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Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation

Comment We've just launched our business broadband - the 100,000 customers that we have today on Pipex are very satisfied with the service that we provide. The company recently launched a range of business ADSL2+ broadband packages for SMEs under the Pipex...

Tags: bandwidth, broadband, tiscali, talking

[21 Feb 2008]

Is online TV throttling broadband networks?

News Tiscali, which also owns Pipex, has been the most vocal ISP on this subject and has stated in the past it believes content providers such as the BBC should foot the bill for upgrading networks to cope with the content they're now churning out.

Tags: bbc, iplayer, tiscali, bandwidth

[28 Jan 2008]

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. In the annual JD Power and Associates 2007 UK Broadband Internet Service Provider Satisfaction Study, the...

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 has revealed its plans for a nationwide rollout of WiMax services for businesses across the UK. Freedom4 - the new brand name for the Pipex Wireless division - will initially target SMEs with the rollout of its symmetrical WiMax service...

Tags: sme, pipex, wimax

[05 Oct 2007]

Tiscali buys Pipex's broadband

News Pipex has sold its broadband and phone division to Tiscali for £210m. The businesses being sold to Tiscali include Pipex Homecall, Pipex Internet, Switch Telecoms and Toucan Residential. Peter Dubens, executive chairman of Pipex, said Pipex is...

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. Swindon remains the UK's top broadband town but Milton Keynes is hot on its heels, having rocketed up to second place from 62nd...

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. Warwick District Council's WiMax trial will start this spring with the objective of a full rollout by the end of the year.

Tags: wimax

[03 Apr 2007]

F1 champions put their faith in technology

News Honda: Avaya, Cablefree Solutions, IBM, Matrix Communications, NCE, PerkinElmer, Pipex, STL Communications It might not be as temperamental as a race-car's engine, but keeping the IT running properly can be just as important to the success of a...

Tags: renault, data networks, comms, network

[23 Mar 2007]

How Formula One takes tech to the extremes

News Beyond the day-to-day operations of the team, technology is used to further the brand - for example following Jenson Button's first win in Hungary last year, Pipex, which hosts the team's website, had to respond quickly to cope with extra traffic...

Tags: 2007, honda, technology, networking

[14 Mar 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 Pipex, the ISP which bought the customer base of its troubled rival Bulldog, has revealed it actually acquired 30,000 fewer customers than it expected. Bulldog had a base of 110,000 users when the deal was agreed last September but Pipex said once...

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. But Currier refused to say whether Pipex would bid, and he also refused to elaborate on the ISP's plans for WiMax.

Tags: o2, pipex, orange, vodafone

[14 Dec 2006]

Pipex pays £36m for a Bulldog and a Toucan

News Pipex is aiming to boost its customer base and mobile capability with the acquisitions of Bulldog Broadband and Toucan. Pipex has bought Bulldog's residential and small business broadband customer base and rights to the Bulldog brand in a £12m all...

Tags: toucan, pipex, bulldog

[07 Sep 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 Pipex has completed the first phase of its WiMax experiment, saying the results exceeded expectations. The company's joint venture with Intel, Pipex Wireless, has been trialling the long range wireless broadband technology in the Stratford upon...

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. Not so fast, says Futurity Media's Anthony Plewes. Intel has been a vocal backer of WiMax since the wireless technology's inception and the...

Tags: sprint, wimax, intel, wireless broadband

[27 Jul 2006]

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