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Broadband Internet for all Europeans:

How can the EU achieve that all Europeans – from the North of Finland to the South of Italy, from the Western Ireland to Eastern Romania – have access to broadband Internet? This is the main question raised in a Commission report today.

Government’s online plans are a major step in tackling digital divide

UK online centres, the organisation which provides access to technology and support in using it, yesterday welcomed Gordon Brown’s announcement at the Labour Party Conference to fund a million extra families to get online. To ensure that the investment has maximum impact on tackling the digital divide – the gap between those using the internet and the UK’s 17 million offline adults – the organisation says action is needed to give parents the skills to use computers and the internet.

Brown promises internet access for all children

The government will spend £300m so that the poorest families can connect to the internet at home

Mayor sees London as 'wi-fi city'

Mayor Boris Johnson has said he wanted London to become "a wi-fi city", where the internet was available anywhere.

Ofcom sets out stall for fast net

The price of super fast broadband should reflect the amount of money spent on investing in next generation networks, UK regulator Ofcom has said.

Commission consults on regulatory strategy to promote high-speed Next Generation Access networks in Europe

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the regulatory principles to be applied by EU Member States to Next Generation Access broadband networks (NGA). NGA optical fibre-based networks enable bitrates several times higher than those currently available on traditional copper wire networks. NGAs are required to deliver high-definition content (such as high definition television) and interactive applications. The objective of a common regulatory framework for NGA is to foster a consistent treatment of operators in the EU and thereby ensure the necessary regulatory predictability to invest. The Commission is consulting on the basis of a draft Recommendation, addressed to the regulators in the 27 EU Member States and suggesting definitions for harmonized categories of regulated services, access conditions, rates of return and appropriate risk premiums. The public consultation will be open until 14th November 2008. The Commission will then finalise the Recommendation in the light of comments received and formally adopt it in 2009.

CLA criticises government on rural broadband

The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) has criticised the government for not investing enough money in next-generation broadband.

Who Leads the Fiber Revolution? - An Update

Possibly the firmest bridge across the digital divide is built by fine strands of light that serve up the digital universe in micro-seconds. And what better way to build it than bringing fiber all the way to the home? Still, only a few years ago, ubiquitous "Fiber to the Home" (FTTH) was more a glint in someone's eye than around-the-corner reality. Something gamers and fiber manufacturers dreamed about. A 2006 summer-visit to my native Sweden gave me cause to reconsider.

Fibre from Amsterdam - Rory Cellan-Jones

When I messaged friends to say I was "in an Amsterdam cafe sampling some great fibre", I got a lot of outrageous replies suggesting that I might be smoking something I shouldn't be. But this is a city which wants to be known from now on as a leader in fibre-to-the-home rather than Europe's capital of soft drugs.

No aid for next-gen network firms

There is no need to use public money to bankroll next-generation broadband in the UK, says a report.

UK Broadband Too Slow For Web Based Applications Says Research

UK broadband performance is too poor even to figure amongst the top world's 10 countries for broadband performance, according to a survey carried out by Oxford University's Said Business School in conjunction with the University of Oviedo in Spain.

UK prepares for faster broadband

The government is to unveil findings from a long-awaited review of the UK's broadband services.

'Africans to gain' from web plan

Google is helping develop a system to bring high-speed internet connections to three billion people developing countries in Africa and elsewhere.

'Tough choices' for UK broadband

The cost of taking fibre-based broadband to every UK home could top £28.8bn, says a report.

The Future Network and Services

The Internet has profoundly changed our perception of society and our approach to everyday life. Today with billions of transactions streaming on the web, the Internet has certainly become the most powerful tool to share information.

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