Might as well get this over with now. The FCC has announced its National Broadband Plan, which describes where the agency would like to see the U.S. in a few years' time vis-à-vis broadband and connectedness. It's sorta like the UK's Digital Britain report, published last year. The big thing is this: it's...
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The ban hammer is about to smash UK file-sharers. Legislation there is set to take effect in April that would, as a last resort, kick illegal file-sharers off the Internet. Very exciting~!
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According to Paid Content, the BBC Trust is blocking plans for sharing the iPlayer. In a September 29 proposal that wasn't made public, BBC executives said it wanted to create a company to license the VOD (Video on Demand) service to public sector companies. But the BBC Trust - the Beeb's regualator which is...
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Potentially bad news for you UK readers. An amendment to the big Digital Britain report would kick off “hardcore copyright pirates” from the Internet. The amendment would require ISPs to tell repeat offenders to knock it off, or else. The cost for doing this—it's not exactly inexpensive to keep track of copyright infringement, mail...
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BT has announced that an additional 69 towns will be receiving their super-fast fibre-based broadband by this time next year - meaning the service will be available to 1.5 million homes and businesses. BT's Steve Robertson said: "We had aimed to get fibre to half a million homes by next March but we're now...
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