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Arqiva Has Won The Government Tender to Deliver The Mobile Infrastructure Project
May 14, 2013The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced that communications infrastructure provider Arqiva has won the government tender to deliver The Mobile Infrastructure Project (MIP), designed to improve mobile connectivity in rural ...
Tags: Arqiva, Government Contract
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U.S. Has Better Broadband Service Than Some Critics Give It Credit
Feb 18, 2013The U.S. has better broadband service than some critics give it credit for, with speeds, availability and prices that are competitive with many other developed nations, according to a new study from a tech-focused think tank. While the ...
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Bt Has Announced The Next Stage of Its £2.5bn Fibre Broadband Rollout
Feb 17, 2013BT has announced the next stage of its £2.5bn fibre broadband rollout, which will extend availability to a further 1.2 million premises. The company said 99 new fibre-enabled exchanges will bring fast broadband to 600,000 premises ...
Tags: BT, Fibre Rollout, company news
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Leeds and Bradford Signed a Deal with Virgin Media Business to Get Free Public Wi-Fi
Nov 30, 2012Leeds and Bradford have signed a deal with Virgin Media Business to get free public Wi-Fi as part of the government' super-connected cities scheme. The high performance Wi-Fi service will be open to all, and operated for Virgin Media ...
Tags: Leeds, Bradford, Wi-Fi, Virgin Media
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BT Has Started Trialling a Groundbreaking 10Gbit/S Broadband Network
Nov 27, 2012BT 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 ...
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Virgin to Provide Leeds and Bradford with Free Wi-Fi
Nov 9, 2012Virgin Media Business will provide free citywide Wi-Fi to citizens of Leeds and Bradford after winning the first contract to offer the service outside London. The deal means Virgin will provide free mobile internet to 1.2 million people ...
Tags: Virgin, Leeds and Bradford, citywide free WiFi, small cell transmitters
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Government Has Improved Online Experiences for Service Users
Nov 6, 2012The government has published its Digital Strategy document this morning,promising to improve online experiences for service users,and move rapidly towards"digital by default"access channels to replace telephone and in-person transactions. ...
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BT Would Deliver Superfast Broadband Upgrades to Parts of Malvern
Nov 5, 2012BT 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 ...
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BT Accelerated Its Fibre Broadband Rollout
Nov 1, 2012BT has accelerated its fibre broadband rollout,with the company now saying that two-thirds of the UK will be covered by spring 2014. It's the second time that BT has claimed that it is speeding up its plans,which had an original ...
Tags: BT, fibre rollout, communications provider
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The European Union Would Approve UK Government Plans for Installing Superfast Broadband
Oct 8, 2012The 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
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The Telegraph Has a Leaked Report From a Whitehall Consultant
Oct 2, 2012A 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 ...
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Government Plans to Install Super-Fast Broadband Throughout The Whole of The UK
Sep 24, 2012Government 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 ...
Tags: super-fast broadband, CLA, Broadband, Maria Miller
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Government Would Help Provide Them with High-Speed Broadband
Sep 20, 2012The government has announced 114m in investment across 10 cities to help provide them with high-speed broadband. The funds represent a 14m increase on the initially planned 100m, with the 100Mbit/s broadband for homes and businesses ...
Tags: government, UK, receive super-fast broadband funds, 10 cities
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EE Has-as Expected-Formally Launched The UK's First 4G Service
Sep 11, 2012Mobile operator Everything Everywhere has-as expected-formally launched the UK's first 4G service,and also made a bad name worse,by rebranding as simply"EE". The operator,the merged infrastructure of T-Mobile and Orange,has also announced ...
Tags: EE, 4G, Mobile operator, UK