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A Year Ago: Oftel says July 2001 'delay' won't affect UK
News No unbundling of the local loop till July 2001, says Oftel, Britain can play catch up. Speaking to journalists, David Edmonds, Director General of Telecommunications at Oftel, described BT's move towards unbundling as "delayed" but denied Britain...
[November 30, 2000, 6:05]
A great year for Broadband Britain?
News The last 12 months have seen real progress in the drive towards Broadband Britain. There's rather more to Broadband Britain than just BT, as any government spokesperson will tell you if you ask about the soggy firecracker that is local-loop...
[December 30, 2002, 6:11]
Bad times here to stay for IT sector
News According to the 2001 Holway Report, last year saw the lowest revenue growth for Britain's IT service and software companies -- below ten percent -- since the early 1990s. Tough times across the Atlantic have already impacted on Britain, with both...
[June 4, 2001, 16:31]
Mobile handset figures branded fake
News Orange now has a total of 11 million users in Britain, and 33.1 million across the world. Unlike its major rivals in Britain, who announced their subscriber figures for Q1 2001, Orange does not seem to be experiencing a slowdown in attracting new...
[April 9, 2001, 10:08]
MmO2: We've stopped the BT rot
News Peter Erskine said that mmO2's operations in countries such as Britain, Germany and Ireland were in poor shape when the firm was spun off from BT's mobile operations. He praised O2's partnership with Tesco in the UK and predicted that O2 would soon...
[March 17, 2004, 12:35]
2001: Britons get comfortable online
News Fears that a socio-economic Internet division was forming in Britain were slightly eased at the start of 2001, with news that the number of underprivileged households getting connected had risen by 870,000 in the past 12 months.
[December 30, 2001, 6:31]
Blair called to stick to telecoms commitment
News Both argue that the wording of the EC document means Britain needs only a 'legal framework' for unbundling by January. Take me to the Broadband Britain guide Earlier this year Tony Blair made a commitment to opening up the local loop by the...
[October 18, 2000, 12:03]
New e-commerce minister is broadband believer
News Almost eight years ago he slammed the Conservative government for its failure to help the rollout of high-speed data networks in Britain, which he insisted were vital for the provision of new telecommunications services.
[May 30, 2002, 14:12]
British man to be extradited for US military hacks
News After McKinnon was charged with the network break-in, the DOJ worked to try McKinnon in the United States, said Judy Prue, a spokeswoman for the Britain's National High-Tech Crime Unit. In May, two citizens of Kazakhstan were extradited from...
[November 13, 2002, 9:10]
News Burst: Britain loves technology
News Britain is an officially tech-savvy nation with nearly half of the adult population using the Internet, according to the Official Yearbook of the United Kingdom published Thursday. Britain 2001 based on data from the Office of National Statistics...
[December 15, 2000, 9:23]
Official: Britain loves technology
News Britain is an officially tech-savvy nation with nearly half of the adult population using the Internet, according to the Official Yearbook of the United Kingdom published Thursday. Britain 2001 based on data from the Office of National Statistics...
[December 15, 2000, 11:10]
Broadband blunders hit UK online
News Britain has the highest level of Internet penetration in Europe, but still has a long way to go in making broadband available to the nation, the trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt has admitted.
[December 4, 2001, 12:52]
2000 Roundups: The year that was
News 2000 Roundup: Broadband comes to Britain - eventually Roundup: Big Brother craze hits Britain Roundup: Everybody loves Linux Roundup: August is hot for health Roundup: The dot-com bubble pops Roundup: The dangers of chatrooms exposed
[December 28, 2000, 12:31]
Oftel says July 2001, 'delay' won't affect UK
News Speaking to journalists, David Edmonds, Director General of Telecommunications at Oftel, described BT's move towards unbundling as "delayed" but denied Britain would suffer any long term damage as a result.
[November 30, 1999, 14:30]
Britain leads the way with e-commerce
News Britain and Sweden have the highest proportion of businesses connected to the Internet. Britain ranks third for the use the Internet to improve purchasing and after sales service, and fifth for finance.
[October 12, 2001, 10:44]
News Burst: Mobile phone slump hits UK economy
News A post-Christmas decline in consumer demand for mobile phones caused a sharp drop in Britain's manufacturing output in January, according to government figures released last Friday. The index of production for January 2001, released last week by...
[March 12, 2001, 10:20]
UK tech recession is over, say analysts
News The CEBR has calculated that the decline in spending on technology products in Britain hit its lowest point in the third quarter of 2001, and stayed at that level through the fourth quarter. The UK's technology market is starting to recover...
[March 18, 2002, 16:09]
Government accepts broadband recommendations
News E-commerce minister Douglas Alexander insisted on Monday that the government was still committed to making Britain a leading broadband nation, as he accepted all but one of the recommendations made by the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG).
[December 3, 2001, 17:17]
Wireless broadband auctions: Round 2
News The Wireless Telegraphy Regulations 2001 will allow companies to bid for the right to construct and operate high-speed wireless communications services in various parts of Britain. Legislation due to come into force next week will pave the way for...
[October 5, 2001, 16:39]
UK plunges down list of top tech nations
News The country's drop in status will not be welcomed by the government, which plays up the UK's household Internet penetration, the use of e-commerce and the rapid spread of broadband as evidence that Britain is in high-tech's major leagues.
[June 23, 2003, 13:44]
