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Rural areas face 20-year wait for broadband
News BT's chairman told the parliamentary select committee for Culture, Media and Sport on Tuesday that rural areas could be forced to wait between 10 and 20 years before they are offered high-speed Internet services, unless the UK government makes a...
[February 5, 2002, 15:02]
Analyst: Reuse 2G spectrum for 3G in rural areas
News Reusing 2G spectrum for 3G services could successfully extend the reach of mobile broadband across rural and other thinly populated areas, an analyst group has said. In a report entitled Prospects for UMTS900: status review and outlook and released...
[May 14, 2009, 17:58]
WiMax may reach rural areas first
Talkback For crying out load have the rural areas now got to sit back and wait at BT's mercy. BT Spin doctors out in force. Community Broadband could have told them about the power of raising antennas, for a large fee of course ;-)
[February 24, 2005, 16:28]
VDSL promises broadband for rural areas
News The next generation of DSL is going to be even faster and could be the answer to the knotty problem of how to get broadband services to rural areas. It is definitely a good route for that and the economics for rural areas should be better," he said.
[March 28, 2001, 12:01]
WiMax may reach rural areas first
News BT may launch WiMax in rural areas ahead of cities following the success of its trials of the high-speed wireless technology. Seventy-three percent of wireless broadband users in rural areas expressed 'extreme satisfaction' with the service...
[February 23, 2005, 17:05]
no full postcode search makes it useless in rural areas
Member Review No full post code search means you can't find cottages etc,in rural areas or find newly built estates. Cannot differentiate between a gradual bend in the road and a turn, meaning that you have to visually check the display when driving.
[July 19, 2005, 9:14]
Rural areas face long broadband delays
Talkback Graeme Looking at the list of RFS dates it is now clear that BT was never interested in triggers in themselves, just getting the names of those that were interested for sales purposes. My rationale? A significant number of the exchanges have either...
[April 14, 2004, 10:41]
Rural areas face long broadband delays
News Businesses and individuals in many rural parts of Britain are facing delays of over a year before they can get high-speed Internet access via their phone line, even though they have already proved that broadband is commercially viable in their area.
[April 13, 2004, 17:20]
Bringing the Last Mile Closer: Business Process Outsourcing Ventures Experience Success in Rural Areas
White Papers The Common Services Center (CSC) is a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) unit adjacent to a secondary school in Thirukkuvalai village in the Maiyladhurai District of Tamil Nadu. CSC is a gleaming new structure with five computers, the most modern...
[July 25, 2009, 1:18]
HP-Based VOD Solution From Entone Aims to Satisfy the IPTV Cravings of Customers From Urban to Rural Areas
White Papers Pioneer Telephone Cooperaative wanted to retain and expand on its existing customer base by offering exciting new services. Pioneer is deploying a VOD solution consisting of Entone's suite of carrier-class video on demand and content ingest...
[May 24, 2006, 0:00]
UK rural broadband penetration overtakes urban
News Fat-pipe penetration in rural areas has outstripped that of urban areas for the first time, according to an Ofcom report. Across the UK as a whole, the statistics show there is a greater proportion of households with high-speed internet access in...
[May 23, 2008, 8:27]
China telecoms market to overtake Japan by 2014
News China's telecommunications market is on track to generate $187bn by 2014, fuelled by mobile uptake in its rural areas and 3G, according to Pyramid Research. The growth of China's mobile industry will weather the economic decline, driven by the...
[July 27, 2009, 9:51]
BT money grabbers
Talkback I have lived in rural Wales for some time now and find the attitude of BT to it's minority of cutomers that live in rural areas way beyond abysmal! The best would be for the government to insist that we in rural areas get equal opportunity like...
[November 21, 2006, 20:04]
BT to revitalise rural broadband trials
News BT Wholesale is trialling a new scheme that could see broadband rolled out to rural areas with as few as 16 high-speed Internet subscribers, the company announced on Wednesday. The UK government has said it will not subsidise the rollout of...
[August 14, 2002, 16:23]
Mesh radio trial could help rural broadband
News BT has begun a trial of a new technology that could bring broadband to rural areas. As a result, mesh radio could be significantly cheaper to install than ADSL-based broadband, making it suitable for rural areas that currently suffer from a lack of...
[June 28, 2002, 14:45]
Broadband project shrugs off BT delays
News A small company based in Hampshire proved last week that it's possible to bring broadband to rural areas even if BT struggles to provide the necessary high-speed connectivity. The big fixed-line providers have been reluctant to expand their...
[January 27, 2004, 8:30]
E-envoy: broadband divide will wreck rural economy
News Britain's rural areas face a bleak economic future unless affordable broadband services are made available across the whole of the UK, the e-envoy warned this week. With the number of farming jobs decreasing -- the average age of a farmer is now 60...
[September 26, 2003, 12:05]
MPs worried by broadband divide
News MPs have called on the government to do more to address the lack of broadband in rural areas. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, MP for Cotswold, wants the government to take action to ensure that broadband infrastructure is rolled out faster in rural areas.
[May 3, 2002, 12:58]
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]
Broadband boom boosts BT's profits
Talkback Rural areas are left out in the cold.my exchange was enabled before Christmas 2005 but I can not get Broadband as BT REFUSE to remove the DACS on my line, apparently because they are too tight to spend money on the infrastructure in a rural area.
[June 21, 2006, 10:52]
