Latest Jeremy Hunt articles

40 per cent of broadband projects given green light for procurement

Fibre optic cables
Only two local authorities failed to submit initial plans
09 Mar 2012

East Sussex County Council tenders for next-generation broadband infrastructure

fibre-optic-cable
Contract could be worth up to £100m
05 Mar 2012

Jeremy Hunt threatens to withdraw £530m broadband funding

Secretary of state for culture media and sport Jeremy Hunt
Culture Secretary has told councils that they must sign contracts by end of 2012
20 Jan 2012

Culture secretary urges mobile operators to ditch differences ahead of 4G auction

Hunt also criticised the time it takes to establish prices for access to BT’s ducts and poles
15 Sep 2011

Culture secretary opens consultation on digital future

Review of UK communications sector to form basis of future framework for broadcasting and communications in the 'digital age'
16 May 2011

Government looks for Digital Economy Act ‘Plan B’

Working group to discuss ways to avoid web site blocking causing an upset
25 Feb 2011

Digital Economy Act threatens library internet services

Top adviser to global librarian federation says DEA is not 'consistent with a democratic approach to access to knowledge'
04 Feb 2011

Jeremy Hunt announces review of 2003 Communications Act

Role of Ofcom will also come under scrutiny
21 Jan 2011

Vtesse Networks CEO attacks government's stance on fibre taxes

Reveals government may give ISPs that have made a loss on their fibre exemption from tax
14 Jan 2011

Ofcom’s plans for 2011/12 see significantly reduced remit

Quocirca analyst argues that Ofcom's remit reads like a company's mission statement
10 Jan 2011

Welsh MP attacks UK government over broadband plans

Shadow Business Minister Ian Lucas has accused the government of neglecting Wales by refusing to allocate funding for super-fast broadband
21 Dec 2010

Broadband minister warns BT not to expect a 'blank cheque'

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt says government's £830m superfast broadband pot doesn't have BT's name on it
07 Dec 2010

Government reveals superfast broadband plan

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt wants a ‘fibre point’ in every community by 2015
06 Dec 2010

Hunt tells the UK comms industry to collaborate

BIS event will seek to work out details of low-cost UK fibre deployment
15 Jul 2010

Ed Vaizey to implement the Digital Economy Act

He'll be working under Jeremy Hunt
20 May 2010

Hunt in charge of broadband rollout

Culture secretary receives remit in coalition government
14 May 2010

Broadband tax to exclude low-income subscribers

Shadow culture secretary calculates 200,000 will not be able to afford internet access after 50p tax
23 Mar 2010

Broadband tax will cost businesses up to £1,500 each, says Hunt

Shadow culture secretary attacks levy and argues for deregulation and stimulation of the private sector
22 Jan 2010

Conservatives will scrap 50p broadband tax

Any Conservative government would ditch tax "as soon as possible" if it won a May election
19 Oct 2009

Tories attack broadband tax

Tories want to stimulate private investment through regulation instead
24 Sep 2009

Newsletters

Sign up for our FREE newsletters

Next live event

Gain better control of your data with enterprise database consolidation

Date: 31 May 2012

Time: 11:00 AM

Join us for this Computing web seminar, in which the Head of BI at the Co-operative Group Nick Colebourn will be explaining just how he reigned in the Group’s sprawling database estate and how significant savings were realised and data quality improved as a result.

No matching document