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BT to offer Britain 300 Mbps fibre optic broadband 'on demand' in 2013
Fibre optic broadband connections of up to 300 Megabits per second will be available on demand in 2013, BT says. That is three times the maximum 100 Mbps speed the company currently offers using the technology and it described the development as a “game changer”. According to Ofcom the current UK broadband average is 7.6 Mbps. To read [...]
Analysis: India ruling to trigger telecoms industry shakeout
Vodafone, for one, is wasting little time in capitalising on a blockbuster Indian court verdict that’s likely to shake up the world’s second-largest mobile phone market. Within hours of a Thursday ruling by India’s highest court that all licences awarded in a scandal-tainted 2008 sale be revoked, jeopardising the operations of a handful of smaller carriers, [...]
Vodafone set to abandon Greek merger plans
Telecoms giant Vodafone is set to abandon attempts to merge its Greek business with rival Wind Hellas over concerns that the deal would not meet EU regulations, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The likelihood of being able to agree a deal that was satisfactory for European regulators has diminished since the plans for a merger [...]
Spectrum Dinosaurs at the FCC: agency wants to pick the winners and losers before the bidding begins
The disconnect between technology and Washington is as vast as the gap between rotary phones and the latest iPad. First there was the clumsy SOPA legislation against online copyright piracy, killed by objections from Web companies and users. The latest disconnect is over whether Washington can free up enough bandwidth to keep smart phones and [...]
London Olympics could crash the internet, Cabinet Office warns
British businesses are being warned that they could lose their internet connections during the Olympics due to a surge in the number of people going online at key times. The demand could be such that internet companies might be forced to ration access, according to official advice. The warning, in the Cabinet Office’s official advice, Preparing [...]
AOL to transform Huffington Post into an Internet TV network
AOL is planning to launch a new streaming video network branded under its Huffington Post web news site, the company announced Thursday. The new network will feature live streaming video content 12 hours a day during the week from 9 a.m to 9 p.m. ET, according to a THR report. Founding Huffington Post editor Roy Sekoff [...]
EU planning sanctions against Iran telecoms sector
European Union governments could ban the sales of some telecommunications equipment to Iran in the coming months under plans for new sanctions discussed by EU experts in Brussels. EU diplomats said on Friday the bloc’s 27 governments have reached an agreement in principle to target equipment that could be used by the Iranian authorities for monitoring [...]
Apple widens patent claims against Samsung in Australia
Apple has widened its claims against Samsung in its ongoing patent battle with the company it was revealed in the NSW Federal Court today. Samsung lead barrister Neil Young SC said Apple had “enormously” expanded its patent bid which initially involved three patents of features in the Korean company’s Galaxy Tab 10.1. To read this report in [...]
Apple overturns Motorola's iPad and iPhone German sales bans
Apple has been granted a temporary suspension of a sales ban imposed on some of its products in Germany. Motorola Mobility had forced Apple to remove several iPad and iPhone models from its online store earlier today after enforcing a patent infringement court ruling delivered in December. An appeals court lifted the ban after Apple made a [...]
BT profits on broadband growth
BT accounted for over half of the UK’s new broadband subscribers in the last three months of 2011, as it indicated it would review its fibre broadband investment with a focus on getting businesses to pay for installation. The company won a 56% share of new retail broadband subscribers, adding 146,000 in three months to take [...]