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O2 considers high fibre rollout
News A is for ADSL Q is for Quad-play Following BT's Tuesday announcement that it was to plough £1.5bn into a fibre-access rollout to 10 million homes, an O2 spokesperson told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk that O2 was "not going to move" until... [17 Jul 2008]
BT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News A is for ADSL Q is for Quad-play 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... [15 Jul 2008]
Law firm gets SaaSy with email security
Case Study A is for ADSL Q is for Quad-play International law firm Ashurst LLP has turned to web-based email management to help drastically reduce spam and free up time for its tech team. Ashurst has been using technology from email management specialist... [15 Jul 2008]
Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News A is for ADSL Q is for Quad-play Almost a third (28 per cent) of fat pipe subscribers - an estimated 4.2 million customers - in the UK are not satisfied with the speed they receive from their provider, according to a survey by price comparison... [14 Jul 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study A is for ADSL Q is for Quad-play Taylor Woodrow has moved its 1,800 staff onto Google Apps for email and other services, estimating it will save £1m per year in the process. The construction division of Taylor Wimpey has embraced software as a... [10 Jul 2008]
UK business lacking high fibre diet
News A is for ADSL Q is for Quad-play The Communications Management Association's (CMA's) Next Generation Access report, issued on Thursday, claims companies' ecommerce operations will suffer unless broadband speeds are increased. [07 Jul 2008]
RIC-155GE Connects IP DSLAM Infrastructure Transparently Over Dedicated Leased SDH Circuits
White Paper The challenge was to enable broadband services, including ADSL 2+, and multimedia services, such as Triple Play, on an advanced, Ethernet-based DSL Infrastructure. Telefonica Deutschland is a German provider of integrated data and telecommunication... [07 Jul 2008]
Ofcom: Mobile broadband driving interest in fibre
News A is for ADSL Q is for Quad-play 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... [04 Jul 2008]
Skype touts biz credentials
News A is for ADSL Q is for Quad-play Skype is touting its voice over IP (VoIP) technology for small businesses keen to work globally and keep costs down. According to Skype research, 30 per cent of its 309 million users use it for work and the company... [02 Jul 2008]
ISPs face fresh threat from file-sharing laws
News A is for ADSL Q is for Quad-play But the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) has hit back, warning the government that legislation could result "in cumbersome regulation". Malcolm Wicks, business, enterprise and regulatory reform... [18 Jun 2008]
Thin clients switch on digitally excluded
Case Study A is for ADSL A project to tackle digital exclusion in socially deprived regions of Merseyside has brought free plug-and-play internet access to hundreds of homes with children of school age. Q is for Quad-play [17 Jun 2008]
Stolen music still big with MP3 generation
News A is for ADSL Q is for Quad-play Record industry artist and publisher group, British Music Rights (BMR), claims the average 14- to 24-year-old now has almost 900 illegal tracks each on their MP3 players. [16 Jun 2008]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment A is for ADSL Q is for Quad-play Looking at the headline in The Guardian this week and you'd be forgiven for thinking something momentous has happened to Broadband Britain today: 'Fears of digital divide groundless as online access soars in rural... [23 May 2008]
Euro e-health getting the right attention
News A is for ADSL Q is for Quad-play An EC e-health survey has found the vast majority (87 per cent) of European doctors use a computer - and almost half (48 per cent) have a broadband connection. The report - entitled Benchmarking ICT use among... [28 Apr 2008]
BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software
News A is for ADSL Q is for Quad-play BT is offering NetSuite's business management applications and will soon provide customer relationship management (CRM) software from SugarCRM. Broadband from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. [22 Apr 2008]
