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Broadband rollout in crisis
News The rollout of broadband services in the UK hit crisis point Tuesday as yet another operator -- World Online -- withdrew from unbundling, leaving experts demanding government and regulatory intervention to save the failing process.
[February 6, 2001, 9:40]
Broadband group outlines fibre rollout costs
News A nationwide rollout of next-generation broadband is more likely to involve fibre to the cabinet than fibre being installed all the way to homes and small businesses, a report from the Broadband Stakeholder Group has suggested.
[September 8, 2008, 17:27]
Broadband industry debates recession, rollout
News Peter Philips, head of strategy and market development for the regulator, argued that "today's economic uncertainties weaken the case for rapid public intervention" in any nationwide fibre rollout. Key players in the broadband industry have been...
[November 6, 2008, 17:04]
Broadband rollout pitched as a recession-buster
News A broadband rollout is a useful way to put money out there fairly quickly," Moulton told delegates at the economic prospects conference, which is run by the UK's technology-industry trade association, Intellect.
[February 10, 2009, 16:03]
EU throws support behind wireless-broadband rollout
News The European parliament has backed a package of telecoms measures designed to simplify the rollout of EU-wide services, such as wireless internet and mobile TV, using the spectrum previously taken up by analogue TV and radio broadcasts.
[September 25, 2008, 9:24]
BT delays hinder superfast broadband rollout
News ADSL2+ is linked to 21CN and fits in with the 21CN rollout plan," a BT spokesperson said. BT will not offer the next generation of faster fixed-line broadband services until summer next year at the earliest, with some people having to wait until 2011.
[November 13, 2006, 15:45]
Confusion at BT over broadband rollout
News BT's decision to create a Web-based broadband registration scheme appears to have led to confusion within the telco itself over future broadband rollout plans. Even though the broadband registration database will record interest against every...
[July 4, 2002, 16:19]
Rural broadband rollout hits problems
News It is an attempt to increase the rollout of high-speed Internet services across the UK, by allowing people whose local exchange isn't ADSL-enabled to show BT that they want broadband. Yorkshire market town Knaresborough has become the first part of...
[November 11, 2002, 13:15]
BT to speed up next-gen broadband rollout
News BT is planning to double the pace of its forthcoming next-generation broadband fibre rollout, bringing up to 100Mbps broadband within reach of more than a million premises next year. He said: "We will examine doubling the pace of the rollout of...
[May 15, 2009, 18:24]
BT expands broadband rollout
News BT has been criticised for the fact that its ADSL rollout concentrated on towns and cities, leaving many people in rural areas unable to get broadband. This additional rollout comes shortly after BT Wholesale cut the cost of its ADSL products.
[April 8, 2002, 10:25]
O2 overshadows BT with superfast broadband rollout
News BT's former mobile arm, O2, is challenging the telco in the broadband arena with a rapid rollout of superfast broadband. While BT is hesitating over the rollout of superfast broadband, known as ADSL2+, O2 is accelerating its own plans.
[November 15, 2006, 15:51]
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]
AOL may opt for mass-market broadband rollout
News We are presently examining the details, but it is already clear that these price cuts take us much closer to a mass-market rollout of broadband," she added. The details that AOL is looking into are thought to include service level agreements and...
[February 26, 2002, 10:35]
BT urged to get broadband rollout moving again
News BT's commercial rollout of ADSL currently covers around 60 percent of homes and 70 percent of Internet users, and the telco believes that it simply isn't commercially viable to bring ADSL to less-populated rural areas where there are much fewer...
[April 4, 2002, 14:48]
Q&A: E-commerce minister on broadband rollout
News However, I suspect that being a customer of broadband will be the biggest contribution we make to the rollout of high-speed networks in more rural areas. Do you think that if we aren't doing the same, and we don't achieve broadband rollout as...
[June 24, 2002, 14:01]
Ofcom: Mobile broadband to spur fibre rollout
News The regulator has written to communications-industry leaders inviting them to commit with Ofcom to help spur the rollout of next-generation networks across the UK and said it will aim to publish details of the regulatory framework in September.
[July 7, 2008, 8:45]
BT handed second fine for NHS broadband rollout
News The NHS IT programme is in talks with supplier BT in order to seek penalties of £4.5m for delays to the N3 broadband programme covering the health service, it was confirmed on Wednesday. The talks represent the second attempt to impose penalties on...
[December 15, 2004, 15:40]
BT suspends business broadband rollout
Talkback BT would spend it's time and money better rolling out SLADSL ("slightly less asynchronous. Most small businesses, my own included, find that a 2Mb down speed is next to useless when coupled with (handicapped by?
[August 22, 2005, 11:43]
BT names the day for rural broadband rollout
Talkback I have been in that situation for the past two years so their claims are misleading - its the % of exchanges that are enabled not the number of people who can get broadband. "technical limitations mean that homes and businesses that are more than...
[July 2, 2004, 10:07]
BT suspends business broadband rollout
News BT has stopped rolling out its business broadband service until at least early 2006, citing lack of demand caused by high prices. Earlier this month, the telco said that "symmetric broadband is ideal for business use as it supports applications...
[August 19, 2005, 13:10]
