Broadband speeds
BSG and Value Partners publish new white paper on broadband infrastructure
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010Today the BSG has published a new White Paper with Value Partners, Broadband Infrastructure: The Service and Application Providers’ View.
Looking at the views of the broadband infrastructure from those who provide services over the internet today, the report find 3 main conclusions:
- Few respondents considered current broadband as a significant barrier to innovation today. Instead [...]
Superfast broadband - is there a willingness to pay?
Friday, May 15th, 2009My recent posts have involved tying current events back to the findings of our report ‘A Framework for Evaluating the Value of Next Generation Broadband’. One of the challenges we highlighted then was creating the need for business models to evolve to support investment in next generation broadband.
Considerable uncertainty existed then as to consumers’ willingness [...]
What is impacting on broadband speeds in the UK?
Sunday, March 8th, 2009Last Thursday the BSG held a seminar with SamKnows, who were the technical partner on Ofcom’s Broadband Speeds 2008 report.
The seminar produced an interesting debate, with discussions ranging from issues of methodology and technical concerns, to the policy implications of the results generated in the report (James Enck at EuroTelcoblog has given his views on [...]
Carter’s Universal Broadband Commitment
Friday, January 16th, 2009At an event yesterday Communications Minister Stephen Carter discussed the idea of a universal broadband commitment of a 2Mbps service to be available to every household that wants it, by 2012. The commitment could be included in the interim Digital Britain Report, expected to be published at the end of January.
The proposal would see a [...]
Ofcom publishes broadband speeds report
Friday, January 9th, 2009Ofcom yesterday published a report on broadband speeds in the UK.
The report is a first for Ofcom in that it is based on actual line testing, rather than consumer perception surveys, and builds on the work of the SamKnows team, who produced an earlier report last year.
Alongside the headline numbers, the report identifies the lack [...]
Government to undertake Digital Britain Report
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008On Friday last week the government announced it would be undertaking a Digital Britain Report, led by the new minister for technology, communications and broadcasting Stephen Carter. This represents an opportunity for Government to tackle a range of issues in a coordinated, strategic way. Hopwever, doing so requires that the report is not a stock-taking [...]
One small step from BT, one giant leap from Virgin Media?
Friday, August 8th, 2008Virgin Media’s statement today that it could be offering broadband speeds of 200Mbps by 2012 certainly puts the cats amongst the pidgeons in the ever noisier debate surrounding next generation broadband.
Last month, BT announced that it would invest £1.5bn to bring next generation broadband to 10 million homes by 2012. The speeds that would be [...]
The broadband speed debate
Friday, July 11th, 2008uSwitch.com has collected data on the speeds received by those who visit their site, and compared them to the maximum speeds these users signed up to receive. Similar to the recent research from the BBC and thinkbroadband.com, they found that the majority of users did not receive the maximum speeds that they signed up to.
This [...]
PlusNet highlight ISP costs
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008While discussing something broadband related (strange how I keep talking about broadband with people), I was pointed in the direction of the PlusNet blog, which I hadn’t come across before.
This particular entry discussed the costs incurred by ISPs, depending on their choice of wholesale product, peering arrangements with other providers, costs incurred using transit providers [...]
The importance of speed?
Monday, March 10th, 2008Many of you will have noticed the adverts currently being run by a particular ISP, which focus on the superior speed of its fibre-based network.
This campaign taps in to the importance consumers appear to place on speed – as is demonstrated by a recent BBC Online readers’ debate about Next Generation Access.
However, while headline speeds [...]