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RSS quad-playA Review of Spectrum Requirements for Mobile WiMAX Equipment to Support Wireless Personal Broadband Services
White Paper This is in addition to the emergence of new delivery initiatives such as Direct to Customer (D2C) media content, online synchronized games, music and video on demand, and also quad-play, which bundles... [22 Apr 2009]
Automate the Management of Your NGN Services and Infrastructure With EMC
White Paper Challenged by the convergence of triple- and even quad-play service bundles? How to plan, configure and manage innovative Next-Generation-Networks (NGN) services with minimum risks and ahead of the... [02 Apr 2009]
BT slammed over unbundling price hike
News Q is for Quad-play Carphone Warehouse's broadband supplier, TalkTalk, has attacked a proposed rise in the amount BT charges other internet service providers for installing their equipment in its exchanges. [10 Mar 2009]
Cheap broadband will stop BT going fibre charge crazy
News Q is for Quad-play Cheap mobile broadband and existing fixed services will keep BT from running a fibre monopoly, according to the communications regulator Ofcom. The watchdog today announced it will be... [03 Mar 2009]
Mind the mobile broadband cash gap
News Q is for Quad-play According to analyst Strand Consult, many operators are selling mobile broadband for around 50 per cent less than it costs to produce such volumes of data. Tough competition has driven... [11 Feb 2009]
Broadband Britain: Where's our revolution?
Comment Q is for Quad-play Yesterday the comms minister, Lord Carter, unveiled a draft strategy which the government hopes will ensure the UK keeps pace with tech change and grows its digital economy over the... [30 Jan 2009]
'UK needs spectrum-for-speed swap'
News Q is for Quad-play ISPs should be given radio spectrum in exchange for rolling out fibre, a quasi-governmental body has suggested. The lottery-funded National Endowment for Science, Technology and the... [20 Jan 2009]
Bournemouth braced for first Fibrecity homes
News Q is for Quad-play The superfast seaside broadband network is being built by sewer fibre-laying company H2O Networks, and is wholly funded by private equity investment. The first 30 homes to get fibre... [20 Jan 2009]
UK broadband: Reality is half the promised speed
News Q is for Quad-play Ofcom has published the initial findings of its research into the real speeds UK consumers are getting from their broadband connections. According to a preliminary version of the... [08 Jan 2009]
Virgin debuts 50Mbps broadband
News Q is for Quad-play Virgin Media has finally launched its long-anticipated '50Mbps' cable broadband service but analysts have warned the headline speed may not be attainable for very long. The... [16 Dec 2008]
Nokia to take on mobile broadband market
News Q is for Quad-play Nokia will start to ship its first 3G dongle in early 2009, Tapio Markki, vice president for hardware platform components at Nokia, told Reuters. The market for HSPA modems is expected... [12 Dec 2008]
ISPs agree to 'honesty code' of broadband speeds
News Q is for Quad-play Internet service providers in the UK will, from Friday, follow a voluntary code of practice that will commit them to being honest and accurate about the actual speeds of their... [05 Dec 2008]
Free PCs and broadband for 20,000 kids
News Q is for Quad-play From February 2009, kids in Suffolk and Oldham will benefit from a £30m pilot scheme, with the programme due to go nationwide late next year. Broadband from A to Z Click on the links... [22 Oct 2008]
'Mobile broadband is not the same standard as fixed'
News Q is for Quad-play The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has taken issue with claims that mobile broadband is interchangeable with its fixed line 'home' equivalent. The ASA's adjudication follows a... [16 Oct 2008]
BT to plug fibre in London, Wales
News Q is for Quad-play The telco is piloting fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) in the two exchanges starting from summer 2009. Back in July, the telco announced it plans to spend £1.5bn to give 10 million UK homes... [14 Oct 2008]
