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Wales looks to take a lead in next-generation broadband - February 2011
Kent County Council announce £1.5m of grants for super-fast broadband - February 2011
Broadband speed mapped for BBC Look East research - February 2011
Huawei offer £50m to install mobile network on London's Tube - February 2011
Government encouraged to invest in broadband for farms - February 2011
France Telecom detail their 40% FTTH coverage plans by 2015 - February 2011
Virgin Media bump 20meg XL speeds to 30meg - February 2011
The Cloud offer 15 mins free Wi-Fi per day in the City of London - February 2011
ASA proposals for use of 'unlimited' and 'up to' in broadband advertising - January 2011
O2 to bring free Wi-Fi hotspots to the UK - January 2011
Wi-Fi operator The Cloud expected to be bought by BSkyB - January 2011
Ofcom to introduce rural broadband price controls - January 2011
Councils invest in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire broadband pilot - January 2011
Race Online 2012 to bring sub-£100 PC's to market - January 2011
Draft Openreach duct and pole sharing document reveals pricing - January 2011
Dereham and Sheringham set to benefit from superfast broadband - January 2011
BT announce 41 market towns to benefit from super-fast broadband - including Dereham and Sheringham - January 2011
Broadband Forum report 509 million broadband lines worldwide - January 2011
Ofcom opens up 2G frequencies for 3G use - January 2011
Cromer named and shamed over broadband speed - January 2011
BT Race to Infinity: Winners Announced - January 2011
Norfolk set to lose race in broadband contest (but not to worry as there's lots going on) - December 2010
Year in Review: 2010 - December 2010
Clackmannanshire to receive county-wide wireless broadband - December 2010
43% of broadband users want a faster connection - December 2010
UK Broadband Strategy launched - December 2010
BT's super-fast Infinity broadband stuck in the slow lane - December 2010
Rutland Telecom to deploy fibre to Hambleton village - December 2010
10Meg universal broadband for Cumbria by 2015 - December 2010
European Commission launch consultation into mobile roaming fees - December 2010
Arqiva and Alcatel-Lucent test LTE in Wales - December 2010
Virgin Media 100Mbps service goes live - December 2010
Bournemouth Fibrecity to resume in early 2011 - December 2010
Race to infinity leaders announced as we enter the last month - December 2010
Government reveals super-fast broadband plans - December 2010
Did the UK government just announce the biggest leap in broadband? - December 2010
BT seek government funds to deliver 90% super-fast broadband by 2017 - December 2010
UK lags on broadband and mobile - December 2010
Virgin Media partner with Persimmon Homes to extend coverage - November 2010
Avanti sign £1.2 million deal to provide BT with satellite broadband - Novmeber 2010
HYLAS satellite launch today to improve satellite broadband - November 2010
European broadband statistics show speeds on the rise - November 2010
BT reduce minimum FTTC speed and reveal FTTP will not replace FTTC - November 2010
The digital divide is growing, and only going to get worse - November 2010
What would you do with gigabit internet speeds? - November 2010
Virgin Media exploring the launch of a public Wi-Fi network - November 2010
Vaizey clarifies position on maintaining an 'open internet' - November 2010
Minister Ed Vaizey backs 'two-speed' internet - November 2010
Virgin Media campaign against broadband speed marketing - November 2010
Ofcom expect LTE to go live in the UK in early 2014 - November 2010
BT reveals fast broadband votes - November 2010
UK Online to close January 14th 2011 - Official - November 2010
iPlayer coming to BT Vision - November 2010
Virgin Boost video-on-demand library with content from Five - November 2010
Ofcom consult on white space spectrum geolocation database - November 2010
BT reach over 2 million Wi-Fi hotspots - November 2010
War of words on fibre roll-out between Virgin Media and BT - November 2010
Does BT spell big trouble for rural broadband projects? - November 2010
BT Wholesale publish pricing for BET products - November 2010
UK internet economy 'worth billions' - October 2010
900MHz spectrum could become available for 3G - October 2010
Virgin Media announces 100 Mbps broadband & Q3/2010 results - October 2010
An overview of the Openreach FTTP setup - October 2010
Government release plan for UK broadband - October 2010
£10 million owed to consumers in unclaimed credit - October 2010
No new broadband tax, money to be taken from the BBC - October 2010
Openreach to offer 110Mbps fibre broadband from March 2011 - October 2010
Government confirms £230m broadband investment - October 2010
BE Broadband 8Meg package upgrades to 12Mbps - October 2010
Why universal broadband is important - October 2010
Plusnet launch broadband price promise - October 2010
Ofcom announce new framework to support super-fast broadband - October 2010
Openreach extends FTTC install offers - October 2010
BT Retail to undertake nationwide fibre demand survey - October 2010
Virgin Media to increase upload speeds to 5Mbps and introduce traffic management - September 2010
BT and EU invest £132m to bring super-fast broadband to Cornwall - September 2010
BT Openreach announce 159 new fibre broadband exchanges - September 2010
Superfast broadband comes to Norfolk - September 2010
South Wootton, Drayton and St Faith are set to get fibre to the exchange - September 2010
New map illustrates Norfolk's broadband not spots, map - September 2010
News on UK broadband plan expected before Christmas - September 2010
North Dorset seeking input for super-fast broadband services - September 2010
FCC approve white space for use for 'Super Wi-Fi' - September 2010
DSL research boosts speeds to 700meg - September 2010
30meg broadband to cover Europe by 2020 - September 2010
Mobile coverage coming to London's Tube by the 2012 Olympics - September 2010
Pigeon faster than rural UK broadband - September 2010
Fibre optic capacity 'auto-tuned' by novel device - September 2010
Broadband can cost more than $5,000 in emerging markets - September 2010
Ofcom plan to simplify broadband switching process - September 2010
Ofcom partner with Epitiro to test mobile broadband speeds - September 2010
Internet on mobile phones: The data swindle - September 2010
UK LLU breaks 7 million unbundled lines - September 2010
Openreach give Erbistock users option of migrating to another exchange - September 2010
Campaign underway to control number of street cabinets - September 2010
Openreach to trial nomination of exchanges for fibre enablement - September 2010
O2 suggests UK wasting over £2m per day on broadband - September 2010
ITU call for ubiquitous cheap broadband - September 2010
Virgin Media claims 9 out of 10 people confused by advertising - September 2010
Fibrecity invite users to connect for free to Dundee fibre network - September 2010
Bid for better Norfolk broadband - August 2010
UK village builds own fibre to the home - August 2010
BT break 15 million broadband connections using its telephone network - August 2010
30 million adults use the Internet nearly every day according to the ONS - August 2010
i3 Group appoint ex-BT group CEO to head up Opencity Media - August 2010
ABC programmes coming to BT Vision on demand - August 2010
BT's 'Adam and Jane' broadband ad banned by ASA - August 2010
2.6 GHz spectrum to be reserved for London 2012 Olympics - August 2010
Ofcom reconsult on wholesale broadband access markets - August 2010
Ofcom release annual review of the communications market - August 2010
Faster broadband comes to Hatt and Higher Pill thanks to Vtesse - August 2010
Angus glens seek fibre broadband through co-operative - August 2010
Rutland Telecom gain access to Openreach cabinet data - August 2010
Broadband more important than clean clothes - August 2010
BT announce South Wootton in the 199 new exchanges for WBC ADSL2+ rollout - August 2010
Home Access Scheme still has free computers and internet access available - July 2010
Virgin Media trials broadband over electricity poles in Wales - July 2010
UK broadband speeds increase but promise-to-delivery gap widens - July 2010
Tell us your Broadband problems! - July 2010
Ofcom launches updated Broadband Speeds Code of Practice - July 2010
BT Openreach's fibre-to-the-home trial gets underway - July 2010
Universal broadband delayed until 2015 - July 2010
Government broadband summit aims to boost broadband Britain - July 2010
800 MHz spectrum auction expected mid-2011 - July 2010
Rural West Midlands to benefit from wireless broadband - July 2010
Fibre broadband is coming to Broughton, near Huntingdon - July 2010
Race Online 2012 'Networked Nation' manifesto launched - July 2010
£10 subsidy per premises grants 40meg broadband to Iwade in Kent - July 2010
Vtesse Broadband brings next-generation broadband to Hertfordshire - July 2010
BT trumpets subsidies for village broadband - July 2010
In Touch Summer 2010 edition - latest news from BT
Welsh broadband not-spots to get £2m of funding - July 2010
Finnish 1meg universal service obligation comes in to force - July 2010
UK reaches 38.8 million Britons online - June 2010
TalkTalk offer free broadband for the Armed Forces - June 2010
Virgin Media preparing for 400Mbps broadband - June 2010
UK Broadband Latency - Effect of the World Cup - June 2010
Can the UK broadband network cope? - June 2010
50p broadband tax dropped, but prices will rise - June 2010
Martha Lane Fox to take on more power as digital champion - June 2010
Advertising of broadband speeds and 'unlimited' usage to get overhaul - June 2010
87 percent of London to have fibre broadband by Spring 2011 - June 2010
Work begins to deliver fibre to Lincolnshire Villages - June 2010
UK urged to up its game in fibre rollout by FTTH Council - June 2010
UK's culture secretary lays out broadband plans - June 2010
Welsh Assembly and BT pledge to fill some Welsh nonspots - June 2010
Two rural Lincolnshire villages to get fibre-to-the-home - June 2010
Broadband should be a universal service obligation, says FSB - May 2010
Coalition government announce broadband policy - page 14 - May 2010
New 'broadband minister' expected later this week - May 2010
Industry concerns over whether coalition government will help broadband Britain - May 2010
BT to announce expansion of fibre-to-the-cabinet network - May 2010
Election boosts online traffic - May 2010
EU push for 100% broadband coverage by 2020 - May 2010
O2 bundles home phoneline with broadband - May 2010
19% of Sky customers take TV, broadband and telephony - April 2010
Ofcom release ISP breakdown on Code of Practice Compliance - April 2010
BT announces Norfolk exchanges to benefit from upgrade to 24Mbps service by March 2011 - April 2010
TalkTalk to increase capacity and coverage - April 2010
Orange hand over broadband keys to BT - April 2010
Rutland Telecom to enable Welsh notspot of Erbistock - April 2010
Fibre optic broadband in rural areas: Lyddington - April 2010
Digital Economy Bill passes Lords - April 2010
Super-fast broadband tax scrapped - April 2010
Who should pay for universal broadband? - April 2010
New broadband innovations - April 2010
BT announce a further 300 exchanges for fibre broadband upgardes, none in Norfolk unfortunately! - March 2010
Is public investment in broadband premature? - March 2010
Budget 2010: Darling puts emphasis on broadband for all - March 2010
World broadband subscriptions reach 467 million in 2009 - March 2010
Faster broadband roll-out urged by Ofcom - March 2010
Gordon Brown's super-fast broadband for all plan - March 2010
Conservatives 100Mbps broadband plans may miss rural Tories - March 2010
Cheaper broadband: ITU figures show global costs nearly halved - March 2010
Virgin plans 50Mbps for rural areas over telegraph pole - March 2010
Broadband Campaign 'Final Third First' launched - March 2010
Internet access is 'a fundamental right' - March 2010
Broadband Worshop: we need action! - March 2010
Virgin Media to launch '100Mbps' broadband in 2010 - February 2010
NextGenUs innovative project to connect Notspots in rural North Yorkshire - February 2010
Vtesse Network piloting superfast broadband for Hertfordshire "Final Third" communities - February 2010
Google to offer 'ultra high-speed' broadband in US - February 2010
BT to share cable duct network with rivals - February 2010
Green light for wi-fi In Norwich city centre - February 2010
Norfolk verdict on broadband speed - January 2010
'Superfast broadband' in UK homes by 2017 - Tories - January 2010
BT puts price on higher speed broadband - January 2010
MP accuses government in broadband speed row - January 2010
European funding hope for Norfolk broadband solution - January 2010
BT boss defends company's commitment to broadband in Norfolk and Suffolk - January 2010
East Anglia misses out on latest broadband rollout - January 2010
Government’s Darling Chancellor confirms broadband tax - December 2009
UK broad speeds continue to lag - December 2009
Call to arms over broadband - November 2009














