telcos
RSS telcosBT's home fibre tests: Coming in London and Milton Keynes
News By replacing copper with fibre optic cabling, telcos will be able to provide downstream connectivity of tens or hundreds of Mbps. BT has revealed more details on its planned brownfield pilots of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH)... [02 Oct 2009]
One in five of world's households now wired to the web
News Over the next four years, global broadband services revenues will also help offset telcos' declining voice revenues and account for 40 per cent of the consumer fixed voice, internet and broadband services market... [28 Sep 2009]
MPEG-4 Network Migration: Solutions and Benefits
White Paper Telcos, cable operators, and satellite service providers can benefit from the resulting bandwidth efficiencies, and there is a growing trend toward increasing use of MPEG-4 services on digital networks. [15 Aug 2009]
'Completely unworkable': The plans to track your web habits
News The main telcos have found it difficult to standardise the format [of data] to hand over to law enforcement," said Hutty. Government proposals to monitor all web communications are technologically unworkable, according... [05 Aug 2009]
Businesses set to show fixed mobile convergence some love - finally
News FMC (fixed mobile convergence) might not have become the enterprise must-have that telcos predicted, but it seems the technology is slowly finding its way into businesses across the globe. While the technology has some... [04 Aug 2009]
Cheat Sheet: BT's £1.5bn fibre plans
Cheat Sheet According to Carter, there's a huge chunk of the UK that economically doesn't make sense for the telcos to start laying fibre to - they're too remote or too sparsely populated for there to be much return on investment... [14 Jul 2009]
£24m: The cost of tracking your emails and phone calls
News Home Office policing and security minister, David Hanson, told Parliament last week that millions are now being spent to fund ISPs', telcos' and mobile operators' retention of communications data under the European Data... [13 Jul 2009]
Inbox: ID cards U-turn: The end is nigh?
Comment Readers also weighed in on telcos being rather too well-represented in the list of worst companies for customer service and the question of whether Whitehall IT may be off to pastures new. The weekly Inbox column... [06 Jul 2009]
H.264 & IPTV Over DSL: Enabling New Telco Revenue Opportunities
White Paper Telcos need a competitive edge that leverages their industry-leading position with broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) technology to offer new services that effectively compete with cable and give them new revenue... [04 May 2009]
WiMAX Backhaul: No Longer Takes a Back Seat
White Paper It fits the strategy of incumbent Telcos, cable companies, satellite operators and broadband ISPs without a wireless play to extend their services in cities and rural areas. WiMAX is a versatile technology, enabling... [22 Apr 2009]
Cheat sheet: Digital Britain
Cheat Sheet Needless to say, with some telcos already planning connections of 50Mbps or more, commentators including silicon.com's own Peter Cochrane have pointed out how far behind the times the report seems already. [21 Apr 2009]
Who's monitoring your email?
News Privacy campaigner Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK on Monday that data preservation, in which ISPs and telcos retain the data of specific suspects rather than of all... [06 Apr 2009]
Orange 'on the hunt for BBC, ITV, C4 tech'
News Thomas added it's likely a number telcos would be keen to use the technology if it can provide a service comparable to the BBC's iPlayer. Orange is in talks to acquire the technology platform developed for the Kangaroo... [06 Apr 2009]
Cheap broadband will stop BT going fibre charge crazy
News According to Fogg, the advent of super-fast broadband could see some existing telcos struggle while new market entrants capitalise on the emergence of fibre. The watchdog today announced it will be imposing no price... [03 Mar 2009]
How to beat the downturn? Get on your mobile
News Telcos need to be able to understand the spending behaviour of consumers in order to weather the recession and design packages that are closely tailored to consumer needs. Governments should look to the telecoms sector... [18 Feb 2009]
