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UK broadband usage more than doubled in 2020, largely due to home working in lockdown and a love of gaming and live sport, a new report reveals. 50,000 petabytes (PB) of data were consumed across the country in 2020, compared to around 22,000PB in 2019, says BT subsidiary Openreach. One Petabyte equals one million gigabytes … Read more
A venture to create a constellation of satellites to boost superfast global broadband is considering plans to bring its manufacturing across the Atlantic to Britain. Sources said executives behind the British Government-backed OneWeb last week briefed civil servants on the merits of moving production of the fleet of thousands of satellites from Florida to the … Read more
British firm OneWeb is launching the first batch of broadband satellites into orbit since surviving bankruptcy in a bid to take on SpaceX’s Starlink network. Now jointly owned by Indian conglomerate Bharti Global and the UK government, OneWeb will launch 36 satellites at 12:26 GMT from Russia on a Soyuz rocket. The firm has a … Read more
Britain’s fastest (and slowest) broadband speeds revealed: Leafy Cheshire lane tops charts with 5,330 times higher speeds than worst-performing road in Surrey Queens Road in Weybridge, Surrey has average download speeds of 0.12Mbps Dale Lane in Appleton, Cheshire has an average broadband speed of 6.39.67Mbs Weybridge residents would take 119 hours to download a two-hour … Read more
Rishi Sunak vowed to plough £100billion into road, rail and broadband projects yesterday. The Chancellor refused to renege on the Government’s plan for ‘once-in-a-generation’ infrastructure spending. Despite the Covid hit to the economy, he said he was pressing ahead with the highest sustained level of public investment in more than 40 years. Mr Sunak told … Read more
VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Shut the door on the broadband sharks and complain to the big providers who hire them By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01, 17 November 2020 | Updated: 23:20, 17 November 2020 There is a good reason most major energy suppliers ditched doorstep selling nearly a decade ago. And that’s because … Read more
Rogue salesmen working with Britain’s biggest utility companies are putting vulnerable customers at risk by flouting coronavirus rules, Money Mail can reveal. An undercover investigation reveals the sinister tactics used by door-to-door sellers to coax their targets into switching providers. With no regard for safety, salesmen were filmed routinely defying Government guidance to enter people’s … Read more
Virgin Media has rolled out its gigabit service to more areas across the UK today, including London and Northern Ireland. The hyper-fast broadband switch-on will serve nearly three million extra households, with speeds 17 times faster than the national average of 1,104Mbps. This means households will now be able to download 4K films near instantaneously … Read more
Doubts over the Government’s ambitious pledge on gigabit-capable broadband deepened on Tuesday after the minister responsible for its roll-out failed to say how confident he felt about making the 2025 target. Full-fibre and gigabit-capable broadband to every home and business across the UK by 2025 was a key Conservative manifesto pledge in the 2019 general … Read more
Boss of takeover target TalkTalk launches blistering attack on rival BT over rollout of superfast broadband By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:52 BST, 17 October 2020 | Updated: 21:52 BST, 17 October 2020 The boss of takeover target TalkTalk has launched a blistering attack on rival BT over the rollout of superfast … Read more