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Subsidy boost for business broadband
News The WDA announced on Wednesday that it is raising the maximum amount of subsidy available when a company signs up for a broadband connection. Previously, the maximum subsidy available was just £1,500 and only applied to satellite connections.
[March 24, 2004, 16:25]
Earn Subsidy Funds From Microsoft!
White Papers For every qualifying product one purchase, Microsoft pays the partner subsidy funds to purchase more products and services from the Microsoft Partner of ones choice! This webcast will explain what a subsidy is, what factors can increase the subsidy...
[July 1, 2009, 1:19]
Rival supplier reports BT for 'illegal subsidy'
News All-optic broadband supplier Vtesse has reported BT to the EC as receiving an 'illegal subsidy' because the rates on its network are calculated in a different way to those of its competitors. Aidan Paul, Vtesse's chief executive, said: "It's unfair.
[April 16, 2004, 8:40]
'Inept' IT planning behind UK farm-subsidy chaos
News A report into the fiasco by Whitehall spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has found implementation of the project started before the final specification and regulations for the subsidy scheme were agreed by the European Commission.
[September 6, 2007, 15:57]
Intel chips in for cheaper Pentium 4 PCs
News Intel officials would not confirm the existence of the subsidy program, although Intel spokesman George Alfs did say, "We're taking actions to ensure that Pentium 4 will successfully ramp in the marketplace.
[September 11, 2000, 10:22]
Mobiles for small businesses...
Blog Comment In the good old days when the market was growing it was logical to subsidise new users as the subsidy was helping to grow the market. Now we are in a mature or even contracting market (approx 70 million live SIMs) the subsidy is no longer paid for...
[November 28, 2008, 16:47]
Sugar lumps more features into e-m@iler
News Amstrad says that this reflects a much-reduced subsidy -- Amstrad discounted the original model by £50 -- and that by June it expects to have costs down to the point that no subsidy at all is required.
[February 6, 2002, 16:29]
'Subsidise broadband', says US ex-regulator
News While acknowledging that governments have more pressing priorities for their budgets, such as the war on terror, he said: "In many national economies it does seem that such a plan (government subsidy of broadband) is superior to a pure market...
[September 19, 2002, 9:53]
SUN and its Software Business
Blog Another issue is the assumed infinite subsidy offered to the existing software business, which like a union dominated company, offers no incentive to greater efficiencies and efforts. Its R&D costs would also need to be contained in this structure...
[April 15, 2009, 8:03]
Maps show UK fibre rollout plans
News According to Point Topic, this map shows that BT's planned next-generation access (NGA) rollout "falls a long way short of covering even those areas where NGA should be economically attractive even without subsidy".
[November 12, 2009, 15:20]
Government digital TV plans under threat
News But if they're already losing momentum now, and if their subsidy [of set-top boxes] goes, I can't see why people would buy it. People with integrated digital TV who decide they want premium channels could get into the pay-TV market through a plug...
[April 10, 2001, 16:02]
Ofcom: No public funding for 21CN competitors
News It may well be that in due course we feel that a public subsidy ends up being necessary some years down the line, but it's definitely not where you start," Richards told Ofcomwatch. I would not be surprised if it turned out that we didn't need any...
[April 11, 2007, 17:49]
Wireless Mobility Focuses University of Hong Kong's e-Learning Vision
White Papers HKU provided blanket coverage across the entire 15-hectare campus of 40 buildings with 600 access points as well as escalated student ownership of laptops based on Intel Centrino mobile technology through innovative laptop subsidy program.
[January 1, 2009, 0:00]
UPDATE: Huge phone bill blamed for breathe's collapse
News The collapse of ISP breathe is due to the huge subsidy it paid to BT for its unmetered service, according to analysts Monday. Breathe was keen to be a major player in the mobile Internet market but also launched a fixed line unmetered service in...
[December 18, 2000, 15:15]
A vote for IT
Leader The subject has less electoral panache than agricultural subsidy reform, and the chances of a Paxman grilling over open source policy are slimmer than those of Kilroy-Silk winning the Eurovision Song Contest.
[May 4, 2005, 13:35]
What the Obama presidency means for tech
News When Barack Obama becomes US president in January with a strongly Democratic Congress, he'll have the chance to push a technology policy that relies more on government subsidy and regulation than that of his immediate predecessor.
[November 6, 2008, 11:15]
AMD grants win EU approval
News The grants, worth 545m euros, are the highest benefit permissible under the grants and subsidy schemes of the EU, AMD said. The European Union has approved grants by the German and Saxon governments for Advanced Micro Devices' second chipmaking...
[February 6, 2004, 15:30]
I bought one
Member Review I could have bought more powerful devices, but without a plan and its subsidy, it was more expensive. While there are better devices out there, I got this because it was one of the first devices out with GPS and phone that had network operator...
[February 22, 2008, 9:44]
Hundreds of exchanges fail BT trigger test
Talkback The reason givenwas a afilure on some bureacrats part to get subsidy funds throaugh. How can we be confident that the rural broadband suppliers will stay in busines. In Haddenham (Cambs) and adjacent villages the company who had started...
[October 17, 2003, 11:04]
That new iPod phone thingy
Blog I'm presuming that the network throw in around a £200 subsidy on the phone and with a current price being talked of $599 (so call it £300) thats a £500 phone retail if you want it SIM free. So Apple have launched the "iPhone"[1], it's half the...
[January 9, 2007, 21:14]
