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BT widens broadband divide
News Broadband Britain is already hamstrung because few people can get 512Kbps broadband. Millions of homes will be unable to get a faster broadband product that BT will begin trialling later this year, because they live too far away from their... [28 Aug 2003]
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]
BT wireless trials offer rural broadband hope
News Faced with Britain's broadband divide, some activists are already building wireless networks to bring high-speed connectivity to themselves, their neighbours and local businesses. BT's decision to launch this trial backs up what community groups... [17 Dec 2003]
Wireless broadband ISP in a box: All yours for £20k
News Wireless equipment vendor Alvarion believes it has the answer to closing Britain's broadband divide - a wireless ISP in a box. Rob Mortimer, Alvarion's UK sales director, said he hoped it would "kick-start wireless broadband Britain". [02 May 2003]
Fat pipe framework to tackle Scotland's broadband black spots
News The underlying objective of this project is to prevent the creation of a broadband digital divide in Scotland between communities and businesses which can get affordable access to broadband services and those which cannot. [11 Aug 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.08.03
Round-Up At the risk of starting civil war, the Round-Up uncovered some interesting stats this week regarding the digital divide which exists between rural and urban parts of the UK. As part of silicon.com's Broadband Britain survey last week we gave you... [15 Aug 2003]
Digital divide wider than ever
Comment But the government's bold aims to bridge the digital divide on both a geographical and social level could still be further away than ever. On a social level the government is addressing the digital divide by making efforts to ensure that people who... [25 Jul 2003]
Election '05: Digital divide must be addressed
Comment This research broadly agrees with Ofcom's and BT's own figures and strongly suggests that the so-called digital divide is something that will remain with us for the foreseeable future, with a hard-core of resistance from parts of the population... [26 Apr 2005]
Rural broadband threatened by "political expediency"
News Earlier this month a committee of MPs told the government to go back to the drawing board with its broadband strategy for bridging the digital divide. Now we've got it we realise just how good it is and it has made us more focused to drive on and... [25 Jul 2003]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.06.08
Round-Up This week's thorny bone of contention, to mix a metaphor or two, is a report by UK fat pipe watcher and advice website thinkbroadband, which says the countryside still lags some way behind urban areas - contrary to last week's Ofcom report hailing... [06 Jun 2008]
Wi-Fi Cloud could be silver lining for rural broadband
News The company that has just launched the most ambitious rollout of Wi-Fi hot spots in the UK believes it could also play a role in closing Britain's broadband divide. Most of The Cloud's hot spots will use a DSL connection, in which case they will be... [24 Mar 2003]
Oftel to push for wholesale Midband?
News BT could be required by Oftel to offer a wholesale version of Midband, the forthcoming 'sub-broadband' product that the telco has claimed will help to close Britain's broadband divide. Sources close to the situation said that Oftel is unwilling to... [10 Feb 2003]
Government blamed for Wi-Fi go slow
News Leading a debate on broadband in rural areas, Sir George Young MP criticised the government for not doing enough to close a digital divide which currently means that somewhere between 80 and 90 per cent of rural areas have no access to affordable... [26 Mar 2003]
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]
Midband falls short of early promises
News Danon announced Midband at last November's e-summit, and billed it as the solution to Britain's high-speed digital divide. BT released the technical and pricing details of its Midband service today, and the reality is significantly different from... [01 May 2003]
