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...

Political Monitor 06/06/2014

Broadband Wales – Digital Economy debate A debate on the digital economy was held in the Welsh Assembly, key topics were connectivity, rural broadband and digital inclusion. Paul Davies AM’s motion proposed that the National Assembly for Wales: Recognises the...

Political Monitor 30/05/2014

Ofcom Changes to Openreach and competition in superfast broadband market announced Ofcom has published a range of draft decisions, which have been presented to the European Commission for final approval (expected in June 2014), as part of their wider Fixed Access...

Political Monitor 16/05/2014

Broadband Parliamentary Questions In response to questions on fibre broadband, Ed Vaizey MP, the Communications Minister stated that: Where it is effective and sustainable, there should be competition at all levels of the telecoms system Sub-loop unbundling (SLU) is a...