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News The UK broadband market witnessed a lot of consolidation last year, including Thus grabbing two rivals in a £70m spending spree, BT snapping up PlusNet for £67m, and Pipex forking out £10m for Freedom2Surf, £12m for Bulldog and £24m for Toucan. [26 Jan 2007]
Pipex misses out on 30,000 Bulldog customers
News Pipex, the ISP which bought the customer base of its troubled rival Bulldog, has revealed it actually acquired 30,000 fewer customers than it expected. Bulldog had a base of 110,000 users when the deal was agreed last September but Pipex said once... [22 Jan 2007]
WiMax WISP hits Warwick
News Pipex Wireless, the joint venture between Intel and ISP Pipex, is to set up its second deployment of WiMax in the UK. Pipex Wireless' first run out of the technology was in Milton Keynes last year. Graham Currier, business development manager at... [18 Jan 2007]
Operators cautious on new spectrum auction
News One company that is watching the auction process closely is Pipex Wireless, which has a strong interest in WiMax. But Currier refused to say whether Pipex would bid, and he also refused to elaborate on the ISP's plans for WiMax. [14 Dec 2006]
Pipex pays £36m for a Bulldog and a Toucan
News Pipex is aiming to boost its customer base and mobile capability with the acquisitions of Bulldog Broadband and Toucan. Pipex has bought Bulldog's residential and small business broadband customer base and rights to the Bulldog brand in a £12m all... [07 Sep 2006]
Milton Keynes gets Pipex WiMax
News WiMax, a long-range wireless broadband technology, will be deployed around the city in a commercial trial by Pipex Wireless, a joint venture between ISP Pipex and chip giant Intel. According to Graham Currier, business development manager for Pipex... [21 Aug 2006]
Pipex WiMax experiment: The results are in
News Pipex has completed the first phase of its WiMax experiment, saying the results exceeded expectations. The company's joint venture with Intel, Pipex Wireless, has been trialling the long range wireless broadband technology in the Stratford upon... [15 Aug 2006]
Radioactive: Which way for wireless broadband?
Comment PCCW and Pipex hold the two nationwide WiMax licences using the 3.4GHz and 3.5GHz bands respectively. Not so fast, says Futurity Media's Anthony Plewes. Intel has been a vocal backer of WiMax since the wireless technology's inception and the... [27 Jul 2006]
Tech brands getting a sporting chance
Comment But simply because people know the name 'Pipex' doesn't mean anybody really knows what the company does. adding that year one of the Fulham deal was very much about building brand awareness, and this year will see the shirt sponsorship complemented... [24 Jul 2006]
Top five ADSL broadband ISPs revealed
News AOL, BT and Virgin were the fastest services to actually connect to the internet, while BT, Orange and Pipex were up to four times faster than the industry average at delivering email, he said. BT's broadband has been rated the best performing and... [17 Jul 2006]
BT and NTL get ISP wooden spoon for satisfaction
News Pipex 90 per cent How much do you love your internet service provider? If you're a customer of BT or NTL, you're most likely to be suffering from a lack of warm and fuzzy feelings towards your provider. [05 May 2006]
10Mbps WiMax for Rhine region
News This week has already seen a new venture between Intel and Pipex to create a WiMax provider for urban areas in the UK, while Samsung revealed it will be supplying kit for a trial of WiBro, the Korean equivalent of WiMax, in South Korea's capital... [06 Apr 2006]
Intel pumps $25m into WiMax venture
News Intel Capital is putting $25m into a joint venture with Pipex to promote the use of the long-range wireless broadband technology WiMax. The fruit of the union, to be named Pipex Wireless, will provide WiMax access to homes, businesses and public... [04 Apr 2006]
BT posts higher-than-expected profits
News Speaking to journalists on Thursday morning, BT's chief executive Ben Verwaayen denied reports that BT was planning to buy Pipex. Pipex owns a licence to operate wireless services at 3.5GHz, a frequency used for WiMax. [09 Feb 2006]
Cabinet Office website has some downtime
News A Cabinet Office spokesperson said the site was offline due to "maintenance being carried out by our ISP", which is understood to be Pipex. Stiffell added that the Cabinet Office uses a number of telecoms service providers, and that Pipex hosts its... [02 Dec 2005]
