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The Weekly Round-Up: 18.09.09
Round-Up It's Britain's new favourite topic to moan about, now that we can't really moan about our national performance at cricket or football. A green technological utopia in the skies above Britain. And finally... [18 Sep 2009]
Rural Britain needs faster, more reliable broadband
Comment Even BT has cast doubt on whether the 50p tax on phone lines proposed under the Digital Britain plan will be enough to pay for fibre links needed to bring the UK into the era of superfast broadband.... [04 Aug 2009]
Five joins BBC and ITV in Canvas picture
News Its widespread adoption is central to driving Digital Britain. Canvas - a BBC, BT and ITV Canvas joint venture announced in December 2008 - will provide UK homes with access to IPTV via a broadband... [30 Jul 2009]
Cheat Sheet: BT's £1.5bn fibre plans
Cheat Sheet Carter's solution to the problem, set out in the Digital Britain report in June, is a 50p-per-month levy on all existing copper lines. With fibre, Britain could be looking at downstream broadband speeds... [14 Jul 2009]
Is BT's super-fast broadband coming to your neighbourhood?
News To that end, as part of the Digital Britain report released last month, the government is proposing a 50p-per-month levy on all broadband lines in order to fund next-generation deployments to areas that would otherwise... [09 Jul 2009]
50p broadband tax 'will leave 20 pc of UK without fibre'
News The plan, unveiled last month in the government's Digital Britain report, is aimed at ensuring superfast broadband is rolled out to areas likely to be ignored by the market. BT reckons a government plan... [02 Jul 2009]
Apple bonanza, crime breathalysers and broadband tax
News Issues around content are also being tackled by the government's Digital Britain report, published in June. Moving away from the Apple roadshow, BT revealed this month that it had throttled download... [02 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. Hunt also pointed out that Digital... [18 Jun 2009]
BT calls for end of 'free ride' for BBC's iPlayer
News Next week Lord Carter will present the Digital Britain report," said the spokesperson. Part of Digital Britain is low prices so people aren't locked out. Internet service provider BT has... [12 Jun 2009]
Shocking iPods, netbooks and an offshoring backlash
News Broadband Britain was back on the agenda this month - with speed and bandwidth once again hot topics. For those not blessed with a head for DIY telecoms engineering, this month saw news that BT is to... [01 Jun 2009]
Trio of research hubs to poke digital benefits
News He added that digital technologies will be crucial to delivering universal broadband access by 2012 - the commitment set out by comms minister Lord Carter in his interim Digital Britain report. While the hubs themselves... [29 Apr 2009]
Cheat sheet: Digital Britain
Cheat Sheet Digital Britain. However, to put it a little more literally, Digital Britain is the government's grand plan for the UK's technological future. Lord Carter is in charge of overseeing the Digital... [21 Apr 2009]
Naked CIO: Buy British
Comment But in recent years the cost differential between shipping jobs overseas and keeping them in Britain has reduced dramatically. I encourage you to review your suppliers and companies and use your leverage as an IT... [23 Mar 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... [11 Mar 2009]
BT slammed over unbundling price hike
News In a statement on Monday, BT's director of industry policy and regulation, Emma Gilthorpe, said it was "astonishing and ludicrous [of TalkTalk] to suggest that people will be locked out of Britain's... [10 Mar 2009]
