Broadband news archive
B4B News archive from April 2005
| Too late next big thing 2.0.5 All this ‘next big thing-ery’ that’s been turning up here in the past two weeks has set yours truly thinking that perhaps the answer to rural broadband may have been right under our noses all the time… | |
| Connected Communities to complete coverage The ambitious £5.2 million fixed wireless broadband project in the Western Isles, Connected Communities, has turned out to be the final piece of the jigsaw in achieving 100 per cent broadband coverage in Scotland. | |
| Next big thing… Last week it was broadband by electricity cable. This week it’s WiMAX that’s being hyped as the technological holy grail of rural broadband. | |
| New film download service Just in time for the last of the local exchanges being broadband-enabled later this summer will be the launch of a movie download market, with titles starting from 99p. | |
| Power line broadband pushed by Europe The European Commission has urged greater testing and deployment of power line broadband to bring high speed connectivity to more homes and small businesses. | |
| Wireless bb testing underway The first phase of testing has begun of the infrastructure that will form the Connected Communities broadband network in the Western Isles. | |
| Dial up getting squeezed As predicted here little more than three months ago dial up access charges are on the way up.
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| Broadband driving online shopping Broadband is helping to drive the continuing growth of the UK’s online shopping revolution says new research from the Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG). | |
| Luring the defectors Funky broadband provider, Madasafish are currently offering four month’s worth of broadband for free to customers migrating to them from another broadband ISP. | |