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Agenda set for rural broadband push
News The Rural and Regional Broadband Conference will take place in London on 9 July. A full copy of the agenda for the Rural and Regional Broadband conference can be seen by clicking here. Government, industry and rural campaigners will come together...
[June 6, 2003, 15:20]
Rural-broadband campaigners sell out in the City
News Next week's Rural and Regional Broadband Conference could play an important role in shaping the roadmap of Broadband Britain in the months and years ahead. The Rural and Regional Broadband Conference will see contributions from the Department of...
[July 4, 2003, 14:38]
Help sought as campaigners push the rural agenda
News The Access To Broadband Campaign (ABC) will hold the Rural and Regional Broadband Conference in London on 9 July. Although the government has provided £30m for regional development agencies (RDAs) to work with broadband and funds both the Broadband...
[May 16, 2003, 15:05]
MPs: Government must subsidise rural broadband
News Last week's Rural and Regional Broadband conference heard that wireless technologies offer the best hope of closing the broadband divide, but that backhaul -- the cost of connecting a local network to the Internet -- is still a major cost.
[July 15, 2003, 11:48]
Partnerships key to rural ADSL, says BT
News BT is planning to lobby regional development agencies (RDAs) and business groups around Britain, in an attempt to persuade them to stimulate broadband awareness and demand in their area. Having rolled out ADSL to just over 1,000 local exchanges...
[February 20, 2002, 15:57]
Broadband town will be blank slate
News It claims that the Buckfastleigh project will be an opportunity to find the best, and most cost-efficient, way of bringing high-speed Internet services to a rural community. On Tuesday the government released the details of how the £30m it has...
[March 20, 2002, 13:27]
Public sector spending to boost rural broadband
News According to the DTI, these advisors will attempt to use public sector broadband spending as a lever to help "regional economic development and private sector investment. It will stimulate economic development and enhance the delivery of public...
[June 26, 2002, 17:04]
3.4GHz auction: All systems go
News Fifteen 3.4GHz licences are on offer -- seven covering metropolitan areas, seven covering rural areas, and one for Northern Ireland. This has left the government hoping that smaller players will take part, and the DTI explained on Thursday that...
[February 27, 2003, 16:45]
Government to fund broadband town
News It will finance research into the feasibility of "village wireless LANs" and broadband satellite for rural areas, and will also pay to give business parks in its area access to broadband. The regional development agency for London, where most local...
[March 19, 2002, 12:50]
BT boss wants government support not subsidies
News There are also funds available from government (to a limited extent) and the European Union (to a greater extent) for broadband rollouts in rural areas. A scheme in Cornwall known as ACT NOW will see 33,000 small businesses wired up, with £5m...
[September 11, 2002, 14:15]
BT: Education key to broadband
News Actnow -- Access for Cornwall through Telecommunications for New Opportunities Worldwide -- is a £10m joint partnership between BT and a number of public bodies, including the European Regional Development Council, which contributed over £5m to...
[January 27, 2003, 16:21]
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]
Broadband supremo calls for grass-roots revolution
News Speaking at the Rural and Regional Broadband conference in London on Wednesday, Keith Todd warned that a pro-active approach was needed to close the broadband divide. Community wireless networking is a major focus of the Rural and Regional...
[July 9, 2003, 15:36]
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[April 15, 2009, 1:22]
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[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Regional broadband initiative kicks off
News A joint venture between BT and regional development agencies to bring broadband to rural areas came into effect this week. BT has said that it wants to widen its ADSL network, but can only do so if regional development agencies and local...
[April 26, 2002, 15:21]
BT project brings broadband to regions
News The availability of broadband Internet services in remote and rural areas could increase if a trial project involving BT and public bodies in Cornwall is a success. The lion's share -- £5.7m -- is coming from the European Regional Development...
[December 11, 2001, 12:17]
Public-private partnership boosts rural ADSL
News The telco announced on Monday that it plans to broadband-enable at least 11 more of Wiltshire's remote and rural local telephone exchanges within the next few months under the Wiltshire and Swindon Smartplace scheme.
[July 28, 2003, 17:41]
Highland boost for broadband coverage
News Other organisations involved in the £30m programme include Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Scottish Enterprise, the EU Regional Development Fund (EDRF) and BT. While 95 percent of households and businesses already have access to it, we need to...
[August 11, 2005, 15:05]
Australia divided over national broadband plans
News That is why Labor has proposed a national broadband plan that extends the superior technology, fibre to the node [FTTN], into rural and regional areas, to offer not just city-comparable pricing but parity of service.
[August 6, 2007, 13:49]
