A Research Locates the Broadband Notspots in the UK

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:08 +0000

A research commissioned by the BBC has revealed the so called broadband nospots in the country that are nothing else than the tad three million homes enjoying broadband speeds of less than the state proposed 2Mbps exist even in the major towns streets as well. The earlier assumption was that only the rural communities, many confined to the suburban areas were the struggling lot.

According to the reports, a UK broadband Website, Samknows had worked out inroads into the problem as it not only aided the BBC in the survey, but also have been successful in issuing a map that shows the homes that are below the line of expectation of the government’s Digital Britain concept. The map can also be used by the government to reach out to these homes to provide them faster broadband connections.

The Samknows map was materialized by the comparison of information on the database of the services offered by the providers in the 85,000 telephone exchanges across Britain, with a UK postcodes sample. The website then worked out the distance of the properties from a specified exchange to come up with a picture of services speed. This method very much relies on the fact that line length remains a critical factor in determining the defacto operation speeds of the services.

It is also fair to reckon the promise of the UK government, in the circumstances, of providing every household in the country with a broadband connection of at least 2Mbps speed by 2012. It is also worth pondering over another intriguing fact that a home needed to be located, in a radius lesser than 4 kilometers from an exchange to get the speeds of anything up to or above 2Mbps.

Self-protection blog from Google

Broadband Fanatic — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:51:28 +0000

Recently Privacy International ranked the privacy practices of the entire major web Companies. Of the 23 companies, Google was ranked at the bottom of the list. A week after this, Google launched a new blog where it will regularly address matters of Internet privacy and other public policy issues, including copyright and trademark protection, on-line safety for children, content regulation, and patent reform.

Adam Kovacevich, who is the public policy spokesperson of Google, mentioned that they hope this blog will become a resource for policy makers.

Since last April, Google’s team of policy lobbyists has been blogging within the company and these internal posts are now available to the web. Google also allows comments buy the users on the ISP blog, trying to make them a part of this discussion. Almost 12 lobbyists all around the world are posting some information regularly on these blogs and the new posts is expected to arrive in a week’s time.

Andrew McLaughlin, Google’s director of public policy and government affairs mentioned that they are seeking to do civic rule encouragement in a Googley way. Google is an international corporation that argues for its position in front of the officials and other opinion leaders. In short, Google wants its users to be a part of their effort with their opinions which will in turn help them to improve.

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A Research Locates the Broadband Notspots in the UK

Self-protection blog from Google