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BT ordered to repay £94.8m to comms providers
BT is facing nearly £100m of repayments after Ofcom concluded the telecoms company had overcharged providers such as BSkyB, TalkTalk and Virgin Media for its ethernet services.
ITU chief claims Dubai meeting 'success', despite collapse of talks
The revised international telecoms rules will help billions of people get online, Hamadoun Toure has said at the close of the WCIT meeting. However, censorship fears led several major countries, including the UK and US, to refuse to sign the new rules.
How grassroots broadband can succeed where telcos fear to tread
Slow broadband in rural areas is often a fact of life for local inhabitants that has to be endured until one of the big telecoms operators decides it's economically viable to extend their network. It's not easy, but not-for-profit grassroots community projects can provide an economically viable alternative.
Victorian schools win on broadband, fail on IT in the classroom
A report from the Victorian Auditor-General on how the state is approaching IT for education has shown that while it might have a strong broadband backbone, it has failed to deliver a platform on which to help the digital classroom.
12 'smaller' UK cities win £50m for 100Mbps fibre broadband
The 12 cities that will share £50m to improve their broadband networks for residents and businesses have now been named - is yours on the list?
1 in 5 S'pore households now on fiber
Citing a survey it commissioned, OpenNet says subscriber numbers have reached 250,000 as of November, and fiber users are more satisfied with their installation and usage now compared to last year.
U.N. WCIT-12 makes Syrian Internet blackout 'trivial' everywhere
If the ITU's treaty is signed into law at WCIT-12 in Dubai this month, its new Internet governance rules will make Syria's Internet blackout a "trivial" and legally supported maneuver for every country in the world.
Europe gives green light to UK's super-fast rural broadband plan
The UK can go ahead with its plans to use public money to partially fund the roll out of super-fast broadband infrastructure following European regulators' approval of the scheme.
Can South Africa's grand broadband plan succeed?
Difficulties at broadband incumbent Telkom and a lack of capacity at the Department of Communications are prompting the private sector to cast doubt on whether the South African government’s plans for greater intervention in the country’s broadband market will succeed.
BT sees relief for cable theft headache in scrapyard crackdown
From next month, scrap metal dealers will no longer be able to deal in cash, under a legal crackdown aimed at combating thefts that regularly cause broadband and phone outages for BT customers.
Britain quizzes EU over delay to £530m rural broadband push
Culture secretary Maria Miller is meeting with regulators to find out why the UK's £530m scheme to deliver super-fast broadband to the 'final third' still hasn't received state aid approval from the European Commission.
Busting APAC's bandwidth bottleneck is inevitable: Verizon
The 100Gbps fibre links that the US and Europe enjoy are yet to reach the Asia-Pacific region, but inevitable change is in the air, according to Verizon's network planning chief.
Welsh researchers promise 40Gbps fibre speeds with low-cost components
Scientists at Bangor University have come up with a way of applying OOFDM techniques, already common in technologies such as Wi-Fi, to fibre. The result, they say, could allow speeds of up to 40Gbps - although that would need to be shared between neighbours.
S'pore fiber network needs ecosystem support
Service providers are now focusing on getting the fundamentals right, such as offering low latency and zero disconnections, but further innovation will require more developers and venture firms to come onboard.
BT brings forward fibre rollout end date again
The telco now says it will have covered two-thirds of the UK with fibre connectivity by the spring of 2014, not the end of 2014 as it said a year ago, and not the end of 2015 as was the original plan.