Broadband

BT Brings IP Telephony To All With ‘Plug And Play’ Cloud Phone

BT Cloud Phone offered to SMBs as company announces 1,000 new apprenticeships and graduate jobs

10 years ago

Virgin Media’s East London Expansion Reaches 50,000 Properties

Virgin Media's major expansion in the east end gets to the halfway stage

10 years ago

MWC 2015 – Cisco Provides EE With Small Cells, Touts Cloud Network Analysis Platform

EE will use Cisco small cells to boost indoor coverage, while Mobility IQ will provide visual information on 3G, 4G…

10 years ago

HP Acquires Aruba Networks For £1.95 Billion

Biggest splash of cash since Autonomy purchase, Aruba will bolster HP's sliding networking hardware division

10 years ago

MWC 2015 – Nokia Predicts 2020 Launch For 5G After Reaching 1Gbps On 70GHz

Nokia and NTT DoCoMO 'committed' to 2020 launch after successful millimetre wave tests

10 years ago

BT Says EU Should Let Governments Fund Urban Broadband – Rivals Disagree

BT says BDUK should be allowed to help cities, but rivals say private sector should solve issues

10 years ago

TalkTalk Admits Customer Account Data Breach

TalkTalk says small but significant number of customers are affected but stresses no payment details have been stolen

10 years ago

How To Explain Net Neutrality To A Five-Year-Old

The definitive definition of net neutrality by the experts for the kids (and adults, too)

10 years ago

America’s FCC Votes In Favour Of Net Neutrality Regulation

In a close 3-2 vote, the FCC awarded itself more power over broadband providers than ever before

10 years ago

Ofcom: 32% Of Broadband Connections Are Superfast, But Urban-Rural Divide Is Widening

Ofcom says rural and suburban broadband speeds did not rise in the six months leading up to November 2014 and…

10 years ago

Three Thanks Customer-Centric Approach For 478,000 New Customers

Three says 4G at no extra cost, cheaper roaming and customer service investments are bringing users to its network

10 years ago

Scottish Superfast Broadband Rollout Reaches 1.5m Homes And Businesses

BT and BDUK projects reach milestone as fibre rollout accelerates

10 years ago

4.5G Set To Break 1Gbps Barrier For Mobile Networks In 2016

Huawei says 4.5G will offer faster speeds, greater capacity and lower latency than LTE, powering the IoT, virtual reality and…

10 years ago

Government Dismisses House of Lords’ London Broadband Concerns

Ed Vaizey says the situation in the capital is much better than the House of Lords thinks

10 years ago

Welsh Government Offers £3m To Boost Business Broadband

Welsh Government issues tender for contracts to improve broadband coverage in the country

10 years ago

Treat Broadband Like A Utility, Says House of Lords

House of Lords says presence of broadband notspots in rural areas is "unacceptable"

10 years ago

Wi-Fi Helps Scandinavian Airlines Save On Roaming And Fuel

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) deploys iPass for electronic manuals and cheaper communications

10 years ago

Gigaclear Earmarks 6,000 More Rural Properties For 1Gbps Broadband

Gigaclear secures £6.5m in funding to continue rural gigabit rollout

10 years ago

Virgin Media To Connect 4m More Homes And Businesses To Cable

Virgin Media cable network is to reach 17m homes over the next five years in a £3 billion investment

10 years ago

Government Pledges £50m For Train Wi-Fi From 2017

Government invites four operators to apply for funding and will make train Wi-Fi a condition of any future franchise bid

10 years ago

EE Invests £1.5bn In Faster 4G And Rural Coverage

EE announces major investment programme as it presses ahead with the second phase of its 4G rollout

10 years ago

EE Named Best UK Mobile Network Again, But Three Closes Gap

RootMetrics data reveals all four operators are improving, but EE and Three are moving ahead of O2 and Vodafone

10 years ago

Hyperoptic FTTP Network Brings 1Gbps Broadband To 100,000 Properties

Hyperoptic fibre network now reaches 100,000 homes and businesses across 1,000 sites

10 years ago

Facebook Brings Internet.org To India With Reliance Communications Partnership

Android mobile app in rural areas to give users job listings and healthcare info alongside Facebook access

10 years ago

Sex-Obsessed Fifty Shades Of Grey Fans Crash Art Website

Latex portrait website crumbles to fans demanding Fifty Shades-inspired art

10 years ago

Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi Update Promises To ‘Master’ VoWi-Fi Reliability

Free software update manages and prioritises voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) signals across Smart Wi-Fi infrastructure

10 years ago

O2 Offers Public Sector And Charities £100 For Tablet Purchase

O2 'No.10' tariff offers 5GB of data for £10 a month, along with £100 connection credit

10 years ago

Government Turns Attention To ‘Final Five Percent’ As BDUK Connects 2m Homes To Fibre

Government-funded BDUK projects have connected two million homes and businesses to superfast broadband

10 years ago

Superfast Broadband Awareness Low, But Higher In Rural Areas

Research suggest there is confusion about the availability of superfast broadband in the UK

10 years ago

PacketFront Says ‘No’ To Open Flow Outside Of The Data Centre

Network product maker reckons Netconf should be used in broadband networks

10 years ago