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Third of UK homes still without web access
News A is for ADSL While broadband continues its march into ever more homes in Blighty, new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also reveal that more than a third of households are still going without a web connection. [27 Aug 2008]
Ofcom: Copper capable of high-speed broadband
News Industry pressure group the Communications Management Association (CMA) has called for a £15bn government-led initiative to run fibre to all the nation's homes, and BT has begun a £1.5bn programme to take fibre to 10 million homes. [22 Aug 2008]
Mobile broadband threatening fixed line?
News A is for ADSL The regulator has also charted the rise of homes without landlines in the UK - as more people opt to rely on mobile phones for voice calls - and puts the figure at 12 per cent of homes. B is for BT [20 Aug 2008]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News Following BT's Tuesday announcement that it was to plough £1.5bn into a fibre-access rollout to 10 million homes, an O2 spokesperson told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk that O2 was "not going to move" until Ofcom changed the rules to ensure a... [17 Jul 2008]
BT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News A BT spokesman told silicon.com these barriers include a universal service obligation to put copper wire into new homes, something which is high cost but which fibre takes away the need for. A is for ADSL [15 Jul 2008]
UK business lacking high fibre diet
News A is for ADSL Although the backbone of the UK's broadband infrastructure is being upgraded to fibre, the current impasse over the provision of fibre access - or next-generation access (NGA) - to homes and businesses is preventing such speeds from... [07 Jul 2008]
Thin clients switch on digitally excluded
Case Study A is for ADSL A project to tackle digital exclusion in socially deprived regions of Merseyside has brought free plug-and-play internet access to hundreds of homes with children of school age. The project is aiming to give digitally excluded... [17 Jun 2008]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment A is for ADSL Well over half of UK households in the lowest earning bracket (of less than £11,500 per year) are without internet access, yet just 10 per cent of homes with incomes more than £30k go without the web. [23 May 2008]
Five weird ways to bridge the digital divide
News A is for ADSL Several companies are donning gloves and wellies and poking around in the murky subterranean depths of towns and cities in order to pipe high speed broadband into people's homes. Therefore the notion of using power lines to pump the... [06 Mar 2008]
Fibre connectivity set to change, says EC
News A is for ADSL The European Commission is to issue a recommendation on how member states should go about rolling out fibre connectivity to homes and businesses. B is for BT The list from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. [28 Feb 2008]
Broadband Britain cheaper and faster than ever
News A is for ADSL When it comes to connection speeds, cable broadband provider Virgin Media's planned 50Mbps rollout - set to be available to some nine million homes by the end of the year - is keeping it at the head of the field (its current top speed... [01 Feb 2008]
Virgin touts free broadband speed upgrade
News A planned BT fibre deployment at Ebbsfleet, Kent, will offer speed of up to 100Mbps on a mixed development including 10,000 homes. A is for ADSL Virgin described this as 'a significant speed advantage' over regular 8Mbps ADSL connections and said... [28 Jan 2008]
Does superfast broadband Britain stink of sewage?
News A is for ADSL Plans are afoot that could see something speeding out of the UK's sewers and into people's homes. B is for BT BT's forthcoming copper-based ADSL2+ technology will only offer a theoretical maximum of 24Mbps. [23 Jan 2008]
Where next for broadband Britain?
News All-IP next generation networks (NGNs) are being rolled out in the UK - such as BT's 21CN - but NGNs do not solve the problem of legacy copper wiring at street level, from exchanges to cabinets and homes - an issue known as next generation access... [22 Nov 2007]
Fibre - coming to a home near you
News A is for ADSL Fibre to the home (FTTH) will reach more than 14 million homes in Europe by 2012, research predicts. Broadband was delivered via fibre optic networks to more than 2.5 million European homes in 2006 - and demand for the high-speed... [10 Jul 2007]
