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BT to offer 300 Mbps Fibre to the Premises Connectivity in 2013

by Kevin 06/02/2012 in Bristol

BT have announced that they will soon be offering broadband speeds of up to 300mbps to homes and businesses in the UK. Using their network of fibre connected cabinets, BT will be able to extend a fibre connection directly to some households or business premises on demand. The fundamental difference between fibre to the premises [...]

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NextGen 11 Conference coming to Bristol 15 & 16 November

by Kevin 05/07/2011 in Bristol

NextGen is the UK’s showcase for Next Generation broadband activity – enabling a wider understanding of digital network investment as the essential foundation for local economic growth and innovation.
There will be a NextGen Roadshow taking place in Nottingham on Wednesday 6 July and Bristol City Council will be host to this year’s NextGen 11 Conference [...]

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Encourage BT to upgrade the connectivity in your area

by Kevin 04/10/2010 in Connectivity

If  you and your neighbours are keen to receive super-fast broadband you can now register your interest with BT and push them to consider prioritising the upgrade of your local infrastructure.
This Race to Infinity initiative builds on a similar approach BT implimented during the roll out of first generation broadband. Local communities were encouraged to [...]

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Broadband roll out delayed

by Kevin 19/07/2010 in Bristol

The Government has delayed delivering on its commitment to ensure that every UK home has access to broadband speeds of at least 2 megabits per second (mbps). The original target had been to achieve this by 2012, but this has been revised to the end of the current Parliament in 2015. There [...]

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Digital Economy Bill: Second Reading

by Kevin 07/04/2010 in Bristol

The controversial Digital Economy Bill had its second reading in the Commons yesterday with only five percent of MPs attending the debate while thousands of citizens Twittered their views watching live at home.

Proposals to levy a 50p landline tax to fund the expansion of next generation broadband were dropped from the legislation but measures to [...]

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Bristol Green ICT Champion – Bristol Wireless

by Matt 25/10/2009 in Bristol

Bristol Wireless is committed to social improvement through the building of a wireless computer network. This volunteer run co-operative research and develop services and products to help people to reduce the carbon footprint and cost of their ICT, including low power hardware, open source software and wireless networking. Bristol Wireless also wipe and refurbish old [...]

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The ‘E-solated’

by Matt 20/10/2009 in Connectivity

There are 10 million people in the UK still without an internet connection. This one-in-six population are increasingly excluded from the opportunities and conversations of the world. The statistics speak for themselves – shopping and paying bills through the internet make “average savings of £560 a year” and unemployed people who learn [...]

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BT Announce Faster Broadband for parts of Bristol

by Stephen Hilton 09/07/2009 in Connectivity

Bristol City Council today welcomed BT news that super-fast broadband is to be rolled-out to around 24,000 homes and businesses in and around Bristol.
Three BT exchanges in the city – covering Downend, North Bristol and West Bristol – are among the latest UK locations due to be upgraded next year with super-fast broadband [...]

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EVENT – Next Generation Broadband Access, building the case for regional investment

by Stephen Hilton 05/06/2009 in Connectivity

Tuesday 21 July | 3:00pm-7.00pm | Watershed | Free |  Book now
Hosted by the Creative Technology Network (CTN) and the Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network (DCKTN)
With 73% of people now feeling that broadband is as important a utility as electricity or water, we must ask whether mainstream broadband speeds, whatever the operator or [...]

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