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Commercial WiMax on the council?

News The connectivity is provided by Freedom4 (previously Pipex Wireless) which has been trialling fixed WiMax in Milton Keynes since last year. A commercial WiMax service has been launched in Milton Keynes, following extensive trials of the wireless...

Tags: wimax, broadband, milton keynes, council

[19 Dec 2007]

BT lags in broadband satisfaction stakes

News Behind Tiscali comes Virgin Media with a score of 660, then Sky (657), AOL (646), Orange (636), Pipex (634), TalkTalk (630) and then BT. C is for Cable & Wireless In the annual JD Power and Associates 2007 UK Broadband Internet Service Provider...

Tags: jd power, broadband, isps, customer

[06 Dec 2007]

Photos: UK WiMax rollout

Photo Pipex Wireless has rebranded and will relaunch with a nationwide rollout of a WiMax network across the UK. Freedom4 - the new name for Pipex Wireless - will initially target SMEs with the rollout of its symmetrical WiMax service, which it claims...

Tags: wireless, wimax, pipex

[05 Oct 2007]

Pipex reveals nationwide WiMax plans

News Pipex sold its broadband and phone division to Tiscali this year for £210m - but retained three other divisions including Pipex Wireless. Freedom4 - the new brand name for the Pipex Wireless division - will initially target SMEs with the rollout of...

Tags: sme, pipex, wimax

[05 Oct 2007]

Tiscali buys Pipex's broadband

News Pipex is holding on to three divisions following the acquisition, namely its business services, web hosting and Pipex Wireless. Pipex Wireless, a joint venture between Intel and the ISP, rolled out WiMax in Milton Keynes last year with a Warwick...

Tags: branch, wimax, voice, broadband

[13 Jul 2007]

Swindon still top dog for fat pipes

News It will soon offer free wireless internet access throughout its city centre and has hosted a WiMax rollout with Pipex. Milton Keynes has embraced wireless over the past few months. Swindon remains the UK's top broadband town but Milton Keynes is...

Tags: uk internet, swindon, broadband

[23 May 2007]

Snaffled: Data on 100,000 Bulldog customers

News Cable & Wireless bought Bulldog in 2004 before it sold the business to Pipex in 2006. The contact details of 100,000 Bulldog broadband customers have been stolen, according to Cable & Wireless, Bulldog's former parent company.

Tags: data theft, cable & wireless, c&w, theft

[23 Apr 2007]

WiMax to go live in Warwick

WiMax to go live in Warwick

News Wireless Warwick is working with Intel Solutions Services, National Grid Wireless and Pipex Wireless with the trial. In the long term, Elliott expects the Wireless Warwick project to promote more flexible working.

Tags: wimax

[03 Apr 2007]

Smaller ISPs: The secret to our success

News The UK broadband market witnessed a lot of consolidation last year, including Thus grabbing two rivals in a £70m spending spree, BT snapping up PlusNet for £67m, and Pipex forking out £10m for Freedom2Surf, £12m for Bulldog and £24m for Toucan.

Tags: isp, isps, broadband, ofcom

[26 Jan 2007]

Pipex misses out on 30,000 Bulldog customers

News On the plus side for Pipex, it will now have to pay less than the planned £12.5m to Bulldog's former parent Cable & Wireless for the customer base, because the purchase price was calculated on a per-subscriber basis.

Tags: pipex, bulldog

[22 Jan 2007]

WiMax WISP hits Warwick

News Pipex Wireless, the joint venture between Intel and ISP Pipex, is to set up its second deployment of WiMax in the UK. Pipex Wireless' first run out of the technology was in Milton Keynes last year. Graham Currier, business development manager at...

Tags: pipex, pipex wireless, warwick, wimax

[18 Jan 2007]

Operators cautious on new spectrum auction

News One company that is watching the auction process closely is Pipex Wireless, which has a strong interest in WiMax. Pipex Wireless is part-owned by Intel, one of the biggest promoters of Wi-Fi and WiMax, and already controls the 3.5GHz radio band in...

Tags: o2, pipex, orange, vodafone

[14 Dec 2006]

Milton Keynes gets Pipex WiMax

News WiMax, a long-range wireless broadband technology, will be deployed around the city in a commercial trial by Pipex Wireless, a joint venture between ISP Pipex and chip giant Intel. According to Graham Currier, business development manager for Pipex...

Tags: pipex wireless, milton keynes, pipex, wimax

[21 Aug 2006]

Pipex WiMax experiment: The results are in

News The company's joint venture with Intel, Pipex Wireless, has been trialling the long range wireless broadband technology in the Stratford upon Avon region. Pipex Wireless experimented with both indoor and outdoor kit from Airspan to monitor the...

Tags: pipex, pipex wireless, airspan, intel

[15 Aug 2006]

Radioactive: Which way for wireless broadband?

Comment PCCW and Pipex hold the two nationwide WiMax licences using the 3.4GHz and 3.5GHz bands respectively. Does Intel's cash injection into the US' Clearwire mean WiMax will win out as the technology for wireless broadband?

Tags: sprint, wimax, intel, wireless broadband

[27 Jul 2006]

Intel pumps $25m into WiMax venture

News Intel Capital is putting $25m into a joint venture with Pipex to promote the use of the long-range wireless broadband technology WiMax. The fruit of the union, to be named Pipex Wireless, will provide WiMax access to homes, businesses and public...

Tags: pipex, pipex wireless, intel capital, wimax

[04 Apr 2006]

BT posts higher-than-expected profits

News Pipex owns a licence to operate wireless services at 3.5GHz, a frequency used for WiMax. Speaking to journalists on Thursday morning, BT's chief executive Ben Verwaayen denied reports that BT was planning to buy Pipex.

Tags: bt broadband, bt

[09 Feb 2006]

Pipex Case Study: Tesco

whitepaper PIPEX's Wireless Access Internet Connectivity service, incorporating a wireless Internet connection and leased line back-up, was chosen as the preferred solution. After consulting with several ISPs, Tesco realised that PIPEX would be able to meet...

Tags: connectivity, connection, country, isps

[10 Jan 2006]

Stratford-on-Avon joins the WiMax world

News The six-month pilot will be run by ISP Pipex with kit from Airspan in Stratford-on-Avon. Should all go to plan with the Stratford-on-Avon project, Pipex and Airspan will start to look at new uses for WiMax, including using the technology with...

Tags: stratford, pipex, wimax

[24 Aug 2005]

You can keep the Brits: Who won the ISPAs?

You can keep the Brits: Who won the ISPAs?

News The Best Consumer Broadband Provider award was won by Pipex, while One.Tel walked away with the Best National Consumer ISP award. Best Hardware Supplier was Electronic Frontier, and the Best Carrier award went to Cable & Wireless.

[21 Feb 2003]

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