Telecoms

FreedomPop MVNO Offers Free Mobile Calls, Texts And Data

FreedomPop goes live in the UK, offering free mobile service that can be topped through third party offers

9 years ago

Openreach Promises Partners It Will Improve Service Levels

Openreach pledges to improve repair and installation records but warns any change in regulation will harm investment

9 years ago

Hutchison Plans Three-O2 IPO But Merger Faces ‘Extensive’ EU Investigation

Hutchison Whampoa is planning to float Three-O2 and is prepared to sell spectrum to get EU approval

9 years ago

Government ‘To Offer’ Satellite Broadband Vouchers In Rural Areas

Government steps up plans to connect 'final five percent' with satellite broadband voucher scheme, according to reports

9 years ago

Google: We Don’t Want To Be The World’s ISP

Google says it will continue to make investments in networking and further projects like Loon and Titan, but it wants…

9 years ago

Three Enables 4G Calls With VoLTE Launch

Three becomes first UK operator to commercially launch Voice over LTE (VoLTE), claiming technology will boost indoor reception and rural…

9 years ago

Hutchison Applies To EU For Three-O2 Merger Approval

Hutchison Whampoa looks to complete £10.25 billion acquisition despite failure of Danish telecoms merger last week

9 years ago

European Commission Opens Telecoms, Broadband Consultations

The EC said it is looking for comment on how to shape the future of telecoms and broadband regulation

9 years ago

Broadband Users ‘Need’ Minimum Speed Of 10Mbps

Ovum report assesses broadband in 30 countries according to network and customer data, finds UK is eighth out of 30

9 years ago

EE Boosts 150Mbps 4G+ With More Spectrum

EE says greater availibility of LTE CAT6 smartphones and data demand is prompting high frequency bandwidth rollout

9 years ago

How Telcos Can Avoid Being Left Behind By OTT Players

Cloud, video and IoT applications will drive investment in broadband, but how can operators increase revenues and serve customers directly?

9 years ago

Vodafone Rolls Out Native VoWi-Fi To Select Handsets

Vodafone enables calls to be made over a Wi-Fi connection for some users

9 years ago

Virgin Media Offers Manchester SMBs ‘Affordable’ 100Mbps Broadband

Virgin Media hopes to help power Manchester tech startup hub with cable broadband

9 years ago

Devicescape Can Now Offload iPhone From 4G To Wi-Fi Automatically

Devicescape says operator partners, including Virgin Media, can now offload 95 percent of customers from 3G or 4G to its…

9 years ago

Ericsson Updates Software To Ease Cost, Battery And Coverage Barriers To IoT

Ericsson offers new software to operators, enabling cheaper, longer laster devices and boosting indoor coverage with unlicensed spectrum

9 years ago

Regulatory Fight Brewing At FCC Over LTE-U Access To Wi-Fi Spectrum

BLOG: Carriers, cable companies, standards groups and hardware makers are squaring off to fight over giving mobile phones LTE-U access…

9 years ago

IT Life: Getting Britain’s Businesses TalkTalking

TalkTalk Business's Duncan Gooding explains why he loves SONOS, his smartphone but is not a fan of Microsfot

9 years ago

UPC Ireland Rebrands As Virgin Media

Liberty Global brings its UK and Ireland operations closer with Virgin Media refresh

9 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: UK Mobile Operators

What do you know about the UK's mobile operators and MVNOs? Find out with our quiz!

9 years ago

NSPCC And O2 To Help Parents Protect Children Online

Workshops to help parents deal with online issues as confidently as offline ones, amid fears children are suffering from 'digital…

9 years ago

Vodafone And Three Buy L-Band Spectrum From Qualcomm

Qualcomm sells 40MHz of airwaves in the 1452-1492 L-Band to UK operators

9 years ago

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 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

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

Vodafone Pumps £5m Into Irish Data Centre Services

Vodafone Ireland wants to increase European cloud and hosting abilities with further investments into Irish cloud services

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

Dixon Carphone Mobile Network iD Launches In Ireland

iD MVNO to shake up Irish mobile market following O2-Three merger

9 years ago

O2 Self Optimising Network Is Latest Evolution Of ‘Customer-Centric’ Approach

O2 COO Derek McManus explains why its customer-centric approach is making its network better and why you shouldn't believe RootMetrics'…

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