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The disparity between broadband coverage in different parts of the country remains a contentious issue, with the state of the UK's broadband coverage regularly hitting the headlines.

In this dedicated broadband coverage blog, Top 10 Broadband casts a learned and occasionally irreverent eye over efforts to improve the nation's broadband coverage.

  • Top 10 broadband countries

    Posted 24th February 2010 by Jonathan Leggett

    Top10 names the forward-thinking nations at the vanguard of the super-fast broadband revolution.

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  • BT broadband WiFi network hits 1m hotspots landmark

    Posted 9th February 2010 by Jonathan Leggett

    BT broadband customers can now take advantage of a million WiFi hotspots across the UK.

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  • Top 10 broadband developments and trends of 2009

    Posted 17th December 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    2009 was another landmark year in the broadband sector. Top 10 Broadband takes a quizzical look at the key events, trends and landmark products of the last 12 months.

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  • Broadband boost for Alston house prices

    Posted 24th November 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    Never mind high-achieving schools and convenient rail links. Broadband access is what sends an area’s house prices soaring, it seems.

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  • Glasto wireless broadband network staying put

    Posted 14th October 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    Glastonbury Town Council’s war with the local mystics took an unexpected turn this week, with the result that its wireless broadband network will be staying put. For now anyway.

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  • Could caring, sharing broadband really transform UK?

    Posted 27th August 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    Making predictions is a perilous business at the best of times. And in his capacity futurologist in chief with Orange, that’s something of which James Bellini must be only too aware.

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  • Digital Britain: Top 10 Broadband’s consumer guide

    Posted 17th June 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    What does Digital Britain mean to you? Top 10 Broadband takes a close look at how the new report's provisions will affect consumers.

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  • Digital Britain savaged before official unveiling

    Posted 16th June 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    There can’t be too many government studies that have been quite as keenly anticipated as today’s Digital Britain report. But even with the findings yet to be unveiled it seems that some people have made their mind up about its provisions already.

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  • Tasmania mad for next-gen broadband

    Posted 15th June 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    Tasmania is known to Australians as the Natural State. With a landscape that’s little changed since prehistoric times, it’s an epiphet that’s well deserved. But if anything the area’s feel of age-old dustiness makes it even more surprising that today it has been confirmed as the location of a pilot scheme to test cutting-edge 100Mb fibre optic broadband technology.

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  • Expect more from Cybermoor

    Posted 27th May 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    If you conducted an informal survey of the most widely known broadband provider’s it’s unlikely that Cybermoor would register very highly. But in the remote outcrop of Alston, it’s a household name to rank along the likes of TalkTalk and BT.

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  • Monks get connected as broadband arrives in the wilderness

    Posted 6th May 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    Today, broadband has finally arrived in the remote enclave of Caldley Island. According to reports, a community of monks resident on the island has been freed from the strictures of a dial-up connection after NTL: Telewest and TFL furnished them with a wireless broadband service. Better yet, they’re now receiving speeds of up 300Mb.

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  • Government's video stream is a comedy of errors

    Posted 17th April 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    A malfunctioning video stream has rendered today’s speeches over the UK’s telecommunications future farcical.

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