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RSS quad cableMobile broadband threatening fixed line?
News Q is for Quad-play C is for Cable & Wireless Mobile broadband is encroaching on the business of fixed line ISPs, market research company YouGov is claiming. But not everyone is happy with the dongle experience. [20 Aug 2008]
£68m 'snooping' database: Little impact on serious crime
News Q is for Quad-play C is for Cable & Wireless Home Office proposals for phone, email and internet records - including VoIP - to be kept for 12 months are expected to cost taxpayers up to £68m to set up and £39m per year to run. [13 Aug 2008]
Companies urged not to ban Facebook
News Q is for Quad-play C is for Cable & Wireless Instead businesses should view employee participation as part of the "social experience" and develop policies to make sure they're used responsibly. Broadband from A to Z [08 Aug 2008]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News Q is for Quad-play C is for Cable & Wireless O2 is considering investing in its own fibre-to-the-home network but wants to wait until Ofcom changes telecommunications regulation before it makes an investment. [17 Jul 2008]
BT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News Q is for Quad-play C is for Cable & Wireless 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... [15 Jul 2008]
Law firm gets SaaSy with email security
Case Study Q is for Quad-play C is for Cable & Wireless 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... [15 Jul 2008]
Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News Q is for Quad-play C is for Cable & Wireless Moreover, some seven million consumers - or nearly half of all broadband customers in the UK - are technically incapable of getting the standard headline speed of 8Mbps as only around half (42 per cent... [14 Jul 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study Q is for Quad-play C is for Cable & Wireless The construction division of Taylor Wimpey has embraced software as a service by adopting Google Apps Premier Edition to improve mobility and flexibility for its workers. [10 Jul 2008]
UK business lacking high fibre diet
News Q is for Quad-play C is for Cable & Wireless The UK's business efficiency is being threatened by relatively slow broadband speeds, according to a report by the Communications Management Association. The Communications Management Association's (CMA... [07 Jul 2008]
Ofcom: Mobile broadband driving interest in fibre
News Q is for Quad-play C is for Cable & Wireless 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... [04 Jul 2008]
Skype touts biz credentials
News Q is for Quad-play C is for Cable & Wireless According to Skype research, 30 per cent of its 309 million users use it for work and the company is trying to shed the perception of it being just a consumer tool. [02 Jul 2008]
ISPs face fresh threat from file-sharing laws
News Q is for Quad-play C is for Cable & Wireless 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... [18 Jun 2008]
Thin clients switch on digitally excluded
Case Study Q is for Quad-play C is for Cable & Wireless 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. [17 Jun 2008]
Stolen music still big with MP3 generation
News Q is for Quad-play C is for Cable & Wireless 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 Q is for Quad-play C is for Cable & Wireless 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... [23 May 2008]
