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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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 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
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 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
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]
BT Speeds Up Broadband Rollout Scheme
News BT is changing its broadband demand registration scheme, which the company uses to assess broadband demand in areas that are currently not covered by its ADSL network. From today, BT will begin upgrading a local exchange to ADSL as soon as enough...
[December 17, 2002, 11:58]
BT Names The Day For Rural Broadband Rollout
News More than 1,000 communities across the UK who can't get high-speed Internet at present learned this week exactly how long they will have to wait until they can join Broadband Britain. These exchanges aren't currently broadband-enabled, but BT says...
[July 1, 2004, 17:25]
Bush Calls For Faster Broadband Rollout
News Although both cable and digital subscriber line (DSL) providers offer broadband access to the Internet, DSL technology has been treated differently because it uses telephone lines to transmit data. Open access," or the ability of broadband...
[June 14, 2002, 11:03]
Ntl To Supply Own ADSL To Small Business
News Cable operator ntl announces Monday it will roll out its own ADSL service following increasing frustration with BT's (quote: BT) broadband rollout plans. In the first instant -- rollout is expected in February -- the service will be aimed at small...
[October 10, 2000, 12:11]
E-commerce Minister: No Rural Broadband Subsidies
News The UK government is still not prepared to subsidise the rollout of broadband to rural areas, as is happening in some other countries, despite increasing concern that a digital divide is emerging between broadband haves and have-nots.
[June 24, 2002, 14:11]
Alexander Warned Over Broadband Complacency
News AOL has warned the new e-commerce minister that Britain is still facing big problems in the rollout of broadband Internet services. Douglas Alexander's comments were made in an interview with the Guardian newspaper, in which he said he disagreed...
[June 25, 2001, 15:27]
