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Qualcomm snaps up spectrum for £8m

News It bought the spectrum in auction from regulator Ofcom at a price of £8,334,000. Ofcom's fifth auction of radio spectrum is part of a wider programme to release spectrum for a range of uses. Click here for all there is on wireless, from email to...

Tags: qualcomm, wireless, spectrum

[16 May 2008]

Nationwide WiMax in next two years?

News Another hurdle for mobile WiMax is spectrum allocation in the 2.5GHz band, something that will become possible through an Ofcom auction later this year. Click on the links below to find out more… Speaking at a roundtable discussion yesterday...

Tags: 3g, wimax

[09 May 2008]

Tomorrow's wireless world: Healthcare to wear

News Tomorrow's wireless world could be a better place to be ill, according to Ofcom which has published a report highlighting technologies that could make it outside the research lab over the next 10 to 20 years.

Tags: e-health, ofcom, wireless

[08 May 2008]

O2 hits 3G target at last

News On Friday, Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, said the operator had now rolled out 3G coverage to at least 80 per cent of the UK population, as it was obliged to do. Ofcom warned O2 in February that it was the only 3G licensee to have fallen...

Tags: 3g, o2, ofcom

[06 May 2008]

Euro e-health getting the right attention

News O is for Ofcom Click on the links below to find out more. European primary healthcare services are benefiting from broadband, says the European Commission, but there are still wide discrepancies in GPs' use of IT across Europe.

Tags: telemonitoring, healthcare, e-health

[28 Apr 2008]

BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software

News O is for Ofcom Click on the links below to find out more. BT and NetSuite have joined forces to bring web-based on-demand software to the telco's 1.6 million business customers. BT is offering NetSuite's business management applications and will...

Tags: smes, saas, crm, bt

[22 Apr 2008]

Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010

News O is for Ofcom Click on the links below to find out more. The US telecoms giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the internet's current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010.

Tags: web, web 2.0, isps, government

[21 Apr 2008]

Europe embracing speedy fat pipes

News O is for Ofcom Click on the links below to find out more. Around three-quarters (77 per cent) of businesses in Europe are now using high speed broadband, according to the European Commission's latest i2010 progress report.

Tags: online, i2010, eu, broadband

[18 Apr 2008]

Ofcom - high-fibre diet ordered for Broadband Britain

News Telecoms regulator Ofcom has launched a review into the most financially viable ways of replacing the existing copper networks. Fibre networks are being fitted at three estates in the UK and Ofcom is hoping to encourage further growth by laying out...

Tags: telco, broadband, fibre

[16 Apr 2008]

Tesco to launch iTunes challenger

News O is for Ofcom Click on the links below to find out more. Tesco Digital will initially offer all of the tracks in Window Media format with around half (1.6 million) also available as MP3s. Broadband from A to Z

Tags: mp3, online, digital music, itunes

[15 Apr 2008]

3.5G gizmos mushrooming forth

News O is for Ofcom Click on the links below to find out more. The number of 3.5G devices on the market is mushrooming with 150 per cent annual growth in HSDPA gizmos, according to stats from GSM/3G supplier association the Global Mobile Suppliers...

Tags: mobile broadband, 3.5g, hsdpa

[07 Apr 2008]

Ofcom primes WiMax spectrum auction

News Ofcom has released details of the largest spectrum auction to date, which will make available a swathe of spectrum suitable for mobile broadband and advanced wireless services via WiMax and 3G tech. However Ofcom notes there are a number of...

Tags: mobile broadband, ofcom, wimax, spectrum

[07 Apr 2008]

Who's on the wrong side of the UK digital divide?

News But the latest statistics from telecoms regulator Ofcom paint a picture of a growing digital divide based on the much less idealistic lines of income and ethnicity. UK residents on lower incomes are far less likely to have internet access...

Tags: ofcom, digital divide, internet

[07 Apr 2008]

In-flight mobile gets Ofcom thumbs up

News In-flight mobile phone calls may soon be a reality for travellers on UK airlines after UK telecoms regulator Ofcom gave its approval to the technology. The news follows a consultation on Ofcom proposals published in October last year and the...

Tags: calls, mobile, ofcom, planes

[26 Mar 2008]

Come an' Avatalk in Second Life, urges BT

News O is for Ofcom Click on the links below to find out more. BT is upping its presence in Second Life with a trial of its free 'Avatalk' phone and texting service. The one month virtual world pilot will start on 26 March allowing users to make 10 free...

Tags: bt, trial, ip, sms

[20 Mar 2008]

'Unlimited broadband' thing of the past?

News O is for Ofcom Click on the links below to find out more. Time is running out for so-called "unlimited broadband" packages, according to analysts and ISPs. For some time, many ISPs have been offering users what they call unlimited broadband...

Tags: broadband, iplayer, youtube, isps

[17 Mar 2008]

Berners-Lee bigs up the 'semantic web'

Berners-Lee bigs up the 'semantic web'

News O is for Ofcom Click on the links below to find out more. Speaking at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce in London, Berners-Lee said: "Initially there was a huge issue [with the web] that you couldn't find...

Tags: berners-lee, semantic web, google, internet

[13 Mar 2008]

Tennis federation rallies web presence

Case Study O is for Ofcom Click on the links below to find out more. The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has beefed up its website to improve availability and speed for millions of tennis fans following the scores of Davis Cup matches online.

Tags: tennis, ntt, website, servers

[12 Mar 2008]

Five weird ways to bridge the digital divide

News O is for Ofcom Click on the links below to find out more. For smelly broadband… click to page 2 Click here to see photos of fibre-down-the-drains deployment. Power surge… click for page 3. Click here for the full Q&A

Tags: broadband, satellite, wimax, spectrum

[06 Mar 2008]

Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer

Cheat Sheet O is for Ofcom Although these fears seem exaggerated at the moment, industry regulator Ofcom has said there is the possibility that the ISP-content provider business model may need to change in the future to fund the huge growth in digital content.

Tags: isp, online, on demand, iplayer

[05 Mar 2008]

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