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RSS copperBT offers free fibre to Glasgow businesses
News Fibre broadband comes in two flavours: FTTC, where optical cable is laid as far as the curbside cabinet, with existing copper lines being used for the last mile; and fibre to the home (FTTH), where optical cable is laid... [05 Nov 2009]
Photos: Inside a Microsoft datacentre
Photo Building the datacentre required 2,400 tonnes of copper, 3,400 tonnes of steel, 26,000 cubic yards of concrete, and 190 miles of conduit. Microsoft recently opened its Chicago datacentre. In its first phase, the ground... [04 Nov 2009]
It's a dog's life for police BlackBerrys
News Nothing is copper-proof," Keith Gough, mobile information manager for Thames Valley Police told silicon.com. Getting chewed - and eaten - by dogs. Getting run over by cars. And Land Rovers. It's not an easy life being a... [20 Oct 2009]
BT's home fibre tests: Coming in London and Milton Keynes
News Fibre broadband is the superfast successor to the current generation of broadband used in the UK, delivered over copper wire. By replacing copper with fibre optic cabling, telcos will be able to provide... [02 Oct 2009]
BT fibre broadband pilot: charges for ISPs revealed
News The pilot at Highams Park in London, BT's first FTTH deployment in an existing residential area with an installed copper-based telecoms infrastructure, could involve up to 40,000 households. BT Openreach has released... [23 Sep 2009]
Preserving Video Quality in IPTV Networks
White Paper Preserving video quality in IP Television (IPTV) networks that mostly rely on copper access lines poses an even greater challenge. Growing numbers of service providers are implementing video services over IP networks,... [30 Aug 2009]
Cern ready to restart LHC at half power this year
News Tests of the collider's copper stabilizer wrapped up satisfactorily last week, meaning "no more repairs are necessary for safe running this year and next," Cern announced onThursday. After a year of setbacks, Cern plans... [10 Aug 2009]
BT superfast fibre broadband destined for London brownfield pilot
News Previously, the IT and telecommunications giant tested a greenfield deployment FTTH at the new Ebbsfleet development in Kent, but the Highams Park pilot will mark BT's first such deployment in an existing residential area with a... [07 Aug 2009]
Digital Britain: Treasury's Timms set to be next broadband ambassador?
News Digital Britain came out in mid-June, notably calling for a 50p monthly charge to be levied on each copper fixed line. Junior minister Stephen Timms is set to assume responsibility for implementing the Digital Britain... [04 Aug 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. It's the new copper, I hear. Yes indeed - it's the next generation... [14 Jul 2009]
BT kicks off London fibre pilot
News FTTC involves installing fibre up to a cabinet in a street, and the homes and businesses in that street use existing copper lines to hook up to that cabinet. At the moment, the whole section between the exchange and... [06 Jul 2009]
50p broadband tax 'will leave 20 pc of UK without fibre'
News BT reckons a government plan to put a 50p tax on copper lines in order to fund fibre broadband to the country's hard to get to places can only go so far - and will probably never reach the last fifth of the UK. [02 Jul 2009]
Apple bonanza, crime breathalysers and broadband tax
News One of the plans laid out by the report was a 50p monthly charge on all fixed copper lines to fund the expansion of broadband. June was a month full of Apple-related news with the launch of the latest version of the... [02 Jul 2009]
How realistic is Digital Britain's broadband plan?
News The 50p-per-month levy on each fixed copper line, as proposed by Carter, will also come under scrutiny. A parliamentary select committee is to check whether the recommendations proposed in the Digital Britain report are... [01 Jul 2009]
Critics slam Digital Britain over file-sharers and tax plans
News Shortly after its publication, Jeremy Hunt, the Conservative Party's shadow secretary of state for culture, media and sport, called Digital Britain a "colossal disappointment" and lambasted the plan's proposal for a monthly 50p tax on... [18 Jun 2009]
