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Pay per use software coming soon?
News D is for Dial-up F is for Fibre B is for BT Virtualisation could end expensive long-term software licensing in favour of a pay per use model, according to Symantec. Executives at the... [08 Oct 2008]
Go Solo at Orange to hook up with biz fat pipes
News D is for Dial-up F is for Fibre B is for BT Small-business customers on Orange's Solo mobile plan will be able to get free broadband from the company for the length of their contract.... [01 Oct 2008]
UK fat pipes sluggish from lack of fibre
News The BT plan aims to give 10 million UK homes fibre by 2012 with bandwidth of up to 100Mbps - and potentially up to 1,000Mbps in the future. D is for Dial-up F is for... [30 Sep 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Government gaffe
Comment D is for Dial-up F is for Fibre But unlike many other countries, while the UK government can't find any money to trigger a national fibre rollout, it can find £5bn to £10bn to throw at a... [25 Sep 2008]
Ofcom hatches plan to woo telcos to fibre
News D is for Dial-up Ofcom has revealed an action plan to establish what must be done to encourage telcos to invest in next-generation fibre networks. The regulator is also aiming to raise awareness around... [23 Sep 2008]
Broadband Britain: UK needs wireless patchwork
News In a statement, BT said it welcomes the Caio report as "a useful contribution to the NGA debate, and agrees with the broad conclusion that the market, rather than the state, should be the catalyst for... [12 Sep 2008]
Home broadband gives kids better GCSE results
News D is for Dial-up F is for Fibre B is for BT The latest UK internet access report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed a clear link between education and online... [28 Aug 2008]
Third of UK homes still without web access
News D is for Dial-up Of the homes that have internet access the vast majority (86 per cent) are getting their web love via fat pipes, while dial-up continues its lingering death, with connections falling to... [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... [22 Aug 2008]
Mobile broadband threatening fixed line?
News D is for Dial-up F is for Fibre B is for BT Not least because UK households seeking to install or reconnect a landline can face a BT connection charge of almost £130.... [20 Aug 2008]
£68m 'snooping' database: Little impact on serious crime
News D is for Dial-up F is for Fibre B is for BT Powers to snoop on the UK's email and internet records will be of limited use in tackling serious crime, the government has admitted. Home... [13 Aug 2008]
Companies urged not to ban Facebook
News D is for Dial-up F is for Fibre B is for BT Companies shouldn't ban staff from using social applications such as Facebook and MySpace because of concerns about how they might be used.... [08 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... [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. D is for... [15 Jul 2008]
Law firm gets SaaSy with email security
Case Study D is for Dial-up F is for Fibre B is for BT Ashurst has been using technology from email management specialist Mimecast to manage its Microsoft Exchange and Outlook applications.... [15 Jul 2008]