There are 17 articles written in August 2012
posted on 31 August 2012
Telecoms watchdog, Ofcom recently gave Everything Everywhere
permission to re-use the 1800MHz band for 4G services.
This will allow Orange and T-Mobile to deploy 4G related
services by the end of this year or early 2013, whilst their rivals
such as O2, Vodafone and Three would have to wait until late 2013
or early 2014 to launch simil... [read more]
posted on 30 August 2012
In the current economic climate this news will not be welcomed
by UK households who will have to pay higher prices to make calls
or use the internet in January.
However BT is adamant that it is doing all that it can to reduce
the impact of the changes and has promised to freeze prices until
2014.
"We'll be changing some price... [read more]
posted on 29 August 2012
Sky broadband said that their unlimited broadband service is now
available to 82 per cent of households as it announced that its
unbundled (LLU) network of UK telephone exchanges has hit the 2,000
mark but the roll-out will continue.
The village of Wraysbury in Berkshire officially became Sky's
2,000th exchange last week and it wants ... [read more]
posted on 28 August 2012
Inspired by Team GB's success, people used Virgin Media's new
WiFi service to re-live and share medal moments and check up on the
latest action.
Thanks to the successes of gold-medallists Bradley Wiggins as he
rode to victory and Helen Glover and
Heather Stanning's stunning rowing victory
Wednesday 1 August was the busiest day for the... [read more]
posted on 24 August 2012
As previously (the company applied the same scheme a year ago),
BT underlined that the new recruits would be ex-armed forces
members (i.e. former Royal Navy, British Army, RAF, Royal Air
Force etc).
The CEO of BTOpenreach, Olivia Garfield, said in
an accompanying statement:
"I'm delighted to be able to
recruit these extra engineers.... [read more]
posted on 23 August 2012
In case you didn't know the outcome of that rumour, we can
underline once more that it was proven to be false and just a
random "speculation".
Having said that, new gossip has surfaced, mainly that T-Mobile
and Orange are likely to have another sibling.
It has been said that EE was thinking of re-branding itself into
a 4G-cen... [read more]