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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]
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]
The GSE Implicit Subsidy And Value Of Government Ambiguity
White Papers The housing-related government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the "GSEs") have an ambiguous relationship with the federal government. Most purchasers of the GSEs' debt securities believe that this debt is implicitly backed by the...
[June 22, 2005, 0:00]
Unemployment Benefits As A Search Subsidy: New Evidence On Duration And Wage Effects Of Unemployment Insurance
White Papers Job search models offer two complementary predictions about the effects of unemployment benefits on job search outcomes among unemployed workers. By raising workers' reservation wages, unemployment benefits should contribute to both prolonged spell...
[May 25, 2005, 0:00]
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]
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]
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]
Scotland To Get Blanket Broadband Coverage
News Broadband Internet access will be available from every one of BT's local telephone exchanges in Scotland by the end of 2005, thanks to a multi-million pound subsidy provided by the Scottish Executive.
[April 25, 2005, 17:25]
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]
Rural Policy And The New Regional Economics: Implications For Rural America
White Papers From a national perspective this is probably just as well, as "coherent" urban and rural policies seem to suggest place-based subsidy programs with little grounding in economic efficiency. Both urban and rural areas in the United States are simply...
[June 22, 2005, 0:00]
Federal Subsidies And The Housing GSEs
White Papers Their special legal status as government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), which includes tax and regulatory exemptions, enhances the perceived quality of the debt and mortgage-backed securities (MBSs) that they issue or guarantee and translates into...
[July 5, 2005, 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]
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]
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]
Microsoft Offers NetWare Users $15,000 To Switch
News In order to get the subsidy for third-party services, NetWare users have to switch to Windows and buy at least 50 client-access licences per server. Microsoft announced on Tuesday a programme that will pay some transition costs for companies that...
[November 16, 2004, 17:15]
Timms: Communications Competition Has Made Us Better Off
News Reviewing his period as e-commerce minister before joining the Treasury, Timms said broadband coverage had improved hugely, thanks to allowing competing firms to roll out services, rather than a monopoly or direct state subsidy.
[September 28, 2004, 14:55]
