The UK’s judges have rejected the claims made by both BT and TalkTalk regarding the Digital Economy Act. The act was introduced last year by the government to reduce the illegal traffic on the internet networks.

With Whitchurch making it to one of the top six spots in the BT's Race to Infinity, residents of the town are celebrating their triumph in BT's country-wide competition which largely aims at bringing high speed broadband to rural exchanges.

Six communities voted to get super fast broadband through on line poll will be getting faster broadband confirmed by BT.

Declaring the result of its contest for bringing superfast broadband connections to parts of the UK, BT has named six rural communities which bagged the highest proportion of support from their residents; thereby indicating notable demand in these areas to get online.

British Telecom's "Race to Infinity" broadband upgrade competition, which was designed to increase interest in the carrier’s fibre broadband products in rural areas, has concluded on Friday night.

As of Friday, all the customers in the top six areas had registered their interest in the scheme.

In a move that will support the UK government's plan for creating the best broadband network in Europe by 2015, BT recently announced that it intends adding up to 40 rural market towns to its ongoing fibre roll-out; along with the trial of 1Gbps residential fibre broadband in Kesgrave, Suffolk.

In a recent announcement, BT Wholesale said that customers signing up for fibre-based broadband connectivity via BT's country-wide rollout may end up getting get download speeds as low as 5Mbps.

Some of the Cornwall’s most remote areas will get super-fast fibre-optic broadband by the end of March, thanks to BT’s £132 million project.

Broadband provider BT has named eight Cornish communities that will be the first to get benefited from its upcoming pilot scheme that will bring speeds of up to 100Mbps.

On the basis if the findings of its countrywide survey last month to ascertain how the level of fibre broadband support differs across the UK, BT has revealed that Caxton in Cambridgeshire and Malvern in Worcestershire will be among the first areas to benefit from its "vote for fibre" scheme.

The BBC has given a close thought over the step to release the iPlayer on BT Vision claiming of an alliance as 'major move'.

The recent accomplishment of the iPlayer on Virgin Media's cable service and on both PS3 and Wii has proved that users will keep a track and at the same time keen to watch catch-up TV on their traditional television sets.