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E-envoy: Broadband Divide Will Wreck Rural Economy
Talkback Its still not just 'rural' areas that can't get broadband. Here in Milton Keynes there are still significant fractions of the town still too far (mainly due to the extremely circuitous cable routes ) from an exchange to get Broadband service.
[September 29, 2003, 11:05]
Broadband: The State We're In
News Back in 2001, the prime minister, Tony Blair, pledged that the UK would have the most extensive and competitive broadband market of all the G7 nations by 2005. But despite these aggressive predictions for the future, the UK's current broadband...
[March 30, 2004, 17:35]
Broadband Boom Set To Transform Britain
News New studies show a boom in DSL (digital subscriber line) connections and broadband satellite dishes coming to Europe. The market must contend with rapidly changing standards, installation and provisioning challenges, and competition from other...
[February 9, 2001, 16:18]
Broadband Prices To Halve By 1 April
News Broadband prices will fall to £30 per month or lower after BT announced on Tuesday that it will slash the cost of its wholesale consumer product by 50 percent. The cost of BT's wholesale home user broadband package, which is offered by around 200...
[February 26, 2002, 8:49]
Broadband Boom Boosts BT's Profits
News As in previous quarters, the broad theme of BT's results was a sharp increase in revenues from services such as broadband, in tandem with a decline in income from traditional telephony services. BT announced that by the end of last year it was...
[February 9, 2006, 13:40]
Broadband Price Cuts Likely To Win Oftel Approval
News It's still early days, but the indication from Oftel is that it is likely to approve BT's broadband price cuts. If Oftel agrees, then BT's lower prices -- which will mean consumers paying £30 or less per month for broadband -- will come into effect...
[February 26, 2002, 17:51]
Broadband Lures Small Firms To Hosted Services
News Thanks to broadband, small businesses are increasingly likely to use hosted services such as calendar-sharing and collaboration, research published on Monday said. Fifty-two percent of the companies, the vast majority of which have fewer than 15...
[May 23, 2005, 17:45]
Broadband Competition Boosted By Ofcom
News The UK broadband market could become more competitive in 2005 following Ofcom's decision to force BT to slash its wholesale prices. The communications regulator announced on Thursday that it was forcing BT to substantially cut its local-loop...
[December 17, 2004, 15:45]
Broadband For A Tenner - But Only Up North
News Internet users living in Leeds and Bradford will be able to take advantage of a cheap broadband service as business broadband operator Tele2 extends its offer to consumers. While BT offers ADSL for £39.99 per month and cable companies attempt to...
[November 1, 2000, 12:45]
Broadband Surfers Get Free Hacking Defence
News Broadband Internet users in the UK with BTopenworld are to be provided with free security from Internet Security Systems (ISS), following a deal announced at the ISS Connect 2001 Security Summit in Atlanta on Wednesday.
[March 14, 2001, 14:00]
Broadband Campaigners Demand More Govt Leadership
News Broadband activists have called on e-commerce minister Stephen Timms to give a more powerful lead in the drive to create Broadband Britain 2010. Brian Condon, chief executive of the Access to Broadband Campaign, said on Wednesday that Timms is...
[April 8, 2004, 16:35]
Broadband Britain's Milestones Shattered
Talkback I live about 3km from my enabled exchange and still cannot receive broadband. BT 6km range is a myth. BT tests show that "I live too far from the exchange.but I live much less than 6km from the exchange.
[May 20, 2004, 11:19]
Broadband Misses Its Connection
Leader The British broadband industry is keen to change this: it wants to make 'changing ISP' the equal to any of those more established happenings. If the broadband industry doesn't fancy living in such times, it knows what it has to do.
[August 30, 2006, 15:50]
Broadband Divide Getting Wider
Talkback The primary obstacle to universal domestic broadband is that, although the facility is thoeretically available to all cable users, every residence that has a bt connection is not equipped at the exchange for the service.
[January 22, 2006, 13:35]
Broadband Prevails For UK Internet
News Nearly nine out of 10 connections to the internet in the UK are now made via broadband, according to the latest quarterly survey from the Office for National Statistics. In a survey of internet connectivity carried out in September 2007, the ONS...
[November 21, 2007, 7:48]
Broadband Have-nots To Raise A Political Stink
Talkback If the copper wire from the exchange is greater than 4 miles you cant get Broadband What percentage of people does this represent ? I live 3.5 miles from the center of Maidenhead and there is no way that I can get connected because the line does...
[January 16, 2004, 16:14]
Broadband Connectivity Revitalizes Communities
White Papers Northern New York State is predominately a rural area that has limited access to emerging broadband communications. As a result, businesses, residents and other community organizations, such as school districts, were limited in their ability to...
[January 10, 2008, 23:00]
Broadband Britain's Milestones Shattered
Talkback I am one of the 10% who still cannot get broadband. I live to far from my local exchange and find it very hard to believe that only 10% can not get it.
[May 19, 2004, 14:29]
Broadband Take-up Doubles In Six Months
News Broadband take-up in the UK has more than doubled since the start of 2002, leading to optimism that the vision of Broadband Britain is finally becoming a reality. Figures released by Oftel this week show that at the end of June 2002 a total of 709...
[July 12, 2002, 12:05]
Broadband Boom Saves BT From Break-up
News The recent surge in broadband take-up in the UK has saved BT from the threat of being forced to split its retail and network operations. Because Oftel has sufficient regulatory powers to develop a competitive broadband market, the option of...
[July 17, 2002, 10:45]
