Can I get 5G? Vodafone announces trials in seven cities including London, Birmingham

Vodafone UK has unveiled seven cities that will become 5G test areas, with roll-outs starting between October and December this year. It includes customers in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, London and Manchester. They form part of the company's investment in building a world-class network infrastructure to support Gigabit UK, a nation where people will enjoy…

40MBit/s fibre for London and Wales from BT

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Do you live in Muswell Hill, London or Whitchurch, Cardiff? If so, you’ll be pleased as punch to hear that you’re soon going to be offered 40MBit/s broadband from BT. Of course, by “soon”, I actually mean “they’re going to send the engineers in soon”, so you won’t get your hands on it till early 2010 at the earliest. In the meantime, there’s always Virgin Media