Business Broadband News
Coventry area to benefit from fibre connection
BT has announced it will provide a number of rural communities near Coventry with fibre optic broadband. Residents in Alderminster, Fillongley, Henley-in-Arden, Kineton, Quinton, Long Marston, Snitterfield and Welford-on-Avon...
Read moreSuperfast Northants fibre broadband scheme sets first cabinets live
The Superfast Northamptonshire fibre optic broadband rollout is ahead of schedule, with the first set of 14 street cabinets set to go live today (February 3rd 2014). Parts of Towcester and Weedon are the first to benefit from the...
Read moreLancs fibre broadband scheme sponsors business awards
A public-private partnership designed to significantly boost fibre optic broadband coverage in Lancashire has agreed to become the headline sponsor of a local business award scheme. Superfast Lancashire is backing the Be Inspired...
Read moreEx-BT chief says fibre broadband investment wasn't a risk
Former BT Chief Executive Lord Livingston has insisted it was never a risk for the telecoms giant to invest billions of pounds in fibre optic broadband. Under its commercial rollout programme, the company is spending £2.5...
Read moreNoke residents pledge to raise fibre broadband funds
Residents of an Oxfordshire village have pledged to raise thousands of pounds to support the rollout of fibre optic broadband. Villagers in Noke, which is around five miles north-east of Oxford, are seeking to generate funds of...
Read moreMetronet (UK) announces unprecedented sales revenue
An independent internet service provider from Manchester has announced it expects to exceed its sales targets for the 2013-14 financial year. Metronet (UK), which is based at Manchester Science Park, supplies customers with a...
Read moreSuperfast broadband key to success for Hull firm
A computing firm from Hull has become an industry trailblazer after developing its own superfast broadband service. Golding Computer Services was set up in 1981 and has been supplying local businesses in Humberside and beyond...
Read moreJanet6 to offer unprecedented fibre broadband capacity
The government-funded organisation Janet has announced the development of a new high-speed fibre optic-based network. Janet6 will be able provide a capacity up to 8.8 terabits through the use of an ethernet connection of 100...
Read moreYorkshire residents push for fibre broadband
Residents from the village of Cononley in North Yorkshire have attended a meeting with BT and representatives from the NYnet broadband rollout project to force the issue regarding fibre broadband. When BT announced it would be...
Read moreCornwall business claims FTTH technology makes little difference
An electronics company based in Cornwall has claimed the emergence of fibre to the home (FTTH) broadband technology brings few benefits compared to fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) services. Some providers are attempting to push FTTH...
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