The UK Government’s annual Budget, announced on March 24, confirmed its commitment to levying an annual tax on phone landlines to pay for the extension of super-fast broadband services to 90 per cent of the country by 2017. Chancellor Alistair … Continue reading
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Prime Minister promises high-speed broadband in all UK homes by 2020
Super-fast broadband will be available to every home in the UK by 2020, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised. In a speech, Brown called super-fast broadband “the electricity of the digital age” which “must be for all – not just … Continue reading
Government confident no extra funding needed to bring superfast broadband to 70% of UK population
More than two-thirds of Britain could easily get the ability to use high-speed broadband network speeds without any extra government funding, a report compiled by the UK Government’s Business Innovation and Skills Committee believes. The Committee goes as far as … Continue reading
Campaigners gather to press for high-speed broadband services to rural areas
The UK government looks likely to come under increasing pressure to offer better business phone and broadband services to rural areas. A new pressure group has been formed to persuade the government to make sure that it delivers on its … Continue reading
Strong growth helps Virgin Media beat forecasts
Virgin Media is promising to offer its customers the fastest commercially available broadband network in the UK by the end of 2010. It announced plans to roll out a 100Mb broadband service across parts of the UK in February as … Continue reading
BT superfast broadband to kick start price war
BT's announcement that it was to unwrap a super-fast 40 megabit per second service for less than £20 a month was expected to herald a new price war among broadband suppliers in the UK. Mid-February 2010 saw the first time … Continue reading
