The bill looms for Broadband Britain
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Business & money: The regulator must soon decide who will pay to keep the internet up to speed.
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A senior lawmaker said on Wednesday  he had introduced legislation designed to prevent broadband  Internet providers from unreasonable interference with  subscribers' access to content.
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Broadband will be as widely available as analogue TV by the middle of next year, according to BT. BT has struggled to extend the reach of broadband to certain areas of the country because until now 512Kbps ADSL connections would not work ...
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Britain's broadband access charges are still too high and need to be slashed further to bring them in line with other nations, the UK's media and telecoms regulator said Thursday.
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A UK internet service provider is offering broadband that is sixteen times faster than average packages.
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The majority of households in the United Kingdom now have a broadband Internet connection, official statistics out Tuesday showed.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has committed a future Labour government to providing broadband access for all during a next term of office.
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NEW ZEALANDERS are likely to get a legal entitlement to broadband under a proposal for a new, contestable Kiwi Share agreement that Communications Minister David Cunliffe expects to put in front of the Cabinet by the end of the year.
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A SWATHE of east London is to be turned into a giant wireless internet hotspot.   BT is to pay for and construct the network in the coming months by fitting wireless transmitters to lamp posts and other street furniture.   It will spread for a mile around the Walthamstow market area.
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Broadband should be available through 99.4 per cent of phone lines by next summer thanks to a technical breakthrough by BT.
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Britain&#39;s telecommunications regulator  Ofcom launched a consultation on Wednesday to chart the  country&#39;s move to a super-fast broadband network needed to keep  it internationally competitive.
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Like the U.S., the British government is getting ready to auction a big chunk of wireless spectrum that could be used for WiMax or other wireless data services.
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Business & money: Overspend on Â£17bn programme to upgrade network could be more than double previous estimate.
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By Edited by STEVE HAWKES  BRITAIN'S biggest mobile phone firm plans to launch a high-speed internet service for the home.   Vodafone Broadband will be available before the end of the year.
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UK homes in certain towns will  benefit from 100Mbps broadband, delivered via the sewers.
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Philadelphia officials have laid the groundwork to provide wireless, high-speed Internet access anywhere in the city, but their plan could be scotched under a state bill that could be signed into law on Tuesday.
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Britons are signing up for broadband net connections in greater numbers than ever, figures by BT show.