broadband
07 Oct 2019
5G won’t solve rural connectivity issues
New research from uSwitch.com demonstrates that the introduction of 5G across the country will not solve the UK’s rural connectivity problems ITV reports on the survey that found that a...
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07 Oct 2019
Openreach trials rural connectivity solutions
Openreach has announced a trial of new tools and techniques as it works to upgrade 13 rural communities in the UK to faster, more reliable broadband The website CommsBuiness covers...
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07 Oct 2019
Vodafone UK shares network to improve rural connectivity
Vodafone UK has announced that it has agreed to share ‘unused’ 4G radio spectrum with StattoOpencell in a bid to improve rural connectivity ISPReview reports that the decision, which has...
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30 Sep 2019
Farmer’s bid to keep land as a connectivity ‘not spot’
ITV reports that a farmer is lobbying to keep her farm in Scotland as an official black spot to attract tourists wishing to go ‘off-grid’. Owners of the farm have...
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02 Sep 2019
Rural 5G an opportunity for pubs
The Government’s announcement of a £30 million fund to improve rural connectivity will help rural pubs ‘survive and thrive’, that’s according to comments made by David Cunningham, programme director for...
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27 Aug 2019
Rural areas ‘in crisis’ according to new report
Rural communities with poor transport links and a lack of digital connectivity are ‘in crisis’, according to the think tank, Parliament Street The Farmers Guardian covers the new report, Sustaining...
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12 Aug 2019
Eight in 10 areas in the UK lack full 4G coverage
Millions of people are at risk of mobile signal blackouts because they live in the four-fifths of UK constituency areas that suffer from patchy 4G mobile coverage, new analysis from...
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15 Jul 2019
Community broadband schemes praised
The ‘ingenuity’ of community broadband schemes has been praised by the Financial Times. The article explains that many regions around Britain are ‘too sparsely populated to justify the cost that...
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08 Jul 2019
Millions in rural areas could be ‘left behind’
The Local Government Association published a report last week highlighting concerns that ‘millions of people living in rural England are at risk of being ‘left behind’ and missing out on...
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24 Jun 2019
Boris Johnson pledges to tackle digital divide
Writing in The Telegraph, Conservative leadership candidate Boris Johnson pledged to tackle the digital divide He said that it was a ‘disgrace’ that there is such a ‘deep digital divide’...
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