Latest Broadband General News in UK

The UK’s dream of becoming the fastest broadband nation in the Europe is in doldrums. As per reports from Akamai, the UK, with an average download speed of 5.1 Mbps, ranks a poor 17th with reference to the broadband speed in the European continent. The Netherlands tops the table with a speed o.......
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With the bidding of the Council receiving the acceptance of the government, Hampshire and Southampton are getting set to receive super-fast broadband facilities that will be provided in the course of the coming three years. It has been planned that 90% of the households and business firms would .......
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Everyone seems to be awaiting the start of the 2012 Olympic Games. It is quite apparent that this would be excellent for the tourism industry in the UK. It is anticipated that there would be a great influx of tourists to the country on this account and people believe that the mobile network in the U.......
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It is believed that broadband Internet could avail of five fold speeds in Scotland in another three years time, by 2015. This is as per a new plan that would enhance Scotland’s digital facilities. It was stated by Consumer Focus Scotland that the goal could easily be achieved provided they cou.......
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Most of the rural areas in Britain do not have internet access. The government has taken some measures to put an end to this pathetic situation. One of them is setting up of the Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) program. The primary objective of BDUK is to make available at least 2 Mbps throughout t.......
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Norfolk County Council’s ‘Say Yes to Better Broadband’ campaign to provide superfast broadband to households and business concerns in the county has been welcomed by all including government authorities. Local authorities are doing their best to persuade users to sign up for registration,.......
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The level of awareness regarding the legality of the online file sharing varies with the topologies. Young people and the less tech-Savvy people were less bothered about the legality of online file sharing. They had little knowledge about the potential consequences of file sharing. On the other hand.......
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Participants, regardless of age and technical knowledge gave justification to their file sharing activities. Normalisation was the reason gave by less tech-savvy and younger participants as a justification for their file sharing activities. Most of the younger participants and less tech-savvy people.......
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The safeguard caps proposed by Ofcom was 1) An overall spectrum cap of 2 X 105 MHz, 2) a sub-1GHz spectrum cap of 2 X 27.5 MHz. These safeguard caps would cover all the spectrum in the auction like - 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz bands, and ‘mobile spectrum (holdings at 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2.1 GHz) Fo.......
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During the March 2011 Consultation itself Ofcom has recognized the importance of the auction of 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum. The regulator was fully aware of the importance of this spectrum and how the future mobile services in the country are going to depend on it. Ofcom wants to promote competiti.......
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