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Be rebrand gets down with the gamers – but gaming service put ‘on hold’

12:41 pm - July 23rd, 2009 by Sean

Be has rebranded its identity today in a bid to, it describes, get closer to its users by appearing less ‘corporate’.
The O2-owned company is centring its new identity around the theme of ‘Create The New’ through which it is promises its main priority will be to put its member community at the heart of its [...]

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Digital Britain: Opinion leaders offer SamKnows their views

10:26 am - June 17th, 2009 by Sean

The Digital Britain report is out at last and there was a proverbial rabbit in the hat for Lord Carter to pull out; a 50p per month tax on telephone line connections to raise roughly £150m a year to push back the geographic barriers of faster web access.
Other than that, the report was largely as [...]

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‘Three strikes and out’ is silently dropped. But what next for piracy?

08:24 pm - March 3rd, 2009 by Sean

The BPI has confirmed to SamKnows that although there has been no official statement, it has ditched its call on ISPs to warn, warn again and then disconnect illegal file shares – the so called ‘three strikes and out’ approach.
Whilst it claims to have never used the phrase associated with the practice, a spokesperson for [...]

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Profile: Felix Geyr, Be Broadband’s managing director, to gamble on gamers

12:10 pm - February 10th, 2009 by Sean

Felix Geyr is to begin sharpening Be Broadband’s focus this spring on the core interests for which he believes people come to the LLU provider.
In a bid to spread its service vertically, so it does not just provide access but is involved in content provision, he is planning to provide a gaming service and is [...]

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Be to combat congestion hotspots with network upgrade

07:44 pm - January 16th, 2009 by Sean

Be customers are being promised a multi million pound network improvement scheme which should start easing congestion within a month to six weeks.
Be’s Managing Director, Felix Geyr, has revealed to SamKnows that he has just received funding to boost the company’s network to counter concernfrom some customers that Be and O2’s growth, on the same network [...]

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