Broadband, TV and smart home technology
Amazon is planning an Apple TV-style smart TV box that will put its on-demand services on any TV screen. In the UK, that would mean…
BT has been handed the keys to the Digital Durham superfast fibre broadband project. The project will bring superfast broadband speeds to 94 per cent of…
BT Sport has signed up 19 year-old Arsenal and England star Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain aka ‘The Ox’ as a regular guest presenter. The rising football star…
The husband of TalkTalk chief executive Dido Harding has issued a call for widespread deregulation – including cheaper access to the BT network by competing…
What is BAGAL? B4GAL is a rural broadband plan which aims to bring FTTP (Fibre to the Premises) broadband to nine nine rural Southern Upland…
BT has confirmed that trials of a service that could provide 100Mbps top download speeds on FTTC (Fibre to the Cabinet) lines will take place in…
Nick Clegg has announced that the Snoopers Charter is dead in the water so long as the Lib Dems remain in the coalition. Speaking live…
The government has announced a Digital Deal plan, aimed at getting people living in social housing connected to the internet. While there’s concern that would-be…
The Communications Data Bill is an opportunity for ISPs ‘to sell services they would rather not have to’ claims the boss of broadband provider Andrews…
David Cameron is to announce plans to make it a legal requirement for public WiFi providers to block access to pornography by default. The plans,…
Ofcom is asking for industry comment on how Freeview could be moved to make way for 5G mobile broadband in the future. It’s expected that…
Why do a Broadband Customer League table? Latest news for the UK Broadband Customer League TableEvery three months, the major broadband providers publish their quarterly…
Around 2.5m Virgin Media broadband customers are on superfast connections as the speed-doubling programme passes more than 85 per cent of its network. Virgin’s still…
Virgin Media opened 2013 by adding 171,900 TiVo users and discarding thousands of free TV parasites in favour of paying customers. Virgin Media: top of…
A new BT.com site will let customers check their broadband bills online, access BT email and eventually access exclusive BT Sport content. The redesign will…
BBC iPlayer Radio for Android has launched, bringing the full line-up of BBC’s digital radio stations to Android phones and tablets, including the Amazon Kindle…
TalkTalk is celebrating National Karaoke Week in style by providing free access to the Karaoke Channel on TalkTalk TV this Friday. Normally costing £3 for…
Crofters on the cliffs of Caithness will be retuning their Freeview boxes on April 24 as commercial channels from the Rumster Forest transmitter move to…
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