£1.3 billion a year lost thanks to broadband outages – survey
Broadband outages effecting home workers have cost the UK economy £1.3 billion over the past year, according to a report by Uswitch.com.
Broadband outages effecting home workers have cost the UK economy £1.3 billion over the past year, according to a report by Uswitch.com.
Customers in the UK who are struggling to pay their broadband and mobile bills are to get help under a new deal agreed between the government and operators.
In an interview with the FT Clive Selley, CEO of UK fixed line wholesaler Openreach, said the UK government is making it too hard to recruit foreign workers.
Finland’s Nokia has hit the heady heights of 100-Gbps broadband using its latest passive optical networking (PON) technology.
UK operator Vodafone says its full fibre broadband offering now reaches 8 million homes and that it has overtaken BT by that metric.
Consumers in the UK are struggling to pay for Internet access, according to a new study shared by London fibre builder Community Fibre.
UK fibre infrastructure player CityFibre has managed to borrow almost 5 billion quid, which means its full fibre rollout is now fully financed.
Italian telcos TIM and Open Fiber have won government funding worth a total of €3.4 billion to roll out high-speed fixed broadband to uneconomic areas of the country.
The US government has launched an ambitious new broadband funding scheme with the stated aim of closing the digital divide by the end of the decade.
Virgin Media O2 is shouting about its plans to crack on with full fibre rollout, but its latest quarterlies show it is starting to feel the heat from the competition.
The coronation of EE as the BT group consumer brand has apparently unlocked a new raft of whacky marketing initiatives.
T-Mobile US is making a renewed push into 5G-based fixed wireless services for home broadband, in the process hitting out at the country’s established ISPs in its own unique style.
With just over a fortnight to go before Australia’s next parliamentary election, the head of Aussie telco Vocus has made his feelings clear on the country’s state-owned broadband network.
New developments in the UK fibre market indicate that the sector remains buoyant, not that there was really any doubt on the matter.
A sort-of rebrand means EE will become the flagship brand for consumers, and will ‘expand into new areas’ – though the BT brand will remain on home standalone broadband and landline services.
ISP Shell Energy has generated the most amount of complaints to UK comms regulator Ofcom of all the major broadband providers, mainly due by faults and service issues.
Shareholders of Italian broadband providers Tiscali and Linkem have approved their merger plan, paving the way for completion of the deal later this year.
Price comparison site Cable.co.uk has released a report listing what it reckons are the cheapest and most expensive places to buy broadband across the world.
ISP Zen Internet has signed a deal to extend its services to 285 cities, towns and villages across full fibre infrastructure firm CityFibre’s UK network.
BT is putting its digital voice service rollout on ice due to the fact it caused more disruption to customers than the telco had anticipated.
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