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The Surrey County Council and BT will deliver its first BDUK project with an extra coverage in the outskirts of Dorking. About 100 businesses and homes currently have services extended to the Pixham Village in Dorking. Reports say that Dorking exchange already provided FTTC services from the cabinets. It was earlier reported that both Hampshire and Surrey have signed state aid supported deals with BT so that the services can be made available to majority of businesses and local homes in the are... Read More»

The Vice President responsible for the Digital Agenda expressed her intention to pull down barriers to make a single EU market for telecoms providers. Vice President Neelie Kroes said that the European Commission is working to make this happen with special proposals. The EC is seeking ways to see that telecoms providers can compete as players in a broader European market instead of a group of nationally operated markets. This came out in her speech while addressing the gathering at the 11th Euro... Read More»

The launch of YouView by providers like TalkTalk has started paying dividends, as the rise in OTT subscription services like Lovefilm and Netflix have motivated a desire amongst customers for more choice. Earlier the dominance of cable TV and Sky TV, made it look as if IPTV delivery platforms would not see much demand. On the contrary, TalkTalk has revealed in its reports, that it has added to its YouView TV service, some 150,000 subscriptions in the last quarter, which now totals to around 230,... Read More»

Sky has secured rights to broadcast qualification matches for UEFA Euro 2016 and FIFA World Cup to be held in 2018 of Home Nations and Republic of Ireland. Agreements made with UEFA will allow live coverage of matches that are to be held between 2014 and 2017 on Sky Sports. It is expected that a total of 500 international football matches will be held over a period of three years. According to the Managing Director of Sky Sports, viewers can enjoy watching Ashes Series, The British & Irish ... Read More»

Point Topic, a telecoms analyst provides its customers with best broadband market intelligence so as to make proper decisions. It has recently come out with a database that contains information on broadband coverage and speed. This vital information has been made available to non-subscribers to understand well about internet access and also to compare it with the rest of United Kingdom. The data here covers information on business premises, population data, coverage by internet access technolog... Read More»