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Rivals Accuse BT Of Stifling Broadband Britain
Talkback We switched from BT to C&W in 1999 because second line cost £4 instead of £140 and they promised broadband cable modem in three months. Recent correspondence with ntl, who took over the franchise for our area of London's Docklands, E6 & E16...
[March 28, 2004, 11:04]
News Schmooze: MOM Wants You To Pay Microsoft
News And don't forget, Britain is going to be the world broadband leader in four years -- or at least that's what Labour is promising, though whoever is their next e-minister will have his or her work cut out.
[May 11, 2001, 14:29]
Unbundling Still Stuck In The Broadband Mire
News It's up to the market to decide how it wants to deliver broadband," an Oftel spokeswoman told ZDNet UK News, citing the boom in DSL take-up as evidence that Broadband Britain is in good health. BT still faces little serious rivalry in the wholesale...
[June 13, 2003, 15:56]
ISPs Snub BT Broadband Overhaul
News Find out with ZDNet UK's Broadband Britain Guide. BT's network arm, BT Ignite, will scrap the current allocation process for broadband next month in the hope of encouraging ISPs to roll out services, but ISPs are underwhelmed.
[May 2, 2001, 6:41]
Pick Your Own Bandwidth With Satellite Broadband
News SatDrive is aiming to attract large number of customers who are currently stranded on the wrong side of Britain's broadband divide by offering a one-way satellite broadband product that lets users pay more to download large files quickly.
[October 22, 2002, 15:32]
Asia Leads The Way In Broadband Growth
News But the survey makes grim reading for advocates of 'Broadband Britain', with the UK failing to register in a top 20 which includes other European countries such as Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany and the Netherlands.
[August 28, 2002, 9:31]
Mobile Data Services To Replace Voice By 2005
News Find out with ZDNet UK's Broadband Britain Guide. Ideas such as Pubcam -- where users can tune in to their local pubs via a mobile device -- could be popular in Britain. Is broadband coming to your neighbourhood?
[May 15, 2001, 14:04]
BT: Broadband Coverage No Longer The Big Issue
News Boosting broadband take-up, rather than extending coverage, has become the top priority in the ongoing challenge of creating Broadband Britain, according to BT. Broadband's footprint is not the issue any more," said Vaz.
[January 15, 2004, 15:25]
Easynet Benefits From Faster Broadband
News The telecoms operator -- one of the few still persevering with local-loop unbundling (LLU) in Britain -- said on Thursday that average customer revenue from its own faster broadband services was up over 25 percent in 2003.
[February 26, 2004, 16:45]
High-speed Internet Hits Critical Mass
News A survey of more than 2,500 readers conducted from 4 August to 8 August 2003 has thrown the spotlight on the extent to which we're really moving towards Broadband Britain. The broadband revolution is happening -- it's official -- with more than 75...
[August 11, 2003, 12:50]
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]
BT Lures Consumers With Free Wi-Fi
News Andrew Allison, director of mobile computing at Intel UK and Ireland said more people need to experience first hand what Wi-Fi can do: "Wireless Broadband Week is about giving even more people the chance to experience the benefits of Wi-Fi, taking...
[January 5, 2004, 13:55]
Easynet Sees Fruits Of Unbundling Labours
News Easynet Group announced on Wednesday that it has achieved strong take-up of its high-speed Internet products, and claimed to be leading the way in Britain's local-loop unbundling (LLU) process. Easynet's retail arm currently sells its wholesale...
[September 4, 2002, 16:13]
BT Suspends ADSL Rollout
News The decision means that those customers living in rural or sparsely populated areas have no immediate chance of being offered ADSL, unless an operator decides there is sufficient demand or the government gets more closely involved in the push...
[November 5, 2001, 12:02]
Britain Hottest In Europe For Wi-Fi
News Britain is leading Europe's boom in the deployment of wireless Internet hot spots, according to a report published on Wednesday, even though many industry observers agree that the technology does not yet have a satisfactory business model to back...
[August 13, 2003, 12:50]
UK Wi-Fi Operators To Lay Down Their Swords?
News BT hinted on Tuesday that Britain's fragmented commercial wireless market may be on the verge of unification. Chris Clark, BT wireless broadband chief executive, said that BT was keen to give its Wi-Fi customers access to more hot spots, and...
[July 27, 2004, 17:40]
Wi-Fi Networks Kiss And Make Up
News The agreement helps to unify Britain's fragmented Wi-Fi market. Both companies are members of the Wireless Broadband Alliance, a similar roaming deal covering Europe and the US. From November, mobile workers whose company has taken out a...
[October 21, 2004, 16:15]
Rupert Goodwins' San Francisco IDF Diary
Blog Oh, and if you have a window seat you can see the north of Britain covered in snow, followed by Iceland, Greenland and Canada ditto. It's a new and self-consciously modern place, with lots of dim blue lights, staff dressed in black with...
[March 4, 2002, 8:59]
Wi-Fi Week: Should All Hot Spots Be Free?
News Since June 2002, when the government made it legal for companies to run commercial Wi-Fi networks, many operators have joined BT in rolling out services across Britain. On Monday, BT launched its wireless broadband week.
[January 27, 2004, 14:10]
Threat From TCP Hole 'small' - Researcher
News Watson was responding to news reports after Britain's national emergency response team, the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre, released an advisory about the issue based on his research.
[April 22, 2004, 9:05]
