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RSS manxManx police to use covert Tetra handsets
News The Isle of Man is deploying 'covert' Motorola Tetra handsets to its undercover police and customs officers. According to Robert Williamson, technical director for the Isle of Man Department of Home Affairs, 50 of the small-format units... [10 Mar 2008]
Manx healthcare gets a shot in the arm
News The Isle of Man government has struck a £7.5m, seven-year deal which will see a new healthcare IT infrastructure rolled out across the island. The deal with System C Healthcare will create a Clinical Care Support Service across the... [29 Mar 2007]
Isle of Man building for a tech future
Case Study The network - which has been jointly developed with Dimension Data and Manx Telecom - now covers 180 offices and agencies (previously just 16 were connected) and links more than 4,500 government employees to the islanders. [28 Mar 2007]
Dell does HSDPA laptops
News In November, the first HSDPA network in Europe was launched on the Isle of Man by Manx Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of O2. Dell is to start selling laptops with HSDPA wireless broadband using Vodafone's network in... [25 Jan 2006]
First HSDPA rollout from UK operator
News The technology will be launched in co-operation with O2's local subsidiary, mobile operator Manx Telecom, and Lucent, on 1 November. O2 is promising its Manx customers mobile connectivity of up to... [20 Oct 2005]
DiData lands £5m Isle of Man comms deal
News Dimension Data is working with Manx Telecom to roll out a network infrastructure that will connect 189 of the Isle of Man's government offices and the Cisco-based infrastructure will enable 5,000 government employees... [14 Jan 2005]
mmO2 to launch speedy 3G
News Chris Hall, MD of mmO2 subsidiary Manx Telecom, said in a statement: "This network will serve as a showcase of the tremendous benefits fixed-mobile multimedia networks have to offer.mmO2's network, built by Lucent, will... [06 Dec 2004]
BT: VoIP an opportunity not a threat
News The Isle of Man government says it is planning to install VoIP across the public sector there, with the help of Cisco, Dimension Data and Manx Telecom. The emergence of useable voice-over-IP (VoIP) services, which let... [30 Nov 2004]
No 3G until at least 2006
News Only Hutchison 3G, Manx Telecom and Mobilkom Austria had launched commercial 3G services in Europe by the end of September 2003. The number of people subscribing to 3G services in Europe will not take off until at least... [14 Oct 2003]
Re:Viewing 2001: Mobile operators must open their minds
News More implausible still, BT subsidiary Manx Telecom was seriously claiming it would be broadcasting video clips of the TT motorcycle races on mobile phone handsets (http://www.silicon.com/a44378 ). If the next stage in... [24 Dec 2001]
Memory loss leads to 3G withdrawal
News BT's 3G Manx showcase set for November http://www.silicon.com/a48287 NTT DoCoMo, the Japanese mobile operator running the only commercial 3G network in the world, was forced yesterday to recall 1,500 handsets. [27 Nov 2001]
Handspring seals mm02 deal
News It is even co-developing its own-brand xda smartphone, which is Microsoft PocketPC-based but otherwise similar to the Treo device and also promising services using GPRS data transfer next year.mmO2's other networks are Telfort in... [06 Nov 2001]
BT's 3G Manx showcase set for November
News NEC has provided BT and Manx Telecom with the infrastructure and basic integration of the island's 3G network, including the base stations, network routers and radio controllers. BT's wireless division, mmO2, will be... [16 Oct 2001]
BT 3G: One giant leap for technology, one tiny step for oratory
News Engineers from BT subsidiary Manx Telecom made the call yesterday, the company said, using handsets built by NEC. BT has made the first ever 3G video call on its test network on the Isle of Man. It took place nearly a... [28 Jun 2001]
3G heebie jeebies and being nice to BT
Comment BT (via Manx Telecom) almost had the world's first working 3G network, but as reported in a previous Round-Up, a small technical hitch has delayed the roll-out until the summer, leaving (somewhat inevitably) the Far East... [01 Jun 2001]
