Latest Broadband General News in UK

As per the new regulations which came into effect from April I, 2012, the broadband service providers have to ensure that they provide the true speeds they quote. Whatever thy advertise should be available for at least 10% of the customers. The major broadband providers in the UK have already mo.......

After BT stated that it was working along with the County Council of Lancashire to enhance their fibre facilities, the Government has agreed to provide a 62.5 million boost for the broadband infrastructure in the region. According to BT the venture would provide fibre-to-the-cabinet know-how to .......

Regeneris, the economic research firm revealed that during the next 15 years, Superfast broadband would fetch up to 19.8 billion Pounds to the UK economy. Out of this 7.3 billion Pounds would be the contribution from the improved businesses and 11 billion Pounds would be from new businesses and the .......

Digital Region ltd, whose objective is to ensure suprerfast broadband for South Yorkshire is in urgent need of cash from Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham and Barnsley councils. The partnership between the local authorities and the government has already been given GBP 100 million from European Gr.......

Thanks to BT’s roll-out plan South Molton in South West will be able to improve its broadband speed to abut 16 Mbps. Currently the speed available is 10 Mbps only. The local telephone exchange will also be upgraded along with the new service, utilizing copper lines. .......

This section analysis the various problems with the current switching process. Apart from that, it considers the problems and inconvenience experienced by the consumers during the switch. You will also find this section dealing with the different levels of switching fixed voice and broadband service.......

Communication sector adopts a number of switching processes rather than sticking to a standard one. Customers who intend to switch to a new services or new bundles will have to go through different switching process each time. At present, there are many switching processes even for the same type of .......

Openreach is all set to introduce new plans to extend its fibre networks. Under the new proposals Openreach will begin to roll out their new fibre networks so that the current fibre networks will be extended to the street side cabinet (Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) and to the customer premises (Fibre .......

Switching process involves two distinctive sides. At one side, the customer needs to be validated and he should be informed about the implications of switching. It also involves permission from the consumer who intends to switch. Another side to the switching process involves process where the provi.......

In number porting system, the consumers can maintain their telephone numbers, even if they change the providers. This obligation falls on the provider as per GC18. Under GC18, customers should be offered with the number portability service as soon as possible. It is the responsibility of the provide.......