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Birmingham Wants Affordable Broadband For All
News A Birmingham City Council cabinet member has called on broadband providers to help families who struggle to afford the service. He said that government figures showing there are 800,000 pupils without broadband access in their homes shows there is...
[January 24, 2008, 12:46]
Government Urged To Act On Wireless Broadband
News Wireless is the key to giving everyone in Britain access to an affordable high-speed Internet service, according to the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG). Currently, around one-third of households can't access either BT's ADSL network or the cable...
[November 25, 2002, 15:54]
Scots Demand Government Cash For Broadband Rollout
News Two Scottish politicians claimed on Monday that the Highlands will remain a broadband desert unless taxpayer's money is spent to subsidise the rollout of affordable high-speed Internet services in Scotland.
[September 23, 2002, 15:06]
'Urgent Action Needed' Over Broadband Divide
News One of the leading figures in the UK broadband scene has demanded immediate action to address the fact that one in three households cannot get affordable broadband. Both BT and the government have said that broadband rollout must be market...
[October 21, 2002, 14:17]
Drive To Broadband-enable Scotland Is Launched
News The contract, which will run for five years, is to provide affordable broadband services to parts of Scotland where commercial broadband services are not being made available. The underlying objective of this project is to prevent the creation of a...
[August 10, 2004, 17:30]
Government Throws Cash At Broadband Problem
News The money is being targeted at those areas where it is most difficult for consumers to obtain broadband at on affordable price. In the short term, the initiative is unlikely to resolve one fundamental problem -- that homes in many parts of the...
[October 9, 2001, 11:48]
MPs Urge More Action On Wireless Broadband
News Leading a debate on broadband in rural areas, Sir George Young MP criticised the government for not doing enough to close a digital divide which currently means that somewhere between 80 and 90 percent of rural areas have no access to affordable...
[March 26, 2003, 8:05]
Scotland To Resolve Broadband Reach
News However, the Scottish government has been monitoring continuing access difficulties and aims to satisfy the unmet demand for affordable broadband. By extending the availability of affordable broadband, we can help create a wealthier and fairer...
[October 8, 2007, 8:27]
Broadband Black Spots Hit Urban Firms
News While the lack of availability of broadband in rural areas is a well-recognised, if not necessarily a well-addressed, problem, the BCC survey found that a worrying number of companies in urban locations also can't get an affordable broadband link.
[September 1, 2003, 16:00]
BT Vows To Keep Cutting ADSL Costs
News Danon put some of the blame for this on the regulatory framework that BT must work within, but promised that broadband would become more affordable in the future. According to the Communications Management Association, two thirds of companies...
[October 10, 2001, 13:45]
Public Sector Spending To Boost Rural Broadband
News Opening the Broadband Britain Conference in London on Wednesday, Timms said he was confident that the new policy would help those people who still cannot get access to affordable broadband. Over 30 percent of the UK population cannot get affordable...
[June 26, 2002, 17:04]
Pick Your Own Bandwidth With Satellite Broadband
News Despite this, Lambkin believes his product will appeal to many of those in rural and semi-rural areas who cannot get affordable broadband. There are something in the region of 400,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who can't get...
[October 22, 2002, 15:32]
LocustWorld: Swarming Over The Traditional Telcos
News This was a critical time for the UK broadband market, when thousands of rural locations had no hope of affordable high-speed connectivity any time soon. The duo appear to have cracked mesh networking [see box-out] with some innovative open source...
[December 30, 2004, 13:25]
Jane Wakefield: Unbundling Is No Bundle Of Laughs
News When eventually Oftel realised that unbundling was not just desirable but essential if the UK was to offer affordable broadband services it set about doing as little as possible to speed the process along.
[February 6, 2001, 10:12]
Price War Looming Over Faster ADSL
News Many UK Web users could soon be able to get a 1Mbps broadband connection for £30 a month or less. Both Freedom2Surf and Pipex are planning to shatter the £30 per month barrier with their forthcoming faster broadband products, and several of their...
[September 4, 2003, 15:15]
MPs Worried By Broadband Divide
News Over 30 percent of the UK population cannot get affordable broadband, according to official figures. John Thurso, MP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, fears that remote areas such as the Scottish Highlands will never get affordable...
[May 3, 2002, 12:58]
Government Subsidies 'would Harm Broadband Britain'
News Around one in three homes and businesses cannot get affordable broadband as they are located outside the broadband networks of BT, NTL and Telewest. The UK government should not subsidise the rollout of high-speed Internet services across Britain...
[November 15, 2002, 15:10]
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. Currently, affordable broadband services are available to around 80 percent of the...
[September 26, 2003, 12:05]
OFCOM 'will Not Help' Rural Broadband Crisis
News The government's flagship Communications Bill offers little new help to the many millions of UK people who have no access to affordable broadband services at home, according to the head of Oftel. Anne Picking MP, a member of this committee, asked...
[May 28, 2002, 11:30]
WiMAX: The Next Big Step In Wireless Broadband? - A Technical And Regulatory Overview
White Papers As the next evolutionary step of its WiFi predecessor, WiMAX is being touted as an easily deployable "third pipe" that will deliver both flexible and affordable last-mile broadband access to millions.
[January 16, 2005, 23:00]
