broadband britain in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.06.08
Round-Up It's all looking a bit bleak for Ofcom's brave vision of a division-less broadband Britain. Being a bit grumpy about piffling affairs is what makes Britain great. Day by day, the things that made Britain great are being slowly eroded by the passage... [06 Jun 2008]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment Looking at the headline in The Guardian this week and you'd be forgiven for thinking something momentous has happened to Broadband Britain today: 'Fears of digital divide groundless as online access soars in rural areas', it proclaims. [23 May 2008]
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Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity ¦ Video Cheat Sheet: Data Breaches ¦ Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain ¦ India's high-tech... [01 May 2008]
Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation
Comment Broadband Britain - why speed is not enough. The internet and broadband is not just about speed. Today the basic package is 8Mbps broadband and we're now talking about 16 to 20Mbps broadband so I think from a speed perspective we're there. [21 Feb 2008]
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Comment Isn't it about time the police started dealing with real crime in Britain instead of inventing new crimes and turning the average guy into a criminal? Interestingly in securing a wifi setup I discovered that one of the computers thought to be on... [30 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.07.07
Round-Up Or to get all Daily Mail about this current state of affairs.while single mothers and the jobless are all swanning off to the Costas or Orlando to enjoy some hard-scrounged largesse on the backs of honest tax payers, the hard-working moral... [06 Jul 2007]
Crime pays - and pays very well in cyberspace
Comment Broadband Britain', as you might expect, is the most popular place in the world for such groups to do business. E-crime has become too great a menace to ignore, says Simon Moores. Here's hoping some international co-ordination between the public... [07 Mar 2007]
Leader: Why are we so unhappy with fat pipes?
Leader Since the millennium, the progress of broadband Britain has been astounding - speeds are up, coverage is nigh on 100 per cent and prices are most definitely down - led by the emergence of 'free' broadband providers. [28 Feb 2007]
Leader: Lessons from Aramiska's failure
Leader We remember well the launch of the company, back in 2001 when swathes of rural Britain and many parts of other countries could only dream of fast, always-on connections through phone lines or cable TV networks. [01 Feb 2006]
The Yearly Round-Up: 22.12.05
Round-Up The Round-Up is clearly sensitive to the fact there will be some people reading this email (which may arrive tomorrow, perhaps) who are still mired in the world of dial-up but by and large the UK truly can rightly call itself Broadband Britain... [22 Dec 2005]
Security education: Too little too late
Comment Startled into action by news that 25 per cent of the world's remotely controlled PCs are found in Britain, government has managed to find £150,000 to contribute to a campaign that it should have taken responsibility for several years ago. [22 Aug 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.04.05
Round-Up And the 'Great Britain Winter Olympics' team.or the continued use of the word 'opposition' to describe the Conservative party. BT has long stood accused of not pandering to the needs of the broadband have-nots but this is taking things to new... [08 Apr 2005]
Leader: Broadband Britain - not there yet
Leader The group claims BT still has a 90 per cent "stranglehold" on the non-cable wholesale broadband market despite regulator Ofcom's intervention and that there needs to be a level playing field to ensure Britain has a competitive broadband market. [29 Nov 2004]
Analysis: Think tanks fill up on broadband
Comment Most reports are focused on the consumer sphere, though the Adam Smith Institute's 'Broadband Britain - Finding A Way Forward' concerns itself more with regulation and industry structure. The iSociety report, 'Fat Pipes, Connected People... [13 Apr 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.10.03
Round-Up Let’s involve whole communities of people: "What if rural Britain had broadband? The silicon.com editorial team adores daft, contrived press releases. Partly because they make us laugh but mostly because they give the Round-Up something to write... [17 Oct 2003]
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