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CIO Job Report: June's job moves and CIOs wanted
News Virgin Atlantic's CIO, Mike Cope, has left the company following the integration of the airline's IT and finance departments. Prior to joining TalkTalk, Cooper was chief technology and operations officer at... [30 Jun 2009]
BT tops terrible customer service poll
News Fourth place goes to cable TV, broadband and telephony company Virgin Media, with mobile retailer Carphone Warehouse in fifth place, and mobile operators Vodafone and O2 in sixth and... [30 Jun 2009]
UK mobiles getting just a quarter of pledged speed
News The report covered mobile broadband providers including O2, 3, Orange, T-Mobile, Virgin Media and Vodafone. The average mobile-broadband download speed in the UK is... [11 Jun 2009]
Virgin Trains completes wi-fi rollout one year late
News Virgin Trains has completed the rollout of wi-fi on its Pendolino trains operating between London and Scotland, more than a year later than originally planned. When the project was announced back in September 2006,... [29 Apr 2009]
The Video Virgin Phenomenon
White Paper It needs to build on the very nature of the mobile medium and allow individuals to communicate and share their experiences while on the move. At the very heart of the mobile experience is the fact that... [14 Mar 2009]
CIO Jury: Businesses need netbooks
News Mike Cope, IT director, Virgin Atlantic Airways The real question is whether the technology itself is capable of performing and meeting the requirements of the mobile business user. However, the idea of... [10 Mar 2009]
Cheap broadband will stop BT going fibre charge crazy
News While mobile broadband may be no competition for fibre, BT is not without its rivals in super-fast broadband: Virgin has already started offering an up to 50 Mbps service, and some smaller operators have... [03 Mar 2009]
The Road to Success When Simulations Fail: A Thoughtful Look at Finding the Good in Simulation Failure
White Paper Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group of Companies, which boasts airlines, hotels, mobile phone services, and more among its entities, claims, "One always have to prepare for the worst-case... [12 Feb 2009]
BT's wi-fi router turns biz into hotspots
News V is for Virgin As with all BT Openzone hotspots, those created using the new business hub are open to use by existing Openzone customers, BT Business customers with a mobile broadband service, and... [10 Feb 2009]
Dongle power users will be booted off 3G first
News V is for Virgin As operators start looking at deploying a successor to their 3G networks, power users could be among the first to be shifted onto higher speed mobile networks. Operators' roadmaps to LTE... [06 Feb 2009]
High fibre, high investment and high speeds
News Virgin hits top speed As the year closed, Virgin Media announced a speed bump for its users, offering broadband speeds of up to 50Mbps for £51 per month using a mixture of fibre and coaxial cable. While... [29 Dec 2008]
ISPs agree to 'honesty code' of broadband speeds
News Signatories include the biggest ISPs, such as Virgin Media, Sky, BT, Be Broadband, O2 (both Home and Business), Orange Home, Tiscali and TalkTalk. In the light of mobile broadband's rapid rise, however,... [05 Dec 2008]
Ericsson-STMicroelectronics match gets EC seal of approval
News V is for Virgin The European Commission on Thursday officially approved an Ericsson-STMicroelectronics joint venture to provide wireless platforms for handsets and semiconductors for mobile communications. [28 Nov 2008]
IPTV: Telcos' secret weapon against mobile broadband
News V is for Virgin Analyst house Analysys believes the proportion of mobile-only homes in the UK will continue to rise - it recently predicted around one-quarter of broadband homes will be pulling the plug... [27 Nov 2008]
Satellite tech keeps tabs on Cornwall's rubbish
News V is for Virgin Isbell added the council is looking to extend the system to work on mobile devices as well adding the Greenerfleet application which provides information on the carbon footprint of... [13 Nov 2008]
