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RSS landline bt£1 will save a red BT phone box
News A plan has been hatched that could save iconic red BT phone boxes for as little as a quid - or just 1.3 per cent of the cost of installing a BT landline in your home. Back in June BT warned more public call boxes would have to close as usage... [29 Aug 2008]
Mobile broadband threatening fixed line?
News Not least because UK households seeking to install or reconnect a landline can face a BT connection charge of almost £130. Results from YouGov's DongleTrack report show while the majority (64 per cent) of mobile broadband users are buying dongles... [20 Aug 2008]
Brits spending record time online
News On average, Britons spend a total of seven hours and nine minutes per day surfing the net, using mobile phones, talking on landline telephones, watching TV and listening to the radio, up from an average of just six minutes back in 2002. [14 Aug 2008]
O2 offers business tariffs for 3G iPhone
News As with all O2 business tariffs, corporate iPhone users will get unlimited calls to any O2 mobile and to 10 UK landline numbers, it added. O2 said iPhone business customers will be able to have several iPhones and other devices on one account, and... [10 Jun 2008]
VoIP services must offer 999, says watchdog
News Ofcom is concerned that if, in an emergency, VoIP users had to locate a landline or mobile phone because their VoIP service didn't offer 999, they might face a delay in getting help which could prove critical. [26 Jul 2007]
NHS slashes costs with VoIP upgrade
News With 70 per cent of NHS call charges coming from landline to mobile calls, CfH conservatively estimated savings made through the lower fixed to mobile costs could total around £15m per year. Voice over IP (VoIP) has been added to the BT managed... [23 Jul 2007]
Virgin Media picks C&W as LLU best mate
News The four year deal will mean Virgin Media will be able to supply customers outside of its cable network with its quad-play offering of mobile and landline, pay-TV and broadband. The company has also reportedly lost its place as the UK's biggest ISP... [18 May 2007]
Post Office stamps £750m BT mega-deal
News The £750m deal lays the foundations for the Post Office to start offering a broadband service later this year and upgrade its existing landline service, HomePhone. The Post Office has signed the largest ever single contract with BT Wholesale for it... [17 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: FTTx
Cheat Sheet Copper was laid for the UK's landline network and was then used to supply broadband - a cheap way of getting connectivity, given the UK's roughly 100 per cent penetration with copper. Last time silicon.com caught up with BT about FTTx, the... [11 May 2007]
BT takes Fusion to the small
News FMC services like Fusion allow users to make both mobile and landline calls from a single handset. BT has taken the wraps off the wi-fi version of its fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) service, Fusion, aimed at SMEs. [14 Dec 2006]
When mobile meets the landline
Comment Fixed-mobile convergence is an attempt to counter the trend where customers are choosing to have only a mobile phone - and no landline connection. But can these two operators succeed where BT so far hasn't? [13 Dec 2006]
BT enters quad-play era with IPTV launch
News BT has today pushed play on its long-touted IPTV offering, BT Vision, moving the telco into the quad-play era proper. BT Vision offers BT broadband customers the chance to pick and mix digital TV programming and on-demand pay-per-view premium... [04 Dec 2006]
Council fixed-mobile trial rings the changes
News He's also overseeing a pioneering trial of fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) technology, where users have a single device for both landline and mobile calls. BT is hoping the Fusion service will strike a cord with organisations where users make mobile... [09 Nov 2006]
The A to Z of broadband
News C&W is now focusing on its own fixed-mobile converged (FMC) service, taking on BT's Fusion in a bid to get users making both mobile and landline calls from a single phone. It still uses the existing copper phone lines but unlike older technologies... [01 Nov 2006]
Dial-up doomsday: 2010
News One such bundled offering, BT Fusion, which combines mobile and fixed-landline phone service, has struggled to make headway in the consumer market and has branched out to businesses with the launch of Corporate Fusion earlier this year. [12 Oct 2006]
