News Archive April 2012
Cornwall residents call for fibre broadband access
Residents in Cornwall are supporting an initiative to encourage BT to roll out fibre optic broadband in the villages between Helston and Penzance. The telecoms giant is working on a major deployment of super-fast broadband in the...
Read moreMarches LEP supports fibre broadband with £8.1m fund
A local enterprise partnership (LEP) has launched an £8.1 million fund to support the rollout of fibre optic broadband in parts of Herefordshire, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin. The Marches LEP is calling for bidders...
Read moreCiena says fibre broadband could come to whole of Tech City
Fibre optic broadband could be rolled out to the whole of London's Tech City hub, according to Ciena. Mervyn Kelly, marketing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at the networking company, told Techworld that the...
Read moreArqiva says govt funding insufficient for universal fibre broadband
The government has allocated insufficient funding to subsidise the rollout of fibre optic broadband to every home and business in the UK, according to Arqiva. Writing to a parliamentary inquiry on super-fast broadband, the...
Read moreVodafone set to bid for C&W fibre broadband network
Vodafone could be in pole position to acquire fibre optic broadband network operator Cable & Wireless (C&W) after rival bidder Tata Communications pulled out of the race. India-based Tata confirmed it has been unable to...
Read moreBT fibre broadband adverts banned by ASA
An advertising campaign for BT's Infinity fibre optic broadband products has been banned following complaints that it was misleading. Virgin Media and three complainants challenged the telecoms giant's claim that its...
Read moreBT in the running for all public fibre broadband projects
Communications Minister Ed Vaizey has revealed that BT is applying for every one of the currently launched public-funded fibre optic broadband projects. Procurement processes are underway on eight of these schemes so far and the...
Read moreStudy says gigabit fibre broadband users spend more time online
Subscribers to 1Gbps fibre optic broadband services spend three times the daily average amount of time using the internet, according to new research. A study released by the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council Americas, provided by...
Read moreLily Systems says fibre broadband removes distance problems
Fibre optic broadband services potentially eradicate the issue of slow connections caused by distance from the nearest telephone exchange, according to a Leicestershire IT firm. Becky Jolliffe, sales and marketing administrator...
Read moreBT's Cornish fibre broadband rollout reaches 95,000 properties
BT has rolled out fibre optic broadband to more than 95,000 properties in Cornwall as part of a £132 million joint initiative with the county council and the EU. The Superfast Cornwall project has now seen the technology...
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