A Sony-backed ISP in Japan has launched an astonishingly quick new broadband option, letting local users register for an unbelievable two gigabytes per second home fibre service. But don't be too jealous, they'll probably only get 1.7Gbps in the evenings. Read More >>

Next time you whinge about your slow-arse internet, spare a thought for a bunch of British farmers who have had to build, test, and install their own fibre network this year — from scratch. Read More >>

A survey of broadband speeds across the UK has found some enormous differences in average speed, with average street connection speeds varying from just 0.13mbps all the way up to a whopping 70.9mbps. Read More >>

Today's "superfast" broadband speeds might well be rather impressive, but they may soon be obliterated by new developments with could see 20 and even 40 gigabit connections offered through today's fibre connections. Read More >>

Troubled internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom wants to help install a new undersea cable linking the US and his adopted country of New Zealand, which would be paid for in part by his new piracy venture Me.ga -- and could eventually subsidise broadband for New Zealanders. Read More >>

Good news for those with Virgin's blazing 100Mbit broadband; after doubling everyone's speed for free, meaning 50Mbiters already got upgraded to 100Mbps, the cable company has just started bumping you all up to 120Mbit, and you don't have to spend a penny to get it, either. Read More >>

A rather shocking leaked document from next-gen broadband delivery agency BDUK claims BT's been fiddling the figures, with the national network needlessly boosting its fibre installation costs to help grab bigger subsidies. Read More >>

People of Wales! Your time has come. BT has emerged as the very unsurprising victor in the not-really-a-battle to wire up Wales to the proper internet of the future, with some £425m set to be pumped into bringing Wales into the superfast fibre revolution. Read More >>

BT has announced plans to start testing its "FTTP on Demand" system in public, allowing users in a few key areas to request/beg the network to install the high-end fibre-to-the-premises wires right into their homes. Read More >>

Sean Williams, BT's group strategy director, told a committee of MPs that there's no need to pursue enhanced fibre-to-the-premises connections in the UK, as the existing copper network and the cheaper fibre-to-the-cabinet option ought to be good enough for most users' needs. Read More >>

BT has just agreed to pay an enormous £246m per year to show selected live Premier League matches, which it'll begin to broadcast/stream when the 2013/14 football season starts. How many exchanges could it have upgraded to fibre for that money? Read More >>

BT might be pushing 330Mbps through fibre this July, but it seems that good old copper isn't down and out just yet. The Germans have successfully tested broadband at a colossal 4.7Gbps; that's over 14 times as fast as our new top speed, using just standard cable in the field. Come on Virgin, where are you on that? Read More >>

BT has axed plans to roll-out superfast fibre-to-the-cabinet broadband in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea, after local councillors argued that BT's larger high-speed phone connection cabinets were too "ugly" for the area's historic streets. Read More >>

The latest escalation in the superfast broadband war will take place this July, when BT's Openreach network department will start to offer the even-faster-superfast 330Mbps top-whack speed to its customers. Read More >>

It looks like someone's been listening to the Angry Virgin Media man, as it's emerged today that some members of parliament are concerned BT might end up with too dominant a position in our telecomms world once again. Read More >>