Scotland at 95% broadband coverage; ‘890,000 premises connected’
More than 95% of Scotland’s homes and businesses are now able to connect to fibre broadband, the Scottish Government has announced. The roll-out has been delivered through the Digital Scotland…
Remote Scottish community tops UK broadband with 1Gbps speeds
An ambitious community in a remote Scottish glen has been praised for significantly boosting its broadband, joining a small fraction of properties in the UK able to reach speeds of…
Virgin Media to boost Scotland’s broadband connectivity
Virgin Media has announced a boost for Scotland with its plans to connect thousands more Scottish homes and businesses in 2018 as part of its Project Lightning ultrafast broadband expansion…
£25m programme announced to address Scotland’s 4G ‘notspots’
The procurement process for a £25m project to address mobile ‘notspots’ across Scotland has been announced. The Scottish 4G Infill Programme will fund new mobile telephone masts in locations with…
Strathclyde University wins bid to be a UK test-bed for 5G technology
The UK Government has announced the winners of a £25m competition to pave the way for the roll-out of 5G technology and explore its potential for rural communities, tourism, and…
Aberdeen to become Scotland’s first gigabit-speed fibre broadband city
Aberdeen is set to become a forerunner for digital transformation in Scotland with the announcement of a new Gigabit-capable full fibre broadband network under the Vodafone and CityFibre Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP)…
‘Alexa, let’s chat for 20 minutes like normal human beings’
In August 2016, Amazon challenged the world’s artificial intelligence research community to help them make Alexa, its cloud-based, intelligent personal assistant system, able to hold a natural, 20-minute conversation with…
Renfrewshire tackles fuel poverty with IoT technology
An internet of things (IoT) initiative underway in Renfrewshire is helping to tackle fuel poverty in social housing and could save local authorities millions of pounds on property management and…
Hibs tops digital league as first Scottish club to score Gigabit City connection
Hibernian FC is the latest to connect to Edinburgh’s Gigabit City network, making it the first Scottish team to benefit from ultrafast full-fibre internet connectivity Hibs’ Easter Road stadium now…
‘Laughable’, says Ewing of notion that Scotland is behind rest of UK on broadband
Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy and Connectivity Fergus Ewing has responded to UK Government claims that Scotland is lagging behind the rest of the UK on superfast broadband because…
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