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

The firms declined to comment for our story yesterday regarding ongoing negotiations between Easynet's CEO David Rowe and CTO Justin Fielder, and Sky.

However, following publication Easynet wrote ...

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

The government has dumped a commitment to deliver universal access to 2Mbit/s broadband by 2012. ...