Making Rural Broadband Happen - As Easy As ABC?
News Called ABC, the group aims to boost the rollout of broadband in remote and rural areas and has a particular focus on wireless. One of ABC's founders is Lindsey Annison, who is a driving force behind Edenfaster -- a community wireless broadband...
[April 29, 2003, 16:42]
2010: A Broadband Odyssey
News The Access to Broadband Campaign (ABC) was launched last year by several of Britain's leading broadband activists. So I began investigating whether I could set up by own broadband network, perhaps by using satellite, read about ABC and pitched up...
[April 8, 2004, 16:30]
Broadband Campaigners: The Job's Not Finished
News The Access to Broadband Campaign (ABC) has accused government and industry of losing interest in the future of high-speed Internet access in the UK, now that near-universal ADSL coverage has been achieved.
[November 10, 2005, 16:00]
Oftel Urged To Improve Its Broadband Stats
News The newly formed Access to Broadband Campaign (ABC) has urged the regulator to take a closer look at alternative technologies that are being implemented in rural areas where ADSL and cable broadband are not available.
[June 2, 2003, 13:47]
Rural-broadband Campaigners Sell Out In The City
News The event, organised by the Access to Broadband Campaign (ABC), will take place on 9 July and has sold out. We've been overwhelmed by the response to the ABC conference. The top-level support we have received confirms that this is a very live...
[July 4, 2003, 14:38]
Agenda Set For Rural Broadband Push
News It has been organised by the Access to Broadband Campaign (ABC), a group of community broadband activists who want to accelerate the rollout of high speed Internet access throughout the UK. Speakers at the event will include representatives from...
[June 6, 2003, 15:20]
Towards Broadband Britain 2.0
Leader But this isn't the endgame, at least according to the Access to Broadband Campaign (ABC). ABC finds itself shunned by its former allies, and without industry and government support it has had to auction off the sponsorship of its keynote speech on...
[November 11, 2005, 15:15]
Hundreds Of Exchanges Fail BT Trigger Test
News Over 20 groups of broadband activists, including the Access to Broadband Campaign (ABC), have now banded together in an umbrella organisation called the Community Broadband Network (CBN). Lindsey Annison, one of ABC's founders, believes that the...
[October 16, 2003, 15:50]
Tories Hit Out Over Broadband Speeds
News In actual fact, the definition of what constitutes broadband is open to some dispute, with many considering the definition of broadband to be services over 500Kbps," Fabricant told the audience at the conference, which was organised by the Access...
[January 29, 2004, 16:05]
Broadband Campaigners Demand More Govt Leadership
News Back in January, at an ABC conference, Timms said he was starting to consider the broadband roadmap towards 2010, and in a Broadband Stakeholder Group document published earlier this month, he wrote that it is now time to consider a new generation...
[April 8, 2004, 16:35]
AOL Time Warner Could Tap Music, Video Wealth
News That, however, could raise concerns among competitors who have feared that the merger could create a content monopoly, similar to allegations faced by rival, Walt Disney, after its purchase of ABC. After all, a cornerstone of America Online's...
[January 12, 2001, 10:25]
Help Sought As Campaigners Push The Rural Agenda
News The Access To Broadband Campaign (ABC) will hold the Rural and Regional Broadband Conference in London on 9 July. It is an opportunity, according to ABC, for the whole of the broadband sector to meet and discuss possible ways of closing this gap.
[May 16, 2003, 15:05]
BT Trials Wireless Broadband Service
News ABC firmly believes that partnership is the way forward, so will BT be looking to partner with people on the ground to create new and innovate services? It is positive news that BT is doing a proof of concept product at 5.8GHz," said John Wilson...
[December 16, 2003, 16:40]
Rural Broadband Conference Sunk By Funding Squeeze
News The ABC had hoped to run a conference on Tuesday to debate the new broadband divide. Over the past few years, rural activists such as ABC have played an important role in driving the rollout of broadband across the UK.
[November 21, 2005, 10:30]
