Telecoms

IT LIFE: David Pollington, GSMA Technical Director

David Pollington talks about his career, the future of mobile and IoT in a global world, and why he could…

7 years ago

BT Opens First Cybersecurity Hub Outside UK In Australia

BT opens first cybersecurity R&D hub outside the UK, claiming it wants to tap into talent in Sydney and New…

7 years ago

Cisco & ScotRail To Trial 300Mbps Train Wi-Fi Between Glasgow & Edinburgh

It is claimed Project SWIFT will make commuters and train operators more efficient as one third of all Wi-Fi requests…

7 years ago

VMworld 2017: VMware Delivers Hybrid Cloud & NFV Updates For Businesses, Cloud Partners And Telcos

VMware delivers a slew of announcements, including NFV platforms, cloud services and mobile security

7 years ago

EE Refarms 2G Spectrum To Boost 4G Speeds And Reliability

EE allocates more 1800MHz spectrum for 4G to boost speeds and reliability in major cities

7 years ago

Up to £645m To Be Reinvested In Superfast Broadband As Government Targets 98 Percent Coverage

As much as £645m will be handed back to local councils to extend superfast broadband coverage to 98 percent of…

7 years ago

TalkTalk Targets Operator Partners As It Plots Mobile Exit

TalkTalk scales back mobile ambitions and wants to sell SIM cards from other operators instead

7 years ago

Three Is Silicon Readers’ Favourite Mobile Operator

Three's value added services see it crowned Silicon readers' favourite mobile network, ahead of EE, Vodafone and O2

7 years ago

EE 4G Home Router Looks To Replace Home Broadband

EE targets rural homes and businesses sick of slow speeds with new router, but it will cost them

7 years ago

Government Names Locations For 1Gbps FTTP Broadband Trials

Government hopes £10m trial of ultrafast broadband in Aberdeenshire, Sussex, Bath, Bristol, Manchester and West Yorkshire will stimulate market

7 years ago

Licensed Spectrum Is Key To The Success Of LPWA Networks In IoT

OPINION: GSMA executive director discusses the future of LPWA networks in an IoT world and why licensed spectrum is the…

7 years ago

BT Cloud Platform-as-a-Service Looks To Speed Up Digital Transformation

Digital services platform to be launched by BT before the end of the year

7 years ago

IT LIFE: Duncan Gooding, TalkTalk Business COO

TalkTalk Businesses' Duncan Gooding talks about his career in IT, the shift to IoT and cloud, and his own hopes…

7 years ago

Government Superfast Broadband Projects Connect 4.55m Properties

Government nears the completion of BDUK and its 95 percent superfast broadband coverage target

7 years ago

IT LIFE: Chris Martin, Powwownow CTO

Powwownow CTO talks about his career in IT and why he's excited about AI

7 years ago

Scottish Cities Ranked Best For Mobile Coverage

Rootmetrics data finds Scottish cities have some of the best mobile coverage in the UK

7 years ago

Vodafone In Talks With Openreach To Co-Invest In FTTP Broadband

Vodafone could help fund FTTP broadband in urban areas with Openreach in what would be a first for the UK…

7 years ago

CityFibre Expands FTTP Broadband Network To Nottingham & Leicester

Local leaders hope 1Gbps FTTP broadband will provide boost to business community and the East Midlands region

7 years ago

EE Set To Challenge Ofcom 5G Spectrum Cap After Three Intervention

EE is forced into action by Three legal challenge but claims its counter action will not delay the Ofcom 5G…

7 years ago

Three Fixes Mobile Roaming Fault Affecting France, Luxembourg And Portugal

UPDATE: Three fixes fault that left customers unable to make calls, send texts or access mobile data for more than…

7 years ago

BT & Dell EMC Trial Disaggregated Switching Tech In SDN Push

BT and Dell EMC to see how next generation, programmable switching technology can catalyse the arrival of smart networking services.

7 years ago

BT To Axe Half Of Public Telephone Boxes

Will people care? BT is to remove 20,000 phone boxes by 2022 as usage plummets

7 years ago

Silicon Readers Say It’s About Time For Tube Mobile Coverage

Silicon readers want tube mobile coverage, not in-tunnel silence

7 years ago

techUK: Digital Connectivity Boost Is ‘Essential For Post-Brexit Economy’

The government 'needs' to take leadership on forging a more dynamic environment for ultrafast broadband and wireless networks

7 years ago

Mayor of London Plans Tube 4G Mobile Coverage By 2019

Mayor wants tube 4G coverage by 2019, a team of notspot specialists and for local authorities to do more to…

7 years ago

Arqiva Promises Small Cells Will Deliver Better 4G For Lambeth

Arqiva's plans to work with operators to boost 4G and pave way for 5G gets a boost with its 12th…

7 years ago

KCOM Hit With £900,000 Fine For 999 Call Failures

KCOM had a single point of failure in the way it handles emergency calls, Ofcom finds

7 years ago

Virgin Media Project Lightning ‘Back On Track’ As It Reaches 5m Broadband Customers

Virgin Media adds 127,000 new properties to its network during Q2 and says the management issues that affected rollout have…

7 years ago

Average UK Broadband Speed Of 16.51Mbps Is ’31st Fastest’ In The World

UK compares well to the rest of the world in terms of broadband, but experts say more FTTP is needed…

7 years ago

Businesses Face Fines If Cyberattack Causes ‘Essential’ Service Outage

'Essential' infrastructure operators could be fined £17 million or 4 percent of global turnover if they suffer an outage because…

7 years ago