BT warns PM Boris Johnson on broadband goal

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

Virgin Media broadband goes down for over SIX HOURS in London

Virgin Media broadband went down for more than six hours in London today, leaving thousands of people trying to work from home during the coronavirus pandemic unable to get online. Enraged customers took to social media to vent their frustration, saying they had lessons to teach, digital courts to attend, exams to do, and Zoom … Read more

Salisbury becomes the first ultra-fast broadband city in Britain

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 tested in Australia

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

How does YOUR broadband measure up? New map shows slowest services

How does YOUR broadband measure up? New map shows slowest services are in City of London and Wales while North Wiltshire boasts the best The City of London and Westminster has the slowest broadband speed in the UK The House of Commons published broadband speeds across each constituency Residents in the constituency have an average … Read more

BT scraps its dividend for at least 2 YEARS as it focuses on fibre broadband

BT scraps its dividend for at least 2 YEARS as Covid-hit boss Philip Jansen focuses on getting full fibre broadband rolled out across the nation Philip Jansen set a new target of full fibre to 20 million homes by late 2020 To hit the new target, BT will spend £1.3 billion over five years BT … Read more

Hundreds of furious customers slam Virgin Media and Sky as broadband goes down across the country

Breaking: Hundreds of furious customers slam Virgin Media and Sky as broadband goes down across the country Around 700 customers of Sky and Virgin Media faced issues around 11.20am Down Detector says hundreds of customers are still facing issues this afternoon It comes after Virgin Media customers faced 18 hours of disruption this week By James … Read more

Virgin Media goes DOWN: Thousands of broadband users across the UK are unable to get online

Virgin Media broadband users across the UK are reporting being unable to access the internet due to a nationwide outage. The problems started just before 5pm BST, according to data from website Downdetector, which monitors online outages. Over three quarters of those affected are reporting having problems with their wired internet connection. Birmingham, Nottingham, Glasgow, … Read more

Virgin Media does DOWN: Thousands of broadband users across the UK are unable to get online

Virgin Media does DOWN: Thousands of broadband users across the UK are unable to get online due to major outage By Sophie Curtis For Mailonline Published: 17:28 BST, 27 April 2020 | Updated: 17:37 BST, 27 April 2020 Virgin Media broadband users across the UK are reporting being unable to access the internet due to … Read more

Broadband switching in Britain surged by 30 per cent in March amid lockdown

Broadband switching in Britain surged by 30 per cent in March as lockdown restrictions came into force and the nation started working from home 30% surge in people switching internet provider from March 1 to March 31  Many people are opting for new plans that give them quicker speeds   Comes during coronavirus lockdown with millions of adults … Read more