Broadband

The NextGen '08 conference held earlier this month in Manchester brought together a range of opinions and speakers on the subject of Next Generation Access (NGA). The presentations can be downloaded as pdf files from the web site and make interesting reading. Francesco Caio... Read more

Over the course of this year ISPs have seen peak demands on their networks with the BBC iPlayer traffic surging at the time of the Olympics and the US Election. Next week the potential bandwidth demand moves into a new phase with the launch of live BBC1 & 2 programming "for licence payers" as discussed in the Read more

A run of gloomy financial interim reports was brought to an end this week when Carphone Warehouse did not follow the trend in announcing job cuts but instead hinted at demerging its retail and teleco operations. The move, which the City is known to favour, would see the two arms of the company parted because analysts had long believed it... Read more

Sky, or to be precise British Sky Broadcasting Group plc, recently announced their first quarter results to September 30th. Sky broadband continues to grow with 1.792 million users but as this is only 20% of Sky homes there would appear to be a considerable opportunity for further growth. One wonders why the figure is so low when broadband... Read more

In a recent interview BT's CEO Ian Livingston suggests that the recession and shareholder pressure may jeopardise plans to spend £1.5bn bringing the next generation of super-fast broadband services to 10m British households within the next four years. The credit... Read more