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Articles tagged with: rural broadband
Lords Diary: Baroness Rock
Environment
By Baroness Rock
Lords Diary: Baroness Rock
From glass blowing and cheese sampling in a Downing Street festive market, to the importance of improving rural broadband and reforming the tenanted farming sector, Baroness Rock has a busy week
The PSTI Bill will unleash rural connectivity and boost productivity
Culture
By Selaine Saxby MP
The PSTI Bill will unleash rural connectivity and boost productivity
This month marks the 10 year anniversary of 4G rollout. Since then, countless communities have benefited from enhanced connectivity.
The public demands the best broadband. Here’s how Government can help. Partner content
Communities
By Openreach
The public demands the best broadband. Here’s how Government can help.
In the run up to the 2019 general election, broadband was a big battleground in the bid for votes.
A headline-grabbing policy to nationalise BT met with an equally ambitious plan to cover the country with “gigabit-capable” broadband. It's a major pillar in the Tory party’s levelling up strategy, which will see £5bn spent to reach homes and businesses in the most rural parts of the UK.
Levelling Up Can Only Be Delivered If Broadband Is Accessible For All Rural Communities
Communities
By Neil Hudson MP
Levelling Up Can Only Be Delivered If Broadband Is Accessible For All Rural Communities
Poor broadband connectivity and mobile phone signal are still endemic in rural communities, and must be fixed if ministers want to deliver their levelling up agenda.
Massive cuts to phone mast rental payments are hurting communities and delaying the UK’s shift to 5G
Communities
By Anna Turley
Massive cuts to phone mast rental payments are hurting communities and delaying the UK’s shift to 5G
The need to get 5G broadband rolled out across the country is urgent, as every one of us working on creaky Zoom calls can testify.
The Chancellor must ramp up investment for gigabit broadband to help level up rural areas
Economy
By Peter Aldous MP
The Chancellor must ramp up investment for gigabit broadband to help level up rural areas
When thinking of life’s necessities – food, water, heating – having a fast and reliable internet connection does not always spring to mind, but it should be added to this list.
How a full fibre broadband network can help the UK to build back greener Partner content
Environment
By Openreach
How a full fibre broadband network can help the UK to build back greener
Openreach is connecting even more of the UK to full fibre broadband – but it has also scaled up its commitments to sustainability, social responsibility and cutting waste.
Senior MPs back calls for a new approach to '6G’ technology Partner content
Health
By The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
Senior MPs back calls for a new approach to '6G’ technology
MPs have welcomed calls from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) for a new approach to mobile digital technology which prioritises societal benefits over a focus on “ever higher data speed”.
Broadband providers should be incentivised to overcome the barriers to rural connectivity
Environment
By Fay Jones MP
Broadband providers should be incentivised to overcome the barriers to rural connectivity
Lack of access to what is increasingly considered a basic utility contravenes agendas of equality and fairness. It’s time to close the urban-rural digital divide
Partner content
Environment
By Openreach
Openreach builds back better and greener with more than 5,000 new jobs and an all-Electric Vehicle fleet to upgrade the nation’s broadband