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EC shies away from data-roaming regulation
News S is for Satellite Click on the links below to find out more… Mobile users should be made more aware of how much data they are using while abroad in Europe, the director general for the information society and media at the European Commission has... [22 Jul 2008]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News S is for Satellite phones Click on the links below to find out more. Following BT's Tuesday announcement that it was to plough £1.5bn into a fibre-access rollout to 10 million homes, an O2 spokesperson told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk that... [17 Jul 2008]
BT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News S is for Satellite phones Click on the links below to find out more. 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... [15 Jul 2008]
Law firm gets SaaSy with email security
Case Study S is for Satellite phones Click on the links below to find out more. Ashurst has been using technology from email management specialist Mimecast to manage its Microsoft Exchange and Outlook applications. [15 Jul 2008]
Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News S is for Satellite phones Click on the links below to find out more. 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... [14 Jul 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study S is for Satellite phones Click on the links below to find out more. 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. [10 Jul 2008]
WiMax - spreading to more UK businesses
News S is for Satellite Click on the links below to find out more… On-Communications has said it has decided WiMax is the best technology for providing wireless connectivity to business customers. The provider announced it would be rolling out the... [10 Jul 2008]
UK business lacking high fibre diet
News S is for Satellite phones Click on the links below to find out more. The Communications Management Association's (CMA's) Next Generation Access report, issued on Thursday, claims companies' ecommerce operations will suffer unless broadband speeds... [07 Jul 2008]
Ofcom: Mobile broadband driving interest in fibre
News S is for Satellite phones Click on the links below to find out more. Speaking at a conference hosted by UK trade association for technology, Intellect, Ofcom chief executive, Ed Richards, said mobile broadband's rapid rise in popularity could help... [04 Jul 2008]
SMS roaming rates: Expect EC to force cuts
News S is for Satellite Click on the links below to find out more… Yesterday was the 1 July deadline set by European telecoms commissioner, Viviane Reding, for the mobile industry to voluntarily reduce the price of data roaming and sending text messages... [02 Jul 2008]
Skype touts biz credentials
News S is for Satellite phones Click on the links below to find out more. Another recent innovation is a Skype button which businesses can place on their websites to allow people to call them with the click of a button. [02 Jul 2008]
Getting to the meeting - without the journey
Comment S is for Satellite Click on the links below to find out more… Costs, delays and green issues are all conspiring against business travel. Those factors are also coinciding with the growth of the very tech that could spare you a journey, says Stewart... [30 Jun 2008]
Femtocells to speed arrival of next-gen mobile networks?
News S is for Satellite Click on the links below to find out more… Industry association body the Femto Forum and operator community group the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance have announced they will work together to ensure the DSL... [30 Jun 2008]
We are now roaming at 30,000 feet...
Comment S is for Satellite Once connected to the picocell, the calls are then routed over the aircraft's existing satellite gateway to the solution provider's terrestrial network. In some cases the aircraft's satellite connection will be the connectivity... [26 Jun 2008]
3.5G laptops to overwhelm mobile networks?
News S is for Satellite Click on the links below to find out more… Laptops packing 3.5G+ for mobile broadband access could be the answer to European mobile phone operators' ARPU (average revenue per user) prayers. [20 Jun 2008]
