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News BT challenged rural Britain to register interest in broadband and promised that once interest hit pre-determined levels it would roll out a DSL-enabled exchange. Ecommerce minister Douglas Alexander spoiled the party a little by insisting on... [19 Dec 2002]
BT promises a new broadband exchange every day
News Over 200,000 people across Britain's broadband divide have already submitted their details in the hope of showing BT that there is enough demand for broadband in their area for the local exchange to be upgraded. [20 Nov 2002]
Broadband Britain: Revolution is in the air
News I believe that `wired-up Britain` will remain a pipe dream unless a rich telco, or an independent body, gets in there and takes it from BT and the cable companies. Consistent with Blair`s view of a `wired-up Britain`, perhaps a strategic... [16 Sep 2002]
UK to escape EC telecoms wrath
News The UK, though, is likely to face criticism for the failure of local-loop unbundling (LLU) to make an impact on BT's dominance of Britain's wholesale ADSL market. It allows other operators to install equipment in the local exchange of the incumbent... [06 Dec 2002]
BT 'to make millions' from SMEs
News But one small business representative lashed out, claiming the service is far too costly for Britain's 1.2m small firms. While sixty per cent of the Britain's small businesses are in broadband coverage areas, only 30,000 have signed up for the... [08 Oct 2001]
Re:Viewing 2002 - A year in broadband
News UK entrepreneur Bob Jones said: "After the government has spent months waffling on about 'Broadband Britain', BT has just turned around and said it's not going to do it. BT told much of rural Britain that it could pretty much forget about ever... [18 Dec 2002]
Mobile working 2003's IT innovation hot-spot
News After a painfully slow start, the creation of Broadband Britain is going well at present. Although some analysts claim there isn't a business case for running public access wireless networks, hundreds of Wi-Fi hot spots are being created every week... [19 Dec 2003]
Broadband Britain fails to make DSL premier league
News This follows several advertising campaigns, and two price cuts from BT Wholesale - the major supplier of DSL in Britain. Britain is still lagging behind many other industrialised countries in the take-up of DSL broadband services, despite the... [10 Sep 2003]
BT pulls broadband ads ahead of £33m marketing blitz
News It is designed to increase public awareness of broadband, and both BT and some UK internet service providers have predicted it will give a boost to the whole broadband industry in Britain. The £10m campaign, called Possibilities, promises to be one... [20 Sep 2002]
The best of Reader Comments: The broadband backlash, lazy voters and Gates' Linux lashing
Comment Even tiny Swedish villages will receive high-speed internet under a programme to set up a nationwide broadband network.and even rural Belgium - so why are BT and Blair failing Britain? We clearly have it too easy in Britain. [11 May 2001]
So long and thanks for all the stalling
Comment Vallance once described BT as a "lollipop man trying to restrain the over-exuberant children," referring to the clamour from the UK media, government and telecoms industry to open up the local loop and jumpstart Britain's ecommerce drive. [27 Apr 2001]
Are you a normal broadband user?
News While ISPs have been falling over themselves to provide next generation broadband services offering speeds up to 22Mbps, a far smaller slice of broadband Britain has actually taken up the speedier connections - 4Mbps and 8Mbps connections are... [15 Mar 2006]
BT broadband price cuts: How is it done?
News The key objectives used to be to make Britain's broadband market "competitive and extensive". So the credit for yesterday's cut probably goes to Ben Verwaayen, who now stands to replace Sven-Goran Eriksson as Britain's favourite foreign manager. [27 Feb 2002]
Broadband Britain teetering on brink of three million users
News BT also gave an upbeat assessment of the progress that has been made in building Broadband Britain over the last couple of years. The Trade and Industry Select Committee was told this week that take-up of broadband services by Britain's consumers... [13 Nov 2003]
Re:Viewing 2002 - A year in broadband (Part 3)
News The telco also pledged to DSL-enable one exchange per day in a bid to speed up the roll up of broadband across Britain (http://www.silicon.com/a56472 ). So 2002 wasn't the year when Broadband Britain became a reality but it was a year when much of... [01 Dec 2002]
