Customers of Sky, BT and TalkTalk today experienced a mass internet outage across parts of the UK. The cause of the issue was a fire in an Openreach building in Newcastle, which damaged the cables carrying internet to the region. The vast Openreach network is used by internet providers BT, Plusnet and TalkTalk, with rival … Read more
BT, TalkTalk and Plusnet broadband CRASHES across the UK users complain of internet issues The cause of the issue is thought to be due to a fire around Newcastle Thousands of customers continue to report issues getting online By Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline Published: 13:42 BST, 23 July 2020 | Updated: 13:44 BST, 23 July … Read more
Company cars and work mobiles are perks of corporate life for many employees. But could there soon be such a thing as company broadband to use at home? Tristia Harrison is betting there will be – as ‘working from home’ becomes the new normal for many Britons. The chief executive of internet provider TalkTalk has … Read more
The majority of households have become more reliant on their broadband connection since lockdown started in March. Those with older, slower deals, may now be fed-up with a strain put on from home working, Netflix binges, football streaming and more people within the home connecting at the same time. With a large chunk of the … Read more
Households across the UK are using the internet more than ever now that millions have been forced to work from home during the lockdown period. The increase has been so great that some customers are now using enough extra data to watch three and a half hours more Netflix every single day, new research from … Read more
Huawei 5G deal ‘WILL be axed’ as spy chiefs at GCHQ revises their advice on Chinese tech firm PM gave Huawei the go-ahead to build 35 per cent of Britain’s 5G infrastructure However, a report from the National Cyber Security Centre could halt the plan A probe found US sanctions on Huawei could render alternate microchips … Read more
Call of Duty update drives ‘busiest day EVER for broadband traffic’ on Britain’s vast Openreach network June 30 saw more than 189 petabytes of data used by Openreach customers This smashed the previous record of 184 petabytes set on June 11 Internet use has spiked as people work from home during COVID-19 pandemic Record-breaking usage also … Read more
BT claims PM Boris Johnson’s plan to give all Britons superfast broadband by 2025 requires ‘Herculean effort’ as doubts grow about ambitious target By Jamie Nimmo, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:52 BST, 27 June 2020 | Updated: 21:52 BST, 27 June 2020 BT has claimed that Boris Johnson’s plan to give all Britons superfast … Read more
Salisbury becomes the first ultra-fast broadband city in Britain with ‘Fibre-to-the-Premises’ technology available to 20,000 households By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 11 June 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 11 June 2020 Salisbury today became the first city in the UK to have universal access to ultra-fast fibre broadband. Openreach, the … Read more
World record breaking broadband speeds have been recorded in Australia by scientists, who say they could download 1,000 HD movies in under a second. The team from Monash, Swinburne and RMIT universities recorded a speed of 44.2 terabits per second – the first time speeds like that have been recorded ‘in the wild’. This is … Read more