Broadband, TV and smart home technology
EE has launched its first 4G-enabled mobile WiFi, or ‘MiFi’ device, the Huawei E5776. This high-speed portable device is available now on the 4GEE mobile…
New satellite tech allows up to eight channels to be streamed around the home via cheap Ethernet cables that could slash the cost of multi-room…
Part of the government’s plans for Universal Credit is that people wanting to claim will need to do so online. A potential Catch-22 scenario is…
YouView has just announced its latest software update which brings improved search functions as well as a raft of welcome bug fixes. YouView and BT-branded…
Netflix hopes to tickle 8m international members in 2013 as it promises more original TV shows and a smart TV experience more like broadcast TV….
Broadcast electronics firm Televes has produced a website explaining the 4G Freeview problem to promote its officially-approved TV aerial filters. The lteready.co.uk site includes a…
David Cameron has again been urged to drop the Communications Data Bill, aka the ‘Snoopers Charter’. A group of nine academics sent a letter to…
Lovefilm has launched pilots of 14 brand new TV shows which are free for anyone to watch online – all competing to become full-length series. It’s…
Provider of wireless broadband to rural North Yorkshire communities CLANNET has set up two hotspots in Leyburn and Appleton Wiske. Wireless broadband providing download speeds…
Rural fibre broadband community group B4RN have connected the latest premises to their 1Gbps network. Abbeystead in rural Lancashire is the latest place on the…
BT Sport has produced a series of beer mats and distributed them to UK pubs in a bid to get the locals thinking about the…
Virgin TV Anywhere, Virgin Media’s web-based catch up service, has added MTV, Channel 4 and 19 extra digital TV channels to its line up. The…
Recombu Digital is celebrating the launch of a new hub to promote our great Sky TV, broadband, and phone deals by giving away a Sky+HD…
Labour MPs have grilled culture secretary Maria Miller over the government’s superfast broadband targets. Shadow deputy prime minister Harriet Harman last week questioned whether or…
Regular readers will have noted the absence of Broadband Rollout Roundup over the last few weeks, mainly because there’s been an absence of broadband rollout…
BT has now officially confirmed plans to let customers install their own fibre broadband gear, ruling out the need for a costly engineer visit. While…
Satellite operator SES is planning a 24/7 Ultra HD test channel after successfully squeezing a 4K video stream into 20Mbps using HEVC compression. The test…
John Lewis is giving away six months of free broadband to anyone who buys a smart TV, laptop, games console, tablet, smartphone or other connected…
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