Broadband

O2 CEO Could Lead Management Buyout After Failed Three Merger

O2 CEO Ronan Dunne is reportedly approached by private equity firms about takeover, but Telefonica could stay put or find…

8 years ago

Sky, TalkTalk And Vodafone Outline Vision For ‘BT-Free’ Openreach

Broadband rivals want Openreach to have full control of assets, be overseen by an independent board and have its own…

8 years ago

Ofcom Wants More 5GHz Spectrum For Wi-Fi Routers

Ofcom wants more spectrum to be made available to Wi-Fi routers, claiming 6m homes and offices have sub par wireless…

8 years ago

TalkTalk Eyes Business Fibre And Mobile Growth As Cyberattack Hangover Continues

TalkTalk profits slump as cyberattack aftershocks continue to be felt, but it wants to build advanced mobile network services and…

8 years ago

What’s Next For UK Mobile Industry After Failed O2-Three Merger?

ANALYSIS: Virgin Media and O2 could merge, Three might buy TalkTalk and businesses might get cheaper prices but worse networks

8 years ago

EC Blocks £10.25bn Merger Of O2 And Three

EC says no remedies offered by Three and O2 would alleviate concerns about the damage done to the UK retail…

8 years ago

NFU: Poor Rural Broadband And 4G Harm Future Of British Farming

National Farmers' Union says government must do more to improve rural broadband, claiming just 4 percent have superfast

8 years ago

Virgin Media Has 4.8m UK Broadband Customers

Virgin Media's network now reaches almost 13 million homes, while mobile subscribers grow to 3 million

8 years ago

British Airways Signs Deal With Gogo For Long Haul In-Flight Wi-Fi

International Airlines Group to bring in-flight Wi-Fi to British Airways, Iberia and Aer Lingus long-haul routes

8 years ago

No, The Government Isn’t Abandoning ‘Automatic’ 10Mbps Rural Broadband Rollout

ANALYSIS: Say what you like about government broadband schemes, but in this particular instance, it hasn't broken any promises

8 years ago

Vodafone Offers Up to 4GB Inclusive Roaming In Europe To New Customers

Vodafone will give new customers between 500MB and 4GB to use in 40 European countries

8 years ago

FTTP Broadband Makes York ‘Best Connected City In The UK’

Council believes York can become a digital leader while TalkTalk praises local authorities for helping it carry out building work

8 years ago

BT £6bn Ultrafast Broadband Rollout Will Connect 12m To G.Fast Or FTTP

BT discloses more details on how it plans to deliver ultrafast broadband to "majority" of the UK within a decade

8 years ago

Six Million UK Homes And Businesses Are Connected To BT Openreach Fibre

BT gets more than half of all new superfast broadband additions and 81 percent of brand new copper and fibre…

8 years ago

EU Roaming Gets Cheaper Again Before Charges Are Scrapped In 2017

Roaming in the EU is made even cheaper before it is eliminated entirely next year

8 years ago

iPass Targets Mobile App And IoT Integration With Wi-Fi SDK

iPass makes its network selection tech available to developers who want constant connectivity

8 years ago

Hull Has The Slowest Broadband Of Any Major UK City

Research shows Middlesbrough and Belfast outpace London, but just 22 out of 42 urban areas have averages of 24Mbps or…

8 years ago

Dell Teams Up With Aerohive For Wireless Network Management

Dell turns to aerohive for wireless network management, continues open data centre efforts and offers new switches

8 years ago

Virgin Media To Connect At Least 1m Properties To FTTP Broadband

Virgin Media says network expansion is the UK's largest single FTTP deployment

8 years ago

EE Looks To Open Source Networks For 5G And Rural 4G

EE wants developers to create network services and applications using Lime Micro's software defined radio transceiver and Canonical Ubuntu Snappy…

8 years ago

Vodafone And Huawei’s NB-IoT Open Lab Can Be ‘Catalyst’ For IoT Development

Huawei and Vodafone envision global network of open NB-IoT labs, claiming the standard is as important to IoT as the…

8 years ago

1Gbps FTTP Broadband Services Go Live In Leeds And Bradford

CityFibre says its networks in northern cities can help develop the region as an economic powerhouse

8 years ago

EE Brings Customer Service Back To UK And Ireland

EE creates 600 new jobs as it hopes customer service will give it an advantage over rivals

8 years ago

EE 4G To Reach 95 Percent Of UK Landmass By 2020

EE says major investment will deliver 4G to areas that don't even have 2G, boosting LTE population coverage to 99.8…

8 years ago

Sennheiser: Wireless Microphones Need Spectrum Just As Much As Mobile

Sennheiser says authorities should not take away airwaves from special events and production without giving alternative frequencies

8 years ago

Sky Adds 46,000 Broadband Customers In Q3

Sky says customer service and content is helping company to profit ahead of mobile launch

8 years ago

CityFibre: Our FTTP Broadband Network Can Compete With Openreach

As revenues reach £6.4m, CityFibre explains how KCOM purchase, network architecture and ducts and poles can help it compete with…

8 years ago

Half Of British Firms Ban Workers From Using Free Wi-Fi Networks

Research from iPass shows 62 percent of firms in four countries ban free Wi-Fi and 94 percent believe it is…

8 years ago

Are ISPs Doing Enough To Protect Businesses Against DDoS Attacks?

Nine tenths of firms say they want more protection from their provider and 80 percent of ISPs believe there is…

8 years ago

Free Brighton BT Wi-Fi Network Could Bring Better 4G

BT will build 40 Wi-Fi access points in Brighton and Hove in exchange for permission to deploy mobile infrastructure on…

8 years ago