August 2012 news

There are 17 articles written in August 2012

O2 set to challenge early deployment of superfast 4G

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]

BT Broadband and Phone prices to go up in January 2013

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]

Sky aims to expand unbundled broadband network reach in UK

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]

Virgin Media WiFi delivers 8 million golden moments on the Underground during London Olympics

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]

BT to recruit extra 400 engineers to speed up UK fibre invasion

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]

Everything Everywhere to launch a 4G-centric brand

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]

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