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Subsidy boost for business broadband
News The WDA announced on Wednesday that it is raising the maximum amount of subsidy available when a company signs up for a broadband connection. The WDA said it anticipates that these new higher levels of subsidy will make broadband as cheap for Welsh...
[March 24, 2004, 16:25]
'Subsidise broadband', says US ex-regulator
News While acknowledging that governments have more pressing priorities for their budgets, such as the war on terror, he said: "In many national economies it does seem that such a plan (government subsidy of broadband) is superior to a pure market...
[September 19, 2002, 9:53]
Maps show UK fibre rollout plans
News According to Point Topic, fibre-based broadband access should be economically viable, without subsidy, in the green areas that show high population density. According to Point Topic, this map shows that BT's planned next-generation access (NGA...
[November 12, 2009, 15:20]
Ofcom: No public funding for 21CN competitors
News I would not be surprised if it turned out that we didn't need any subsidy and the bulk of next generation access was done by the market in exactly the same way that current generation broadband evolved.
[April 11, 2007, 17:49]
E-envoy: broadband divide will wreck rural economy
News The select committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs examined the factors behind this broadband divide this summer, and concluded that direct subsidy from the government was needed to persuade telcos to build high-speed broadband networks...
[September 26, 2003, 12:05]
Broadband can be available everywhere
Talkback Again, expensive, but it is probable that the satellite ISP would offer a subsidy for a long contract. Those who live in remote areas that are beyond the reach of current wired systems do have choices for broadband.
[September 6, 2008, 11:43]
Government subsidies 'would harm Broadband Britain'
News Such a move, Dawson warns, would be counter-productive in the long-term as it could create an inefficient broadband market that was reliant on subsidy. The UK government should not subsidise the rollout of high-speed Internet services across...
[November 15, 2002, 15:10]
Easynet's trigger scheme aims to close broadband divide
News Once you aggregate the needs of the NHS, local councils and businesses in the area you can actually find enough demand so that Easynet can roll broadband out with no public subsidy," explained Justin Fielder, Easynet's business development director.
[September 17, 2003, 18:05]
Drive to broadband-enable Scotland is launched
News Faced with this reluctance from the private sector to make broadband more widely available in Scotland, the Executive has decided that public subsidy is the way forward. The Scottish Executive is inviting telecoms operators to bid for a contract to...
[August 10, 2004, 17:30]
Freeserve's broadband complaint bites the dust
News But Freeserve quickly complained to Oftel that BT Openworld had been given advanced notification of these price cuts, and that Openworld's broadband pricing was unfairly low and constituted cross-subsidy by the telco.
[November 21, 2003, 12:10]
Oftel to reinvestigate BT broadband
News In the first complaint, Freeserve alleged that BT Wholesale had abused its dominant position through "cross-subsidy, discrimination and predatory pricing as well as through sending out a 'Telephone Census' to its customers.
[April 16, 2003, 16:06]
Going the extra mile for universal broadband
Leader Various regional agencies have all moved down the direct subsidy route, managing to get round European rules on state aid. The collapse of the government's broadband aggregation scheme less than 18 months after its launch does little to allay the...
[November 30, 2004, 13:05]
Freeserve sparks BT broadband enquiry
News In the first complaint, Freeserve alleged that BT Wholesale had abused its dominant position through "cross-subsidy, discrimination and predatory pricing as well as through sending out a 'Telephone Census' to its customers".
[November 12, 2002, 7:33]
BT to pay ISPs to run broadband adverts
News Other interesting questions are whether Oftel will regard this as some form of cross-subsidy, especially if BTopenworld benefits from this plan, and why BT doesn't just use the money to drop the price of the service.
[January 14, 2002, 17:44]
No free broadband for businesses
News You can only call it free because you allocate the price of it to another part of the bundle - back in the days of the incumbents we used to call that cross-subsidy. The last two months have seen the emergence of a number of supposedly "free...
[August 1, 2006, 9:20]
X-Series pricing tests mobile broadband market
News However, Bubley pointed out that the level of subsidy offered by 3 on X-Series handsets would be another major factor if the cost of the phone means "you're spending an extra £150 quid than you would on another contract".
[December 1, 2006, 10:59]
AltaVista offers free Net service
News Initially, it starts off as a subsidy model for broadband," he said. I don't know that we could generate enough revenue to have broadband for free. The company is working on a Mac version of the software and has also been looking into broadband.
[August 13, 1999, 9:32]
A Year Ago: AltaVista offers free Net service
News Initially, it starts off as a subsidy model for broadband," he said. I don't know that we could generate enough revenue to have broadband for free. The company is working on a Mac version of the software and has also been looking into broadband.
[August 13, 2000, 7:10]
What the Obama presidency means for tech
News When Barack Obama becomes US president in January with a strongly Democratic Congress, he'll have the chance to push a technology policy that relies more on government subsidy and regulation than that of his immediate predecessor.
[November 6, 2008, 11:15]
Rival supplier reports BT for 'illegal subsidy'
News All-optic broadband supplier Vtesse has reported BT to the EC as receiving an 'illegal subsidy' because the rates on its network are calculated in a different way to those of its competitors. Aidan Paul, Vtesse's chief executive, said: "It's unfair.
[April 16, 2004, 8:40]
