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Digital Dividend
Building the broadband economy - the economic, business and infrastructure challenges for a digital Britain.
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Spectrum auction is fair to whom, asks CMA
28 Mar 2011 -
Why BT should bid for a 4G mobile licence
22 Mar 2011
Building the broadband economy - the economic, business and infrastructure challenges for a digital Britain.
CMA members want Ofcom to make sure that there is national roaming, almost to the exclusion of everything else.
Ofcom's proposals to auction frequencies in the 800MHz and 2.6GHz frequency bands seem tailor-made to attract BT
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Openreach reveals latest exchanges for fibre
21 Mar 2011 -
NGA needs new success model
19 Mar 2011 -
Good luck to Olivia Garfield, she lives in interesting times
18 Mar 2011 -
Cardiff resists FTTC
10 Mar 2011 -
Putting your money where your broadband mouth is
10 Mar 2011 -
What (house) price high speed broadband?
07 Mar 2011 -
However wide our digital divide...
04 Mar 2011
The table below shows the extent to which BT is doing fibre to the cabinet (FTTC), compared to fibre to the premises (FTTP).
Next generation access local networks need to support innovation, enterprise, economic growth and the community
Congratulations to Olivia Garfield, former boss of BT strategy and now head honcho of BT Openreach following Steve Robertson's decision to hand over the reins. Liv, who has been feisty in ...
"Openreach has spent millions of pounds to ensure that Cardiff boasts some of the best access to modern broadband technology in the UK, but residents in some enabled areas of Cardiff are proving ...
no-one ever asks end users if they would be interested in investing in their local broadband supplier
It's been anecdotal up to now, but a recent report in the Telegraph suggests that life is starting to imitate art, at least where it concerns house desirability and broadband access. The Torygraph ...
We should spare a thought for those in Libya right now.Looking at the Google Transparency report, it would seem the plug has been pulled on the internet for the citizens and businesses of that ...
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Clarity needed on fibre cabinets
22 Feb 2011 -
The cost of wholesale broadband access, by Ofcom
15 Feb 2011 -
Nokia-Microsoft: what about Intel?
11 Feb 2011 -
Could UK get universal high speed broadband for £5bn?
05 Feb 2011 -
Government fails fibre tax query
01 Feb 2011
BT's fibre upgrades to its cabinets could leave as many as 15% of cabinets in an area unfibred,
published to help people understand better the cost of WBA on a hypothetical ongoing network.
Nokia may end up a software house for embedded Symbian devices.
a national fibre to the home network could be built for an annual investment of £500m to £1bn for about five years - a far cry from the £29bn the authorities currently accept as gospel truth.
Perhaps ministers should ask themselves whether business rates on fibre is a game worth the candle.