The official launch of the £28.5 billion project to bring to Knutsford and surrounding villages of Cheshire the benefit of superfast broadband was held at Oulton Park race circuit recently, in Little Budworth, Cheshire. Community 'Digital Champions' numbering more than 100 attended the even.......

Connecting Cumbria is the project bringing superfast broadband to Cumbria, with BT Global Services put on contract to deliver to nearly 90% of properties in the county. Now, after the project was held up for 6 months by EU authorities who wanted to check if the project complied with EU regulation.......

According to a study, super fast broadband coverage is increasing rapidly across European Union commission with 53.8 percent of households having access to broadband speed of 30Mb and more. With continuous installations from Virgin Media and BT, the percentage has risen to 70.3%. A.......

The project involving the EU, BT and the Cornwall Council will leave only 5% of premises unconnected or unable to access fibre-optic superfast broadband. This beats the original target of 80 – 90 % of all homes and businesses connecting to superfast broadband, by 2014, says the organisation.......

The Staffordshire County Council is investing £7.44 million with a matching amount by Government BDUK funding in a project that aims to provide 97% of Staffordshire homes with superfast broadband by the year 2015. BT will chip in with £12.47 million in the deal. BT aims to give access.......

Ofcom says in its report that 95.3 %, or 18 out of every 20 households in UK, now can have broadband access. Ofcom estimates that approximately 1.2 million homes cannot get access to a standard broadband service. That works out to be some 900,000 houses in England and about 100,000 each in Wales,.......

The Blackpool council is setting up its own network, that will cost £3.2 million over the 5 years to build, to provide broadband to public buildings. The network will be set up and maintained by a technology firm from Lancaster, called The Networking People. The proposed network will provid.......

Northern Ireland has announced a £5 million investment in broadband, aimed at rural areas. Michelle O'Neill, the Agriculture  Minister, announced this and added that the funding would be for areas deprived of connectivity and cannot be hooked to fixed line broadband. Northern Ireland h.......

Survey teams of Openreach have been despatched to the Isles of Scilly to start their preliminary work on the project that will bring superfast broadband to the islands. The previously announced project for £3.7 million, plans to divert two unused submarine fibre-optic cables to support the .......

A research claims that if Northern Ireland's economy gets fibre broadband, it could generate aroung £750 million additional revenue by the year 2018. The business impact study conducted during January of 2013 by BT and Regneris, has made some interesting estimates. Not only could this addit.......