Articles about "Digital Britain Report"

Martha Lane-Fox the co-founder of Lastminute.com, is the Government’s Digital Champion tasked with getting the “digitally excluded” online via a broadband connection. According to her research, up to 10 million people in Britain are living in the digital dark ages – they do not use the internet and do not… Read the rest...

News released today shows just how far Britain’s broadband speeds are behind the rest of the world with the Solomon Islands recording a much higher average speed than the UK. Coming in at an average speed of 100Mbps the sun drenched residents of the Solomon Islands are enjoying broadband… Read the rest...

The House of Commons Business and Enterprise Committee is toconsider whether the Digital Britain Report’s commitment to provide up to 2Mb/sec broadband to all UK homes is “ambitious enough”. It will also consider whether the proposed broadband tax is fair.  The broadband tax will mean anyone… Read the rest...

The long awaited Digital Britain Report was published yesterday.  The Report addressed the two tricky questions of how the government intends to pay for: ·         their commitment of “universal broadband access”,  which requires all households to have access to up to 2 Mb/sec broadband by 2012;… Read the rest...

The mobile broadband world is set for another positive shake up. Reports today suggest that the airwave space freed up by turning off the analogue TV signal will be given to mobile providers, rather than the soon to be annoyed TV broadcasters. This will give mobile broadband providers… Read the rest...