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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 has finally opened its arms to UK businesses large and small wanting to use the Apple iPhone. [10 Jun 2008]
RIM reveals BlackBerry roadmap
News This integrates landline calls with mobiles so both types of calls can be seamlessly transferred between devices, and landline caller data is integrated with the BlackBerry. RIM says MVS will mean businesses can issue members of staff with one... [14 May 2008]
Orange SME mobile tariffs get a new flavour
News Venture customers get the same deal, except they can get both unlimited UK landline calls and unlimited texts if they are on 24- or 36-month contracts. Orange has updated its small-business-oriented mobile tariffs. [25 Apr 2008]
Carphone Warehouse in data protection breach
News Mobile phone, broadband, landline and other customers with both companies found themselves unable to take out loans or mortgages because of incorrect credit records, or were visited by bailiffs to recover other debts that didn't belong to them. [16 Jan 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. The NHS could slash costs following an upgrade to its N3... [23 Jul 2007]
Top 10 tips for working from home
News Make sure you have a few ways for people to contact you - such as a mobile, a landline, email and instant messaging - so if one connectivity mode goes down for a while, your colleagues will still have a way to reach you - and you them. [21 May 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. Virgin Media - formerly known as NTL:Telewest and Virgin Mobile - has... [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]
Brits love bundles - and payphones
News In the UK, only 13 per cent of households have got rid of their landline. Over the past few years, telcos have been remodelling themselves as converged communications companies - and it seems consumers are beginning to bite with more and more of us... [30 Apr 2007]
'Deluxe broadband' tempts hotel business customers
News On top of this, free landline calls are also part of the deal. In the cut-throat world of broadband connectivity, suppliers need more than just bandwidth to tempt customers into parting with their cash.silicon.com Retail & Leisure [27 Apr 2007]
£200m firefighting tech contract awarded
News The system will also use caller location, so that the site of an emergency call - by mobile or landline - can be identified automatically.silicon.com Public Sector A £200m IT contract will help save lives by getting firefighters to emergencies... [08 Mar 2007]
Gizmo offers VoIP calls in a flash
News The plug-in, which can be downloaded at gizmocall.com, lets people call most landline or mobile phones from anywhere in the world using any internet browser. SIPphone is launching a new service called Gizmo Call that allows people to make VoIP... [31 Jan 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]
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]
