are looking to [...]
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Posted in News, Web and Software
Posted on 04 January 2011. Tags: Broadband, bt, Internet
BT has announced results of its “The Race to Infinity” competition and instead of five, BT has chosen six winners. Under thecompetition, the communities had to appeal for the installation of superfast broadband in their neighborhood. The competition saw more than 360,000 votes being cast and now the following locations will have the privilege of [...]
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Posted on 08 December 2010. Tags: bt, BT Broadband, Virgin, Virgin Media, Virgin Media Broadband, virgin media broadband 100mb
As the competition heats up between BT and Virgin Media in the war against the super broadband, it would appear that Virgin Media are that one step ahead as they have now named their first areas which will be getting the new super fast connection. The areas include Heckmondwike, Farnborough, Colchester, Barry, S Wales. With [...]
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Posted in General, News, Web and Software
Posted on 05 December 2010. Tags: 100Mb, 1gb, bt, Virgin
Recently Virgin had launched 100Mbps broadband, however the service is likely to be soon eclipsed by BT’s latest venture of 1Gbps broadband. BT’s new trial is expected to supplement the government’s plan to set up Europe’s best broadband plan in the UK. The trial will cover 40 market towns and its first launch is likely to [...]
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Posted in Broadband, Business News, News
Posted on 29 October 2010. Tags: bt, Charing Cross, London Underground, Trials, WI-FI
BT has installed their first underground WiFi spot for trial testing for the people of the London Underground, showing new bounds for where we can desperately get access to the internet. The WiFi spots have been originally placed through Charing Cross, where people will be able to get Wi-Fi signal from Bakerloo to the Northern [...]
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Posted in General, Internet, News
Posted on 28 October 2010. Tags: 100Mb, bt, cable broadband, Fibre optic broadband, Virgin Media
Yesterday, Virgin Media launched 100Mb cable broadband for the UK which is expected to be available to over 50% of the country by mid 2012, and it seems one of their rivals, the biggest UK ISP BT are quick to criticise the new service when it comes to their prices saying they are “surprised by [...]
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Posted in Business News, Internet, News, Virgin
Posted on 07 October 2010. Tags: Broadband, bt, Fibre optic broadband, firbe lines, ofcom, Sky+, TalkTalk, Virgin Media
It seems Ofcom have plans our heavily BT dominant broadband land, after announcing that we are a long way off having great broadband in the UK. It seems Ofcom are going to be picking on BT to achieve this by attempting to get them to do the two following things: First, Ofcom want BT to [...]
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Posted in Broadband, Business News, Internet, News