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Isle of Man tempts tech firms with zero corporate tax
News The Isle of Man government is to set corporate tax at zero percent from 5 April, as it continues its drive to bring more high-tech companies to the island. Because the Isle of Man is not part of the UK, but is a self-governing crown dependency, it...
[March 21, 2006, 16:20]
Isle of Man gets 60Mbps wireless network
News A 60Mbps fixed wireless network service went live on the Isle of Man on Friday, said to be the first of its kind in the UK. The 3.5GHz service is run by Domicilium, one of the island's largest business ISPs and the exclusive licence holder for that...
[February 2, 2004, 11:40]
Isle of Man snubs iSoft
News The Isle of Man has snubbed medical software that is central to the NHS's National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the UK. While the Isle of Man is located just 30 miles from British shores, it is not part of the UK, and so it is not obliged to follow...
[March 23, 2007, 12:19]
Total Network Solutions Brings Converged Network to Isle of Man Hospital
White Papers In the heart of the British Isles, located in the Irish Sea, is the Isle of Man. The country of The Isle of Man was building a new large, modern hospital. In order to embark on a convergence road map for the Isle of Man government, the new Cisco IP...
[June 2, 2006, 0:00]
BT makes successful 3G video call
News BT Wireless has announced that it made a successful video call between two third-generation (3G) phones on the Isle of Man on Wednesday, and insists it is still on track to launch the Manx 3G network later this summer.
[June 28, 2001, 16:36]
BT's 3G delay blamed on DoCoMo
News BT's announcement, on Monday, that it is postponing the rollout of its 3G network on the Isle of Man "until late summer" did not surprise industry experts. BT had been planning to launch the world's first commercial, third generation (3G) mobile...
[May 14, 2001, 11:44]
First European Super 3G network launched
News Based on the Isle of Man, the network supports downloads at up to 1.4Mbps with incremental upgrades expected to raise this to 10Mbps by 2008. The Isle of Man network has thirty base stations, each of which can share 8Mbps between up to 70 users.
[November 8, 2005, 16:10]
The Manx turn from Unix to Windows
News The Isle of Man Government is to standardise on Microsoft's Windows platform, ditching its existing Unix operating systems and choosing to not go down the Linux path that has attracted some high-profile public sector wins lately.
[December 1, 2004, 17:10]
Manx switches on first Super 3G
News Manx Telecom on Tuesday switched on Europe's first commercial super-3G service, delivering 1.3 Megabits-per-second (Mbps) to mobile users on the Isle of Man via a data card. A regular 3G service was trialled on the island a few years ago before...
[November 2, 2005, 15:25]
Super 3G hot spots due in 2006
News O2 will test HSPDA on the Isle of Man this summer and Dave Williams, O2's chief technology officer, is confident that these trials will lead to commercial deployment in the UK, Ireland and Germany in 2006.
[May 3, 2005, 13:40]
One-third of firms set to offshore IT
News Dubai and the Isle of Man are two places that are putting particular effort into attracting offshoring business. On the Isle of Man, e-business minister Tim Craine is similarly hoping to attract businesses keen to take advantage of the tax breaks...
[September 9, 2004, 15:00]
London losing lustre as data-centre destination
News One company that has gone down that route is Netcetera, which has been building data centres for 11 years but is considering winding down its four London-based operations as it puts the finishing touches to a new 700-server-rack data centre on the...
[February 28, 2008, 10:00]
Mobile industry looks beyond 3G
News O2 claims it will have Europe's first operational HSDPA network running on the Isle of Man from mid-September. It will remove the latency and bandwidth issues you get with standard 3G networks," said Tim Craine, e-business minister for the Isle of...
[February 14, 2005, 15:10]
3G licensees face new cash crunch
News British Telecom subsidiary Manx Telecom, on the Isle of Man, said this week it is on track to launch 3G services next month -- making it the first to do so. The Isle of Man services were helped along by the island's small size -- and the fact that...
[April 25, 2001, 13:36]
Trouble in paradise -- McAfee warns of island hopping spam
Blog McAfee has traced spam activity from the Isle of Man and the tropical island of Tokelau, amongst others. McAfee has identified the following small islands as being favoured by spammers: Tokelau, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Tuvalu, American Samoa, Isle...
[November 1, 2006, 15:19]
mmO2 'super' 3G due next summer
News mmO2 plans to launch what it believes will be Europe's first truly high-speed 3G mobile data network next summer on the Isle of Man. Manx Telecom decided not to invest in the technology until it had settled down," said Tim Craine, e-business...
[December 9, 2004, 15:45]
Europe's first 3G network goes live
News Europe's first 3G mobile network was permanently switched on on Wednesday as Manx Telecom, a subsidiary of BT off-shoot mmO2, began trials on the Isle of Man. The Isle of Man network, built in partnership with Siemens and NEC, is currently made up...
[December 5, 2001, 18:02]
Vodafone and Samsung strike HSDPA deal
Talkback Not wanting to nit-pick, but the Isle of Man isn't in the UK. That's like saying Canada is in the United States.
[December 29, 2005, 12:38]
The Manx turn from Unix to Windows
Talkback The Isle of Man must've struck oil. I just hope they can get off the Microsoft fix after the money runs out.
[December 2, 2004, 17:06]
Manx Telecom sets date for super-3G
News The rollout will start on a small scale on its network on the Isle of Man, which has a population of some 75,000. O2 has become the first UK network operator to officially adopt the high-speed mobile broadband technology HSDPA, the operator said...
[October 20, 2005, 17:25]
