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RSS 888SDN Communications: Creating a Powerful Consortium to Deliver Competitive Service
White Paper SDN Communications runs the state's most extensive fiber-optic network, and in addition to telephone service, provides broadband Internet service and video. The challenge for SDN was to create more long-distance options for customers by... [06 Nov 2004]
118 providers make like the Marie Celeste
News The recently deregulated directory enquiries market has been having a hard time of it of late, with providers cutting staff and being accused of shoddy service by its users. It looks like the New Year hasn't brought any more good news for the 118s... [09 Jan 2004]
Leader: Learning business lessons the hard way
Leader It's been a week of lessons learnt. Whether there was a whole lot of learning going on at Comdex is arguable - staying focused on business issues and not just treating the get-together as a huge jolly may count but then that's hardly enlightened... [21 Nov 2003]
118 888 drops 'half the price of BT' claim
News With the post-192 switch off directory enquiries (DQ) market shaping up to favour just a few key players, Conduit's 118 888 service has been selling itself as a low cost alternative to BT - only now it seems the price war has turned into a war of... [30 Sep 2003]
BT calls for tighter controls on Telewest and NTL
News BT has attacked the UK's telecoms regulatory structure, claiming that regulators do not understand broadband, and that they let competing firms such as Telewest and NTL bypass many of the restrictions placed on BT. [18 Sep 2003]
IT contractors: This is where your money goes
News The Professional Contractors Group (PCG) has paid nearly £750,000 in fees to companies owned by some of its most senior figures. The PCG's accounts for 2001 reveal that the PCG paid web design company Webtastic £488,888 in consultancy fees. [02 May 2002]
Stockwatch Daily: BT loses out as Europe sits tight
News The FTSE was down 0.8 per cent to 5,888, while the Techmark dropped 0.1 per cent to 2,028 just after 09:20(BST). Internet infrastructure provider Telecity also took a sharp fall, down almost 54 per cent to 140p, after posting widening first quarter... [10 May 2001]
Microsoft sees double over Windows 98 theft
News Microsoft has suffered an embarrassing second robbery at its Scottish software plant in East Kilbride. Windows 98 certificates worth £5.5m were taken. The thieves broke in through a fire exit, loaded up a van with the certificates and drove off. [24 Jul 1998]
In brief: Ericsson launches dual-band mobile
News Ericsson's first dual-band mobile phone with infrared connection is set to hit the shelves later this month. The SH 888 provides callers with either GSM900 or GSM1800 wireless connection to PCs, notebooks and handhelds. [07 Jul 1998]
