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Incumbent telcos losing grip on EU broadband
News As the EU gets ever more broadband-enabled, the incumbent telcos are losing their grip on Europe's fat pipes. The Commission's report said: "The UK (with 19.0 percentage points difference between the market share of the incumbent excluding and...
[December 2, 2008, 8:50]
Incumbent telcos accused of plotting against VoIP
Talkback It is ludicrous that the existing analogue network providers should have so much power to prevent innovative communications solutions, which would see the cost of calls drop to near nothing. You only have to look to FRANCE typically a country which...
[November 19, 2004, 9:12]
Broadband growth sees incumbent telcos under fire
News In the next few years, broadband will become the norm rather than the exception for Europeans, according to analysts. A report by research group Forrester found that the growth in broadband connections in Western European homes has steamed ahead...
[January 21, 2005, 15:05]
Incumbent telcos accused of plotting against VoIP
News Old-school telecoms operators are suspected of scheming behind the scenes in an attempt to hamper the new wave of companies offering IP-based telephony services. Bert Whyte, chief executive of net.com -- a maker of broadband telecoms equipment...
[October 8, 2004, 10:55]
EC threatens more legal action over broadband
News The European Commission has threatened to widen its legal action against Europe's incumbent telcos over the failure of local-loop unbundling. He is concerned about claims that incumbent telcos have been obstructing the process to ensure their...
[July 8, 2002, 16:14]
Telcos battle to control community wireless
News A clash has broken out in the US between the City of Philadelphia and an incumbent telecommunications firm, which illustrates how Wi-Fi is shaking up the telecoms market. Pennsylvania state governor Edward Rendell approved the law on Wednesday...
[December 1, 2004, 14:50]
EC to investigate broadband rollouts
News The European Commission has launched an investigation into the way incumbent telcos are opening up their exchanges to other operators in the light of complaints about the process. Local loop unbundling -- as the process is called -- has long been...
[March 6, 2001, 9:09]
Telcos: forget 'original sin'
News Europe's incumbent telecommunications operators have reacted angrily to plans for a shake-up of telecom rules at a public hearing in Brussels Wednesday. The first of these, discussed this morning, is seen by experts as a wake-up call to telecom...
[May 10, 2000, 14:25]
BT's P2P throttling 'damages' ADSL's image
News Industry experts believe that the debacle over BT's throttling of peer-to-peer (P2P) use by its ADSL users could have damaged consumer confidence in broadband, at a time when the UK's IT industry needs the incumbent telco to be doing all it can to...
[October 18, 2001, 13:37]
BT may face £2bn bill for broadband delays
News Describing the pace of progress as "by no means satisfactory", Monti accused Europe's incumbent telecom operators of deliberately obstructing the delivery of unbundled lines to rival operators. He also claimed that incumbent operators had been...
[September 19, 2001, 14:55]
EC to host hearing on the future of telecoms
News The hearing -- which runs over two days -- will cover myriad topics including a shake up in the way telecoms watchdogs do business, changes to the universal service agreement held by incumbent operators and a possible ban on spam email.
[May 9, 2000, 13:35]
EC cracks down on local-loop unbundling
News The five EC member states are accused of failing to make their incumbent telecoms companies provide precise details of how rival companies can gain access to their networks -- a process known as local-loop unbundling.
[March 21, 2002, 14:31]
BT heading for monopoly in broadband
News We are in danger of creating a situation in which the incumbent telco is the only one offering DSL services and extending the monopoly from voice to data," says head of regulatory affairs at ECTA John Dickie.
[January 29, 2001, 15:23]
Easynet warns against telecoms complacency
News All EU member states have introduced local-loop unbundling (LLU), which allows other operators to install their equipment in local telephone exchanges and compete against the incumbent operator in the wholesale market.
[December 18, 2002, 16:19]
Unbundling still stuck in the broadband mire
News LLU was supposed to open up Europe's telecoms markets and break the dominance of the incumbent operators. It offers other companies the opportunity to take over customers' phone lines and offer their own services, rather than just reselling the...
[June 13, 2003, 15:56]
EU telecoms gets regulatory shake-up
News Many countries in Europe still have a dominant telecoms incumbent, like BT used to be in the UK before the creation of Openreach, which was supposed to allow rival companies equivalent opportunities in the market.
[November 14, 2007, 13:24]
Analysis: Unbundling gets unbundled
News Unbundling has been pushed forward at government and EU level in order to solve the problem of incumbent telephone operators monopolising data services in the way they previously monopolised voice calls.
[January 31, 2001, 9:45]
Companies want Web 2.0 tech from bigger vendors
News When asked if they would prefer offerings from major incumbent vendors like Microsoft, IBM, or Oracle rather than from smaller pure-play firms like Socialtext, NewsGator, or MindTouch, the vast majority of chief information officers indicated a...
[March 23, 2007, 8:25]
Open source sharpens competitive edge
News Several start-ups have adopted open source business models in an attempt to unseat incumbent business software providers. Two-year-old company Pentaho, staffed with refugees from incumbent business intelligence vendors, late last year introduced an...
[August 16, 2006, 17:30]
Pressure mounts on BT over unmetered access
News Stopping short of criticising the telecoms giant, Graylish said it was incumbent on BT to examine its price structures "vigorously". Price reviews make it incumbent on us to protect phone users against differentiated pricing," a spokeswoman said.
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