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The A to Z of broadband

News BT Wholesale deals with the other communication companies - such as Cable & Wireless - and runs BT's own networks. A competitor and critic of BT, Cable & Wireless is often regarded as the UK's 'second telco'.

Tags: broadband, adsl, hsdpa, bt

[01 Nov 2006]

Virgin touts free broadband speed upgrade

News C is for Cable & Wireless The company, which delivers residential broadband services via its cable network, said customers on its 'L' tier package will get a free speed hike taking them from 4Mbps to 10Mbps.

Tags: broadband, speed, virgin, cable

[28 Jan 2008]

BT lags in broadband satisfaction stakes

News C is for Cable & Wireless More than two-thirds of respondents said they receive services other than broadband from their ISP - such as home telephone, cable/satellite TV or mobile phone. B is for BT BT has come bottom of the eight major UK...

Tags: jd power, broadband, isps, customer

[06 Dec 2007]

Telco packages overwhelm customers

News C is for Cable & Wireless Given the huge range of services available, from phone line and broadband to cable television and mobile phone, consumers find it difficult to choose which would best meet their needs.

Tags: telcos, survey, ofcom, uk

[17 Nov 2006]

Broadband Britain: Revolution is in the air

Broadband Britain: Revolution is in the air

News Do the cable companies offer any more access than BT? I believe that `wired-up Britain` will remain a pipe dream unless a rich telco, or an independent body, gets in there and takes it from BT and the cable companies.

[16 Sep 2002]

BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT BT and NetSuite have joined forces to bring web-based on-demand software to the telco's 1.6 million business customers. BT is offering NetSuite's business management applications and will soon provide customer...

Tags: smes, saas, crm, bt

[22 Apr 2008]

BT hooks up first 21CN customers

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT BT has moved its first customers to its 21st Century Network (21CN) in the initial phase of the next-generation network's national rollout. Cardiff, Bridgend and the Pontypridd area are next on BT's list to...

Tags: 21cn, wales, bt, customer

[28 Nov 2006]

BT rings up more than a million VoIP customers

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT More than one million consumer customers have signed up for BT's VoIP service since June last year. A BT spokesman told silicon.com the reason for the rapid uptake is largely down to the launch back in June of...

Tags: broadband, voip, bt

[10 Jan 2007]

Broadband Britain cheaper and faster than ever

News C is for Cable & Wireless When it comes to connection speeds, cable broadband provider Virgin Media's planned 50Mbps rollout - set to be available to some nine million homes by the end of the year - is keeping it at the head of the field (its...

Tags: broadband, speed, fat pipes, connection

[01 Feb 2008]

Come an' Avatalk in Second Life, urges BT

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT BT is upping its presence in Second Life with a trial of its free 'Avatalk' phone and texting service. Users will be able to use their avatars to access the service at red BT phone boxes at five locations or by...

Tags: bt, trial, ip, sms

[20 Mar 2008]

O2: A wannabe BT?

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT O2 has revealed plans that could see it lining up to compete with the likes of BT and NTL as it moves increasingly towards fixed-mobile convergence (FMC), broadband and various flavours of telly and advertising.

Tags: mobile tv, fmc, be, advertising

[15 Nov 2006]

Cardiff poised to steal Swindon's fat pipe crown?

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT The Welsh capital was chosen by BT for initial tests of 21CN, with the first customers hooked up to the new network last month. Nearly three-fifths (59.8 per cent) of homes in the Wiltshire town had broadband...

Tags: 21cn, swindon, bt broadband, broadband

[11 Dec 2006]

Faster speeds on the cards for Broadband Britain?

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT Tiscali CEO, Mary Turner, recently told silicon.com fibre to the cabinet - aka backhaul - needs to be "commercialised" as BT is not currently obliged by Ofcom to resell it.

Tags: broadband, fibre, ofcom, high speed

[22 Feb 2008]

Broadband summit: Speed is the key

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT Companies including BT - which has invested billions in overhauling its core network to an all-IP network known as the 21CN - and Virgin Media, which has announced plans to roll out an up to 50Mbps broadband...

Tags: ofcom, broadband, ngn, economy

[27 Nov 2007]

Broadband wireless gets spectrum boost

News C is for Cable & Wireless The links could potentially be used as alternatives to fibre-optic cable, with possible data speeds ranging from 1Gbps to 10Gbps over distances of one to two kilometres. B is for BT

Tags: wifi

[10 Nov 2006]

Five weird ways to bridge the digital divide

News C is for Cable & Wireless This method sees fibre cable - for really high-speed broadband - laid in existing sewage ducts, a cheaper and faster way of hooking people up than digging up streets where legacy copper wiring lives.

Tags: broadband, satellite, wimax, spectrum

[06 Mar 2008]

Where next for broadband Britain?

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT All-IP next generation networks (NGNs) are being rolled out in the UK - such as BT's 21CN - but NGNs do not solve the problem of legacy copper wiring at street level, from exchanges to cabinets and homes - an...

Tags: ngn, nga, broadband, fibre

[22 Nov 2007]

'Unlimited broadband' thing of the past?

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT At conferences where the likes of Tiscali and BT are present, you hear them say these things - 'We must move to a new tariffing scheme' - and that tells me they're working hard on this.

Tags: broadband, iplayer, youtube, isps

[17 Mar 2008]

Ofcom and ISPs kiss and MAC up

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT A BT spokesman told silicon.com that the company was fully behind the proposals. The MAC is required by customers wanting to switch ISP, which they take over to their new provider.

Tags: mac, ofcom, bt

[13 Dec 2006]

Is online TV throttling broadband networks?

News C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT BT told silicon.com the full launch of iPlayer hasn't had any impact on the service its customers receive. Although BT wouldn't say whether it employs traffic shaping, the telco said it manages its network to...

Tags: bbc, iplayer, tiscali, bandwidth

[28 Jan 2008]

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