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Tag: rural areas

Can you get fit-for-purpose business telecoms in rural areas?

March 24, 2017

By Staff writer

Despite living in a country with the world’s fifth highest GDP it can feel at times as though our telecoms in rural areas barely advanced since the dark ages.

Outrageous rural broadband and the need for protection againstBT-style service failure

October 21, 2016

By Shane Schutte

Real Business spoke with Hubert Da Costa, vice president EMEA at Cradlepoint, who unveiled the woes of rural broadband and the need for a better technology strategy after BT showed how easy it was to experience service failure.

The UK will have a hard task of closing the gaping digital divide

September 30, 2016

By Staff writer

The UK has set a target to achieve 95 per cent coverage of NGA broadband across the country by 2017 with a £1.7bn investment. But the aim to have all properties connected to a basic broadband capability (2Mbps) by the end of last year was not entirely fulfilled.

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