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Farmers Digging Up for Fibre

In the wake of a rural broadband conference in the UK last week, this video of a fibre dig by a bunch

BT, FTTP, Water and Ducts

Some might argue that it had never really started, but in any case BT has announced that they were resuming FTTP deployment starting this month. Apparently the delay in deploying FTTP was due to other FTTP trials providing a lot

BT must physically unbundle… someday

A press release yesterday by the EC states that the commission accepts Ofcom's proposal to enforce only Active Line Access (now called VULA) wholesaling of the FTTC

Is the UK lagging behind on FTTx?

Ever since I started looking into the UK broadband

Retro-Fiber: Ever heard of TPON?

Pauline Rigby posts today about the amazing story of BT overlaying fiber with copper in low-density areas due to a wrong technology choice (TPON) in the 90s. You would, of course, expect any telco in their right mind to have

Analysing a broadband ad

Virgin has a new ad for its 50Mb/s service, and it's all the buzz on the blogosphere, thanks in part to the fact