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  • Sky Broadband customers to get Cloud Wi-Fi access. Broadband, Sky, Sky Broadband, The Cloud, Internet, ISPs, Digital Britain 0

    Sky Broadband customers to get Cloud Wi-Fi access

    100Gbps upgrades to core traffic 30 November 2011 17:59 GMT

    Sky Broadband customers look set to enjoy Wi-Fi hotspot access when out in town thanks to the company’s purchase of The Cloud.

    The move was confirmed by the Network Implementation Director for Sky Network Services, Trevor Legg, when...

  • BBC details crowd-sourced 3G mobile coverage for UK. Online, 3G, BBC, Biz, Digital Britain 0

    BBC details crowd-sourced 3G mobile coverage for UK

    Still lacking despite operator claims 24 August 2011 18:15 GMT

    The BBC's 3G coverage report has just been published, with findings that reveal that 3G cover is still not up to the standards many operators would have us believe.

    Taking part in the crowd-sourced survey were 46,000 volunteers, who downloaded...

  • Copyright law makes format shifting legal. Online, Copyright, Filesharing, Digital Britain, Audio 0

    Copyright law makes format shifting legal

    Also good news for YouTube spoofers 3 August 2011 16:50 GMT

    The Government has announced that it is to make changes to copyright law, legalising the practice of transferring video and audio files from one format, say a CD, over to another - in this age most likely being a digital file.

    The current...

  • Superfast broadband UK-wide by 2015. Online, Broadband, BT, Digital Britain, Ofcom,  0

    Superfast broadband UK-wide by 2015

    Government pledges extra £50m for fibre optic hubs 6 December 2010 12:00 GMT

    The UK broadband saga continues, as news has recently come in that the government will be pledging an extra £50 million, on top of the £830m already set aside for the plan titled "Britain's Superfast Broadband Future" - a mission to get UK-wide superfast...

  • BT gets reprieve, but still has to share broadband network. Software, Broadband, BT, Biz, Digital Britain 0

    BT gets reprieve, but still has to share broadband network

    Telecoms giant instructed by European Commission to open up to competitors 4 June 2010 14:22 GMT

    British Telecom has seen a 4-year reprieve to the physical unbundling of its broadband infrastructure in Ofcom's latest decision regarding the future of super-fast broadband.

    Possibly seen as a compromise, the telecoms giant will have more...

  • Superfast broadband could be funded by licence fee

    Superfast broadband could be funded by licence fee

    50p broadband tax to be scrapped in our Con-Dem-nation 20 May 2010 16:57 GMT

    The 50p broadband tax that Labour wanted to introduce has been scrapped by the new coalition government. Instead the money to fund the superfast network, which isn't really superfast at all, will be raised by skimming money off of the top of the licence...

  • Digital Economy Bill: What it means for filesharers

    Digital Economy Bill: What it means for filesharers

    Pirates penalised 8 April 2010 18:21 GMT

    If you haven't been languishing in a cave or living in some remote corner of the globe without TV or internet access, then you have probably come across something called the Digital Economy Bill.

    This bill was recently passed and it has within...

  • Image Credit: Blair_25 on Flickr (CC)

    Leeds to get 100Mbps broadband in 2010

    Businesses in the Calls first to benefit 24 February 2010 14:29 GMT

    Leeds telecoms company Aql has announced that the city will be the first in the country to get super-fast broadband speeds of up to 100Mbps. Businesses in the Calls area, many of which are media and marketing agencies, will be the first to benefit...

  • Tories promise 100Mbps broadband by 2017

    Tories promise 100Mbps broadband by 2017

    For the "majority" of homes 1 February 2010 9:32 GMT

    George Osborne, the Conservative party's Shadow chancellor, has promised the British public that if elected, his government would deliver 100Mbps broadband speeds to the "majority" of homes by 2017.

    Calling the scheme, "nationwide super-fast...

  • UK broadband tax confirmed in budget

    UK broadband tax confirmed for Budget

    Get ready to be 50p a month worse off if you have a landline 9 December 2009 18:01 GMT

    Following the news we brought you in September that this would be the case, it seems it definitely is.

    The 50p-per-month "broadband tax", previously confirmed by Stephen Timms, the treasury minister in charge of implementing the Digital Britain...

  • A fifth of UK adults

    A fifth of UK adults "digitally excluded"

    BBC research reveals 10 million don't use the internet 19 October 2009 17:25 GMT

    21% of all adults in the UK don't use the internet at home, or anywhere else, reports the BBC on the back of new research commissioned to look at Britain's "digital divide" in conjunction with the government's new "Digital Britain" plans.

  • £6 broadband tax confirmed

    £6 broadband tax confirmed

    50p-a-month levy to be brought in before general election 23 September 2009 12:55 GMT

    The plans drawn up under the government's "Digital Britain" scheme to tax all UK phone lines are to go ahead.

    Stephen Timms, the treasury minister in charge of implementing the Digital Britain plans, has confirmed - despite opposition from...

  • Image Credit: Grimages on Flickr

    Digital Britain PCs stolen

    Soho offices broken into 18 September 2009 15:42 GMT

    Computers in the offices of the team behind the Digital Britain report have been taken by thieves. The Soho office was broken into overnight and all computers stolen.

    The irony, of course, is that the one section of the report is tasked with...

  • "Digital Britain" chief named as Stephen Timms

    Faster broadband "top of in-tray" 7 August 2009 9:10 GMT

    The man who will be in charge of the government's Digital Britain plans has been named as Stephen Timms, the current treasury minister.

    Following the departure of communications minister Lord Carter, author of the recent Digital Britain...

  • UK's

    UK's "Digital Inclusion Champion" revealed

    Martha Lane Fox is to help digitally excluded 18 June 2009 10:52 GMT

    As part of the Digital Britain report, it's been revealed who will be the country's first "Digital Inclusion Champion", or DIC, presumably.

    From 22 June Martha Lane Fox will take up the role for 2 years along with a "Task Force", in order...

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