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5GIC Partners Digital Greenwich For Smart City
5GIC and Digital Greenwich parter to trial 'pioneering' smart city commercial applications in East London
Tech Quiz Of The Week: The History Of BT
BT's been in the news again but what do you know about the UK's biggest mobile and broadband provider?
Sky Claims TV Gains But Looks To Mobile As Broadband Growth Slows
Sky added just 60,000 broadband customers in the second half of its financial year compared to 277,000 in the first. It is now looking to mobile.
BT Gets EE Boost, Now Has 4.3m Fibre Broadband And 16.7m 4G Subscribers
BT gets boost from EE's mobile and SMB businesses as it snaps up 79 percent of all new broadband connections on Openreach in past quarter
Analysts Unsurprised At Ofcom Decision Not To Split BT Openreach
ANALYSIS: Telecoms experts say it was never likely Ofcom would liberate Openreach but warn its last chance saloon for BT and rivals might not benefit
UK Telecoms Industry Disappointed BT Gets To Keep Openreach
ANALYSIS: Rival broadband providers and mobile operators welcome moves to make Openreach independent but aren't convinced it will solve underlying issues
Hackers Collect £15,000 For Pornhub Exploit
The attack provided complete access to Pornhub's database and exposed two PHP flaws
BT Openreach To Become Separate Company With Independent CEO
Ofcom orders Openreach to be a legally separate company with its own board, CEO and budgets but won't separate it from BT just yet
ViaSat Brings Satellite Broadband To Air Force One
ViaSat promises US President will have the same level of connectivity on Air Force One as they do in the White House
FCC Urges Telco Action On Nuisance Calls
US telephone companies are still allowing unwanted mass calls and texts in spite of regulatory changes, the FCC says
BT Chairman: We’re Prepared To Create Independent Openreach Board
BT Chairman Sir Mike Rake accepts more must be done about Openreach transparency and service levels but warns formal separation would be disruptive
Huawei Posts 40 Percent Revenue Growth
H1 sales on steady growth as company expects £57 billion revenue for 2016
Bristol Network Partners Connect First Users To 10Gbps FTTP Broadband
Bristol Network uses council-owned ducts to provide 10Gbps capacity for wholesale ISPs
What Was Wrong With BT Broadband This Week?
ANALYSIS: Was your connection down this week? BT broadband suffered from two separate data centre outages in two consecutive days. Here's what happened
ARM And Symantec Team Up For Open Trust Protocol IoT Security Standard
ARM, Symantec and others address Internet of Things security challenge with new protocol
BT Broadband Suffers Second Day Of Outages After Telehouse Data Centre Power Failure
UPDATED: A second data centre power failure in as many days, this time at Telehouse North, causes disruption for BT broadband services
TalkTalk Loses More Broadband Customers But Makes Fibre Gains
TalkTalk's cyberattack hangover continues but revenues largely flat and company is optimistic about York FTTP pilot
Virgin Media Brings Cable To 450,000 London Premises And FTTP To Barnet
Virgin Media has already connected 100,000 premises to superfast broadband as part of £3bn Project Lightning expansion. Now it targets 350,000 more by 2018
Vodafone Achieves 20Gbps In 5G Tests With Huawei
Vodafone and Huawei test out 70GHz spectrum as race to develop 5G by 2020 continues
BT Broadband Outage Affects Customers Across UK
UPDATE: BT says it has fixed a power issue that caused broadband problems for 10 percent of customers
Vodafone Offers Smart Router And Fibre Broadband To SMBs
Vodafone offers fibre to small businesses across the UK as it expands further into fixed line communications
Virgin Media To Connect Business Parks To 300Mbps Broadband
Virgin Media will connect thousands of firms to its network as part of £3bn Project Lightning expansion
Hyperoptic Gets £21m EU Loan To Expand 1Gbps FTTP Broadband Network
Hyperoptic receives biggest ever UK internet loan from European Investment Bank (EIB) as it looks to expand its FTTP footprint
MPs Tell BT To Up Broadband Investment Or Face Openreach Separation
DCMS select committee says BT is not spending enough on broadband infrastructure and Openreach service levels are suffering
Ransomware Gangs ‘Willing To Bargain’
Most ransomware groups now have responsive and friendly customer-service operations, finds a study
BT Openreach Repairs And Installations At Are ‘Best Ever’ Level
Openreach CEO praises staff and network investments as BT tries to fend off calls for Ofcom to make the open access division independent
AT&T Offers Simple NFV To Businesses With ‘Network On Demand’ Expansion
AT&T looks to attract more businesses to NFV by promising rapid router and firewall rollout and simpler management
O2 CEO Ronan Dunne Steps Down After Failed Three Merger
O2 CEO decides its time for a change as Telefonica abandons plans to leave the UK market and appoints CFO Mark Evans as new chief
AT&T Pushes For IoT With IBM Partnership And Starter Kit
AT&T goes with IBM Bluemix and Watson for developers and releases budget IoT kit for businesses