Salisbury becomes the first ultra-fast broadband city in Britain with ‘Fibre-to-the-Premises’ technology available to 20,000 households By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 11 June 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 11 June 2020 Salisbury today became the first city in the UK to have universal access to ultra-fast fibre broadband. Openreach, the … Read more
World record breaking broadband speeds have been recorded in Australia by scientists, who say they could download 1,000 HD movies in under a second. The team from Monash, Swinburne and RMIT universities recorded a speed of 44.2 terabits per second – the first time speeds like that have been recorded ‘in the wild’. This is … Read more
BT scraps its dividend for at least 2 YEARS as Covid-hit boss Philip Jansen focuses on getting full fibre broadband rolled out across the nation Philip Jansen set a new target of full fibre to 20 million homes by late 2020 To hit the new target, BT will spend £1.3 billion over five years BT … Read more
Hundreds of Virgin Media broadband users say they are still unable to get online today more than 18 hours after a nationwide outage and despite the company saying its issues have been fixed. Tens of thousands of customers were unable to access the internet yesterday evening, according to data from Downdetector, which monitors online outages. Virgin … Read more
Broadband switching in Britain surged by 30 per cent in March as lockdown restrictions came into force and the nation started working from home 30% surge in people switching internet provider from March 1 to March 31 Many people are opting for new plans that give them quicker speeds Comes during coronavirus lockdown with millions of adults … Read more
As more households rely on home broadband than ever before, there has been a surge in searches for problems related to the internet. Online searches for ‘slow internet’ and ‘slow broadband’ have seen an increase of 60 per cent, highlighting the number of users potentially suffering with sluggish speeds. The problem is likely to be … Read more
Sky is DOWN with hundreds of broadband customers working from home across the UK claiming they are unable to access the internet The first reports of issues with the Sky Broadband service came in from Cornwall Sky tweeted that it was investigating the issue reported by users in Cornwall More than 2,000 reports have been … Read more
With more households staying at home to work and children off school due to the ongoing pandemic, internet and mobile speeds are more stretched than ever before. As a result, many may find their broadband is lagging and will be looking for ways to improve it. While telecoms companies are constantly monitoring traffic on their … Read more
BBC suggests adding TV licence fee to people’s BROADBAND bills as it says decriminalising non-payment will cost it £1billion in five years Broadcaster told ministers viewers would suffer if the income stream was taken If licence was decriminalised, two alternative civil systems have been suggested One is a civil penalty model, the other a civil … Read more
April 1 is traditionally known as April Fool’s Day – but millions of households won’t be laughing when they realise it is a day that many bills will rise steeply. It will see council tax, water bills, TV licences and mobile bills, as well as a number of other household bills, rise significantly. Motorists will … Read more