The UK has a terrible record for delivering fibre to premises. While Ofcom is trying to change that, the slow progress of fibre to the home will ensure the UK is also a laggard when it comes to switching off today’s copper networks
YouView has just been launched in the UK, to make FreeView digital TV channels and broadband TV services such as the BBC's iPlayer available via a single set-top box.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has just released its annual report, Measuring the Information Society, which provides facts and figures on the take up of the internet, mobile telephony, and analog and digital television
For the first time, UK cable connections were faster than fibre connections, though not by much. However, ADSL2 speeds have increased, while the speed gap between urban and rural users has narrowed.
The British government is trumpeting a milestone for its £1.7bn ($2.9bn) Superfast Broadband project, which is taking broadband to rural areas from the Isle of Wight to the Outer Hebrides
A new ITU standard will bring fibre broadband closer to premises, providing access speeds of 500Mbps to 1Gbps at distances of up to 100m from new distribution points.
Mesh networks are a novel way to get good Wi-Fi connectivity in buildings that suffer from "not spots". They're already available from several firms in the USA, but BT's Whole Home Wi-Fi is one of the first to appear in the UK
Barclays Bank is rolling out free Wi-Fi for customers in its local branches using a BT managed service. Around half are live now with the rest coming on stream this quarter
A school in Ayr is combining wireless and light-based networking -- Wi-Fi and Li-Fi -- using LED bulbs mounted in classroom ceilings, while an IEEE task force is working to add Li-Fi to the 802.11 standard
When India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, visited the Googleplex, Google's Indian-born CEO announced a deal to provide Wi-Fi in stations, giving tens of millions of Indians access to high-speed broadband
