Tag Archives: broadband

June, 2009

• 17 June

  Government to Bring Broadband to Rural Areas with Telephone Tax

  To help pay for a government plan that would beef up the UK’s communications infrastructure and bring broadband Internet access to all homes by 2012, a 50p telephone tax will be charged to all landlines each month. The new tax was just of many things discussed in “Digital Britain,” a …
• 2 June

  BT Broadband Throttles Online Video

  Avid Youtube fans and BBC addicts will be upset to learn that Britain’s largest ISP, BT Broadband, has started throttling online video. The cuts are pretty substantial. One customer with a 8mbps connection says he can only stream BBC’s HD iPlayer at 500kbps, a service that requires at least 3mbps: …

May, 2009

• 28 May

  Hurdles Remain for Rural American Broadband Access

  America’s large size and utility monopolies have always caused it to lag behind the rest of the developed world in terms of broadband speed and adoption, but for those living in rural areas, the situation is even worse. A report released yesterday by the FCC, entitled “Bringing Broadband to Rural …