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Cisco Joins Wireless Broadband Group
News Wireless broadband is viewed by federal regulators, politicians and industry watchers as the third most desired option, behind digital subscriber line (DSL) and cable, for high-speed Internet access. Cisco Systems has formally joined the ranks of a...
[September 16, 2004, 12:10]
Former ICL Chief To Lead Broadband Advisory Group
News Its advice included aggregating public sector spending on broadband, as a way of encouraging telcos to offer broadband in rural areas, and also recommended that the government works closer with digital content makers.
[February 11, 2002, 15:45]
Tech Giants Get Together For Home Networking
News Many of the companies involved in the group have a common vision of connecting products so that people can use the network to access and share resources at home in much the same way they share a printer or broadband connection at work.
[June 19, 2003, 10:58]
Broadband Divide Getting Wider
News The government identified the digital divide as a problem several years ago, but one rural broadband activist pointed out that people need a reason to get connected. The analyst group also reported that it has carried out 2,000 face-to-face...
[January 19, 2006, 12:40]
How The Democrats' Win Affects Tech
News Network operators say they may need to do this to recoup their vast investments in new broadband infrastructure. In the Senate, all the Republican committee members but one voted against extensive broadband regulations.
[November 10, 2006, 10:20]
Future Net: Net Video Getting Up To Speed
News Today, the Headend-in-the-Sky developed by Tele-Communications, and now part of AT&T Broadband and Internet Services, can transmit digital cable TV signals using as little as 1.5Mbit/s of bandwidth. If you look at the variety of content and...
[September 7, 1999, 11:23]
Analysis: Microsoft Set To Dominate Broadband, Squares Up To BT
News The Commission looked at possible dominance of the digital TV access market but didn't look at the broadband market in general," he says. Microsoft has emerged from its DoJ mauling bruised but determined and now it wants a large piece of the...
[July 13, 2000, 8:01]
Broadband Britain At Risk From Internet Piracy
News The UK's broadband boom is likely to falter unless more progress is made towards combating digital piracy, the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG) has warned. Digital Rights Management and micro-payments are becoming 'make or break' issues for the...
[July 24, 2003, 16:33]
US Telecoms Regulators Reveal Contentious Vision
News This is not a brave new world of broadband but simply the old system of local monopoly dressed up in a digital cloak. The massive set of new regulations comes at the end of the regulatory body's Triennial Review process, which was aimed at bringing...
[August 22, 2003, 11:20]
Free DSL No April Fools' Joke
News With so many ISPs offering free 56K-modem Internet access, can it be much of a surprise that Broadband Digital Group wasn't far behind in launching FreeDSL, the first free broadband consumer Internet-access service?
[January 4, 2000, 8:16]
Digital Community Best Practices
White Papers This paper provides local government stakeholders with a process overview of the implementation stages for a Digital Community metro-area broadband solution, including core-group needs analysis, building a business case and community consensus...
[January 19, 2006, 23:00]
Consortium Pushes Train Wi-Fi
News A group of IT vendors are negotiating with train operators to offer them another way of providing their passengers wireless broadband access via satellite. We can deliver a wireless broadband solution that offers high-speed services to rail...
[April 20, 2005, 15:45]
Making Rural Broadband Happen - As Easy As ABC?
News In the same way that CUT led to FRIACO and unmetered Internet access, ABC's agenda is to address the broadband digital divide and to find first mile solutions," explained Wilson. Called ABC, the group aims to boost the rollout of broadband in...
[April 29, 2003, 16:42]
E-commerce Minister 'neglecting IT For Energy'
News These include turmoil in the Post Office, predictions that the UK will soon run short of energy supplies, and fears that this summer's shock power cut in London could recur -- on top of growing rural anger about broadband blackspots and the...
[October 28, 2003, 16:20]
Virgin Mobile And NTL: The UK's First Quad-play Offering?
News Not only this, but NTL is struggling to improve its digital TV offering, raising broadband speeds and pushing into the business market. This would create a group with 3.3 million cable TV customers, 2.5 million broadband Internet customers, 4.3...
[December 20, 2005, 15:55]
Dixons Ditches High Street For The Web
News Customer buying behaviours are developing with the growth in broadband usage and, as a group, we constantly adapt and innovate to support how our customers shop," Clare added. Electrical goods retailer DSG said that it will rebrand its high street...
[April 5, 2006, 12:50]
Government 'getting Closer' To Key Broadband Goal
News Britain came fifth out of seven in 'extensiveness', measured in terms of market context -- how much competition broadband faces from services such as unmetered narrowband and digital TV -- and availability, or coverage.
[May 7, 2003, 13:48]
Fat Pipes Fail Broadband Britain
News The year-long study, called Fat Pipes, Connected People, was conducted in partnership with the Broadband Stakeholders Group and watched how eight families, two home workers and two businesses used broadband.
[October 28, 2003, 12:40]
BT To Show Premiership On Broadband
News It will essentially be a Freeview equivalent, except its digital TV side will be combined with a broadband-powered pay-per-view capability for premium content. Hundreds of Premier League football matches from 2007 to 2010 will be available on pay...
[May 25, 2006, 17:25]
Internet World: Broadband On A Roll
News High-speed Internet access, otherwise known as broadband, is one of the major undercurrents of the show. It's spawned forums devoted to media convergence and Internet video, and prompted scores of broadband-related product announcements.
[April 13, 1999, 7:48]
