Neowin News Feed for: Broadband

BT and Talk Talk broadband outages, cable damage to blame

Andrew Stevenson — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:24:59 +0000

Major outages are affecting both BT and Talk Talk ISPs in the UK. Cable damage is being blamed on the outages, with only a “small number” of users affected according to BT. Read more...

Analyst hints at "imminent launch of the Apple TV"

Andy Weir — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:02:44 +0000

The launch of Apple's new integrated television is "imminent", according to analysts Jefferies & Company - who made similar claims a year ago, and again three months ago. Read more...

FCC interested in taxing broadband Internet

Nathan Tsui — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:12:24 +0100

The FCC is considering a tax on broadband Internet services that would fund expansion of high-speed Internet access in the country for the 19 million Americans without access. Read more...

Virgin Media begins free broadband speed upgrades

Andy Weir — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:18:32 +0000

Six weeks after promising to double the speeds of its broadband customers free of charge, Virgin Media's upgrades have begun, with a new website for customers to find out when their upgrade is due. Read more...

Virgin Media frustrates with nationwide service outage

Andy Weir — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:21:38 +0000

Customers of Virgin Media, one of the UK's leading ISPs, have been frustrated by a nationwide outage, along with the failure of its customer call centres, days after promising to upgrade its service. Read more...

Virgin Media doubles broadband speeds free of charge

Andy Weir — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:14:15 +0000

Virgin Media customers have been given a New Year treat, with the news that their broadband speeds will be doubled (or even tripled) free of charge, with the fastest connections soon reaching 120Mbps. Read more...

Virgin Media to launch free Wi-Fi for all across London

Andy Weir — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:35:54 +0100

The UK's national cable network confirms plans to deliver free Wi-Fi access across London - to customers and non-customers alike. Read more...

"World's fastest cable broadband" unveiled in UK by Virgin Media

Andy Weir — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:26:57 +0100

Most of us can still remember the horrors of dial-up internet: being unable to make a phone call while online; the seemingly endless wait while the modem tried to establish a connection; the pain of... Read more...

TalkTalk rated UK's worst broadband provider in survey

Mike Brown — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:22:51 +0100

TalkTalk has been voted the worst landline and broadband provider for the second time, as revealed Thursday by Ofcom. The independent telecommunications regulator ran the survey on customer satisfaction levels and found that 23% were... Read more...

Microsoft to begin Cambridge trial of white-space broadband

Byron Hinson — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:02:00 +0100

Microsoft, the BBC, British Telecom and Nokia are planning to test out brand new “Wi-Fi on steroids” technology called “White-space broadband”. According to the companies involved, the experiment is set to take place in Cambridge,... Read more...

Comcast has no plans to meter broadband service

John Callaham — Wed, 25 May 2011 20:40:48 +0100

Earlier this month AT&T put in new broadband caps on its DSL and U-Verse Internet broadband services. It also started charging its customers overages fees if they go over those fairly small broadband caps. This... Read more...

AT&T begins broadband data cap policy today

Tzvi Friedman — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:05:36 +0100

As AT&T begins capping Internet usage today, customers of the second largest US broadband provider will finally get a taste of the Net Neutrality wars. The limits are 150GB for DSL users and 250GB for... Read more...

Google bringing ultra high speed broadband to Kansas City, Kansas

Brandon Boyce — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:21:54 +0100

Last year, Google announced that they would be bringing 1Gb per second fiber to the home broadband to one lucky city in the US. After that announcement, they had over 1,100 cities apply for the... Read more...

FCC to propose $8 billion rural broadband expansion plan

Michael Collado — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:00:40 +0000

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to propose and vote this week on an $8 billion plan that will expand high-speed, fast-access Internet to underserved cities across the United States. The plan will actually... Read more...

Mobile broadband traffic nearly tripled in 2010

Brandon Boyce — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 02:08:10 +0000

According to Cisco's Visual Networking Index concerning mobile data across the globe, there was 2.6 times more traffic in 2010 over 2009. All of this data came out to be roughly 237 petabytes per month,... Read more...

Virgin bringing 100Mb service to more UK homes

Mike Brown — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:04:03 +0000

Virgin Media has introduced their 100Mb broadband service to another 150,000 homes, adding to the 200,000 already with access. Homes in Pentwyn, Southport, Treforest, Cheshunt and Hatfield are the newest additions to the growing fleet... Read more...

UK ISP Virgin Media rolls out 100Mb broadband

Dave Legg — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:51:16 +0100

The UK's sole cable broadband provider, Virgin Media, announced today the start of pre-registration for its 100Mb service, which is to go on sale in December. Ten years ago, Virgin debuted Britain's first broadband service,... Read more...

Stanford getting Google broadband; Google Fiber communities still coming

Byron Hinson — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:59:55 +0100

Google has announced plans to build an ultra-high speed broadband network at Stanford University’s Residential subdivision. The faculty holds just over 850 staff on the grounds around it and they will have access to some... Read more...

Broadband adoption slowed in U.S. due to neighbors stealing Wi-Fi

Brandon Boyce — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:26:44 +0100

Over the past five years Internet Service Providers in the U.S. as a whole only saw a 3% increase in revenue according to a study conducted by Mintel. They believe that the revenues have hardly... Read more...

Virgin Media increases upload speeds for all customers [UK]

Tom Warren — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:50:03 +0100

Virgin Media today announced a free upgrade for its broadband customers. Calling it an 'adrenaline shot', Virgin is aiming to boost upload speeds for customers across its range of broadband speeds. The upgrade has begun to... Read more...