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The East Midlands Development Agency has set up the East Midlands Innovation Technology (EMIT) Partnership that brings together all the organisations with a role to play in delivering e-business, e-government and e-learning. |
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EMIT will produce and implement a competitive regional ICT infrastructure and is busy raising awareness of the benefits and uses of broadband technologies among the region's businesses. |
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Broadband in the East Midlands |
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ADSL broadband is already available to more than 62 per cent of the region's population. More than 1000 primary and secondary schools - over 67 per cent - and more than one in two public libraries are also covered. With a ever more exchanges actively seeking registrations of customer interest, broadband is at the heart of developing a knowledge-based economy for the East Midlands. Exchanges are enabled for broadband when customer interest reaches a preset trigger level. |
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Partnerships, local groups and campaigns |
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BT is a founder member of Accelerate Nottingham, a not-for-profit organisation set up in March 2002 to encourage the uptake of new technologies in partnership with local government, the education sector, citizens and businesses. |
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Developing broadband |
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As a supplier, BT continues to push the boundaries of broadband reach in innovative ways with pilots and trials of new technologies for delivering broadband services. Such technologies include one-way and two-way satellite, mesh radio, and fixed wireless and wireless local networks. |
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BT is also building up its DSL portfolio, now offering ADSL Exchange Activate for small or remote exchanges and new Broadband Symmetric services for businesses that need regularly to send and receive large amounts of data and information. |
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