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RSS quad playO2 considers high fibre rollout
News Q is for Quad-play 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. Following BT's Tuesday announcement that it was to plough £1.5bn... [17 Jul 2008]
BT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News 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 100Mbps - and... [15 Jul 2008]
Law firm gets SaaSy with email security
Case Study 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 Mimecast to manage... [15 Jul 2008]
Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News 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 website uSwitch. [14 Jul 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study 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 service by... [10 Jul 2008]
UK business lacking high fibre diet
News Q is for Quad-play 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's) Next Generation Access... [07 Jul 2008]
Ofcom: Mobile broadband driving interest in fibre
News 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 that will... [04 Jul 2008]
Skype touts biz credentials
News 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 is trying to... [02 Jul 2008]
ISPs face fresh threat from file-sharing laws
News 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 minister, told... [18 Jun 2008]
Thin clients switch on digitally excluded
Case Study Q is for Quad-play 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. The project is aiming to give digitally excluded... [17 Jun 2008]
Stolen music still big with MP3 generation
News 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. Broadband from A to Z [16 Jun 2008]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment 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 areas', it... [23 May 2008]
Euro e-health getting the right attention
News Q is for Quad-play 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. An EC e-health survey has found the vast majority (87 per... [28 Apr 2008]
BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software
News 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]
Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010
News Q is for Quad-play 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. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on web 2.0 this week in London, Jim... [21 Apr 2008]
