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You may have seen Broadband Delivery UK's bidding guide for local authorities and others interested in taking part in the government's [pounds sterling]530m rural broadband programme, writes Guy Jarvis, director [...]

A Cornish hotel owner hopes ibre-based broadband will put his pub on the world tourism map. Michael Owen, who owns the Grade II-listed Britannia Hotel in Chacewater, a small village [...]

Counties anxious to roll out broadband networks may be able to get matched funding from government via a new process by the end of the year, communications minister Ed Vaizey [...]

Yesterday's budget speech largely ignored the potential for networking and IT to boost economic growth, say leaders from ICT user communities who also called for more clarity over the government's [...]

AOL is to cut 900 jobs, about 20% of its global workforce, following the completion of its $315m ([pounds sterling]196m) Huffington Post acquisition. Most of its jobs will be cut [...]

Scotland may soon get a [pounds sterling]75m digital network to help boost video-on-demand distribution of Scottish television material. The Scottish government yesterday submitted a formal expression of interest to the [...]

News that the government may be giving serious thought to a 'last mile first' approach when it comes to spending public money on broadband projects emerged this week to a [...]

Britain's hill farmers may be among the first to get high-speed broadband following the government decision to provide [pounds sterling]20m for a new rural community broadband to help end the [...]

Lancashire County Council has issued a request for between three and five tenders to provide superfast broadband to the county within three years at a cost of [pounds sterling]20m to [...]

InnovationLoves [Embargoed until 0.01am Friday 18 February 2011] Home broadband is by far the best innovation of the past decade, while social networking and reality television are the two worst, [...]

Lancaster City Council has scrapped support for a 'digital village pump' pilot project that would have provided at least seven remote Lancashire villages with fibre to the home (FTTH) for [...]

Lancashire County Council (LCC) is to tender for a single network operator to provide a [pounds sterling]40m county-wide superfast broadband service by mid-2013. LCC hopes that over the next 10 [...]

Businesses will roll-out high definition video conferencing to allow senior staff to work at home within four or five years, according to analyst group Gartner. Robert Mason, research director for [...]

Start-up French wireless comms company Bluwan has previewed microwave technology that aims to slash the cost of providing high-speed local broadband access to rural areas to between 2% and 5% [...]

Residents of Broughton in Cambridgeshire have become among the first UK consumers to get access to broadband speeds comparable to those in South Korea, the world's fastest broadband nation. Vtesse [...]

The government wants concrete evidence that the business rates tax on lit fibres - the so-called fibre tax - unduly hampers network investment before it considers reviewing the system, network [...]

Forty-one market towns with around 300,000 businesses and consumers will get broadband access of up to 40Mbps from spring next year as part of the next phase of BT's [pounds [...]

The government has outlined its vision for Britain's superfast broadband service. Chris Conder, who has first-hand experience of community networks, has taken an in-depth look and here offers her opinion [...]

Communities and non-BT network operators reacted with dismay to the government's new broadband strategy. Culture minister Jeremy Hunt will launch the government's [pounds sterling]830m broadband strategy formally today. The goal [...]

Staying connected while on the move is the key characteristic of the UK communications consumer, according to the latest research from Ofcom. The communications regulator's latest International Communications Market report [...]

Culture minister Jeremy Hunt will set out the government's plans to stimulate investment in UK broadband networks on Monday. BT said ahead of the meeting that it could 'extend fibre [...]

How to share infrastructure is likely to become the hottest topic in rolling out next generation broadband access (NGA), especially in rural areas, it emerged at the NextGen10 conference in [...]

Spending Review: Small business groups welcome the government's plans not to put super-fast broadband in rural areas on ice. Peter Scargill, national IT chairman at the Federation of Small Businesses, [...]

If you want to plan where to get to, and when to get there, you first have to be sure of where you are starting from, writes Max Gutberlet, product [...]

Landlines mainly for internet access, survey finds Two-thirds of UK landline phone owners use it only for incoming calls and broadband access, and nearly one in three hasn't used it [...]

Rural small businesses are being left further behind their urban counterparts because the digital divide is widening, warn experts. It is inevitable that the divide will widen further as urban [...]

Broadband coverage outside of major towns and cities has been a sore point for rural communities for some time. It is easy for well-connected urban users to forget just what [...]

Vtesse targets a million homes in broadband 'not-spots' Vtesse Networks plans to provide reliable high speed broadband to a million homes and offices that now exist in broadband 'not-spots' or [...]

Drop [pounds sterling]20 broadband tax, urges Penrith and The Border MP Rory Stewart Penrith and The Border MP Rory Stewart wants the government to get rid of obstacles such as [...]

Access to high-speed broadband should be a basic human right, the International Telecommunications Union told world leaders at the UN's Millennium development goals conference in New York on Sunday. The [...]

The government is seeking a meeting with the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) to discuss how business rates create a barrier to investment in next generation broadband networks. Digital Britain minister [...]

BTAGM BT chairman Sir Michael Rake said the previous financial year had been a 'year of delivery' at the company's annual general meeting in Liverpool today. The company wrote off [...]

Villagers in Broughton, a Cambridgeshire hamlet near Huntingdon, will have access to superfast broadband through a fibre to the home (FTTH) network supplied by Vtesse Broadband, the new broadband arm [...]

Providing universal access to broadband speeds of a minimum of 2Mbps will take until 2015, three years longer than Labour had predicted, the government said yesterday. Cabinet Office minister Jeremy [...]

Lord Laird, who is investigating the use of public money to promote rural broadband, was yesterday denied entry to a government meeting to discuss the roll-out of broadband to remote [...]

The Conservatives have published a Technology Manifesto which contains pledges to: * Continue Labour's plan to open up public data, and create a 'right to government data' under which the [...]

Government plans to fund high-speed broadband networks were in disarray after ministers admitted there was not enough time to debate the proposed 50p per month tax on fixed-wire phones. The [...]

The US government's plans to provide 90% of citizens with 100Mbps broadband access in 10 years could be hijacked by network operators following a US federal appeals court's decision this [...]

In the wash-up leading up to the election, the government scrapped plans for the 50p levy on all phone lines. This tax was designed to help fund next-generation broadband in [...]

Teaching the education sector about data back-up David Blackman General manager Northern Europe Acronis With the BETT show having taken place recently and with education at the forefront of everyone's [...]

A scheme giving free laptops and broadband access to 270,000 low-income families is to be rolled out across the UK. The prime minister Gordon Brown said the aim is to [...]

Trappist monks from Caldey Island are using a new wireless broadband link to boost takings from their online shop. Father Daniel, abbot of Caldey Abbey, part of the Cistercian order, […]

Nick Langley computer.weekly@rbi.co.uk What is it? Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service (UMTS) is a high-speed third-generation broadband, packet-based transmission of text, voice, video and multimedia. By the end of this year, […]

Antony Savvas computer.weekly@rbi.co.uk Broadband is becoming the preferred replacement for Frame Relay for companies worldwide branch office connections to headquarters. Johnson Matthey's precious metals division uses broadband as a key […]

The 'age of broadband' has arrived. Broadband is gaining critical mass among the SME community and it's not difficult to see why it is likely to be your optimum internet […]

Antony Savvas computer.weekly@rbi.co.uk The government is struggling to meet its 2005 target to create 'broadband Britain' and needs new targets that look beyond take-up and access, according to the Broadband […]

smart projects West Midlands Police moves to a broadband wide area network Ross Bentley ross.bentley@rbi.co.uk West Midlands Police has moved to a high-speed broadband wide area network to handle its […]

Antony Adshead UK broadband adoption could stall unless research is carried out into the content people want, an academic unit said this week. Jyoti Choudrie of the department of information […]

James Rogers Local government IT managers have highlighted the importance of broadband technology in councils' drive to deliver e-learning materials and a new range of electronic services to citizens. An […]

The Government is to increase its purchasing of broadband technology to try and persuade industry to follow suit. Tony Blair made the promise this week in a speech to the […]