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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]
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]
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
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]
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]
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]
NTT Communications Selects Tropos Networks For Unwiring Military Bases, Cities And Rural Areas Of Japan
White Papers NTT Com identified Wi-Fi mesh technology as a key technology because of its potential to provide a fast, cost-effective communications infrastructure that is easy to deploy, expand and operate. NTT Com conducted a field trial in Tokyo using Tropos...
[October 25, 2005, 0:00]
Intelsat Case Study: VSAT-Based Rural Telephony
White Papers Nearly three billion people living in rural areas today are still without basic telephone service. Satellite-based networks are often the simplest and most economical solution for quickly implementing communication infrastructures to link these...
[January 17, 2006, 23:00]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Point-to-Multipoint: Effective Rural Broadband Wireless Access - A Comparison With Fixed Cellular Technologies
White Papers Rural markets have traditionally been served by Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) systems, such as Point-to-MultiPoint (PMP) radio, which has proven to be a quick and economical way to implement communications infrastructures that link these areas to...
[February 21, 2006, 23:00]
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]
24Mbps Broadband Is Here
Talkback I seriously doubt exchanges in rural areas will have ADSL 2 for a long long time? Hopefully wireless services will offer a true high speed alternative ti rural areas? BT only just enabled 2 mbps at my exchange and with so few users I can't see...
[September 2, 2005, 11:25]
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]
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]
MPs Register Broadband Concerns
News Over a hundred members of parliament have publicly called on BT and the government to do more to aid the rollout of broadband networks in rural areas. It also encourages government departments to work together to drive the rollout of broadband...
[February 26, 2003, 10:27]
