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Photos: Inside the RSA cybercrime war room
Photo From the AFCC, the security firm sifts through more than 10 million emails every day, as well as domain names and fraudster chat rooms, searching for threats to its customers, which include a selection of Britain's high... [18 Sep 2009]
Revealed: What counts as normal broadband in Britain?
News However, ISPA pointed out that the survey did not cover small UK ISPs, and said the research "does not reflect the breadth of the industry". The Communications Consumer Panel, meanwhile, argued for ISPs... [28 Jul 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. With fibre, Britain could be looking at downstream broadband speeds... [14 Jul 2009]
How realistic is Digital Britain's broadband plan?
News A parliamentary select committee is to check whether the recommendations proposed in the Digital Britain report are realistic, particularly those regarding broadband speed. Many of the government's recommendations in... [01 Jul 2009]
'Don't let European telecoms law get axed', says Ofcom
News The UK government's Digital Britain report, issued last week, also confirmed that extra-judiciary disconnections will not be allowed as a response to the file-sharing of copyrighted content in the UK. [26 Jun 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.06.09
Round-Up Digital Britain also put the mockers on illegal file-sharers, with tougher sanctions and ISPs having to fork out to monitor and police all their activities. In short, the general response to Digital... [19 Jun 2009]
Critics slam Digital Britain over file-sharers and tax plans
News The Digital Britain report has drawn criticism from politicians and technology experts over its proposals for dealing with fibre rollouts and illegal file-sharing. Hunt also pointed out that Digital... [18 Jun 2009]
£6 broadband tax to fund fibre for all
News The proposals come as part of the government's Digital Britain report - its blueprint for ensuring the UK does not become the laggard of the global digital economy. Speaking at the launch of the final Digital... [16 Jun 2009]
BT calls for end of 'free ride' for BBC's iPlayer
News Next week Lord Carter will present the Digital Britain report," said the spokesperson. Part of Digital Britain is low prices so people aren't locked out. The idea that ISPs will continue... [12 Jun 2009]
BT slammed over unbundling price hike
News In a statement on Monday, BT's director of industry policy and regulation, Emma Gilthorpe, said it was "astonishing and ludicrous [of TalkTalk] to suggest that people will be locked out of Britain's digital revolution by... [10 Mar 2009]
Inbox: Let's plug the UK's notspots
Comment While plugging notspots should be a priority, if the Digital Britain report only addresses this in a three- to five-year time frame, which would be quick for any government intervention, we will find that the rest of the... [30 Jan 2009]
Broadband Britain to get 2Mbps universal service
News The Digital Britain interim report from minister for communications, technology and broadcasting Lord Stephen Carter, published today, calls for every home in the country to be broadband-enabled by 2012. [29 Jan 2009]
'UK needs spectrum-for-speed swap'
News The lottery-funded National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta) released a policy briefing on Monday, ahead of the launch of Lord Carter's interim Digital Britain review, in which it called on Carter... [20 Jan 2009]
High fibre, high investment and high speeds
News After years of run-ins with the advertising standards watchdog over how closely advertised speeds should match their real world equivalent, Britain's ISPs got together and signed up to new code that sees... [29 Dec 2008]
Broadband speeds going down toilet without fibre
News While fibre will play a role in the future of Broadband Britain - telco BT recently announced a £1.5bn investment to give 10 million UK homes fibre access by 2012 - a consensus is emerging the UK will end up with a... [06 Nov 2008]
