Cable broadband
Cable broadband is the future of the UK’s broadband infrastructure, with ISPs and the government set to join forces to build a nationwide cable broadband network.
Top 10 Broadband knows everything there is to know about cable broadband and we’ll be sharing our hard-won knowledge here.
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Top 10 things to do with a super fast broadband connection
Posted 3rd March 2010 by Jonathan Leggett
Just signed up for fast broadband with BT or Virgin Media? Lucky you. It’s now time to start making the most of your speedy connection. Here’s ten great things you need to do online as soon as possible.
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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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Google fibre optic broadband: it’s the web, Jim. But not as we know it…
Posted 11th February 2010 by Jonathan Leggett
Seismic news reached us late last night. Google is turning broadband provider. And how…
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BT fibre optic broadband vs. Virgin Media fibre optic broadband - is it war?
Posted 25th January 2010 by Jonathan Leggett
BT’s new super fast broadband service has set the scene for a fibre optic face-off with Virgin Media.
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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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Fast broadband to save the planet?
Posted 24th August 2009 by Jonathan Leggett
Super fast broadband won’t just promote social mobility and allow businesses to compete more effectively. According to a green tech expert, it’ll also rescue us from impending ecological disaster.
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When Meg met Virgin Media
Posted 19th August 2009 by Jonathan Leggett
Meg Ryan’s winning ‘I’ll have what she’s having’ turn in When Harry Met Sally must be one of the most homage-d ever. But as Virgin Media’s latest broadband viral ad shows, it never, ever gets old.
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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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Fibre optic broadband research needs more backing
Posted 20th May 2009 by Jonathan Leggett
Our mascot Dr Broadband is always to be founding toiling away on new ways to deliver faster broadband. In fact, so obsessive is he that his idea of a fun Sabbath is poring over a sawdust dry report into Asynchronous Transfer Mode technology.
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Estonia streets ahead of UK with next-gen broadband
Posted 27th April 2009 by Jonathan Leggett
How come Estonians will get 100Mb broadband, while some Britons will struggle along with a 2Mb connection, asks Jonathan Leggett.
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Build the fibre optic broadband network and they will come
Posted 20th April 2009 by Jonathan Leggett
Claims that the lack of bandwidth-hungry services mean that a UK fibre optic broadband network is unviable are wrong-headed, says Jonathan Leggett.
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Wembley City broadband scheme proves pr coup
Posted 4th March 2009 by Jonathan Leggett
Want to get ahead? Get a super-fast broadband scheme. That's the message being given by the reams of publicity given to the Wembley City development, says Jonathan Leggett.
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