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AOL broadband will dodge VAT
News HM Customs and Excise ruled in 1997 that an Internet access package that involved "the supply of some content in addition to the provision of Internet access" would not be liable for VAT in the UK if the company providing the package was based...
[June 12, 2002, 9:36]
Digital jukebox will use broadband to storm pubs
News Thousands of models of the digital jukebox should be rolled out across Britain's pubs over the next two years. Thousands of pubs will soon be offering customers the chance to use the latest device to fuse high-speed Internet access and digital...
[November 24, 2003, 16:50]
E-envoy calls for end to broadband deadlock
News But while Britain now has genuine unmetered narrowband access, it trails far behind Germany, the US and Asian regions such as South Korea in terms of the accessibility of high-speed services. The government's e-envoy, Andrew Pinder, called for...
[June 26, 2001, 15:55]
BT plays down talk of broadband broadcasting
News However, City investors have reacted negatively in the past to the idea of Britain's dominant telco attempting to take on the likes of BSkyB and the BBC, and the idea was being played down by BT on Monday.
[July 12, 2004, 17:20]
Government moves goalposts in broadband licence debacle
News The remaining 26 unsold licences covered almost half the UK population -- and the vast majority of Britain geographically, including many of the same areas that were not covered by BT's ADSL network. The chances of the 28GHz spectrum being used for...
[September 4, 2002, 14:08]
A-Z Great Britain Super Scale Road Map 2009
Downloads Covering the same area as the Great Britain Super Scale Road Atlas, this publication consists of coloured road mapping of Great Britain which includes motorways open with full junction detail, motorways under construction and proposed, service...
[September 14, 2005, 8:00]
ISPs angry about broadband regulation
Talkback isp's should not be surprised that bt treats everyone, not just isp's with arrogant contempt.they have the same attitude to their customers and their staff.some of their staff try their best and deserve better; they should find something more...
[February 7, 2005, 18:56]
ISPA: Set trigger levels for all exchanges
News Trigger levels for broadband, no matter how high, should be set on all exchanges in order to give a better idea of much work is required as part of a drive to get the whole of Britain broadband-enabled, according to the UK's biggest Internet trade...
[October 29, 2003, 17:20]
Oftel to push for wholesale Midband?
News BT could be required by Oftel to offer a wholesale version of Midband, the forthcoming 'sub-broadband' product that the telco has claimed will help to close Britain's broadband divide. Oftel will conduct a general review of the UK's broadband...
[February 10, 2003, 12:21]
Industry group demands fix for 'weak' cybercrime laws
News That was the message from the Communications Management Association (CMA) on Monday, as it kicked off a debate into Broadband Britain at the Enterprise Networks show in London. The threats facing Britain's Internet-enabled companies and consumers...
[July 5, 2004, 17:15]
Cable beats ADSL to one million mark
News According to NTL and Telewest, this shows that cable is playing a fundamental role in the creation of Broadband Britain. Over one million people now get broadband via cable, as NTL and Telewest continue to keep pace with BT in the high-speed...
[April 30, 2003, 17:10]
Hundreds of exchanges fail BT trigger test
News BT said this week that it cannot set achievable broadband trigger levels for 322 local telephone exchanges across rural Britain. After examining these local exchanges and assessing the cost of ADSL-enabling them, the telco has calculated that there...
[October 16, 2003, 15:50]
E-envoy: broadband divide will wreck rural economy
News Britain's rural areas face a bleak economic future unless affordable broadband services are made available across the whole of the UK, the e-envoy warned this week. Given that most new employment these days is IT-based, we need to have IT...
[September 26, 2003, 12:05]
End in sight for spectrum refarming debate
Blog Lord Carter, of Digital Britain fame, has summoned all the mobile operators to a series of meetings, to be chaired by Broadband Stakeholder Group chief Kip Meek. In effect, the issue is holding up the 2.6GHz spectrum auction that was supposed to...
[February 11, 2009, 10:06]
BT to begin public trial of 256Kbps ADSL
News BT is moving closer to making a slower ADSL product available to Britain's Internet service providers (ISPs). The telco will begin testing a wholesale 256 kilobits-per-second ADSL broadband product called IPStream Home 250 next month, in a trial...
[June 22, 2004, 17:35]
Intel and Alcatel form WiMax alliance
News WiMax is already being tested as a method of closing Britain's broadband divide. WiMax, a wide-area wireless broadband technology, is viewed as a cheaper alternative to DSL (digital subscriber line) and cable broadband access, because the...
[March 26, 2004, 12:10]
BT faces legal action over ADSL
News We want to clearly be the leader in broadband (in Britain)," Green said. However, it emerged Wednesday that BT's own ISP, Openworld, may be getting preferential treatment in its efforts to connect broadband ADSL users.
[February 8, 2001, 10:33]
BT stretches ADSL to reach a million more
News BT has announced details of a broadband trial taking place in Milton Keynes this summer that could eventually make high-speed Internet access available to another million people across Britain. By extending reach, we will bring service to many of...
[April 19, 2004, 12:55]
Ntl u-turns on Napster ban
News Find out with ZDNet UK's Broadband Britain Guide. Users of its cable modem broadband service have been complaining that the firm has adjusted its acceptable usage policy to include bans on downloading music and other file-sharing activities.
[March 30, 2001, 15:10]
E-commerce needs a new hero
Leader He pushed through the legalisation of Wi-Fi networks in the UK, and played an important role behind the scenes in working with BT to make Broadband Britain a reality. With ADSL coverage now reaching 95 percent, this is also the time for mature...
[February 28, 2005, 11:55]
