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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. It has been well-supported by the public and private sector -- including BT, the South East...
[July 4, 2003, 14:38]
Rural broadband pilot to be extended
News A pilot project to bring broadband to rural parts of Cornwall could be repeated in other areas of the UK if talks between BT and partner companies are successful. But the project does appear to have the backing of the e-commerce minister, Stephen...
[June 27, 2002, 14:58]
Rural broadband conference sunk by funding squeeze
News Rural campaigners have failed to persuade government and industry that the non-availability of faster broadband services across the UK is a serious issue that needs addressing. Over the past few years, rural activists such as ABC have played an...
[November 21, 2005, 10:30]
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. Given that most new employment these days is IT-based, we need to have IT...
[September 26, 2003, 12:05]
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]
E-envoy: broadband divide will wreck rural economy
Talkback Its still not just 'rural' areas that can't get broadband. Here in Milton Keynes there are still significant fractions of the town still too far (mainly due to the extremely circuitous cable routes ) from an exchange to get Broadband service.
[September 29, 2003, 11:05]
Rural areas face 20-year wait for broadband
News Chris Earnshaw, BT Group engineering director and chief technology officer, told the select committee that BT was working on a number of alternative technologies that could be used to take broadband to rural areas.
[February 5, 2002, 15:02]
Rural broadband satellite gets funding boost
News The proposed satellite could deliver between 2Mb and 50Mb broadband access to 2.5 million UK rural households that are currently without access to broadband internet services, David Williams, chief executive of Avanti, said in the company's...
[May 26, 2009, 12:27]
Rural broadband restored but BT delays 'unacceptable'
News FDM Broadband, which offers wireless broadband services to a number of villages in rural southern England, said on Tuesday that the problem had been fixed by BT on Monday night. Wireless broadband has been restored in the Berkshire village of...
[December 9, 2003, 16:40]
Happy ending to rural broadband fiasco
News Despite BT having apologised, and having denied that there was any intent behind these difficulties, some rural broadband activists remain suspicious. Wireless broadband provider West Norfolk Community Broadband (WNCB) learned earlier this week...
[January 14, 2004, 14:35]
Government faces grilling over rural broadband
News The UK government's record on broadband will come under scrutiny on Tuesday from MPs who are likely to attack its performance on rural coverage and wireless. Sir George is also expected to claim that the government's policy of not making broadband...
[March 25, 2003, 12:09]
MPs: Government must subsidise rural broadband
News The government's rural broadband strategy has been slammed by a committee of MPs, who have demanded that greater efforts be made to make high-speed Internet services available across the whole of the UK.
[July 15, 2003, 11:48]
UK rural broadband penetration overtakes urban
News Rural households are today as well connected to broadband as their urban neighbours. The watchdog claimed this marks an important shift for Britain as, back in 2000, when broadband was introduced, urban households were the first to sign up...
[May 23, 2008, 8:27]
Agenda set for rural broadband push
News Government, industry and rural campaigners will come together at an event next month that will attempt to drive forward the Broadband Britain agenda. The Rural and Regional Broadband Conference will take place in London on 9 July.
[June 6, 2003, 15:20]
Mobile networks could boost rural broadband
News Community broadband networks in rural areas could benefit from the need for mobile phone operators to improve their network coverage, two UK companies believe. Invisible Networks and ip.access have announced a plan to team up in a trial to show how...
[November 29, 2002, 12:05]
Wireless rural broadband gets green light
News The Office of Communications on Monday opened a key part of the radio spectrum that will help bring broadband to rural areas of Britain not served by ADSL broadband. Such costs are unlikely to have a significant effect on the price that customers...
[December 30, 2003, 12:35]
OFCOM 'will not help' rural broadband crisis
News The government's flagship Communications Bill offers little new help to the many millions of UK people who have no access to affordable broadband services at home, according to the head of Oftel. Anne Picking MP, a member of this committee, asked...
[May 28, 2002, 11:30]
Mesh brings broadband to rural Bucks
News These four nodes will spread broadband connectivity across a large campus, covering academic facilities, communal areas and 700 student rooms, avoiding the trouble and expense of installing a wired system.
[April 23, 2004, 18:20]
Making rural broadband happen - as easy as ABC?
News The challenge of bringing high-speed Web access to the whole of Britain will be taken up by a new organisation that is being set up by rural broadband pioneers and Internet campaigners. Called ABC, the group aims to boost the rollout of broadband...
[April 29, 2003, 16:42]
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. The government is keen to find as many platforms for broadband as possible in an attempt to prevent...
[March 28, 2001, 12:01]
