Broadband News

Following Rupert Murdoch's announcement that his company's looking for ways to make readers of The Sun and The Times pay to access their websites, the debate on how newspapers can save themselves in the digital age has been reignited.

Vodafone and O2 can breathe a sigh of relief. A Government spectrum farming report has decided that neither company should be forced to give up any of its most valuable mobile broadband spectrum.

"We have identified around half a million homes whose proximity to our existing access network makes it a commercially attractive opportunity to extend our network to reach them over the next few years.

Google's unveiled the technologies it hopes will make sure it stays everyone's favourite search engine at what it's calling its first "state of the union" address.

Sky has launched a scathing attack on the BBC and the BBC Trust over the proposed Project Canvas which would see BBC, ITV and BT collaboration on a set top box which would bring online video content to the living room - essentially a Freeview box but with iPlayer-style functionality.

A future Conservative government would build Digital Britain with an injection of more common sense and new powers at local government level as well as encouraging community groups to petition local authorities for fibre.

The world's most popular BitTorrent site is blocking off content that infringes copyright ahead of its forthcoming court appearance.

AOL is relaunching its home page as the only place where UK surfers can check their mail and log on to multiple social networks automatically from one location.

The deal is done. Carphone Warehouse has bought Tiscali’s UK assets for £235m which it claims makes TalkTalk the largest residential broadband provider in the UK with a combined subscriber base of 4.

First they were, then they weren’t, then everyone thought they might be again but they weren’t but now, finally, Carphone Warehouse is being reported to have made an informal offer of £275m for Tiscali’s UK assets.

Virgin Media has started trialling 200Mb broadband in Ashford, Kent.

Virgin Media’s quarterly figures released today show it is just as susceptible as competitors to the general slowdown in new broadband connections.