Reports say the United Kingdom now has more than 5 million Wi-Fi hotspots. This milestone has been achieved after the broadband provider added more than 20,000 locations over the last one year resulting in more than 400 million connections being made in 2012-13 to get connected on the move........

The first council of the 17 councils in the city capital to confirm the free public WiFi service to open spaces and streets across the borough, is the London Borough of Camden. But it's only for the first 30 minutes of use, every day. Arqiva has taken the 10 year deal to build the necessary infra.......

WiFi aerials will be fitted to the chimneys on village halls, in about 30 villages in Lincolnshire, to boost the signals for internet access. According to West Lindsey District Council, this will deliver connectivity speeds comparable to urban areas for mainly the people using the halls of the vi.......

The broadband division of the merged group of So Purple Group and internet provider ADSL24 was sold to telecoms firm named Coms. Five different businesses such as Lawton Bailey, ADSL24, RedBox Media, IMS24 and InGame were merged together through the acquisition. The broadband business which consi.......

Ofcom, the communications regulator, has announced plans to invite industry to the pilot of innovative 'White Space' technology in UK, which will be first of its kind in Europe. Trials were earlier conducted by private participants in UK, without the government to help. Operators have made trial .......

The Virgin Media Business and London Public Services Network (London PSN) partnership of  £200 million launched in January of 2011 has been able to deliver new technologies to replace the legacy network of London Grid for Learning (LGfL). Work has been going on since 2011 by cable oper.......

The roll-out of free WiFi access by Xchanging in the City of London has just begun. Xchanging is the business process procurement company behind the roll-out. It is also an integrator and technology services provider. The installation of the free service is scheduled at 34, Leadenhall Street, fol.......

The real-estate investment firm called PRUPIM has signed up BT WiFi to provide public WiFi hotspots to eight of its biggest shopping centres in UK. The free wireless internet would benefit over 118million shoppers, according to BT estimates, which may not be very accurate as they may be referring.......

A popular mobile operator of UK, EE, has by launching in rural areas the 4G (LTE) technology based network of fixed wireless and mobile broadband, expects to cover about 100 square miles of area reaching over 2000 residents, with potential speeds of 20 Mbps or more. The service is planned to the .......

More businesses in Lancashire locations will soon get internet download speeds of upto 100Mbps. Denwa, a Barrowford based ISP will expand its Fibre-to-the-Mast (FTTM) technology to this area. FTTM is based off a technology called the Microwave. Several locations such as Birmingham, Greater Manche.......