The Australian Government should shortly be receiving bids for a national “super fast” broadband network with a minimum speed of 12 Mbits/s reaching 98% of the population. The contract should be awarded next spring with work starting late next year with a 5 year rollout and is based on a Fibre to the Node (FTTN
OFCOM has added consumer guides on Slamming and Unsolicited calls to their website. These two areas generate over 1,000 calls per month to OFCOM from consumers.
The unsolicited calls guide includes silent calls made by automatic dialler systems where the recipient is connected to an operator but hears silence if no operator is available.
Slamming is the
The EU’s plans to slash mobile broadband roaming charges from next July has met with mixed reactions from the telecommunications industry with some saying the new rules are draconian and others, such as 3, saying they do not go far enough.
The measures, approved by EU telecommunications ministers yesterday, will limit the amount one operator can
Next Monday is shaping up to start off one of the most interesting weeks the broadband market will have seen all year as ISPs grapple with how to pass on the 2.5% reduction in VAT (which equates to a 2.13% reduction in the total price when VAT is included).
Whilst none will go in to specifics
The NextGen ‘08 conference held earlier this month in Manchester brought together a range of opinions and speakers on the subject of Next Generation Access (NGA). The presentations can be downloaded as pdf files from the web site and make interesting reading.
Francesco Caio presented the findings of his recent Next Generation Access Review which concluded
Over the course of this year ISPs have seen peak demands on their networks with the BBC iPlayer traffic surging at the time of the Olympics and the US Election.
Next week the potential bandwidth demand moves into a new phase with the launch of live BBC1 & 2 programming “for licence payers” as discussed in
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
After defending the proposed Kangaroo multi-channel IPTV catch-up service to the Competition Commission, Ashleigh Highfield has resigned to join Microsoft.
The chief executive’s departure will come as a major blow to the proposed online television service for which the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 are hoping to get clearance from the Competition Commission. Highfield, who had
BT have issued notification of Wholesale price changes that will take effect on Dec 1st and Jan 1st 2009.
There are many changes, both up and down, some examples are :-
A 5% increase in the annual rental of a fixed speed end user IPStream connection to £8.01 per month (ex VAT, Wholesale) from 1/12/08.
A 4.1% decrease
At the tail end of last week BT Wholesale published an update to it’s Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC) rollout data. The update brings expected Ready For Service (RFS) dates for a further 1200 telephone exchanges nationwide.
WBC, as we discuss at length in our guide, is BT’s next generation wholesale product that is sold to ISPs.
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
Although the customer tracking advertising platform Phorm received a blow this week when it was publicly snubbed by Orange, it can take solace that Virgin Media and Carphone Warehouse have assures Sam Knows they are keen to carry on evaluating the technology.
The advertising platform is no stranger to controversy. BT began a trial at the