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Lord Stephen Carter
AS Profile One Agenda Setters judge described Carter as "the figurehead for the call for ubiquitous broadband across Britain". Lord Stephen Carter made his mark in his former guise as UK Minister for... [08 Oct 2009]
iPhones unshackled, IT wages revealed and outsourcing explained
News Another high-speed connectivity of interest to silicon.com readers last month was fibre - superfast broadband which could deliver downlinks many times those available today - with the news that Digital... [06 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo The firm scours the net searching for threats to its customers, which include a selection of Britain's high street banks. Superfast fibre broadband connections are available in London's Muswell Hill as... [02 Oct 2009]
Martha Lane Fox
AS Profile As the champion for digital inclusion Lane Fox has pledged to help fulfil the government's ambitions for widespread broadband connectivity set out in the Digital Britain report. Martha Lane Fox earned... [30 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.09.09
Round-Up Minister for Digital Britain Stephen Timms said the government is committed to passing its law to charge landline owners a £6 per year tax to pay for rollout of next-gen broadband in the UK. The proposal... [25 Sep 2009]
Digital Britain fibre tax 'to be law before next general election'
News Stephen Timms, Minister for Digital Britain and financial secretary to the Treasury, said the government is committed to making its £6 per year tax on landlines law to pay for rolling out next-gen... [23 Sep 2009]
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]
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. Reports of Lord Carter's departure emerged just prior to the release of his... [04 Aug 2009]
Rural Britain needs faster, more reliable broadband
Comment While universal broadband speeds of up to 2Mbps by 2012 might seem like a modest goal for the government to set itself with the Digital Britain plan, for remote areas of the country even a steady 1Mbps... [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]
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]
Cheat Sheet: BT's £1.5bn fibre plans
Cheat Sheet With fibre, Britain could be looking at downstream broadband speeds of up to 100Mbps. Carter's solution to the problem, set out in the Digital Britain report in June, is a 50p-per-month... [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... [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. One of the plans laid out by the report was a 50p monthly charge on all fixed copper lines to fund the expansion... [02 Jul 2009]
