The Business and Enterprise Committee are to hold an inquiry into Broadband speeds in the UK.

Within two years BT Business will be making more from selling software services than monthly broadband connection fees. In fact, its figures suggest it could be making three to four times as much per user by selling software as the connection it runs across.
That is the bold prediction of Jerry Thompson, Director of Products and [...]

Adrian Wooster has a simple message for the those stuck in ‘not-spots’; get organised and don’t expect the government or BT to go out of their way to bring fibre to your community.
As Chief Technology Officer for the Community Broadband Network (CBN) he helps communities and, more usually, local councils to plan how to bring [...]

A new report is backing alternative models for putting fast broadband into rural areas, arguing the Digital Britain report’s proposed levy on phone lines may not be enough.

Lord Carter says around ninety per cent of the journalists writing about Digital Britain just aren’t on the same page as him – in fact, he thinks they haven’t read his report at all.

Outlaw.com concludes that net neutrality has no status in UK law.

As everyone knows, this week has been dominated by the final Digital Britain report. Unsurprisingly, Media Guardian has dedicated the lion’s share of this week’s podcast to the Government’s proposals, rightly seeing the 50 pence levy on landlines as unfair. We’ve weighed in with some in-depth analysis about NGA as well as the universal service [...]

The Digital Britain report may have the aim of reducing UK online piracy by up to seventy per cent but one British ISP is having to deny it has jumped the gun and taken matters into its own hands. Meanwhile, experts in the US say weaker copyright protection is actually of benefit to society.

The Digital Britain report is out at last and there was a proverbial rabbit in the hat for Lord Carter to pull out; a 50p per month tax on telephone line connections to raise roughly £150m a year to push back the geographic barriers of faster web access.
Other than that, the report was largely as [...]

A look at the 50p/month telephone tax and how it will be used to provide next generation access to the “Final Third”.

We look at the detail in the Digital Britain final report to see what the Universal Service Commitment really means.

If you’ve not got time to read the full 245 pages of Digital Britain, Samknows.com is here to help you understand what it means for the country’s online future. Because it’s a special occasion we’ve got our first ever interview with Samknows co-founder Alex Salter.

A consultation has been announced into legislative approach for addressing the problem of illicit use of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file-sharing technology to exchange unlawful copies of copyright material.

So, it’s finally out there for us to pore over. A little under an hour ago, Ben Bradshaw outlined the main points of Stephen Carter’s baby. If you want to watch the Culture Minister and his Tory counterpart duking it out on the green benches, you can see it here. And if, like us, you [...]

It may sound like a leaf out of the Book of Obama, but Gordon Brown says broadband is as important to Britain’s future as railways have been to its past. The Prime Minister’s been setting out his stall ahead of the final Digital Britain report being published.

Today’s the day (rumours abound that there may be a slight delay while a BBC Worldwide/Channel 4 Deal is finalised) that Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report comes out. Hurrah, about bloody time too, etc etc. We’ve been speculating about what’s going to be in there and, while not quite going so far as printing Digital [...]

Zen Internet is to introduce a 20Mbps package for both new and existing users. Both business and residential customers will be moved over to the faster service as and when it is available, thought to be at the end of summer.
Using elements of BT’s 21st Century Network and ADSL2+ broadband technology, the 20Mbps package will [...]

Two months after it appointed a Head of Music, Virgin Media has teamed up with Universal to provide a music download and streaming service. The deal, which is seen by some as an anti-piracy measure to pre-empt Stephen Carter’s Digital Britain report, should be available around Christmastime.
Details of the service have not yet been made [...]

Ar, it’s been a good week for pirates, is ‘as. Not only did Sweden’s Pirate Party manage to get one of its own in amongst the crew of the European Parliament by winning a ship-shape seat (not literally) but one of the landlubbers who fought the Pirate Bay in court has been rewarded with a new name for his efforts. Avast yet, Pirate Pontén (formerly the talented Mr. Henrik Pontén).

The Times is reporting this morning that Stephen Carter is to leave the Government. Although he refused to confirm the news — “I’m beavering away feverishly on my report, that’s my only preoccupation,” — it is thought that, once the final part of the Digital Britain report is released, on Tuesday, that he will [...]