Freedom4, the joint investment between Daisy Group plc and Intel Capital, has been granted a licence variation by Ofcom that enables it to offer mobile wireless broadband services to its customers using its nationwide 3.6GHz spectrum.
Freedom4 has already achieved the world’s first seamless mobile WiMAX handover between base stations operating at two frequencies (2.5GHz and [...]

Mixed signals and uncertain futures blur broadband growth.
“Broadband has continued to grow robustly through the last 18 months relative to other sectors, predicting what will happen next is becoming increasingly challenging,” says Oliver Johnson, CEO at Point Topic.
On the one hand the many markets are reporting accelerating broadband growth while the world collectively has grown [...]

Broadband is showing a healthier glow than expected in the UK, as in many countries around the world. As a result of good figures for the first half of 2009, Point Topic, the broadband data specialist, has increased its forecasts for broadband connections, both for the year as a whole and forward to 2014.
Britain added [...]

27/07/2009 (www.ISPreview.co.uk, UK, London) – The results from 400 respondents to ISPreview.co.uk’s latest survey reveal that 83.7% think the UK governments Digital Britain report target of delivering a 2Mbps (Megabits per second) minimum broadband speed (USC) to the whole country by 2012 will not offer a fast enough service.
Just over 53% said they would prefer [...]

The Tooway™ satellite consumer broadband service delivers 2Mbps today, 3.6Mbps from July 1 and 10Mbps in 2010
London, UK, 16 June 2009: Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL), Europe’s leading satellite operator, today welcomed the initiatives in the Government’s Digital Britain report and stated that its Universal Service Commitment to deliver a 2Mbps broadband service to all [...]

London, United Kingdom, 9 June 2009 – Richard Lindsay-Davies, the Director General of the Digital TV Group, will be interviewed by Isla Traquair of Five News at the 3rd Annual Broadband Connect Summit, taking place at the Courthouse Hotel in central London on 16 June 2009.
Richard Lindsay-Davies is the chief executive officer of the Digital [...]

The UK government’s 2009 Budget recently gave support to a new universal service obligation (USO), which would require that everybody in the country be able to access a broadband Internet connection that is capable of at least 2Mbps (download speed) by 2012. The move, which was first proposed by Lord Carter’s Interim Digital Britain report [...]

Tooway delivers 2Mbps broadband for the UK’s rural homes and slowband areas from £29.99 per month
In 2010, Eutelsat’s revolutionary new KA-SAT satellite will enable Tooway™ to offer up to 10Mbps ADSL2 quality Internet access
London, UK, 30 April 2009 – Eutelsat Communications, (Euronext Paris: ETL) the European leader for satellite communications, has launched its revolutionary new [...]

London, United Kingdom -16 April 2009. Digital Britain and the promise of next generation broadband networks will lead the agenda at the Technosummits Annual Broadband Connect Summit, taking place in London on 16 June 2009.
With Lord Carter due to publish his final report in June on the vision for Digital Britain, this industry summit could [...]

A new website will help local government and community activists to get better broadband services in their areas. They will be able to use it to identify local needs and develop the strategies to bring “superband” speeds to the whole UK.
Visitors to the Point Topic “BroadBand Geography” site will be able to click on a [...]