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Rivals Accuse BT Of Stifling Broadband Britain
News A group of telecoms operators have claimed that Britain's broadband market is being "stifled" because of BT's dominant position. According to BIG, a key part of that process will be increased competition, with BT losing some market share to other...
[March 26, 2004, 16:35]
Westminster Businesses Get WiMax Broadband
News A UK company is ready to start offering businesses in central London a high-speed telecoms service over WiMax. That shouldn't be too hard for the telecoms industry to achieve today," said Williamson. Urban WiMax claims it will be significantly...
[March 21, 2006, 13:55]
New Players Capture Mouse's Share Of The Telco Market
News With public telephony operators retaining the lion's share of the carrier market, they claim the benefits of opening up the telecoms market are not petering through. He believes operators must target specific areas and tailor services in order to...
[June 8, 1999, 14:22]
Alcatel Cuts Thousands More Jobs
News Alcatel has added to the general gloom surrounding the telecoms sector by announcing a further 10,000 job cuts over the coming year. The French telecoms equipment maker said it would reduce its "headcount to around 60,000 employees by the end of 2003.
[September 20, 2002, 11:45]
Conflicting Strategies Aired At Unified Comms Show
News Telecoms service providers often preach an entirely different approach by saying that as much equipment as possible should be hosted in their network. Bamforth outlined how many companies have come from a hardware background — either in IT or...
[April 11, 2008, 12:37]
Bluetooth: SIG Announces Specification - Finally
News Ericsson has already revealed it is still on course to release its first Bluetooth products at Telecoms 99 in Geneva in October, despite delays to the current Specification release. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced it will...
[April 15, 1999, 16:47]
Lucent Adds Voice To Data Services
News Lucent will demonstrate PacketGSM at Telecoms '99 in Geneva in September. As the world waits for UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) -- due to be launched in 2002 and promising a whole raft of services for sending data quickly via...
[June 1, 1999, 11:46]
Microsoft Urges Europe To Speed Up Broadband Services
News Despite this Microsoft has made significant investments in both telecoms and cable companies over the last 15 months, including NTL, Nextel and AT&T. Speaking at the Telecom 99 conference in Geneva, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has urged network...
[October 13, 1999, 16:33]
New Palm Handhelds Get Bluetooth
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Telecoms forum. TDK Systems will launch its latest Palm Bluetooth attachment at Comdex next week, bringing the wireless networking standard to any Palm device with the recently introduced universal...
[November 8, 2001, 14:37]
Ericsson Upgrades Symbian Smartphone
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Telecoms forum. Ericsson has released an update to one of the first "smartphones" on the market, the R380 series, which was first released last year. The new model aims to fix two of the main problems...
[September 26, 2001, 16:53]
WiMax Will Be Key To BT's 21st Century Network Project
News WiMax is set to play a major role in BT's 21st Century Network project -- the company's programme to upgrade the UK's telecoms infrastructure into a pure IP-based network. Matt Beal, director of 21st Century Network implementation and strategy...
[June 9, 2004, 17:25]
Broadband Have-nots To Raise A Political Stink
News People who are trapped on the wrong side of the broadband divide are going to put increasing amounts of pressure on politicians until the issue is addressed, the telecoms industry was warned on Thursday.
[December 5, 2003, 16:15]
IWon Completes Excite.com Takeover
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Telecoms forum. IWon, the new owner of Excite.com, said it has migrated data and online traffic to its Web servers, completing a takeover of the portal assets acquired in the Excite@Home bankruptcy.
[December 28, 2001, 15:47]
One-way Satellites Span The Broadband Divide
News Go to the Telecoms forum. UK Internet users will soon be able to sign up for a one-way satellite broadband connection that gives unlimited data transfer for £30 per month. Satellite broadband provider Isonetric announced this week that it is...
[October 16, 2002, 6:27]
AOL France Limits Unmetered
News The UK has the most liberal telecoms market in Europe. AOL France has restricted the heaviest users of its unmetered package to limited peak rate session times to protect its network which is struggling to cope with demand.
[November 15, 2000, 16:29]
UK Finally Europe's Top Dog For Broadband
News LLU is meant to bring much-needed competition to Europe’s telecoms markets, many of which are still dominated by their incumbent, former state-run telcos. The UK is now Europe’s largest broadband market, according to figures released by analyst...
[December 30, 2005, 10:00]
Opera Raises Curtain On Mobile Browsing
News Opera for the P800 will be available for download from Sony Ericsson's Web site on Monday, coinciding with the launch of the 3GSM telecoms trade show in Cannes, France. Users of Sony Ericsson's P800 smartphone will be the first to get their hands...
[February 11, 2003, 12:28]
Internet Not Yet Central To UK Business
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Telecoms forum. More than half of the European workforce has to share a Internet-connected PC to get online, indicating that the Net is yet to become a central business tool.
[September 11, 2001, 12:39]
Business Broadband Providers Cut Prices
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Telecoms forum. Internet service providers (ISPs) who provide broadband connections to businesses have begun cutting their prices, after BT announced a similar move on Tuesday.
[August 8, 2001, 17:30]
Rural Broadband Rollout Hits Problems
News Go to the Telecoms forum. Yorkshire market town Knaresborough has become the first part of the UK to fail BT's broadband registration scheme, after only a quarter of residents who had earlier expressed interest in broadband actually told a service...
[November 11, 2002, 13:15]
