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  Alliance for Affordable Internet’s Sonia Jorge explains to Jeremy Coward how the world is falling short of its global connectivity targets, and shares Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s vi...

https://broadbandworldforum.wordpress.com/2016/07/08/were-22-years-behind-our-target-for-making-the-internet-globally-accessible/

We caught up with Mauro de Filho, Strategy Director at Google X to find out a bit more about its exciting new venture, Project Loon. Q) For our readers who aren’t aware, can you provide an ove...

https://broadbandworldforum.wordpress.com/2016/05/18/qa-with-project-loon/

Guest blog post from Bill Murphy, MD, Next-Generation Access at BT Rolling out high-speed fibre broadband to rural communities is critical to balancing the economy and levelling the economic p...

https://broadbandworldforum.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/the-business-case-for-rural-broadband/

Although the number of internet users is increasing by the second, according to Facebook – two thirds of the world is still not connected to the internet. “Connecting the unconnected” has b...

https://broadbandworldforum.wordpress.com/2015/08/17/are-we-doing-enough-to-reach-the-unconnected/

While EE are planning their mighty 300Mb/s upgrade to existing LTE coverage in London this summer (using LTE-Advanced specification) there are still many parts of the UK still struggling with sha...

https://broadbandworldforum.wordpress.com/2014/07/31/superfast-broadband-for-london-but-what-about-the-rest-of-the-uk/

Earlier this year Google announced ‘Project Loon’. This, in case you missed it, is Google’s ‘crazy’ plan for bringing Internet access to the billions of people that don’t have it yet ...

https://broadbandworldforum.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/google-project-loon-method-in-the-madness/

The first blog posted here was about the resourceful folks at B4RN (Broadband For the Rural North), a community project designed to bring superfast fibre broadband to a rural area in the UK that ...

https://broadbandworldforum.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/b4rn-still-digging-deep/

I trust no one in the UK government needs to organise an alcoholic–based drinks party any time soon because, as this press release from the CLA suggests, they would not manage it even if they c...

https://broadbandworldforum.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/missing-the-target/

The issue of access to fast broadband for rural areas is one that every country is facing. If you’re fortunate to be in an area well served by broadband it’s easy to forget how disenfranchise...

https://broadbandworldforum.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/can-you-dig-it/