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Mobile Operators Face Hefty Bill For 0800 Charges As Supreme Court Sides With BT
BT says it will seek to recover money it is owed for connecting users to non-geographic numbers as lengthy court battle comes to an end
Silent Circle Challenges Mobile And VoIP Operators With Encrypted Landline Calls
Silent Circle 'Out-Circle Calling' claims to make it cheaper and easier to make encrypted international calls to landlines and mobiles
Ofcom Tells BT To Repair And Install Fixed Lines Faster Or Risk Fines
Ofcom seeks to shortern the time telephone and broadband line repairs, as well as finish new installations
Labour Telecoms Proposals Call For Reduced BT Line Rental Charges
Shadow Communications Minister Helen Goodman publishes proposals to protect consumers from fixed line and mobile operators
BT Openreach CEO Liv Garfield Leaves For Severn Trent
Garfield will leave in the spring after overseeing BT fibre deployment
Alcatel-Lucent Looks To Sell Enterprise Unit – Again
The French telecommunications equipment maker calls in advisers, after job cuts
BT Chief Ian Livingston Leaving For Ministerial Job
He cut thousands of jobs, but he brought profit - BT CEO Ian Livingston is leaving to become minister for trade and investment
MEF Touts Benefits Of Carrier Ethernet 2.0
Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe says this release of the telco Ethernet protocol is a "new generation"
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Huawei Claims Biggest Desktop Virtualisation Deployment
45,000 Huawei engineers are using its Desktop Cloud, along with 100,000 other users across 30 countries
Calling From Landlines To Mobiles Will Be 85 Percent Cheaper
Appeal tribunal rules that the price of ringing a mobile phone from a landline should fall faster and further
IBM and Tulip Telecom Build Massive, Sustainable Data Centre In India
IBM has helped to create the largest and greenest data centre in India as a modular, stacked design for Tulip Telecom
China Telecom To Launch UK Virtual Mobile Network
China Telecom agrees deal with Everything Everywhere to launch UK services
Huawei Cleared Of Racial Discrimination
Huawei has been cleared of racial discrimination by an employment tribunal
British Engineer Accuses Huawei Of Race Discrimination
A former British employee of Huawei claims he was made redundant because he wasn't Chinese
ITU Deploys Emergency Telecoms To Japan
The UN agency for ICT is providing emergency telecoms for victims of the Japan earthquake
UN Tech Experts Help Pakistan Flood Victims
Around 945 victims have been given access to mobile and satellite calls to connect with friends and families abroad