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RSS high speedWi-Fi: The UK service provider landscape
Comment Not that Wi-Fi operators are likely to stitch you up by failing to deliver the promise of high-speed wireless networking. You've heard about free, 'guerrilla Wi-Fi' providers of wireless networks - you may even have one in the street you live in. [19 May 2003]
Bland back-peddles over BT:TV
News Over the coming years, BT's main priorities, said Bland, will be developing a high-speed internet access business and maintaining its traditional telephone business. BT chairman Sir Christopher Bland has performed a spectacular about turn on plans... [10 Jan 2002]
Yahoo! Japan joins DSL market
News The company, which controls the existing domestic telephone lines which ADSL uses to provide high-speed internet access, has been attacked for its reluctance to allow competitors to install DSL equipment in its exchanges. [19 Jun 2001]
Businesses fear Sepa debit fraud risk
News In a survey conducted by Experian in April, 98 per cent of respondents have no plans to enhance payment fraud checks as they join Sepa, even though the increased volume in high speed transaction processing could expose their systems to frausters. [22 Jul 2008]
Northern broadband firm thrown a lifeline
News This would have allowed it to offer high-speed internet access, digital TV and telephone services to an estimated 325,000 homes and 25,000 businesses in areas such as Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Cumbria and Morecambe. [03 Feb 2003]
Free ISPs halt growth of subscription-based rivals
News He added that developments such as high-speed access via cable modems and DSL (digital subscriber line) as well as anticipated changes to interconnection charging structures will continue to shake-up the market over coming years. [28 Jul 1999]
Broadband speed: ISPs accept 'code of practice'
News The initial list of 32 ISPs did not include Be Broadband - a purveyor of very high speed broadband - but this surprising omission was an admin error on Ofcom's part. Telecoms watchdog Ofcom has published a voluntary Code of Practice that sets out... [05 Jun 2008]
Apple Xserve storage delay
News The system has two 2Gbps Fibre Channel connections, a high-speed connection technology for communicating with servers. Apple Computer has delayed until early next year the launch of its first rack-mounted storage product. [22 Nov 2002]
Lycos a MISP opportunity for Vodafone
Comment Make a large proportion of handsets data-ready - made possible by WAP, and soon high-speed GPRS before full on third-generation in two or three years - and a company like Vodafone AirTouch (with almost 50 million global users) becomes the world's... [09 May 2000]
Yorkshire hits 100 per cent broadband
News However, Jim Farmery, head of technology infrastructure at Yorkshire Forward, said although the 100 per cent milestone is a great source of pride for the region too few business and homes are taking up the opportunities afforded by high-speed web... [03 Jan 2006]
Storage virtualisation virtually here
News SAN provides a dedicated high-speed storage network, commonly used for back-up within organisations, and is based on a standard called Fibre Channel. There is room for various storage standards and architecture types as European users move steadily... [19 Mar 2003]
Oftel seeks to regulate telecom fuzz
News Technologies that use radio frequencies to transmit high-speed data across networks, such as digital subscriber line (DSL) technology, have the potential to interfere with wireless systems. Oftel has announced plans to insert a new condition into... [24 Aug 2001]
BT and AT&T buy into Japanese market
News The lines of Japan Railway - which has a 15.1 per cent stake in the Japan Telecom - are likely to be used to build the high-speed networks links between cities. BT and AT&T are to spend £1.2bn on a 30 per cent stake in Japan Telecom - the third... [26 Apr 1999]
Data General backs SAN for the future
News SANs provide high-speed access to distributed storage via Fibre Channel (FC) technology. Data General's (DG) Clariion storage division has this week bet on becoming one of the main providers of Storage Area Networks (SANs), gambling against huge... [20 May 1999]
China 'to play fair over 3G standard'
News The country hopes to get the high-speed networks up and running before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, although some operators have expressed their doubts about the timescale. In the development of China's 3G licence strategy, the involvement of foreign... [23 Apr 2007]
