Mobile broadband is not just about the handset and the connection but also what people can do with that connection.
If proof were needed one need only look at the success of the iPhone App Store which Apple founder Steve Jobs claims achieved 100m downloads of games and applications within just two months of its July
We’re currently deploying a large batch of Performance Monitoring units that will form the basis of our next report. Keen readers of the site will know that a few months back we sought volunteers for the project via a posting in the news here. Well, we took over 1000 registrations in a day, which was
BBC engineers have used the lull after frenzied downloading and streaming of the Olympics to fix a bug with iPlayer that was causing BT Home Hubs and O2 and Be wireless routers to reset.
The annoying bug was believed to be a problem in the BBC’s encoding of the system that was affecting wireless routes using
O2 has kicked off a mobile broadband promotions war which will dominate broadband deals this summer and early autumn.
Until the end of October customers taking out its mobile broadband product for £20 per month will now get free home broadband for a year as long as they live with the O2 Home Broadband Network, which
We’ve received an awful lot of emails over the past few days from people keen to find out when Be Unlimited and O2 will be offering services in their area. The sudden upsurge in this email traffic is of course because the June 30th RFS (Ready For Service) date for around 150 exchanges has passed.
Whilst some of the larger LLU operators such as Sky and O2 may be slowing their roll out, many of the smaller operators are accelerating rapidly.
Entanet this week provided us with a list of 18 exchanges they intend to launch their LLU-based “Ethernet First Mile” service at. This service, first launched in October 2007 at
On Thursday afternoon, Be (owned by O2) announced to their members that they could no longer accept new orders for customers on the Poplar exchange. This may seem rather unimportant at first glance, but the reason behind it is actually quite interesting.
According to Brett Coles, Head of Member Services at Be, the root issue is
It seems that at the beginning of each year someone somewhere heralds the coming year as being the “year of broadband”. 2007 was no different, with many predicting that LLU would truly take off. In many ways this has held true - there are now in excess of 3 million unbundled lines in the UK,
Mobile operator O2 yesterday caught up with the rest of the mobile crowd and launched their broadband offerings. Built on the back of Be’s network of 818 ADSL2+ enabled exchanges, covering nearly 14m premises, O2 hope to differentiate themselves from the crowd by not going down the “free broadband” route and instead competing on features.
O2
The Telegraph is this morning reporting that mobile group O2, itself recently purchased by Telefonica, has bought LLU operator Be Un Limited for £50m. The fact that O2 has been looking to acquire an LLU operator has been common knowledge for some time, as they have been tied to potential deals with both Bulldog and