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Profile: Researcher Jill Pitt on low income family needs for flexible net and computer deals
Broadband should be marketed far more for its benefits, rather than an end in itself, and ISPs should be more creative at coming up with affordable packages which include computers. That is the summar...

Should broadband be a universal service?
On 2nd March the EC opened a consultation on the future of universal service in a digital era. ...

Fast broadband: 1GB boosts come to Bournemouth
The fastest home and business boost speed has just been launched in Bournemouth where fibre customers are being offered a 100Mb connection with up to 10 one hour 1Gb ‘boosts’ per month. Following...

Profile: AQL’s Adam Beaumont on funding fibre for SMEs through VoIP savings
If fibre is to reach deeper penetration and small and medium businesses, providers are going to have to start getting better at showing boards how they can pay for faster internet connections through ...

Portuguese Prime Minister promises fibre for everyone
Jose Socrates, Prime Minister of Portugal, has announced that he want to bring next-generation fibre networks to the whole country as quickly as possible....