ISPs, rights groups react to gov't P2P proposals
News Lord Carter, the author of the Digital Britain report that kicked off the consultation, had rejected disconnection as a sanction in the report. Many people may be unaware that the way they are downloading is illegal, and this announcement should...
[August 25, 2009, 15:18]
BT defends download limits
News The move is at odds with the vision of Broadband Britain that BT's chief executive Sir Peter Bonfield has been promoting. With a conventional local connection, downloading a piece of music is pretty slow and you might as well put the kettle on.
[October 8, 2001, 15:00]
Businesses urged to plan for Digital Britain
Blog We were talking about the possible effects on business of universal broadband access, as proposed in the Digital Britain report being written by Lord Carter. What does the business do if people with flu are eating up available bandwidth downloading...
[April 28, 2009, 17:05]
Study: Mobile-broadband speeds are below 1Mbps
News The upcoming Digital Britain report is expected to recommend that the whole of the UK be served with minimum broadband speeds of 2Mbps. Epitro monitored activities such as downloading, VoIP calling, web surfing, streaming video use and online...
[June 10, 2009, 15:14]
ISPs given deadline for file-sharing crackdown
News BERR along with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS), have given this deadline, published on Friday in a paper entitled Creative Britain: New Talents for the New Economy.
[February 22, 2008, 12:57]
BT to let broadband users boost their bandwidth
News The telco plans to trial a 'flexible bandwidth' service that will allow users to increase the speed of their broadband connection from 512Kbps to 2Mbps on occasions when a faster downloading speed is needed.
[March 11, 2004, 14:05]
Digital Britain report delayed
Blog Comment It was quoted that a Lord Carter became Angry after being unable to watch 'Gladiator' in its entirety after download throttling was enabled on his account for alledgely downloading the film for free. Private Eye@
[June 14, 2009, 6:10]
