Two MILLION rural homes are to be taken out of the ‘digital slow lane’ in £5bn broadband drive Project Gigabit will see as many as 2.2million homes and offices get fast internet It is targeted at rural areas where people have long suffered poor connections Residents will be able to download films in less than … Read more
Two MILLION rural homes are to be taken out of the ‘digital slow lane’ in £5bn broadband drive Project Gigabit will see as many as 2.2million homes and offices get fast internet It is targeted at rural areas where people have long suffered poor connections Residents will be able to download films in less than … Read more
A satellite broadband company bailed out by British taxpayers is preparing for blast-off after an Indian tycoon ramped up his investment. Sunil Bharti Mittal, through his firm Bharti Global, yesterday exercised an option to increase his stake in Oneweb to 38.6 per cent. In exchange, he will pump an extra £360million into the business – … Read more
Housing giant ‘forces buyers to use its own broadband’: Persimmon boosts profits with its in-house internet service Families moving on to new estates found only one Internet network they can use It is called FibreNest and is owned by the developer, Persimmon Internet provider’s customers have doubled from 6,000 to 14,000 in past year Critics … Read more
CityFibre chief executive Greg Mesch said he is in talks with 20 pension and infrastructure funds from the UK, North America, Europe and Australia about a deal which will help to fund its UK rollout.
Broadband spending spree hits BT shares but boss insists the telecom group will bounce back By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 22:19 BST, 13 May 2021 | Updated: 22:19 BST, 13 May 2021 BT is ‘back on the front foot’ after it ramped up the fibre broadband rollout to another 5m homes, according … Read more
BT reveals it will ramp up fibre broadband roll-out to serve 25 million homes thanks to a tax break as it reports a hefty slide in profit By Alex Sebastian For This Is Money Published: 10:22 BST, 13 May 2021 | Updated: 10:22 BST, 13 May 2021 BT has said it plans to ramp up … Read more
BT preparing to accelerate its investment to roll out super-fast broadband to millions more homes By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 9 May 2021 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 9 May 2021 BT is preparing to accelerate its investment to roll out super-fast broadband to millions more homes. The company is getting … Read more
Virgin Media broadband is back online after a ‘very brief’ outage left THOUSANDS of users across the UK without internet access Reports of problems with Virgin’s broadband sprung up around 10:30am BST Number of complaints rocketed to more than 1,700 in just 15 minutes 80% of people experienced difficulties said the problem was with cable … Read more
Millions of households will pay more for their broadband this month with four major telecoms providers hiking prices. The average bill will increase £3.03 per month, the equivalent of £36.39 per year, according to Compare the Market, with the collective cost estimated to be nearly a billion pounds. The nation’s big four internet providers, Sky, … Read more