PCCW says wireless broadband plans are in place
News Pacific Century Cyberworks (PCCW), the Hong Kong-based telco that controls most of a key part of the UK's radio spectrum, has said it is working on launching broadband wireless services in Britain. Reports on Thursday said that senior PCCW...
[August 28, 2003, 17:45]
Government claims success as broadband auction closes
News The 3.4GHz spectrum auction ended on Tuesday with Hong Kong telco Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW) winning all but two of the licences on offer. PCCW's capture of 13 licences mean the telco can now operate wireless services at 3.4GHz everywhere in...
[June 18, 2003, 12:21]
UK operators miss out in wireless broadband auction
News Hong Kong-based Pacific Century Cyberworks (PCCW) has seen off almost all its fellow bidders in the 3.4GHz wireless broadband auction, which kicked off on 6 June. In 11 of the regions, PCCW has been the only bidder since round 23 or earlier...
[June 16, 2003, 17:15]
3.4GHz broadband ready for action
News UK Broadband, a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Pacific Century Cyberworks (PCCW), is planning a "soft launch" of a high-speed wireless service in the second quarter of this year. This service will be called Netvigator, which is also the brand name...
[March 24, 2004, 15:35]
Wireless broadband auction kicks off amid cherry-picking fears
News An early flurry of activity on the auction floor saw heavyweight Hong Kong telco Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW) start strongly by bidding for all the licences, but there is concern that operators may cherry-pick the most commercially attractive...
[June 6, 2003, 12:09]
Hong Kong telco eyes up UK wireless broadband
News At this stage we are evaluating the opportunity, but no decision has been made," Martin O'Connor, PCCW chief communications officer told the South China Morning Post at the weekend. He added that PCCW has already submitted an application for the...
[May 6, 2003, 11:54]
Change of bids for wireless broadband auction
News As ZDNet UK News reported earlier this month, fifteen subsidiaries of PCCW all applied to take part in the 3.4GHz auction. Given the reluctance of large UK telecoms firms to take part in the auction process, the government would have been most...
[May 13, 2003, 15:32]
Pakistan lifts YouTube ban amid speculation
News The BBC reported that Hong Kong-based internet protocol backbone company PCCW, which provides upstream internet access to many of Pakistan's ISPs, had "leaked" details of the ban to ISPs around the world, which had then mistakenly blocked YouTube.
[February 27, 2008, 12:55]
Wireless broadband service gets major cash injection
News Pacific Century Cyberworks (PCCW) is giving its budding UK wireless broadband business a multi-million-pound boost, days after doubts emerged over its long-term plans for the service. According to a report in the South China Morning Post, PCCW has...
[November 29, 2004, 10:10]
Wireless broadband firm takes aim at BT
News As reported back in March, the service is called Netvigator and will be offered by a PCCW subsidiary called UK Broadband. PCCW senior executives have already indicated that they are targeting BT with Netvigator.
[May 6, 2004, 12:55]
Hong Kong ID Smart Project: Smart Card Data Preparation and Issuance
White Papers To meet this need the company behind the entire Smart ID project, local system integrator PCCW, has chosen the P3 data preparation and card issuing system from Thales e-Security - a solution already well proven in the world of financial services.
[January 26, 2005, 23:00]
Pakistan turns off YouTube worldwide
Blog But then, the change found its way to Pakistan's upstream provider - PCCW in Hong Kong - which accepted the new announcement and propagated it outward to the rest of the world. Similarly, it's best to say that PCCW mistakenly passed the...
[February 25, 2008, 12:13]
CMGI reorganises business units
News The company also announced that it will not establish a separate international venture fun with Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst and PCCW, as previously announced, although it will continue to invest on an informal basis with those firms.
[September 7, 2000, 13:09]
Canterbury trials WiMax ahead of summer launch
News The frequencies covered by the university trial are likely to include the 3.6GHz spectrum licensed to PCCW, and the 5.8GHz band covered by Ofcom's "light licensing" regime. Service provider Telabria is starting a city-wide WiMax trial in Canterbury...
[May 23, 2005, 14:55]
Broadband auction result could be an own goal
News It is PCCW, though, that now controls most of the UK's 3.4GHz band. The UK government's confidence in the success of the 3.4GHz wireless auction is misplaced, according to some key players within Britain's technology sector.
[June 23, 2003, 15:16]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog PCCW, which has a nationwide licence for delivering megabit services over the air. Wednesday 12/10/2005 Wandering through King's Cross, I notice some striking yellow posters offering "Broadband as you've never seen it before.
[October 14, 2005, 18:45]
Intel holds out WiMax hope for 'last mile'
News Telecom carriers working with Intel include BT in the United Kingdom, Iberbanda in Spain, PCCW in Hong Kong and Reliance Infocomm in India. An emerging wide-area wireless broadband technology known as WiMax shows promise as a "last mile" solution...
[January 22, 2004, 7:30]
WiMax cut off by HSDPA in Asia
News PCCW, which has the most extensive fixed-line network in Hong Kong, next year will likely stop leasing last-mile phone lines to its fixed-line competitors, according to Hong Kong newspaper The Standard.
[April 24, 2006, 15:55]
IPTV trundles on
News PCCW in Hong Kong, which has built its own IPTV network using home-grown technology, had about 833,000 subscribers at the end of March, according to market research firm iLocus. The promise behind internet protocol television, or IPTV, is enormous...
[June 19, 2007, 11:57]
