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News In particular, he expects cable operators to be leaders in this transition, doing for servers what they did for DVRs by including the functionality in set-top boxes. But when service providers latch onto this and let you just add $5 to your $100... [21 Jul 2008]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News C is for Cable & Wireless O2 is considering investing in its own fibre-to-the-home network but wants to wait until Ofcom changes telecommunications regulation before it makes an investment. Following BT's Tuesday announcement that it was to plough... [17 Jul 2008]
BT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News C is for Cable & Wireless BT is planning to spend £1.5bn on significantly upgrading its broadband network to support next generation super-fast internet. The plans aim to give 10 million UK homes fibre access by 2012 with bandwidth of up to 100Mbps... [15 Jul 2008]
Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News C is for Cable & Wireless Moreover, some seven million consumers - or nearly half of all broadband customers in the UK - are technically incapable of getting the standard headline speed of 8Mbps as only around half (42 per cent) of non-cable... [14 Jul 2008]
C&W inks £8m deal to hook up Réunion Island
News Telco Cable & Wireless (C&W) has inked an £8m, 15-year contract with telecoms operator Outremer Telecom for a high speed network to Réunion Island - a small French territory off the coast of Madagascar - providing faster access to internet, mobile... [14 Jul 2008]
UK business lacking high fibre diet
News C is for Cable & Wireless The UK's business efficiency is being threatened by relatively slow broadband speeds, according to a report by the Communications Management Association. The Communications Management Association's (CMA's) Next Generation... [07 Jul 2008]
Ofcom: Mobile broadband driving interest in fibre
News C is for Cable & Wireless The rapid take-up of mobile broadband could help spur the arrival of super-fast fibre broadband networks in the UK, says telecoms regulator Ofcom, which has set out plans for a pro-investment regulatory framework that will... [04 Jul 2008]
Skype touts biz credentials
News C is for Cable & Wireless According to Skype research, 30 per cent of its 309 million users use it for work and the company is trying to shed the perception of it being just a consumer tool. Broadband from A to Z [02 Jul 2008]
ISPs face fresh threat from file-sharing laws
News C is for Cable & Wireless The government has renewed its threat to introduce laws to force ISPs to control online music and film piracy and file-sharing. But the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) has hit back, warning the government... [18 Jun 2008]
Stolen music still big with MP3 generation
News C is for Cable & Wireless Young people are getting almost half of their music collection through illegal means. Record industry artist and publisher group, British Music Rights (BMR), claims the average 14- to 24-year-old now has almost 900 illegal... [16 Jun 2008]
Nortel ditches WiMax in 4G race
News The company earlier this year joined forces with Clearwire and several other companies including Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Intel in a $12bn joint venture to build a nationwide WiMax network. Telecom equipment maker Nortel Networks is ditching... [16 Jun 2008]
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News It has 10,000 connections, both infiniband and gigabit Ethernet, with 57 miles of fibre-optic cable. Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop - 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second - twice as... [11 Jun 2008]
Yahoo! vs Icahn: War of words
News He told cable business channel CNBC later on Wednesday that "we have good odds" in the Yahoo! Yahoo! said on Wednesday that deal talks are ongoing with Microsoft as the company resisted an attack by billionaire critic Carl Icahn, who called its... [05 Jun 2008]
Tesco spends £100m on network overhaul
News The contract with Cable & Wireless (C&W) is intended to free office staff from their desks by using mobile VoIP phones, allow remote experts to advise customers on the best wines or gadgets via video kiosks and transmit regular video pep-talks for... [28 May 2008]
National Work from Home Day: A blessing or a curse?
News Eventually, I give up and plug in the Ethernet cable and I'm up and running immediately, I think. In honour of National Work from Home Day, the silicon.com team stayed out of the office to find out just how easy it is to do your job remotely. [16 May 2008]
