A new development in Wembley Park, London, has the fastest broadband in the UK. Residents and businesses at the Wembley Park location have been given access to download speeds of 1Gbps following the installation of new fibre optic cables in the area.

Britain's demand for broadband could lead to internet rationing in the future, BT has warned. Andrew Ellis, professor of optical communications at Aston University, claimed that the country's entire power supply could be used up by people going online by 2035.

The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government has been accused of a broadband betrayal by the Labour Party. With less than a week to go until the general election, shadow Cabinet Office minister Chi Onwurah stated that the competitive telecoms market has been "effectively closed off" during the last five years.

New research suggests as many as almost one in five people may be influenced in how they vote at the upcoming General Election by broadband policy. A survey of 2,500 people conducted by Cable.co.uk found that 18 per cent may decide how to vote depending on the broadband pledges each party has made in the run-up to the election.

The Conservative Party has pledged that it will deliver the fastest and the cheapest superfast broadband in Europe if it wins the General Election next month. As part of the party's manifesto, which was released yesterday (14 April), the Conservatives pledged to invest £100 million in infrastructure, including upgrades for mobile and broadband.

Companies based in Worcestershire have received a business broadband boost after millions of pounds were put into a scheme designed to bring connections to more properties. The new extension to the current Superfast Worcestershire programme is set to result in more than 8,000 additional homes and businesses being able to access high-speed fibre broadband by summer 2018.

Peak broadband speeds are continuing to rise around the world, new data has shown. According to figures released as part of the State of the Internet study by Akamai, average peak connection speed grew during the fourth quarter of 2014 by 8.4 per cent to 26.9 Mbps.

Scotland's deputy first minister John Swinney has called for the introduction of a Universal Service Obligation (USO) for broadband services. In a letter to Ed Vaizey, the UK Minister for the Digital Economy, Mr Swinney argued that everyone should be able to access affordable, high-speed broadband.

Consumers are in support of the introduction of a new Universal Service Obligation (USO) for the broadband industry. According to new research carried out by ISPreview, 71.5 per cent out of 1,445 respondents stated that a USO should be brought in to deliver fixed line broadband speeds of at least 2Mbps to all parts of the UK.

The arrival of superfast broadband is set to boost the Edinburgh economy by more than £200 million a year. A project to deliver faster speeds to homes and businesses in the Scottish capital is due to get underway in the city.