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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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]
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. Rural households are today as well connected to broadband as their urban neighbours.
[May 23, 2008, 8:27]
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]
O2 seeks 2G solution to rural 3G
News Speaking at the 3GSM World Congress, Williams claimed that the only way to deliver cost-effective high-speed mobile services in rural areas across Europe was to use the spectrum currently used for GSM services.
[February 13, 2006, 11:35]
Case Study: NLOS Broadband Wireless Deployment for Small Town / Rural Markets
White Papers This case study shows how a non-line of sight (NLOS) broadband wireless Internet access system successfully serves a small town/rural market. NextNet's Expedience NLOS system is deployed in six rural Iowa locations, including Pocahontas, LeMars...
[March 16, 2009, 2:17]
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]
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]
Help sought as campaigners push the rural agenda
News A group of rural broadband campaigners are gearing up to organise a major conference to debate the way forward in fighting the broadband divide. The Access To Broadband Campaign (ABC) will hold the Rural and Regional Broadband Conference in London...
[May 16, 2003, 15:05]
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]
Providing Voice Connectivity to Rural India Using WiMAX: Issues and Solution
White Papers This paper proposes a Kiosk based WiMAX infrastructure model to provide voice connectivity to rural Indian villages. The need of emerging markets telecom, specifically in the Indian telecom scenario; WiMAX is being looked as a broad-band access...
[April 22, 2009, 1:24]
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 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]
Wireless rural broadband gets green light
Talkback OK but how do I set up a rural Broadfband facility in Somerset out of expected reasonab le range of BT hard wire and cable facilities?
[April 21, 2004, 15:30]
