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BBC revamps homepage as cost cuts loom

...to drive costs down, as the BBC deals with a government-enforced licence-fee freeze Read more

21 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner

BBC Online to shed one-fifth of staff

...of jobs and redundancies. – Mark Thompson, BBC A government-enforced six-year licence fee freeze had an impact on the job cuts, Thompson told ZDNet... Read more

24 January, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Government to subsidise fibre for rural communities

...pointing to the £530m that the government recently diverted from the BBC licence fee to rural fibre as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review. The... Read more

6 December, 2010 by David Meyer

BBC licence fee to help fund superfast broadband rollouts

...said that £300m of the £530m will come directly from the BBC licence fee, with the remaining £230m funded by underspend in the UK's... Read more

20 October, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

BBC to launch Barcelona download service for TV shows

...a DVD from a shop, rather than an attempt introduce "a second licence fee by stealth". "For decades the British public have understood the distinction... Read more

15 March, 2012 by Ben Woods

Scotland unhappy with broadband cash

...from their £530m broadband fund, which was set aside from the TV licence fee," Neil added. "I will be writing to Mr Hunt today to... Read more

17 August, 2011 by Ben Woods

Office 365: Cheat Sheet

Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word: Microsoft gets serious about software as a service... Read more

29 June, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

BBC tech strategy moves centre stage

...the coalition government's policy of cuts has led to the BBC licence fee being frozen for the next six years and the BBC taking... Read more

31 March, 2011 by Tim Ferguson
UK must be bold for super-fast broadband

UK must be bold for super-fast broadband

...Broadband Future, and confirmed a commitment to spend £530m from the BBC licence fee to assist rural deployment until 2015. After that they expect to... Read more

12 March, 2011 by Malcolm Corbett

Hill farmers to get £20m for rural broadband

...thrive," she added. The RCBF scheme draws on two sources: the BBC licence fee-funded £530m pot overseen by Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK), which is... Read more

11 March, 2011 by David Meyer
Chrome 10: a first look

Chrome 10: a first look

Google's Chrome 10 delivers a full range of competitive features, and is among the most standards-compliant and fastest browsers available. Read more

10 March, 2011 by Seth Rosenblatt

Government invites fibre broadband funding applications

...— across the UK. The money was diverted from the BBC's licence fee, and is being distributed through an agency called Broadband Delivery UK... Read more

4 March, 2011

Superfast broadband: Fibre hubs to connect rural communities

...community"(Photo credit: Shutterstock) In October the coalition announced £530m of BBC licence fee and digital switchover underspend would be used to help extend next... Read more

6 December, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

1Gbps broadband: BT tests out its fattest fat pipe yet

...a href="http://www.silicon.com/technology/networks/2010/10/20/bbc-licence-fee-to-help-fund-superfast-broadband-rollouts-39746520/">earmarked £530m towards upgrading... Read more

3 December, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

Nokia company profile: What's next for the world's biggest mobile firm?

...even encourage greater take-up of the software itself by ditching the licence fee. It subsequently performed something of a volte-face, taking control of... Read more

25 November, 2010 by Jo Best

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