Broadband

Norfolk Council Employees Benefit From ‘National Roaming’

Norfolk County Council signs £20m communications deal for wired and wireless networks, unified communications and national roaming mobile services

9 years ago

Slow Broadband Costs Small Business Employees ’15 Minutes A Day’

Virgin Media Business research coincides with launch of the provider's 300Mbps broadband service

9 years ago

MPs Report: BT And Openreach ‘Natural Monopoly’ Should Be Separated

A report backed by 121 MPs says BT and Openreach should be separated for the good of the UK's broadband…

9 years ago

iPass Wi-Fi Now Available On 2,700 Aircraft

iPass signs deal with Panasonic Avionics to add 23 more airlines to its network

9 years ago

Virgin Media Restructure Threatens 900 UK Jobs

Virgin Media confirms a consultation on proposed job cuts is taking place, but says reorganisation will allow it to focus…

9 years ago

Data Breach And Reliability Issues Cause TalkTalk Customers To Leave

Figures from Kantar suggest recent events at TalkTalk have had an impact on customer retention and acquisition in the communications…

9 years ago

ASA Proposes New Rules To Stop ‘Misleading’ Broadband Advertising

ASA says broadband consumers find current adverts misleading and confusing, and suggests most would break new rules to be introduced…

9 years ago

FreedomPop MVNO Offers Cheap Roaming In Europe, US With Global SIM

FreedomPop raises £35m and wants to expand Global SIM to Latin America and Asia

9 years ago

SIGFOX Launches IoT Network In Antarctica For Polar Researchers

The safety of scientists researching climate change will be boosted by GPS and SIGFOX IoT

9 years ago

New BT CIO Howard Watson To Lead EE Integration

New CIO and BT TSO CEO will oversee network development having launched IT systems for BT Sport

9 years ago

BT Creates 1,000 UK Customer Service Jobs

BT hopes customer service will help it stand out in crowded market

9 years ago

Ofcom: Sky And O2 Get Customer Service Thumbs Up, But TalkTalk Struggles

Ofcom publishes latest communications customer service report

9 years ago

What Next For UK Communications After BT-EE Merger?

NEWS ANALYSIS: BT, industry experts and rivals have their say on the £12.5 billion union of industry heavyweights

9 years ago

BT Gets Competition Approval For £12.5bn EE Takeover

BT will complete EE acquisition later this month after CMA find no evidence that retail or wholesale mobile and broadband…

9 years ago

Ericsson And Huawei Extend Patent Sharing Agreement

Ericsson and Huawei will cross licence patents essential to wireless communication, including LTE

9 years ago

Gigaclear Gets £18m EU Loan To Expand Rural Fibre Coverage

Gigaclear will use money to reach at least another 40,000 properties in 2016

9 years ago

CityFibre Brings 1Gbps Broadband To Bristol

CityFibre picks Bristol as first location for expansion following £90m KCOM fibre acquisition

9 years ago

Qualcomm And TDK Create £2bn Wireless Joint Venture

Qualcomm and TDK will work on wireless technology for mobile devices, IoT and drones, with new joint-venture to create RF…

9 years ago

Vodafone Wins £75m Deal To Connect Scottish Power To Smart Grid

Vodafone will help Scottish Power monitor faults and direct investment while implementing smart grid technologies

9 years ago

Quarter Of Smartphone Users To Abandon Calls In 2016 As VR Becomes $1bn Market

Deloitte's crystal ball predicts strong growth for OTT services, VoLTE, VoWi-Fi and virtual reality, but mobile ad blockers will not…

9 years ago

ISPs Report Higher Internet Use On Christmas Day

BT and Virgin Media report an increase in data consumption and the number of devices connected to their network on…

9 years ago

O2 And EE Solve Landline Call Issues On Networks

EE and O2 say issues which stopped customers from dialling landline numbers have now been resolved

9 years ago

BT Signs Up Another Satellite Broadband Partner

Satellite Solutions Worldwide is latest to sign up for BT as it helps deliver government-subsidised broadband rollout

9 years ago

BT Open To Deutsche Telekom Partnerships After EE Deal

BT Chairman says European partnership possible and reiterates calls for Openreach to remain within BT

9 years ago

BT Appoints Clive Selley As Openreach CEO

CEO of BT TSO and Group CIO Clive Selley will head up Openreach during Ofcom's market review

9 years ago

CES 2016 – Cisco Targets Broadcasters With Cloud Software, Agrees Sky Q Deal

Cisco details cloud broadcast platform and will help power Sky Q TV service

9 years ago

CES 2016 – TP-Link Shows Off 60GHz 802.11ad Wi-Fi, Touchscreen Routers

"World-first" 60GHz TP-Link 60GHz router could deliver 7Gbps speeds, while touchscreen access point hopes to simplify the smart home

9 years ago

CES 2016 – O2 Targets UK Smart Home Leadership With AT&T Platform Launch

O2 becomes first European operator to commercially launch AT&T Digital Life as it looks to seize smart home opportunity

9 years ago

Superfast Broadband Reaches 1.9m Scottish Homes And Businesses

BDUK reaches 500,000 milestone in Scotland as total figure nears 2m - including Gretna Green

9 years ago

Low Power 900MHz Wi-Fi ‘HaLow’ Standard Targets IoT

Wi-Fi Alliance hopes HaLow can offer the low power, long range connectivity offered by other communications technology

9 years ago