Virgin’s entire network of 15 million homes will gain access to gigabit speeds by the end of the year

The router can connect up to 64 devices and is available through fixed term or rolling contracts

The ISP currently provides fibre connectivity to over half of London boroughs

A lack of confidence in switching providers is costing consumers 

Committee chair cites ‘litany of failures’ from DCMS as cause 

After 12 months, 36-month contract reverts to standard business rates

The global coronavirus pandemic has meant more people are struggling to pay their broadband and mobile bills

While super fast broadband availability grows to 96 per cent in nationwide coverage

Uswitch.com research crowns Queens Road in Weybridge, Surrey as slowest street for broadband

Currently only 64 per cent of the UK are experiencing ‘decent’ broadband speeds

The service offers customers download speeds of 150Mb/s

3 Gigafast package now available in 12 London boroughs

Offer is available to new and upgrading customers

Virgin Media has also enhanced its HomeWorks service

The UK has dropped 13 places in rankings since last year

Vodafone has partnered with Openreach to provide the three cities with the gigafast broadband

However Tesco Mobile achieved the best scores for the mobile measures 

Prices for the second broadband line start from £21 per month

Bristol experienced the most amount of time with outages across the UK

Ofcom estimates 40 per cent of broadband customers are currently out of contract

NHS workers have been able to access greater amounts of data, voice calls and texts

The telco has set an ambitious target to connect 15 million homes by the end of 2021

Offer is available with Microsoft 365 for the next three months

The lockdown has seen a huge spike in broadband usage, reveals Ofcom

The lockdown has seen families make the most out of their broadband 

Assembly Research highlights six recommendations for the UK policymakers in order to achieve target

All EE/BT stores and call centres will remain open , with strict hygiene measures in place 

Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales expected to see major improvements in mobile phone coverage

Virgin Media plan to rollout gigabit services to 15 million homes by the end of 2021

Two new mobile broadband plans, one with 10Mbps cap

However Uswitch has launched a service designed to inform customers of the best available speeds at their home 

Data compiled by Cable.co.uk saw the UK deliver lower average speeds compared to much of Europe

The regulator has teamed with the UK Regulators Network to compare the biggest companies

Ofcom hopes to drive better competition across the country, especially in rural areas

Investment comes from new ownership

County Broadband’s full-fibre rollout will provide rural areas with speeds of up to 1Gbps 

Trio of big data offerings in the last three months for cloud provider

The Gig 1 service will deliver peak-time download speeds of 1.1Gbps

Part-nationalisation of BT to be funded by tax on tech companies

Broadband speeds more than 10 times faster than the local average arrive in the Scottish city

TalkTalk research highlights the importance of internet speeds to Brits

Jurassic Fibre is backed by India’s largest IT company

Speeds over 20 times faster than UK average with Virgin Media’s Gig1

SFSY marked the contract completion by visiting a number of local businesses that have benefited from the faster speeds

Indoor 4G coverage for the four operators remains at 77 per cent

The service is wireless offering an alternative to fixed-line broadband

Operator claims it is a UK-first

A million connections will be surpassed this year Virgin Media has set out bold targets to connect up to 15 million UK homes with gigabit broadband by the end of 2021. The first homes will be connected with the gigabit speeds this year, with Southampton the first city to receive the broadband, where customers have

So far 1.5 million premises has been reached nationwide through the ‘Fibre First’ programme Openreach has announced 36 new locations will receive its Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology in the next 12 months. The rollout means 74 locations across the UK are now covered by Openreach’s Fibre First programme. In the coming months towns and cities

Despite a slight improvement on the previous quarter Plusnet still lead the way for complaints Plusnet has topped the Ofcom league tables for most complained fixed broadband in the UK for the first quarter of 2019. It is the second quarter in a row that Plusnet has occupied the top spot as it also led

BT will run the EE 5G network that launched at the end of May BT has announced that it is launching 5G this autumn as it becomes the first provider to offer 5G as part of a converged mobile and broadband package. The next generation network will be available in 16 UK cities by the

5G has been touted as the future for home broadband EE has started selling 5G mobile broadband plans with a HTC 5G Hub. Two plans are available on 12 months contracts – 50GB for £50 per month and 100GB for £75 per month. An upfront charge of £100 is needed for the HTC 5G Hub,

Prices start from £37 per month and gives customers access to 52 Premier League football matches

Openreach is aiming to reach four million FTTP by 2021 

Partnership ensures the dealer can benefit from Vodafone’s 5G rollout

The providers will assume the roles from March 2020

The Ultimate Oomph bundle can be used by customers at home or on-the-go

The UK recorded average scores across a number of measurements in Opensignal’s report

Almost two-thirds of households contain people who spend two hours a day gaming

Virgin Media, TalkTalk and CityFibre are among the firms to benefit

BT is targeting to connect 15 million homes by the mid 2020s

Full fibre internet connections yields 300Mbps ultrafast download speeds

The report also examined performances of landline and broadband operators

The new scheme could see customers benefit from £142m in payments, says Ofcom

But CityFibre sales director says the UK has work to do with its FTTP penetration

The rule comes into place today after a 12-month grace period

It was the first time Vodafone were eligible for inclusion on broadband and landline 

11 more locations have been confirmed today for connection to fibre broadband

A street in Gloucestershire has the worst broadband speeds in the country, according to uSwitch

Ovum predicts the service could replace traditional connections for 85pc of fixed-line users

Huawei’s two-day mobile broadband forum at the ExCel attracted nearly 1,000 industry guests

Ultrafast speeds go up to 330Mbps which is over seven times the national average of 46.2Mbps

A quarter of rural residents also say they can not make mobile calls according to uSwitch

Virgin Media customers are most likely to experience a problem with their broadband over the last 12 months with issues affecting seven out of 10, according to a Which? survey. The survey was held with 7,035 customers from June to July this year. It found the most common problems were price increases, slow speeds, connections

Five million homes will be connected to full fibre network thanks to a £2.5 billion investment from CityFibre. Over 37 towns and cities across the country will benefit from superfast gigabit broadband speeds. It is estimated that the rollout will contribute £85 billion to the economy and create 5,000 jobs. The investment follows the acquisition

BT was one of many firms to make the complaint against Vodafone to the Advertising Standards Agency 

Almost a quarter of people believe they FTTP but this is only the case for three per cent of people

Virgin Media had the most satisfied customers

Minnow broadband network builders connected 998,500 homes according to an industry report

Ofcom reveal new guidelines to help improve broadband in Britain and come in next month

Around eight million broadband and three million mobile pay monthly customers could be out of contract

Ultrafast Fibre 1 and 2 offer customers speeds up to 152Mbps and 314Mbps respectively

The average UK home consumes 190GB of data per month

The Suffolk street’s sluggish broadband is 250 times slower than the UK’s fastest street

Around £160m of this figure will be committed to the development of 5G

Villagers burned a giant effigy of a BT Openreach van due to slow broadband speeds

Businesses performance is affected by the poor connectivity, survey found that 89 per cent of UK businesses would consider switching to wireless broadband

Fibre Max is available for £45 per month on an 18-month plan or £53 per month with EE TV included

The UK sits 31st in the world broadband speed rankings with Sweden, Taiwan, Denmark and Netherlands hitting nearly double the speeds of Britain.

The deal was first announced in February this year

Broadband connectivity and hosted voice services distributor DMSL has demanded broadband providers to “step up” and provide businesses with needed faster broadband speeds. This is following Virgin Media Business launching Voom Fibre business broadband service in May, which offers speeds up to 350Mbps. On the back of this announcement DMSL said “it is possible to deliver

Finalised rules will take effect on April 1, 2018

The proposed rules will have prices slashed every year until 2020/21

Providers would have to make cash payments or add a credit to a bill for slow repairs, missed deadlines and appointments

5G fixed wireless connections could be an alternative to wired fibre offerings Samsung will partner with Arqiva to develop the first field trial of 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) technology in the UK, as an alternative to fixed line broadband. 5G FWA connections can potentially overtake fibre broadband connections and boasts many benefits, including faster set up times

The deal is expected to be completed by the middle of the year subject to approval

  This is according to the regulator’s most recent Connected Nations report published today (December 16)

Ofcom claims the proposals would boost competition and speed the rollout of fibre broadband across the UK

Store refits in East London and Swindon form part of a plan to transform its retail business