Broadband news archive

B4B News archive from June 2003
Buckie enabled

High-speed internet connectivity is now on tap for businesses and residents served by the Buckie local telephone exchange.
27 June 2003


Lossiemouth poised on trigger

A tenth exchange in the Highlands is poised to meet the ADSL trigger very soon.
27 June 2003


Richer content via broadband

With broadband coverage and uptake growing daily, website owners should be looking at how they can take advantage of this greater high-speed access to provide richer content to site visitors.
19 June 2003


HIE pledges £500,000 extra for upgrades

Up to 1,300 businesses and community groups across the Highlands and Islands are in line to share £500,000 worth of grants to help them upgrade to broadband telecommunications.
17 June 2003


A broadband Xmas

Phase One of the ambitious £1.5 million Connected Communities project to roll out fixed wireless broadband across the Western Isles is scheduled to get underway in December.
16 June 2003


Data back up

A newly launched data back up service will help put corporate grade protection against data loss, corruption or theft within the reach of the UK’s small business sector.
09 June 2003


ADSL coverage doubled

Forres, Nairn, Oban, Dingwall and Fort William go live today (Friday) with ADSL broadband, making copper-wire broadband services available to almost 4000 more business customers and 24,000 residential customers in the Highlands.
06 June 2003