Business Desk reported that Telecommunications network operator Chorus saw its shares plunge 12% at the open of NZX trading following a Commerce Commission a draft decision that would steeply cut what it can charge for access to electronic ...
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BT will cut the wholesale cost of its "ultra-fast" 330Mbit/s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) by over a third. From June 2013, the service aimed at small to medium-sized businesses will drop from £60 a month to £38 a month. That ...
BT has started trialling a groundbreaking 10Gbit/s broadband network at Cornwall-based engineering firm Arcol UK. The proof-of-concept trial uses fibre technology called XGPON (Tens of Gigabits on a Passive Optical Network) that was ...
The government has been given the green light by the European Union to roll out GBP530m in broadband funding, intended to bring superfast broadband to 90% of homes, and a minimum speed of 2Mbps elsewhere. The investment had been pending ...
Tags: Green Light, EU, broadband plans, broadband funding
Microsoft and Google are in discussions with the UK government and regulatory officials about unused sections of airwaves known as white space. These discussions have led to speculation that the two companies are looking to set up a free ...
BT has been criticised by businesses and residents for breaking its promise to deliver superfast broadband upgrades to parts of Malvern. Businesses within the area and council economic development chiefs have claimed that BT promised to ...
Apple, Microsoft and Adobe have been criticised by the Australian parliament for obstructing a committee investigation into the costs of IT products. The IT pricing inquiry is examining why Australians pay up to 56 per cent more for ...
The European Union looks set to approve UK government plans for installing superfast broadband throughout the UK by 2015. European competition commissioner Joaquín Almunia has suggested that he'd like to see some minor ...
Tags: EU, UK, super-fast broadband scheme, BDUK
A BT spokesperson has labelled today's allegations that the company has marked up the cost of rural superfast broadband installations by as much as 80 per cent as"quite frankly,untrue,"condemning the Daily Telegraph's apparently leaked ...
The Country Land and Business Association(CLA)has called on the government to make a legally binding agreement to meet its broadband goals by 2015 as it raised fears the targets would not be met. In a report published ...
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Government plans to install super-fast broadband throughout the whole of the UK by 2015 are unlikely to be achieved. That's according to a report from the Country Land & Business Association (CLA), which comes days after the government ...
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An ex BT programme manager has branded the government's plans–and BT's part in them–to have superfast broadband available to 90 per cent of the UK by 2015 a"Westminster myth",accusing those in charge of trying to base"internet ...
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BT has won the tender to provide fibre broadband across rural North Yorkshire, the company confirmed today. The agreement will see the UK's largest county be the first to receive funding from the government's Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) ...
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Rural areas will need to help finance broadband roll-outs if UK schemes for better connectivity are to succeed. This was the conclusion of Conservative MP Rory Stewart, who spoke at the House of Lords' communications select committee ...
Tags: Broadband infrastructure, broadband, wireless, Rural wireless service