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News W is for WiMax F is for Fibre But not everyone is happy with the dongle experience. Results from YouGov's DongleTrack report show while the majority (64 per cent) of mobile broadband users are buying dongles or datacards as an accessory to fixed... [20 Aug 2008]
£68m 'snooping' database: Little impact on serious crime
News W is for WiMax F is for Fibre Home Office proposals for phone, email and internet records - including VoIP - to be kept for 12 months are expected to cost taxpayers up to £68m to set up and £39m per year to run. [13 Aug 2008]
Companies urged not to ban Facebook
News W is for WiMax F is for Fibre Instead businesses should view employee participation as part of the "social experience" and develop policies to make sure they're used responsibly. Broadband from A to Z [08 Aug 2008]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News W is for WiMax O2 is considering investing in its own fibre-to-the-home network but wants to wait until Ofcom changes telecommunications regulation before it makes an investment. Following BT's Tuesday announcement that it was to plough £1.5bn into... [17 Jul 2008]
BT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News W is for WiMax F is for Fibre The plans aim to give 10 million UK homes fibre access by 2012 with bandwidth of up to 100Mbps - and potentially up to 1,000Mbps in the future. These measures include removing barriers to investment and making sure... [15 Jul 2008]
Law firm gets SaaSy with email security
Case Study W is for WiMax F is for Fibre International law firm Ashurst LLP has turned to web-based email management to help drastically reduce spam and free up time for its tech team. Ashurst has been using technology from email management specialist... [15 Jul 2008]
Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News W is for WiMax F is for Fibre 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 to a survey by price comparison website... [14 Jul 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study W is for WiMax F is for Fibre 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. The construction division of Taylor Wimpey has embraced software as a service... [10 Jul 2008]
UK business lacking high fibre diet
News W is for WiMax F is for Fibre Although the backbone of the UK's broadband infrastructure is being upgraded to fibre, the current impasse over the provision of fibre access - or next-generation access (NGA) - to homes and businesses is preventing... [07 Jul 2008]
Ofcom: Mobile broadband driving interest in fibre
News W is for WiMax The rapid take-up of mobile broadband could help spur the arrival of super-fast fibre broadband networks in the UK, says telecoms regulator Ofcom, which has set out plans for a pro-investment regulatory framework that will guarantee... [04 Jul 2008]
Skype touts biz credentials
News W is for WiMax F is for Fibre According to Skype research, 30 per cent of its 309 million users use it for work and the company is trying to shed the perception of it being just a consumer tool. Broadband from A to Z [02 Jul 2008]
ISPs face fresh threat from file-sharing laws
News W is for WiMax F is for Fibre But the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) has hit back, warning the government that legislation could result "in cumbersome regulation". Malcolm Wicks, business, enterprise and regulatory reform minister... [18 Jun 2008]
Thin clients switch on digitally excluded
Case Study W is for WiMax F is for Fibre A project to tackle digital exclusion in socially deprived regions of Merseyside has brought free plug-and-play internet access to hundreds of homes with children of school age. [17 Jun 2008]
Stolen music still big with MP3 generation
News W is for WiMax F is for Fibre Record industry artist and publisher group, British Music Rights (BMR), claims the average 14- to 24-year-old now has almost 900 illegal tracks each on their MP3 players. [16 Jun 2008]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment W is for WiMax F is for Fibre The same upbeat tone runs through the Ofcom report - the source of the story (covered here by silicon.com). When broadband was first introduced in the UK in 2000, households in urban areas were the first to take the... [23 May 2008]
