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News T is for Trains From February 2009, kids in Suffolk and Oldham will benefit from a £30m pilot scheme, with the programme due to go nationwide late next year. Broadband from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. [22 Oct 2008]
'Mobile broadband is not the same standard as fixed'
News T is for Trains The ASA's adjudication follows a complaint from a member of the public over a T-Mobile flyer - which stated "All the benefits of home broadband, on the move. No wires, no waiting, no worries" - mislead... [16 Oct 2008]
BT to plug fibre in London, Wales
News T is for Trains The telco is piloting fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) in the two exchanges starting from summer 2009. Back in July, the telco announced it plans to spend £1.5bn to give 10 million UK homes fibre access by... [14 Oct 2008]
Pay per use software coming soon?
News T is for Trains Executives at the company said that year- or months-long licences covering multiple machines could be slashed to pay per day, hour or even per second licensing deals using virtualised applications. [08 Oct 2008]
Go Solo at Orange to hook up with biz fat pipes
News T is for Trains Orange announced its 'Broadband for Business' offer on Tuesday, alongside various consumer-related updates. These include a similar deal for non-business customers on monthly plans, and modifications to... [01 Oct 2008]
UK fat pipes sluggish from lack of fibre
News T is for Trains According to the latest silicon.com poll that asked readers what speed home broadband they'd signed up for, 50 per cent numbered themselves among the 'up to 8Mbps' crowd. Broadband from A to Z [30 Sep 2008]
Dublin gets its own Oyster card-a-like
News The prepay e-ticket will be phased in across all public transport from late 2009, and will eventually be useable on all buses, trains, trams and coaches in the city.silicon.com Public Sector Dublin is to get its own... [24 Sep 2008]
Ofcom hatches plan to woo telcos to fibre
News T is for Trains The regulator is also aiming to raise awareness around super-fast broadband and what consumers can expect from fibre networks. Broadband from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. [23 Sep 2008]
Broadband Britain: UK needs wireless patchwork
News T is for Trains A major, independent review into the delivery of next-generation broadband access in the UK has been completed, with the resulting report recommending a patchwork of fixed and wireless technologies. [12 Sep 2008]
Migration rules to fuel IT offshoring?
News He said: "It's a bit like the government moving everybody off the roads with the carbon and congestion charging policy and taxes and moving them onto the trains without having a public transport system. [11 Sep 2008]
O2 mobile coverage takes the subway
News Five stations on the Glasgow Subway are to get mobile-phone coverage later this year, marking the first such deployment in the UK. The first operator to take advantage of the distributed antenna system being installed in the stations... [11 Sep 2008]
Home broadband gives kids better GCSE results
News T is for Trains The latest UK internet access report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed a clear link between education and online households. Broadband from A to Z Click on the links below to find... [28 Aug 2008]
Third of UK homes still without web access
News T is for Trains 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... [27 Aug 2008]
Ofcom: Copper capable of high-speed broadband
News T is for Trains An Ofcom assessment has predicted that DSL over normal copper phone lines could take virtually the whole country to broadband speeds of 50Mbps or more, as long as optical fibre is laid to the street... [22 Aug 2008]
Mobile broadband threatening fixed line?
News T is for Trains But not everyone is happy with the dongle experience. Results from YouGov's DongleTrack report show while the majority (64 per cent) of mobile broadband users are buying dongles or datacards as an... [20 Aug 2008]
