Politician Slams Broadband Uncertainty
News Speaking on Thursday, Sir George Young told a parliamentary seminar that those living in rural areas without broadband availability are faced with continuing uncertainly, because there is no indication as to when ADSL or broadband cable will reach...
[January 18, 2002, 16:47]
MPs Turn To Web For Votes
News Richard Allan, Barbara Follett and Sir George Young each have a Web page that constituents can use to contact them by email, and even read details of their recent activities. Sir George Young, whose Web site, www.sir-george-young.org.uk, seems to...
[October 30, 2001, 13:06]
Government Faces Grilling Over Rural Broadband
News Sir George Young MP has organised a debate at Westminster Hall, at which he will raise the fact that around one-third of the British population still cannot get affordable high-speed Internet access. ZDNet UK understands that Sir George -- a long...
[March 25, 2003, 12:09]
MP Slams 'confusion' Of UK Broadband Strategy
News Sir George Young, Conservative MP for North West Hampshire, believes that a lack of clear information about how schools, GP surgeries and primary care trusts will be broadband-enabled is discouraging some people who want a high-speed Internet...
[January 13, 2003, 16:30]
MPs Urge More Action On Wireless Broadband
News Leading a debate on broadband in rural areas, Sir George Young MP criticised the government for not doing enough to close a digital divide which currently means that somewhere between 80 and 90 percent of rural areas have no access to affordable...
[March 26, 2003, 8:05]
Broadband Project Shrugs Off BT Delays
News Sir George Young MP, who had been pushing the rural broadband agenda in Parliament, officially activated the network, and various businesspeople and activists agreed that the service would be a significant benefit to local commerce and households.
[January 27, 2004, 8:30]
Pick Your Own Bandwidth With Satellite Broadband
News Sir George Young, one of the UK's more tech-savvy politicians, has already welcomed this bandwidth-management feature. I rather like SatDrive's approach of allowing the user to choose what performance they require at a particular time for a...
[October 22, 2002, 15:32]
Broadband's Inspectors Sport Varied Track Records
News Several MPs, including Sir George Young, Richard Allan, Brian White and Derek Wyatt, have played a key role in parliamentary debates -- but none of these politicians serve on the Trade and Industry select committee.
[September 16, 2003, 18:30]
News Schmooze: Microsoft Gets Itself Off The Hook
News Looks like Sir George Young et al have been learning from DoubleClick's email marketing success. With Sir Peter Bonfield finally admitting he's going to leave BT at the end of January, one might wonder what this beloved chief exec has done for the...
[November 2, 2001, 16:40]
Election Leaves Power Vacuum In MP's Tech Group
News Sir George Young Andrew George White, a former IT systems analyst who acted as treasurer of the group, is one of two high-profile tech-savvy MPs to leave parliament in this election. Richard Allan, former Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam...
[May 6, 2005, 14:30]
Businesses Told To Gang Up For Broadband
News As Sir George Young MP complained recently, in many parts of the country -- even those close to major commercial centres -- residents simply have no idea when broadband will reach them. A UK wireless network operator has promised that it will...
[January 31, 2002, 11:29]
Six Broadband Providers Get Government Thumbs-up
News Sir George Young MP warned earlier this year that uncertainty about how the government will broadband-enable the public sector is putting off some local communities from taking direct action themselves.
[May 15, 2003, 13:38]
BT Broadband Advances Rebuffed By Government
News Precise details as to how this commitment will be delivered are not yet available -- to the concern of MPs such as Sir George Young -- but the government does not seem keen to leap into bed with BT by linking its plan closely to ADSL rollout.
[April 3, 2003, 16:14]
Politicians 'must Start Chatting Online'
News Sir George Young MP, who also spoke at the meeting, said that one fellow MP even boasts on his site that his email address cannot be used to contact him. The British public want to use the Internet to communicate better with their elected...
[October 31, 2001, 13:13]
