The cost of fibre is set to rise despite the government’s desire to increase fibre rollouts.
Communications minister Ed Vaizey reneges on promise to review the tax on fibre-optic networks.
UK network infrastructure owners slam government for scrapping promised review of how fibre optic networks are taxed.
A project by the North West Development Agency will provide Manchester with a synchronous 100Mbps fibre optic network – and could serve to show how important a decent infrastructure could be to the UK.
The much-heralded Fibrecity deployment of high-speed broadband using Bournemouth’s sewer system will not go ahead, after a deal with Wessex Water fell through, ZDNet UK can reveal.