A run of gloomy financial interim reports was brought to an end this week when Carphone Warehouse did not follow the trend in announcing job cuts but instead hinted at demerging its retail and teleco operations.
The move, which the City is known to favour, would see the two arms of the company parted because analysts
Sky, or to be precise British Sky Broadcasting Group plc, recently announced their first quarter results to September 30th. Sky broadband continues to grow with 1.792 million users but as this is only 20% of Sky homes there would appear to be a considerable opportunity for further growth.
One wonders why the figure is so low
In a recent interview BT’s CEO Ian Livingston suggests that the recession and shareholder pressure may jeopardise plans to spend £1.5bn bringing the next generation of super-fast broadband services to 10m British households within the next four years.
The credit crunch and BT’s recent results will have constrained the availability of capital, and there remains regulatory
Talk Talk have announced revisions to its broadband and phone bundles available from Tuesday November 18th.
Customers on exchanges with Talk Talk equipment will be able to “Boost” their speed above 8Mbits/s download by opting for an “up to 24M” option if their line is capable of a higher speed, for a monthly topup of £4/month
BT hit the headlines today with a planned 10,000 job losses, mainly from contract and agency staff. The announcement came along with the 2nd quarter results which showed a modest performance from the Global Services business countering gains in other divisions. The elephant in the room of the Group Pension scheme is also heading for
Research from Zen Internet shows that, despite the gloomy economic outlook, businesses are prioritising broadband service over cost.
In fact 85% of SME respondents stated that level of support for their broadband service was the most important criteria when choosing a supplier for their business. Similarly, whilst 72% of SMEs said they would change ISP if
Reports suggest that Virgin Media plan to cut their workforce by 15% by 2012 as part of a plan to increase cashflow.
The debt-laden company, which as NTL went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, also said the company has won a deal to delay its debt repayments - giving it until 2012 to refinance £4.3bn worth of
Carphone Warehouse has confirmed to SamKnows it is no longer pursuing a purchase of Tiscali, leaving Sky as the sole suitor for the Anglo-Italian ISP that has been for sale throughout most of 2008.
Although Carphone Warehouse believes it will be ‘nip and tuck’ whether it will continue to occupy third place in the UK ISP
Carphone Warehouse is reported to still be in talks to buy Tiscali. The Italian-owned ISP had been hoping to set up an auction between Vodafone and Carphone Warehouse this summer but Vodafone pulled out of the process, believing Tiscali had valued itself too highly.
Tiscali is believed to still be talking to Sky about a possible
Broadband providers and entertainment companies are queuing up to criticise BBC Worldwide, ITV and C4 coming together to form a proposed joint online catch-up service, Kangaroo.
The potential service has been referred to the Competition Commission following concerns it may prove anti-competitive. The government decision has meant those opposed to the one-stop shop approach have been
Thus, owner of Demon Internet, looks set to finally be owned by Cable & Wireless.
Despite the board rejecting C&W’s offer of 165p per share, which was increased to 180p at the end of June, it has now virtually conceded defeat. The turnaround has been prompted by Thus not receiving comparable offers from a ‘white knight’
Orange will relaunch its home broadband service online on Monday with an offer of free broadband for all its pay monthly mobile customers. Previously the offer had been limited to pay monthly customers on a tariff of £30 or more. The offer is currently available in-store and on telesales but will be promoted online from
A flaw in the way web addresses are served to computers, which allows criminals to redirect traffic to scam sites, is just starting to be used to trap international bank customers in to parting with account details. However, problems are unlikely to spread to the UK where it appears the flaw has been patched by
Broadband is continuing to be the lead growth area for Virgin Media according to its second quarter figures which were released this morning with a reminder that the brand is gearing up to launch 50mb broadband later in the year.
The company added 54,600 net new broadband customers in the quarter, up from 45,800 for the
After conceding to SamKnows that the property slump was having an impact on its broadband sales Carphone Warehouse has now roughly halved the number of new customers it expects to connect this year, from 400,000 to between 200,000 to 250,000.
However the latest figures from the group also revealed what it is admitting as ‘disruption’ causing
Last week we broke the news of a BT letter to Tiscali customers, marketing themselves as a safe haven for Tiscali customers concerned about the ISP’s future.
After hinting to us last week that they were considering legal action, Tiscali have this afternoon provided confirmation in the form of the following statement:
Tiscali UK Limited has issued
BT reiterated its intention to roll out behavioural targeting technology from Phorm at its AGM this week as protesters outside the event admitted they were disappointed with the turn out of privacy campaigners.
However, there are three developments which will mean the furore over Phorm will not go away any time soon.
Mid week, and coinciding with
BT have caused a bit of a stir this week by mailing a personalised letter to current or former Tiscali group broadband customers (these include Pipex, Freedom2Surf and Nildram). A photograph of one of the letters is available here, having been discussed in various forums earlier this week.
The letter points out the attempts by Tiscali
Carphone Warehouse believes a slowdown in broadband connections is down to the housing slump rather than an indication we have moved to a predominantly ’switcher’ market.
Shares in the group fell 10% yesterday as its Chief Executive Charles Dunstone admitted that so far this year new, net broadband customers were down on expectations. An assertion that
OFCOM have opened a consultation looking at the future pricing structure for BT’s Openreach division.
Openreach owns and runs the BT “local loop” copper network and charges other divisions of BT and other operators for use of the lines. As the local loop is an effective monopoly the pricing is regulated by OFCOM.
Currently the prices charged