June Newsletter

Surveillance and Broadband dominate Internet Hero & Villain shortlists The thorny issues of surveillance and Government broadband programmes dominate the shortlists for the Internet Hero and Internet Villain awards at the 2014 ISPAs.  Getting broadband right is a...

Political Monitor 27/06/2014

Broadband Parliamentary Questions The Communications Minister, Ed Vaizey MP confirmed that the £250 million allocated to broadband in 2015-16 and 2016-17 would, with match funding, be  used to enable superfast broadband coverage to be extended to 95% of premises by...

Political Monitor 20/06/2014

Broadband Government responds to Rural Broadband Programme The Government has published a response to the Public Accounts Committee’s Rural Broadband after the Committee submitted its report in April. The report made recommendations on post code data and rollout...

Political Monitor 13/06/2014

Broadband Parliamentary Questions In response to a parliamentary question, the Communications Minister, Ed Vaizey MP, explained that the Government supports an open internet and believes that the self-regulation is the best approach to achieve this. He also explained...