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RSS 2MbpsBT offers free fibre to Glasgow businesses
News BT is offering a free taste of superfast broadband to businesses in Glasgow. The trial is part of the telco's ongoing investment in fibre infrastructure in the UK. Back in 2008 BT announced it would be spending £1.5bn to bring fibre... [05 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: 3G Reality bytes
Comment Compiled on BA 215 flying London to Boston and dispatched to silicon.com from my harbour hotel via a rather poor and expensive wi-fi service Continually promising to deliver what the limits of physics say can't be done is no way for an... [14 Sep 2009]
Digital Britain: Treasury's Timms set to be next broadband ambassador?
News Junior minister Stephen Timms is set to assume responsibility for implementing the Digital Britain plan, according to a report in The Guardian. Timms, currently financial secretary to the Treasury, will replace Stephen Carter as... [04 Aug 2009]
Rural Britain needs faster, more reliable broadband
Comment Country folk deserve reliable broadband as much as city dwellers, says silicon.com's Nick Heath. So why are rural areas being left behind? UK industry was brought to its knees by the miners' strikes and power brownouts of the 1970s. [04 Aug 2009]
Revealed: What counts as normal broadband in Britain?
News On Tuesday, Ofcom published the final version of its report into fixed broadband speeds, finding that the average download speed for a UK subscriber has increased since the preliminary results were released in January. [28 Jul 2009]
How realistic is Digital Britain's broadband 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. The Business and Enterprise Committee inquiry was announced on... [01 Jul 2009]
Critics slam Digital Britain over file-sharers and tax plans
News The Digital Britain report has drawn criticism from politicians and technology experts over its proposals for dealing with fibre rollouts and illegal file-sharing. The report, published on Tuesday, outlines the government's plans for the... [18 Jun 2009]
£6 broadband tax to fund fibre for all
News The government has announced plans for a 50p per month levy on all fixed copper lines to fund the expansion of fibre broadband to areas where the market fears to tread. The proposals come as part of the government's Digital Britain... [16 Jun 2009]
'Digital Britain snubbing UK businesses'
News The government's interim Digital Britain report doesn't offer enough help for business, according to a senior Cable & Wireless executive. The final report, due out this week, will set the government's digital agenda for the coming years,... [15 Jun 2009]
UK mobiles getting just a quarter of pledged speed
News The average mobile-broadband download speed in the UK is 0.9Mbps, a quarter of the rate promised by most providers, according to a report published on Wednesday. The research group Epitiro monitored connections among a pool of UK... [11 Jun 2009]
BT doubles broadband speeds to 20Mbps
News BT has upgraded its broadband network to offer home and business users download speeds of up to 20Mbps and uploads of up to 1Mbps. The shift to ADSL2+ technology brings BT's speeds closer to those of competitors such as Virgin Media,... [04 Jun 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Become a bandwidth scavenger
Comment Never has a subject been so studied, debated and reported with such little understanding and positive action as broadband in the UK. For me this came to a real head recently with the publication of the Carter Report, compounded by my... [06 May 2009]
Budget: £750m cash injection for UK tech
News Digital technologies will share in a £750m pot to stimulate growth in the UK's "industries of the future", Chancellor Alistair Darling said in today's budget. Announcing the Strategic Investment Fund, Darling said that communications,... [22 Apr 2009]
Cheat sheet: Digital Britain
Cheat Sheet Digital Britain. Sounds like a rubbish tech-themed comedy show. According to some of the more acerbic industry watchers, you may well be right. However, to put it a little more literally, Digital Britain is the government's grand plan... [21 Apr 2009]
BBC to help pay for broadband to every home?
News The BBC could help the rollout of super-fast broadband access under the government's Digital Britain plan. The interim Digital Britain report, published earlier this month, paves the way for 2Mbps broadband for all UK... [11 Mar 2009]
