Broadband

Will Three Still ‘Make It Right’ After O2 Merger?

BLOG: Three says its customer offers are paying dividends, but will it have the same desire if it merges with…

9 years ago

Three Reaches 4.5m 4G Users, Says O2 Merger Will Help It Grow

More than half of Three customers are using 4G, consuming 4.6GB a month as coverage reaches 63 percent

9 years ago

Three Customers ‘Save’ £1.3bn In Roaming Costs

Three claims customers are using more data than ever before since Feel At Home launched 2 years ago

9 years ago

BT Offers 330Mbps Speeds In Cambridgeshire As G.Fast Trial Goes Live

First G.Fast trial goes live in Huntingdon, with BT seeing how copper technology performs ahead of nationwide rollout

9 years ago

Mobile Industry Body GSMA Names Tele2 CEO As New Director General

Tele2 CEO Mats Granryd will succeed Anne Bouverot from 1 January

9 years ago

Labour: Openreach Should Be Separated From BT

Shadow culture secretary Chris Bryant says Ofcom should split up BT and Openreach if the UK is to meet its…

9 years ago

Government Advistory Board To Review Open Internet Code Of Practice

Government's broadband advisory board will see whether industry self-regulation needs updating to comply with EU open Internet legislation

9 years ago

O2 1800MHz Spectrum And Wi-Fi Offloading Will Boost Urban 4G Capacity

O2 details plans to re-farm spectrum, upgrade Wi-Fi network, rollout VoWi-Fi and VoLTE and improve rural 4G

9 years ago

Churches Step In To Deliver Superfast Broadband To Rural Somerset

Diocese of Bath and Wells is concerned rural communities will be excluded from BDUK and wants to help

9 years ago

Mobile-First Bozza Wants To Be Africa’s iTunes, Netflix And Spotify

Bozza hopes mobile-first approach, feature phone support and data compression technology can help it become a Pan-African content giant

9 years ago

Virgin Media ‘To Turn’ Street Cabinets Into Wi-Fi Hotspots

Reports suggest Virgin Media wants to create a Wi-Fi network to rival that of BT

9 years ago

Hyperoptic Nottingham 1Gbps FTTP Network Goes Live

First properties in Nottingham are connected to Hyperoptic network, with promise of city-wide coverage by end of 2015

9 years ago

Openreach: Connecting Last 1-2 Percent Of UK To Fibre Is ‘Really Difficult’

Openreach CEO Joe Garner denies it is unwilling to invest and maintains his unit is better off as part of…

9 years ago

Ofcom Raises No Significant Concerns About BT-EE Merger

Ofcom admits to CMA inquiry it has some issues with potential access to mobile backhaul and MVNO, but appears to…

9 years ago

Mobile Operators ‘Should’ Protect Customers From Roaming Bill Shock

Citizens Advice says more should be done to protect consumers from high roaming costs and bill shock with more warnings,…

9 years ago

Monster Scottish Broadband Expansion Brings Fibre To Loch Ness

Expect more blurry photos of mythical creatures as Loch Ness, and 73,000 properties in Scotland, are added to superfast broadband…

9 years ago

Rutland: England’s Smallest County Has UK’s Highest Superfast Broadband Adoption Rate

BT and Rutland County Council to expand fibre even further after high takeup rate

9 years ago

Huawei Marine Gives UK-South Africa Subsea Cable A 100Gbps Upgrade

Huawei Marine upgrades two sections of West Africa Cable System (WACS), creating one of the longest 100Gbps submarine links in…

9 years ago

Vodafone Connect Home Broadband Now Available To All UK Customers

All current Vodafone mobile subscribers can sign up for discounted home broadband with Vodafone Connect following regional trial

9 years ago

Local Authorities Start Planning How To Spend £129m BT BDUK Refund

A number of BDUK projects are starting to get money back from BT and are planning for further fibre expansion

9 years ago

BDUK Connects Three Million Properties To Superfast Broadband

New figures from DCMS show BDUK rollout is gaining momentum, two years before 95 percent coverage deadline

9 years ago

What Does Ofcom Communications Report Mean For Business, Government And Operators?

NEWS ANALYSIS: The growth of 4G, ubiquity of mobile and increasing demands for connectivity is having a major impact on…

9 years ago

Hutchison To Tell EU Three-O2 Merger Is Only Way To Compete With BT, Vodafone

Three owner to argue Three and O2 would be ill-equipped to compete with a BT-owned EE and Vodafone if merger…

9 years ago

BDUK Spends £5m On Superfast Broadband Marketing

DCMS figures show marketing expenses for BDUK over six month period

9 years ago

iPass Wi-Fi Network Grows To 50m With Devicescape Integration

iPass says its business Wi-Fi network now covers two thirds of the world's public hotspots

9 years ago

Qualcomm Buys G.Fast Chip Firm Ikanos To Further Fixed, IoT Ambitions

Qualcomm looks to bounce back from recent troubles with Ikanos acquisition

9 years ago

Motorola Solutions Gets £640m Smart Public Safety Investment

Motorola Solutions says investment will aid development of smart public safety technology and is vindication of its strategy

9 years ago

More Than A Quarter Of All UK Mobile Connections Are 4G

Better coverage boosts 4G adoption, but Ofcom says lack of unlimited data and reliability issues mean many still rely on…

9 years ago

Virgin Media Revenue Falls 7.2 Percent Despite Broadband, Mobile, Landline Gains

'Seasonably slow' second quarter sees some gains but TV losses contribute to 7.2 percent drop in revenues

9 years ago

World’s First LTE-Maritime Network Hopes To Improve Ship Safety With 100km Coverage

SK Telecom will trial LTE-Maritime next year, offering ships within a 100km radius of the coast better navigation and safety

9 years ago