BT has said it will legally separate its Openreach division in a deal which should bring further investment and competition to the UK’s broadband industry.
Thousands of Sky Broadband and Virgin Media across south London have found themselves with no internet access for more than 24 hours after a construction worker accidentally cut through a fibre cable in the area.
Scientists from NASA and MIT have managed to get a download speed of 19.44Mbps through a laser-powered communication uplink, which is better than the average broadband speed achieved by UK households.
Even as average speeds have crept up to 17.8Mbps, a recent survey by uSwitch found that nine streets in the country cannot get speeds of 1Mbps. Some of these places are very rural, where slow speeds may be expected, but Essex streets make up six of the 50 slowest streets in the UK.
Virgin media has launched a new 152Mbps broadband connection alongside the introduction of the controversial “porn filter” designed to censor the internet and make it “family-safe”.