The government has divvied up £50m of its £530m rural broadband cash to councils in Wiltshire, Norfolk and Devon and Somerset, in its final wave of pilots.

The culture secretary Jeremy Hunt confirmed this morning that each area would receive "multi-million pound" funding.

He said that those local authorities bag ...

Sky is expected to finalise a deal for a management buyout of its networking business Easynet by the end of this week. ...

The government is discussing opening up public sector internet infrastructure to bring down the cost of introducing faster broadband nationwide. ...