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LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking

Comment C is for Cable & Wireless C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT B is for BT During 2007, LinkedIn doubled in size in all of its major regions including Europe and signed up its millionth UK member in October, making Blighty the largest market...

Tags: linkedin, network, online, facebook

[28 Feb 2008]

How fans can grab a slice of the music pie

Comment C is for Cable & Wireless C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT B is for BT How Slicethepie works Courtier-Dutton: Essentially we turn every user on the website into a fully fledged record label. By fragmenting the music industry in that way we...

Tags: music, web 2.0, industry, web

[18 Feb 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Christmas wish list

Comment C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT Every year of my life seems to have been challenging for one reason or another. But I have always been able to stay ahead of the game and keep on top of technology and business.

Tags: artificial intelligence, christmas, applications, play

[20 Dec 2007]

Good and bad year for comms

AS Analysis Richard Branson, whose Virgin brand is now at the forefront of the UK's big cable player, doesn't get a look in this year, but an obvious rival of the Murdochs and those promoting 'free' broadband is the man who has helped turn around the oil...

[12 Oct 2007]

Bruce Schneier

AS Profile Recent topics on the Schneier blog include how to eavesdrop on a fibre optic cable, "idiotic" cryptography reporting and his opinions on why London's security cameras don't reduce crime. Schneier is the founder and CTO of BT Counterpane, the...

[12 Oct 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 02.03.07

Round-Up Meanwhile across town, Virgin became part of cable TV uber-chimera NTL:Telewest to offer a wide range of services from mobile phones to internet, via pay-TV (transatlantic flights, cola flavoured drinks and trains - though the less said about the...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[02 Mar 2007]

Analysis: Is convergence unstoppable?

Comment Jim Marsh, UK CEO of Cable and Wireless, said: "There's the potential for a lot of people to go out of business. Every week seems to bring news of one mobile or telecoms company or another branching out in new directions - whether it's companies...

Tags: triple play, quadplay, convergence, telco

[30 Nov 2006]

Q&A: Cable and Wireless UK CEO Jim Marsh

Comment Will there ever be a BT-free Cable & Wireless? I would accept that historically, in the UK, Cable & Wireless is not renowned for that service. It's all back to the focus point - what BT do is play on many more pitches than we do.

Tags: jim marsh, cable & wireless, c&w

[14 Sep 2006]

Leader: Murdoch as Mr Broadband?

Leader Will BSkyB be able to compete with those piping entertainment down fat pipes - the likes of BT and the cable companies? It has always served the business world well and was among the earliest competitors to BT to make local loop unbundling (LLU...

Tags: easynet, murdoch, bskyb, bt

[21 Oct 2005]

Leader: Cable marriage - look on the bright side

Leader And its cable TV platforms have lagged behind BSkyB for some time, which is rather embarrassing given that Murdoch's satellite venture only effectively distributes in one direction. And, as is seen across the world with the exception of the US, DSL...

Tags: ntl, telewest

[03 Oct 2005]

The Weekly Round-Up: 13.05.05

Round-Up In 2001 a shark was blamed for "eating the internet" when a submarine cable connecting homes in Singapore was bitten through and connections lost. But customers of UK cable firm Telewest have no animals to blame for why they've been unable to send...

Tags: round-up

[13 May 2005]

SME Philes: Who do you trust?

SME Philes: Who do you trust?

Comment Cable & Wireless was twelfth and last in both categories (only persuading 13.8 per cent of business managers to trust them), with BT just above them in eleventh place. Jonathan Steel analyses the results.

Tags: small business, sme

[22 Feb 2005]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Convergence here at last?

Comment Cable & Wireless, for instance, has had a strong converged services offering for a number of years which has helped it grow significant presence in larger enterprises, both in the UK and with its carrier network internationally.

Tags: kingston communications, quocirca, telecoms, cable and wireless

[14 Jan 2005]

Leader: Broadband Britain - not there yet

Leader: Broadband Britain - not there yet

Leader The group claims BT still has a 90 per cent "stranglehold" on the non-cable wholesale broadband market despite regulator Ofcom's intervention and that there needs to be a level playing field to ensure Britain has a competitive broadband market.

[29 Nov 2004]

Devil's Advocate: The broadband gap

Devil's Advocate: The broadband gap

Comment With large improvements in the speed of the optical devices used to drive fibre optic cables, each cable has been able to carry much more traffic than originally anticipated. Operators have generally followed BT in a rearguard action to keep prices...

Tags: broadband, telecoms providers, isp

[08 Jun 2004]

New e-gov supremo looks a safe pair of hands

New e-gov supremo looks a safe pair of hands

Comment The new Accenture had joint ventures with Microsoft and BT, a venture capital fund and a cable television company. But he is low-profile only to those - probably most of us - who just haven't been looking in the right direction.

[26 May 2004]

Leader: UK broadband - alive and kicking

Leader: UK broadband - alive and kicking

Leader Today Wanadoo - as in Wanadoo UK, an arm of France Telecom's ISP business - launched a fairly broad broadband broadside against BT and the state of high-speed, always-on access in this country. While still relying on BT's wholesale offerings, it...

Tags: adsl, llu, broadband, wanadoo

[27 Apr 2004]

Leader: The CD debate

Leader: The CD debate

Leader Perhaps the only solace to take is knowing that dial-up, inevitably not always-on, means less of a risk than DSL, cable, leased lines and so on. And speaking of seedy content (CD.seedy.we know you'll geddit), a BT plan to find another use for...

Tags: phone box, virgin, cds, cd

[08 Mar 2004]

Tony Hallett’s After These Messages: When is broadband not broadband?

Comment But putting ourselves in the providers' shoes for a minute, whether they use cable (like NTL or Telewest), DSL (like Tiscali, BT and countless others) or some other technology, it isn't easy to see how to market these services.

[02 Mar 2004]

Leader: What Yahoo's video rewind tells us

Leader: What Yahoo's video rewind tells us

Leader Sports led the revolution in cable TV roll out in the 1970s in the US and it is naturally something every ambitious content distributor wants. The former suffers from lack of penetration via DSL, cable or satellite, the latter from firewall...

Tags: yahoo, bt

[31 Oct 2003]

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