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Monday, 19 September 2011

Virgin Media's 100Mbps broadband starts roll out

Barry - your time has comeInternet News By Patrick Goss December 8th 2010 | Tell us what you think [ 0 comments ]

Virgin Media - 100Mbps rolling out

Virgin Media's first 100Mbps broadband services have been rolled out, with customers in Hackmondike, Farnborough, Colchester and Barry in South Wales all now able to subscribe to the superfast connection.

Virgin Media is keen to keep its edge as BT begins to pump money into overhauling its own fibre optic infrastructure, and the cable giant announced a 100mbps service in October.

Router

The service, which also provides 10Mbps upload speeds, also comes with a new wireless router.

As a flagship product, the broadband doesn't come cheap – weighing in at £45 a month or £35 with a phone line subscription.

More areas will get the service in 2011, with the roll-out continuing into mid 2012.

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TalkTalk offering faster broadband 'boost'

A little more fibre in ISP's dietInternet News By Patrick Goss January 14th | Tell us what you think [ 0 comments ]

Happiness is a neon rainbow..and a BOOST

TalkTalk has announced that it is now offering a 'Fibre Optic Boost' to its broadband packages which will provide speeds of up to 40 Mbps.

The 'Fibre Optic Boost' (their capitals), is apparently designed to appeal to those who want faster broadband – obviously.

"The Boost will also help users share videos and photos with friends more quickly, and will allow the whole family to be online at the same time on different devices, without slowing the connection down," adds TalkTalk.

It's a product of the company's fibre optic roll-out, as TalkTalk looks to improve its infrastructure.

"Customers wishing to see when Fibre Optic broadband will be available in their area should visit www.talktalk.co.uk/fibre and enter their postcode and phone number," adds TalkTalk.

An Engineer calls

People who want 'THE BOOST' (our capitals) can contact TalkTalk and get an engineer sent round to install a new modem and router and makes sure everything is working.

Tristia Clarke, commercial director at TalkTalk, said: "We are seeing increasing demand for superfast broadband and our Fibre Optic Boost is a great way to ensure seamless connectivity and high upload and download speeds.

"This boost is ideal for a wide range of customers, such as families who all want to be online at the same time, people wanting to stream HD content, or gamers needing lightning quick response times.

"The installation process is straight forward as an engineer will make a home visit to get the connection up and running.

"We expect this boost to be very popular and will be aiming to make it available to as many people as possible."

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Saturday, 17 September 2011

BT deletes fair usage policy controls for broadband

But traffic management and data limits stayInternet News By Patrick Goss March 9th | Tell us what you think [ 2 comments ]

BT - FUP delete

BT will remove the fair usage policy for its BT Total Broadband and BT Infinity customers, removing limits on 'atypical' heavy users, but keeping its traffic management protocols in place.

In what is a welcome move from the telecoms giant, BT has revealed that the improvements to its infrastructure will allow it to change its fair usage policy (FUP), and remove a limit for what it describes as 'atypical' users.

Previously, 0.5 per cent of BT's customers who were particularly heavy users were limited to 300GB usage, but BT will not be targeting these individuals.

Traffic management

However, BT confirms that a "traffic management" policy will remain "that will restrict certain applications / protocols, such as P2P, when the network is busy."

Mayuresh Thavapalan, general manager, Consumer Broadband, BT Retail, said: "As BT continues to invest in the network and network bandwidth we can now remove these restrictions and ensure the experience of the wider customer base.

"On completion there will be no individual user controls targeted at atypical users on our BT Total Broadband and BT Infinity products."

It should be pointed out that people on BT Total Broadband Options 1 and 2 and BT Infinity Option One will still be charged for going over their data limits – but will not have their traffic managed.

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March 9th

2. so when will other companies follow, after 10 years!

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March 9th

1. Infinity - I wish.

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Fujitsu to bring 1Gbps broadband to 5m UK homes

And talk of 10GbpsInternet News By Patrick Goss April 13th | Tell us what you think [ 4 comments ]

Fibre from Fujitsu on the way

Fujitsu has announced that its plans to bring fibre optic next-gen internet to 5 million UK homes, with the communications giant working with Virgin Media, TalkTalk and Cisco.

The collaboration will see Fujitsu build what it is calling "ground breaking and innovative alternative to BT Openreach"

Virgin Media and TalkTalk will offer wholesale products via the network, and it will be opened out to other service providers.

Improving lives

Communication Minister Ed Vaizey said: "Superfast broadband is already helping businesses grow and improving the lives of those able to access it. But many rural and hard-to-reach areas are missing out.

"The whole of the UK should be able to share in the benefits of broadband and we are determined to make that happen by the end of the Parliament. That is why the Government is investing over £500m in taking superfast broadband to everyone.

"I am delighted that Fujitsu along with Virgin Media, TalkTalk and Cisco share the Government's vision. The collaboration between these companies was exactly the sort of ambition and innovation the Government wanted to stimulate by removing barriers to broadband rollout.

"Fujitsu and their industry partners are pledging a substantial investment in the UK and it represents a deep commitment to the future success of this country.

"Creating this superfast broadband network will help improve the economic and social prospects of the homes and businesses where high-speed internet access remains just a dream."

FTTH

Fujistus's network will see them running fibre to the home (FTTH) rather than to a local cabinet which means that the network is one gigabit per second symmetric capable from day one, with the potential to go to "10Gbps and beyond."

That's pretty fast.

"The plans rely on the remedy imposed by the regulator Ofcom, on BT Openreach, to provide access to its underground ducts and telegraph poles on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms," added Fujitsu.

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April 20th

4. So the minority who live on a farm will have super fast broadband with the roll out paid for by the majority of people who already have some form of broadband having extra money stuck on their bill and getting a slower connection.

Seems to make sense...

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April 14th

3. Other articles say they will be focusing on the worst broadband areas in the UK.

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mobius

April 13th

2. Agreed with chisy. I'm not living in a rural area, it's a reasonable populated town (just outside Blackpool) and I'm desperate to get above 2.5 Mbps. There are no plans for anyone bringing cable here as far as I'm aware.

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chisy

April 13th

1. One crucial piece of information seems to be missing - where will he 5m homes be that will benefit from this?

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