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BT has brought forward its target to get 10 million homes in the UK connected to a next-generation access (NGA) super fast broadband network to the summer of 2012. Initially, the company’s target was the end of 2012 but is now confident that it can get the network deployed to 40 per cent of the population before the London Olympic games begin. According to a new anysts SNL Kagen report on Western European broadband, mounting recessionary and competion pressures contributed to a significant drop in subscriber net-additions during the first half of 2009. The top 10 fixed broadband providers only saw an average of less than 1.4 million net additions per quarter, compared to 1.9 million per quarter during 2007/2008 Lord Carter, the author of the report Digital Britain who resigned from the Government this summer, also made a return to the House to defend the report that led to the Digital Economy Bill. He defended the 50p-per-month broadband tax, which the Tories have already said they’ll scrap if they win next year.. A new report on worldwide Internet speeds has the UK near the bottom, because to a lack of government investment in fibre-based broadband. A number of O2 mobile broadband users in Slough have been given LTE dongles to test out the new high-speed mobile network, seen as the successor to 3G. Virgin Media’s just launched a new mobile broadband dongle that ups the speed to 7.2Mbps youtubing on the go. With a thrown in for good measure is pulls data down from the internet at up to twice the speed of its previous 3.6Mbps USB stick, meaning BBC iPlayer will rollwith ease, wherever you are as long as assuming you’ve got a decent signal. |
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