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Satellite internet a favourite with rural customers
Maybe the last place you would expect to read about the rise in popularity of satellite broadband would be in the rural tome ‘Farmers Weekly’. However this popular weekly magazine, which normally focuses on stories about sheep and cattle diseases, adverts for tractors and advice on growing cereal crops, has gone high-tech, recognising the need [...]
Is TV dead with the arrival of Netflix? Maybe not…
New figures from wired broadband ISP Plusnet have revealed that there’s been a sharp rise in Internet video streaming since the launch of Netflix in the UK. Netflix, brought from across the Atlantic to rival Amazon’s LoveFilm.com, has been fighting an aggressive marketing campaign to get us to turn away from the usual entertainment delivery [...]
UK is most Internet based major economy
While the physical high street is having a tough time of it with yet more well known brands billed over the weekend as being ‘in trouble’, it seems that us Brits have taken to shopping online like a duck to water. Researchers at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have concluded that the UK is now [...]
BT broadband charging customers by the £1 GB for some usage
All BT’s cheap broadband deals now offer a limited data allowance as part of the standard monthly tariff, and also feature a minimum 18 months contract. BT state on their website that their headline cheaper tariffs offer the customers a monthly data allowance of 10 Gigabytes (GB). If customers exceed this amount, then they’re charged [...]
CLA lobby calls for Broadband Universal Service Obligation
It appears that the Lords are finally taking notice of the rural and urban divide on fast broadband delivery. The House of Lords Select Committee on Communications has put forward a call for evidence to be submitted on ways of delivering super-fast broadband. In response, the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) representing the interests [...]
Satellite broadband can help the ‘silver surfers’
Although you’d be easily forgiven for thinking so, the Internet isn’t the exclusive property of the young. Check out Facebook and Twitter and you’ll see that there are plenty of ‘silver surfers’ updating their profiles, staying in touch with children and grandchildren around the world, and generally making their opinions known. But over half of [...]
Wired broadband companies avoid the real issue on rural not-spots
The mighty PR machines of the major terrestrial broadband providers would have rural homes and businesses believe that if they sit on the fence long enough, fibre or super-fast broadband is going to suddenly materialise in their area. Overnight they’re going to go from the drudgery of dial-up to super-fast broadband heaven, with 50 Mbps [...]
Cut your fuel bills with satellite video conferencing
Motorists are ‘up-in -arms’ this week as the price of fuel hit an all-time high. Spurred on by the continuing crisis in Syria, a weak Sterling to US Dollar exchange rate, and a rise in the price of a barrel of oil, beleaguered motorists are counting every penny. While consumers were hit hard, it’s the [...]
Rural wi-fi still not able to fill the gaps
The debate about rural broadband coverage and the best way to tackle the shortcomings of the UK copper infrastructure rumbles on. The idea of using wi-fi networks as a universal ‘catch-all’ solution to the problem is surprisingly still being lauded as the best way forward by some parties. But increasingly there is a growing crowd [...]
Deadline fast approaching for broadband deals
English councils who want to apply for government grants to roll out faster broadband capability have until the end of this month to put in their initial bids. A large chunk of government cash has been earmarked to help rural councils bring their not-spots up to speed, rather than lagging behind in the broadband slow [...]
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