Government 'must make leap to broadband'
News Giving evidence to the select committee of culture, media and sport on Tuesday, Telewest chief executive Adam Singer explained that many existing government services could be made appealing to users of high-speed Internet products.
[March 1, 2002, 6:31]
Broadband boom saves BT from break-up
News On 1 May the Culture Media and Sport Committee has recommended that Oftel, or its successor Ofcom, should consider separating BT's network business from the rest of the company. UK telecoms regulator Oftel published its response to the Culture...
[July 17, 2002, 10:45]
MPs push for regulatory action against BT
News The select committee of culture, media and sport has urged Oftel, and its forthcoming replacement OFCOM, to consider separating BT's network business from the rest of the company. It was Cable & Wireless that told the select committee that BT's...
[May 1, 2002, 13:23]
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]
Select committee told that BT must lose local loop
News Cable & Wireless was attending evidence hearings being held by the Commons select committee on culture, media and sport -- which is considering the forthcoming Communications Bill. Graham Wallace, Cable & Wireless chief executive, told the select...
[February 6, 2002, 14:08]
MPs slam government over digital divide plans
News A Department of Culture, Media and Sport select committee earlier this month accused the government of developing broadband plans in isolation from citizen's needs. The report, from the same Trade and Industry select committee which last week...
[March 27, 2001, 12:23]
BT to subsidise broadband ad blitz
News At the press conference, Sir Christopher Bland took the opportunity to robustly reject the recommendation made last month by the select committee of Culture, Media and Sport that regulators should consider splitting BT's network division from its...
[May 16, 2002, 17:27]
ITV Digital collapse could harm Internet take-up
News The select committee of culture, media and sport believes that the high-profile failure of ITV Digital, which ceased transmitting its pay television channels after administrators failed to find a buyer for the business, will damage the take-up of...
[May 2, 2002, 14:26]
MPs flirt with BT break-up
News The select committee of Culture, Media and Sport, which produced a report into the Communications Bill last month, recommended that OFCOM should consider taking regulatory action against BT. The company said pretty much the same thing to the...
[June 11, 2002, 12:09]
BBC Internet services labelled anti-competitive
News BIPA gave evidence yesterday at the Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport, which is conducting an enquiry into the future funding of the UK's favourite auntie. BIPA co-ordinator Angela Mills wants the Office of Fair Trading to investigate...
[November 24, 1999, 14:22]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Our man in Parliament, the deceptively youthful Graeme Wearden, attended the parliamentary select committee on culture, media and sport for their report on why BT should be split up. The details of the proposed bifurcation need not concern us here...
[May 3, 2002, 17:43]
Government job site doesn't recognise 'Internet'
News Last week, a trade and industry select committee was hugely critical of government attempts to combat the digital divide, claiming it had no coherent strategy, that schemes it had set up were futile gestures and that the e-envoy's role had been...
[April 2, 2001, 14:52]
MPs register broadband concerns
News The list of MPs supporting the EDM includes Chris Bryant -- who expressed his concerns about broadband rollout when the select committee on Culture, Media and Sport considered the introduction of Ofcom -- and Derek Wyatt, another tech-savvy MP.
[February 26, 2003, 10:27]
Telewest to fight BT with faster broadband
News Telewest also gave evidence to the select committee of culture, media and sport this week. Telewest has claimed it is happy that BT has cut its wholesale broadband prices, even though this move will bring ADSL products much closer to the cost of...
[March 1, 2002, 10:29]
MPs worried by broadband divide
News However, as the select committee for culture, media and sport warned this week, ".none of this fund, for all it might achieve, has yet been spent". MPs have called on the government to do more to address the lack of broadband in rural areas.
[May 3, 2002, 12:58]
UK and Korea converge on mobile TV
News John Whittingdale MP, chairman of the culture, media and sport select committee, said the industry should not be overly threatened by them, however. The UK and Korea have entered a six-month trial to see if two variants of DAB, the broadcast...
[June 6, 2006, 11:15]
Oftel boss wins place on Ofcom board
News Shortly afterwards, it transpired he had recently published a research paper that recommended the break-up of BT -- an issue which the culture, media and sport select committee has advised Ofcom to consider.
[September 25, 2002, 11:13]
Government attacked over broadband commitments
News MPs sitting on the Department of Media, Culture and Sport select committee have accused the government of failing to take account of citizens' needs, and have challenged e-Minister Patricia Hewitt's assertion that the UK is leading broadband roll...
[March 16, 2001, 12:13]
