fibre optic

TalkTalk has announced that it is now offering a 'Fibre Optic Boost' to its broadband packages which will provide speeds of up to 40 Mbps.

The government will today outline plans to link the entirety of the UK to superfast broadband by 2015, with Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt believing 85-90 per cent of the nation will soon have access.

BT has announced that it will trial 1Gbps broadband in Kesgrave, Suffolk – as well as rolling superfast broadband to 40 'rural market towns'.

Virgin Media has confirmed that it will roll out 100Mbps broadband this week – doubling the speed of its top level package and claiming that over 12.7 million homes will be able to get the service.

The UK's network infrastructure is fast arriving at "capacity crunch" point, according to research fom the University of Southampton.

Exclusive Sky is insisting that the average consumer is not worried about the speed of their broadband connection, and that the time when DSL connections begin to lag behind people's usage is some time away.

Communications watchdog Ofcom has announced that it will be looking to promote competing super-fast broadband services using BT's still fledgling fibre optic services.

Not possible now till 2015

Exclusive Talk of a broadband crisis point is inaccurate, according to both Sky and BT - two of the biggest providers of Britain's internet.

Updated Virgin Media believe that there is a crunch point coming for superfast broadband, where consumers will begin to notice that their internet connection is not supporting their digital life at home.