There was good news to come out of the European broadband market recently with the announcement by the European Commission in its new report that broadband prices are falling across the continent. The EC looked into all different types of broadband across Europe to find out what the general state of affairs looked like, and took into account fibre optic, DSL and cable broadband service...

Areas of Manchester are about to benefit from broadband speeds up to 1,000 times faster than they currently experience as part of the ‘Manchester Digital Strategy’. Manchester City Council has stated that the ‘Fibre-to-the-Premises’ plan, as it is being named, will completely alter the broadband experience for the people who are lucky enough to get access to it. The new o...

Things are heating up between BT and Virgin in the battle to provide the country with super-fast broadband. After BT announced the first stage of its fibre optic network just last week, Virgin was quick to react by claiming that it will be providing its customers with speeds of up to 150Mbps two years before BT can get anywhere close to these speeds. Virgin is already offering speeds o...

Research has been released revealing that in three years time broadband users in the UK are going to have to pay an extra £30 a year for their connections. It is feared that this could see a large percentage of the population unable to afford to access broadband, which comes in the face of a recent government pledge to provide broadband for all by 2012. The research has been released ...

The analyst firm Point Topic has stated that by 2019, nearly all the people living in the UK will have access to super-fast broadband with speeds in excess of 32Mpbs. This announcement comes on the back of the latest government drive to ensure that every home in the UK will have access to broadband with speeds of at least 2Mpbs b...