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News Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is to sell 50 per cent of its retail business to US retail giant Best Buy for £1.1bn - and plans to use the cash to grow its broadband business. Carphone Warehouse, which operates the 'free' broadband brand...
[09 May 2008]
Comment Mary Turner heads up the operations of ISP Tiscali UK, occupying the CEO's chair since September 2003. Her background is in retail and Turner originally trained as an accountant, but she has more than a decade's experience in the technology...
[21 Feb 2008]
News Broadband Britain has never had it so good with fat pipes cheaper and faster than ever. Average broadband costs have dropped 36 per cent in the last four years, according to price comparison site uSwitch.
[01 Feb 2008]
News Virgin Media has announced a free speed upgrade to 10Mbps for some of its broadband customers. The list from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. A is for ADSL B is for BT C is for Cable & Wireless
[28 Jan 2008]
News Dial-up internet connections will comprise just four per cent of all UK residential connections by 2010, uSwitch.com is predicting. The price comparison website believes 76 per cent of the country will have an internet connection by 2010 - or close...
[26 Nov 2007]
News Broadband use in the UK is inching up towards 90 per cent of all internet connections, according to the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). And fat pipe speeds are on the up too - at least on paper.
[22 Nov 2007]
News The skills crisis is still giving IT bosses sleepless nights judging by the results of silicon.com's ninth skills survey in August. The survey reveals employers are finding it harder than ever to recruit for IT positions with 45 per cent of...
[31 Aug 2007]
News The average speed of an 8Mbps broadband connection is just 2.7Mbps, according to a survey released by Which? the consumer rights group. Which? surveyed 300 people who had signed up to broadband services advertised as being "up to" 8Mbps in download...
[03 Aug 2007]
Cheat Sheet Fibre then. Good for your digestion, so I hear. Apparently so. But we're not talking about that sort of fibre. We're talking about fibre in the broadband sense - as in fibre to the home (FTTH), fibre to the premises (FTTP), fibre to the cabinet...
[11 May 2007]
News All Heathrow Express trains have been wi-fi-enabled to provide passengers with broadband speeds of up to 2Mbps for the 15 to 20 minute journey. The service, providing a direct link between Paddington station and Heathrow Airport, offers passengers...
[24 Apr 2007]
News BT's investment in its all-IP next-generation network - known as the 21CN - has hit its move towards fibre to the home (FTTH), a type of technology for delivering broadband that could supercharge the UK's internet connections.
[12 Apr 2007]
News Broadband speeds have more than quadrupled since 2003 but many users still aren't receiving the level of service they think they are getting. The average UK broadband speed is 2.03Mbps, according to research from independent broadband information...
[23 Feb 2007]
News 'Free' broadband providers TalkTalk and Orange have the worst customer service and support, according to an annual survey of almost 15,000 fat pipe users. But customer service satisfaction also fell generally across the top 10 broadband providers...
[13 Nov 2006]
News Vodafone is to begin offering broadband internet service to its consumer customers on 8 January 2007. For £25 per month, customers will get broadband with speeds of up to 8Mbps and 25 per cent off mobile-to-mobile calls.
[10 Nov 2006]
News All Heathrow Express trains will be wi-fi enabled by early 2007, providing broadband access to passengers for the entire journey. The wi-fi offering, to be provided by T-Mobile, will enable passengers to access the internet at speeds of up to 8Mbps...
[07 Nov 2006]
News Orange has cut its broadband pricing following flat sales figures, which analysts and industry insiders have blamed on consumer savvy and increased competition. Parent company France Telecom released its Q3 results on Thursday, which showed Orange...
[27 Oct 2006]
News The UK is known for offering plentiful but slow broadband services, according to recent analyst reports. Three-quarters of UK households will be connected to the net via broadband by 2011, JupiterResearch predicts.
[19 Oct 2006]
Comment Written on a 34-foot sailing boat docked in Selimiye, Marmaris, Turkey and despatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi service provided by the Aurora Restaurant at more than 1Mbps. For reasons that need no explanation, this week finds me on a 34...
[12 Oct 2006]
News Orange has launched its fixed-line business broadband service, as predicted at the end of May. Announced on Wednesday, the offering combines the fixed-line services launched earlier in the year with an extension of the Business Everywhere data card...
[15 Jun 2006]
News France Telecom has completed the branding transformation that will see it - and its ISP subsidiary, Wanadoo, and business arms Equant and Etrali - brought under the Orange brand. The renaming exercise will be accompanied by a raft of new business...
[31 May 2006]
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