PC Advisor Broadband Channel

Broadband Stimulus Grants Seen as Political Flashpoint

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Kenneth Corbin — Thu, 24 May 2012 14:54:00 GMT

Lawrence Strickling, the lead administrator of the agency doling out stimulus money for broadband deployments, urges grant recipients to amplify success stories as program faces political persecution in election season.

Research Universities Secure $200M for Community Broadband

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Kenneth Corbin — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:21:00 GMT

Plan to bring ultra-fast gigabit broadband to universities and surrounding communities moves forward with partnership between Gig.U consortium and Gigabit Squared.

Groups launch gigabit-per-second broadband project

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Grant Gross — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:48:00 GMT

An Ohio startup company has raised US$200 million to fund gigabit-per-second broadband projects in six university communities across the U.S., the company announced Wednesday.

DrayTek Vigor 2850Vn review

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Jim Martin — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:23:00 GMT

The DrayTek Vigor 2850Vn is a wireless modem router that supports BT's Infinity broadband. Read our DrayTek Vigor 2850Vn review to find out how it performs. Updated: 23rd May 2012

BT accused of making broadband monopoly

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Chris Martin — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:18:00 GMT

BT may have to split into two companies after being warned it is making a monopoly out of superfast broadband.

VoIP provider files net neutrality complaint with FCC

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Grant Gross — Tue, 22 May 2012 17:16:00 GMT

A Florida VoIP carrier has filed a net neutrality complaint against a Georgia utility and broadband provider, after the utility accused the VoIP firm of theft of service for using its network to deliver voice service without paying for it.

The Cloud brings Wi-Fi to Greene King pubs

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Chris Martin — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:04:00 GMT

Greene King has struck a deal with The Cloud to bring Wi-Fi access to all of its pubs, restaurants and hotels.

Education group: Schools need 100 Mbps per 1,000 broadband users

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Grant Gross — Mon, 21 May 2012 20:23:00 GMT

Schools in the U.S. will need broadband speeds of 100 Mbps per 1,000 students and staff members by the 2014-15 school year in order to meet a growing demand for Web-based instruction and a skyrocketing number of student-owned Web devices, according to a new report by a trade group representing state education agencies.

Alcatel-Lucent offers managed service to improve mobile network performance

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Mikael Ricknäs — Mon, 21 May 2012 15:35:00 GMT

Mobile operators that want help keeping their subscribers happy can get it through a new managed service from Alcatel-Lucent, the company said on Monday.

BT Infinity broadband connection checker unreliable

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Simon Jary — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:40:00 GMT

BT’s high-speed fibre broadband service Infinity is actually more available than BT cares to boast about.

Twitter hits 10 million UK users

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Chris Martin — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:08:00 GMT

Social blogging website Twitter has announced that it has 10 million users in the UK.

NBN service plans won't cost consumers more: Conroy

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Hamish Barwick — Mon, 14 May 2012 22:45:00 GMT

Senator Stephen Conroy has slammed Opposition leader Tony Abbott's comments that National Broadband Network (NBN) services could cost consumers more than current ADSL plans, saying Abbott was "plain wrong" "and that he should "check his facts."

UK broadband users cheated on internet speeds

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Simon Jary — Sun, 13 May 2012 12:52:00 GMT

UK broadband users are paying for vastly exaggerated internet speeds, with an average 7 megabits per second (Mbps) compared to their providers’ promised 12Mbps – five megabits lost between the claim and the actual usage.

BT announces new UK Infinity broadband exchanges

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Simon Jary — Sun, 13 May 2012 06:52:00 GMT

BT has listed a bunch of new UK exchanges that can handle its 80Mbps Internet access.

BT announces new UK Infinity broadband exchanges

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Simon Jary — Sun, 13 May 2012 06:52:00 GMT

BT has listed a bunch of new UK exchanges that can handle its 80Mbps Internet access.

80Mbps BT broadband available for 10m in UK

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Simon Jary — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:03:00 GMT

BT’s 80Mbps fibre broadband service is available to ten million premises in the UK, with 300Mbps and higher speeds promised from 2013 onwards.

EU votes on 16p/MB data roaming charge caps

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Simon Jary — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:01:00 GMT

New laws promise to bring data-roaming charges within the EU down to as low as 16p per megabyte by 2014.

Ericsson lets operators speed up mobile, fixed networks using caching

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Mikael Ricknäs — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:42:00 GMT

Using caching technology from Akamai Technologies, Ericsson's Smart Cloud Accelerator, announced Wednesday, is designed to allow operators to improve performance in both fixed and mobile networks.

Virgin Media attacked after Pirate Bay block

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Chris Martin — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:36:00 GMT

Virgin Media has fallen victim of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack as a result of blocking The Pirate Bay.

Virgin Media attacked after Pirate Bay block

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Chris Martin — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:36:00 GMT

Virgin Media has fallen victim of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack as a result of blocking The Pirate Bay.

O2 announces free Wi-Fi at Costa

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Chris Martin — Tue, 08 May 2012 10:33:00 GMT

O2 has announced it will provide free Wi-Fi internet access at Costa coffee.

Groups protest Verizon's proposed special access rate hikes

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Grant Gross — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:54:00 GMT

Members of the NoChokepoints Coalition will ask the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to stop Verizon Communications from raising the rates for middle-mile broadband connections that many businesses rely on.

Groups protest Verizon's proposed special access rate hikes

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Grant Gross — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:54:00 GMT

Senator questions whether Comcast is following NBC merger conditions

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Grant Gross — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:55:00 GMT

A U.S. senator has urged the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to investigate whether Comcast is violating conditions imposed in its early 2011 merger with NBCUniversal.

UK ISPs start blocking The Pirate Bay

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Chris Martin — Thu, 03 May 2012 08:37:00 GMT

Broadband internet service providers (ISP) have started blocking access to The Pirate Bay.