Telecoms

Vodafone Has 7m UK 4G Customers As Network Investments ‘Pay Off’

Vodafone says £19bn network investment and European recovery are paying dividends as wider group revenues rise for first time since…

8 years ago

TalkTalk: BT Openreach Should Be Separated Despite Our 1Gbps FTTP Broadband Plans

TalkTalk plans to bring FTTP to 10m homes and businesses, but says it can't deliver ultrafast broadband on its own

8 years ago

Rail Passengers Would Accept Fare Increase For Better Mobile Coverage

Department for Transport report claims business travellers and commuters would pay up for a fifth more if they could get…

8 years ago

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

RNLI: Network Upgrade Will Help Us Save More Lives At Sea

KCOM is upgrading RNLI's WAN to help it better serve volunteers, save lives and attract more support

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

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

EE Will Not Restart Free Smartphone Power Bar Offer

EE decides not to bring free power bar offer back after original units are recalled due to overheating risk

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

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…

9 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…

9 years ago

In Austin, OpenStack Rediscovers Its Roots In Disruption

Jonathan Bryce claims telcos are coming to 'disruptive' OpenStack to find NFV success

9 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

9 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

9 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…

9 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

9 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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 years ago

UK’s ‘Already Poor’ 4G Coverage Is Not Getting Much Better

OpenSignal research says British mobiles can only get a 4G signal 53 percent of the time

9 years ago

What Next For Rural Mobile Coverage After Government’s £150m MIP Builds Just 75 Of 600 Targeted Masts?

The government will not extend Mobile Infrastructure Project (MIP) despite falling short of goal and increasing calls for better rural…

9 years ago

BT Raises Standard Fibre Package Speeds To 52Mbps

BT makes its entry level fibre package a bit faster, claims its speedier than any of its rivals

9 years ago