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Kingston hails success of unmetered Net access

News Hull-based Kingston Communications is claiming that its policy of offering unmetered Internet access has been a huge success - and that other telcos will be forced to follow suit. Since then, Internet traffic has grown to represent more than one...

[13 Aug 1999]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Convergence here at last?

Comment While other telecommunications providers are trimming, shaving and axing their businesses, Kingston has decided to enhance and expand. Kingston Communications possesses expertise in carrier services, enterprise voice and contact centres, having...

Tags: kingston communications, quocirca, telecoms, cable and wireless

[14 Jan 2005]

Manx Telecom plan early launch of ADSL

News The move would put the Isle of Man operator ahead of the rest of BT's network - which is still controversially waiting on the high-speed Internet access technology - and on a par with Kingston Communications, which provides local services in the...

[06 Jul 1999]

BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software

News K is for Kingston 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 relationship...

Tags: smes, saas, crm, bt

[22 Apr 2008]

BT lags in broadband satisfaction stakes

News K is for Kingston BT has come bottom of the eight major UK broadband providers in a customer satisfaction survey. BT declined to comment on the findings. B is for BT Behind Tiscali comes Virgin Media with a score of 660, then Sky (657), AOL (646...

Tags: jd power, broadband, isps, customer

[06 Dec 2007]

BT kick-starts ADSL trials in London

News Meanwhile Kingston Communications - which operates a local loop network around Hull in the UK - has been trialling ADSL in Hessle for 18 months. BT has launched its first trials of high speed ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) technology in...

[15 Oct 1998]

Marconi bags very local UK contracts

News Marconi has won a four-year, £360m contract from BT and become one of the first providers of softswitch technology in the UK through a deal with Kingston Communications. And while the BT deal may sound like the kind of business that was being done...

Tags: softswitch, kingston, marconi, bt

[29 Jun 2004]

Kingston and Durex seal the deal

News Hull-based Kingston Communications has beaten off competition from BT to win a £1m contract to provide voice and data services for Durex manufacturer SSL. Kingston was up against rival telecoms providers AT&T, BT, Colt, MCI and Streamline in the...

[13 Feb 2004]

Come an' Avatalk in Second Life, urges BT

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

Tags: bt, trial, ip, sms

[20 Mar 2008]

Oftel eases way for long-distance carrier choice

News The telecoms watchdog released a consultative document on Monday, which will lead to BT and Hull-based Kingston Communications dropping their current practice of making residential phone users and some small businesses dial a number prefixes...

[22 Jul 1998]

The internet just got faster... (or less slow at least)

The internet just got faster... (or less slow at least)

News The regulator announced on Wednesday that it is extending the universal service obligations that BT, and Hull's Kingston Communication, must abide by. At a time when pressure is building on telecoms operators, regulators and the government over the...

[24 Jul 2003]

BT hooks up first 21CN customers

News K is for Kingston BT has moved its first customers to its 21st Century Network (21CN) in the initial phase of the next-generation network's national rollout. B is for BT Paul Reynolds, chief executive of BT Wholesale and board sponsor of the 21CN...

Tags: 21cn, wales, bt, customer

[28 Nov 2006]

<strong>BT</strong> sells Blu as shareholders see red

BT sells Blu as shareholders see red

News Vodafone, Energis, Telewest, C&W, Colt, Kingston and Thus have all seen larger falls than us. Shareholders gave the BT board the customary roasting today at the company's AGM in Nottingham. BT chief executive Sir Peter Bonfield confessed to the...

[18 Jul 2001]

Virgin touts free broadband speed upgrade

News K is for Kingston B is for BT BT's forthcoming ADSL2+ tech will offer speed of up to 24Mbps, though the telco is also dabbling with fibre. A planned BT fibre deployment at Ebbsfleet, Kent, will offer speed of up to 100Mbps on a mixed development...

Tags: broadband, speed, virgin, cable

[28 Jan 2008]

Government 'interested' in universal broadband

Government 'interested' in universal broadband

News These also apply within Hull to Kingston Communications. Currently, universal service obligations mean that BT must provide all UK consumers with a telephone line, and tailored packages for those with special needs.

[22 Nov 2002]

Is the game up for ISDN?

Comment ADSL will make its commercial entry into the UK market through Kingston Communications, which is expected to launch products next spring. Simon Brooks, marketing manager for BT's Interactive services network trial in West London, said: "ADSL gives...

[10 Nov 1998]

SportsWorld signs £5m convergence contract

SportsWorld signs £5m convergence contract

News This is the first major deal Affiniti is shouting about since its renaming this year, which followed the earlier merger of Kingston Communications Business Services, Omnetica and Technica. It sees converged communications over existing DSL...

Tags: omnetica, affiniti, sportsworld, convergence

[08 Jun 2005]

Faster speeds on the cards for Broadband Britain?

News K is for Kingston 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 K is for Kingston 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 service by the end of...

Tags: ofcom, broadband, ngn, economy

[27 Nov 2007]

BT rings up more than a million VoIP customers

News K is for Kingston 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 Total Broadband...

Tags: broadband, voip, bt

[10 Jan 2007]

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