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Rural Ambulance Victoria Improves Paramedic Training
White Papers Often the only medical professionals for long distances, paramedics of Rural Ambulance Victoria (RAV) in Australia have to rely on their experience and training to save lives. But with the rapid pace of medical advance, including the latest...
[December 8, 2006, 0:00]
Rural Medicine Getting SmartPhone Overhaul
Blog Rural Medicine Getting SmartPhone Overhaul In the medical field of rural medicine, access to technology can provide drastic improvements in patient health. As rural healthcare is a global issue, certainly mobile technology has the ability to play a...
[February 11, 2009, 14:48]
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 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]
Rural Europe may get €1bn for broadband
News The European Commission has proposed a €1bn investment in rural broadband across member states, as part of a general economic recovery plan in the midst of the recession. The investment, if approved, would help "extend and upgrade high-speed...
[January 29, 2009, 15:23]
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]
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. Internet connections, and may soon be able to get 20Mbps or even faster...
[November 21, 2005, 10:30]
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]
A WLAN Design for Video Transmission in Rural Environments for Agriculture and Environmental Researches and Educational Purposes
White Papers This paper shows other type of WLAN applications: WLAN for rural environments video-surveillance. First the paper shows the issues of a rural environment design and the wireless coverage area mathematical design taking into account signal looses...
[April 2, 2009, 1:22]
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]
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]
BT targets leave little hope for rural broadband
News Many computer users based in rural parts of Britain have virtually no hope of being offered ADSL-based broadband in the foreseeable future, because BT is insisting on unrealistically high levels of interest before it will deliver the technology to...
[August 7, 2002, 12:34]
Partnerships key to rural ADSL, says BT
News Having rolled out ADSL to just over 1,000 local exchanges -- mostly in towns and cities -- BT insists that it is not yet economically viable to extend its high-speed services to rural areas. If there is clear evidence of sufficient broadband demand...
[February 20, 2002, 15:57]
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]
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]
Balloon goes up for rural broadband
News High altitude balloons and unmanned solar-powered aircraft may be the key to rural broadband, if a major European Union project is successful. Over the next year, Capanina intends to develop aerial links capable of delivering up to 120 megabits per...
[January 21, 2004, 9:15]
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]
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]
Happy ending to rural broadband fiasco
News Businesses and consumers in parts of rural Norfolk can finally look forward to getting high-speed wireless Internet, after the conclusion of a row that brought BT's integrity into question. Despite BT having apologised, and having denied that there...
[January 14, 2004, 14:35]
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]
