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RSS wimax linksEC shies away from data-roaming regulation
News W is for WiMax Click on the links below to find out more… Speaking at a Westminster e-Forum on data roaming on Monday, Fabio Colasanti said the Commission was hesitant to impose a cap on the wholesale price of data usage while abroad, and said... [22 Jul 2008]
Enhancement of Video Streaming QoS With Active Buffer Management in Wireless Environments
White Paper With the emergence of high-speed wireless cellular networks, such as High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) or WiMAX, new services with a high bandwidth demand have been introduced. In contrast to wireline networks, the characteristics of... [18 Jul 2008]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News W is for WiMax 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 O2 was "not... [17 Jul 2008]
BT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News W is for WiMax Click on the links below to find out more. 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. [15 Jul 2008]
Law firm gets SaaSy with email security
Case Study W is for WiMax Click on the links below to find out more. 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. [15 Jul 2008]
Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News W is for WiMax 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 to a survey... [14 Jul 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study W is for WiMax 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. The construction division of Taylor Wimpey has... [10 Jul 2008]
WiMax - spreading to more UK businesses
News The spread of WiMax networks across the UK is continuing, with two providers announcing extensions of their business-oriented networks in the past week. On-Communications has said it has decided WiMax is the best technology for providing wireless... [10 Jul 2008]
UK business lacking high fibre diet
News W is for WiMax Click on the links below to find out more. The UK's business efficiency is being threatened by relatively slow broadband speeds, according to a report by the Communications Management Association. [07 Jul 2008]
Ofcom: Mobile broadband driving interest in fibre
News W is for WiMax Click on the links below to find out more. 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... [04 Jul 2008]
SMS roaming rates: Expect EC to force cuts
News W is for WiMax 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 W is for WiMax Click on the links below to find out more. 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. [02 Jul 2008]
Getting to the meeting - without the journey
Comment W is for WiMax 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 Femtocells could help speed the arrival of next generation mobile broadband networks - such as WiMax and LTE (long term evolution), the future roadmap of 3G. W is for WiMax Simon Saunders, chairman of the Femto Forum, explained: "As early adopters... [30 Jun 2008]
We are now roaming at 30,000 feet...
Comment W is for WiMax Click on the links below to find out more… Soon, even a window seat above the Atlantic will no longer be beyond the reach of the chirping mobile phone. What's the tech behind that change and just how welcome is it, asks Anthony Plewes. [26 Jun 2008]
