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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]
BT boss grilled by select committee on unbundling
News The telco was put on the defensive as the Trade and Industry select committee grilled managing director Sir Peter Bonfield over the way his company is handling unbundling the local loop. Head of the select committee, MP Martin O'Neill, asked...
[December 20, 2000, 12:31]
Select committee told that BT must lose local loop
Talkback BT doesn't think unbundling is a good idea? I wonder why _that_ is? All the more reason for breaking up BT Wholesal into LoopCo and NetCo as soon as possible: the less they like it, the more effective it is at increasing competition.
[May 31, 2004, 16:27]
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]
Government accused of hidden e-commerce agenda
News The latest Select Committee on Trade and Industry report on the re-named e-communications bill, is far kinder on government than the last report. Despite the high-level assurances the select committee remains unconvinced.
[November 4, 1999, 12:16]
Parliament to probe Digital Britain plan
News A parliamentary select committee is to check whether the recommendations proposed in the Digital Britain report are realistic, particularly those regarding broadband speed. According to a parliamentary spokesperson, the select committee's inquiry...
[June 30, 2009, 12:47]
ID card bill changes praised
News The Home Office has improved its plans for compulsory identity cards, according to Parliament's home affairs select committee. On the same day, the committee's Labour chairman, former home office minister John Denham, said he saw this as "a very...
[October 28, 2004, 16:44]
MPs savage taxman's IT farce
News Parliament's Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) has released a report that says the IT system caused some of the problems and made it difficult to resolve them quickly. A spokesperson for HMRC said it would not yet respond to details of...
[January 31, 2006, 15:55]
E-commerce strategy could damage UK economy - report
News The House of Commons Trade and Industry Select Committee report, attacks the Department of Trade and Industry Bill on several fronts ranging from statutory licensing to key escrow and concludes that UK e-commerce has been "severely damaged" as a...
[May 19, 1999, 12:42]
The importance of good specs
Leader Today, Alan Johnson -- the work and pensions secretary -- is to be grilled by a select committee on why a $450m IT project at the Child Support Agency still doesn't work, a year and a half after it was 'implemented'.
[November 17, 2004, 12:15]
Unbundled broadband faces grim future
News Tuesday's damning government Select Committee report into the state of unbundling in the UK has left analysts questioning if the process has a future at all. Following problems with the process in the UK, a select committee was called to...
[March 22, 2001, 15:33]
MPs slam government over digital divide plans
News The government's UK online plans to close the digital divide have been severely critised in a select committee report. The report, from the same Trade and Industry select committee which last week attacked the government's attempts to open up BT's...
[March 27, 2001, 12:23]
Oftel and e-minister criticised over unbundling
News More criticism for telecoms regulator Oftel Thursday as the Trade and Industry select committee continues its investigation into local loop unbundling. MP Martin O'Neill, head of the Select Committee, has some strong words for the watchdog: "I...
[December 14, 2000, 15:11]
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]
MPs urge Nasa hacker clemency
News Keith Vaz, the chair of the the Home Affairs Select Committee, sent a letter to Johnson on Thursday asking him to halt the extradition of McKinnnon to the US to face hacking charges. On Thursday the Home Affairs Select Committee disagreed with...
[November 12, 2009, 17:44]
MPs: Government must subsidise rural broadband
News In a report published on Tuesday, the Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs condemned the fact that many rural areas can't get broadband today and appear to have little hope of getting it in the near future, at a time when...
[July 15, 2003, 11:48]
UK E-commerce bill comes under fire
News Initially conceived to promote e-commerce in the UK the bill has come in for heavy criticism from privacy groups, industry watchers and a Trade and Industry select committee. This follows damning criticism from the Trade and Industry select...
[July 23, 1999, 15:02]
Home secretary considers Nasa hacker plea
News On Tuesday Johnson told the Home Affairs Select Committee, an influential parliamentary scrutiny body, that he would be able to intervene in the case if evidence of McKinnon's psychiatric condition showed that extradition would infringe his human...
[November 11, 2009, 12:25]
BT broadband strength sparks Parliament fight
News Members of the Trade and Industry select committee angered Ben Verwaayen, chief executive of BT, by claiming that BT had an unhealthy dominance over other telecoms companies in the UK, and that splitting the telco in half would benefit the British...
[November 12, 2003, 15:00]
Junk mail threat scares MPs away from email
News According to the House of Commons Information Select Committee, many MPs who use email are refusing to publish their email address because they are concerned about the impact on their work if campaigners began bombarding them with messages.
[July 23, 2002, 11:55]
