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Tue, Apr, 3 2007
Carphone Warehouse warned that its entry into the broadband market would continue to weigh on its profits over the coming year as it earmarked an additional investment of up to £15m yesterday to improve its customer service capability.

Tue, Apr, 3 2007
Over half of the adult population of the UK have access to broadband at home, according to statistics from Ofcom.

Fri, Mar, 23 2007
Wi-Next, an open-source Wi-Fi company, is to provide broadband access to the Italian region of Alta Langa for the first time as part of Europe’s largest ever wide-area Wi-Fi mesh project.

Fri, Mar, 23 2007
Red hot rumours that his Virgin Media, the former NTL cable group, is on the verge of forking out around £478m for Pipex Communications left the fixed-line telecommunications group

Thu, Mar, 22 2007
A BBC satisfaction survey has fingered white label provider Brightview as the UK's most customer-friendly broadband outfit.

Wed, Mar, 21 2007
Smaller business parks will not be put at a competitive disadvantage by a new fibre-optic network being rolled out across North Wales, it has been claimed.

Tue, Mar, 20 2007
From ASDL to ISP, all the terms explained

Mon, Mar, 19 2007
Virgin Media is launching one of the fastest broadband connections available on any network in the UK for just £2 extra per month. The double-speed broadband of 20Mb ups the speed on their conventional 10Mb broadband package by 100 per cent.

Fri, Mar, 16 2007
New research estimates that four out of five UK households will have broadband by 2010- increased uptake of IPTV also expected.

Thu, Mar, 15 2007
More than 40 per cent of UK customers are now signed up to 'unlimited' broadband, but many find their internet access is restricted by the small print in their 'Fair Usage Policies', uSwitch and SimplySwitch have warned.

Thu, Mar, 15 2007
Virgin Media customers could be enjoying broadband speeds of up to 20Mbps as early as May, the company has announced.

Tue, Mar, 13 2007
British ISP veteran Pipex looks set to be snapped by any of an array of larger broadband sharks set to circle the company.

Tue, Mar, 13 2007
The home-entertainment war will intensify this week when Virgin Media launches a campaign to retain customers disappointed by the loss of Sky channels from its packages.

Mon, Mar, 12 2007
The launch of a satellite which will provide the British armed forces with sophisticated new long-distance communications links has been postponed due to a technical glitch.

Thu, Mar, 8 2007
Research firm comScore Networks announced yesterday that 747 million people aged 15 and older used the internet worldwide in January 2007.

Wed, Mar, 7 2007
BT Ireland may resort to taking legal action against Eircom over the incumbent’s decision not to allow its bitstream customers a seamless transfer to local loop unbundling (LLU) under the new number portability system it has unveiled.

Wed, Mar, 7 2007
Next Generation broadband products for the last mile must be based on fibre, according to a report commissioned by Ofcom

Tue, Mar, 6 2007
A research study on behalf of comms regulator Ofcom has found that Wireless systems cannot compete on technology or cost grounds with optical fibre systems for the provision of broadband services to the user.

Mon, Mar, 5 2007
Across Western Europe there are one million users connected to a Fibre to the Home (FTTH) service according to vnunet.com.

Mon, Mar, 5 2007
Take-up of broadband services among European SMEs, including the UK, amounted to €5.7 billion (£3.9 billion) in 2006.

Thu, Mar, 1 2007
The main broadband figures indicate there were 78,100 net additions of broadband customers in the quarter. Virgin.net referred to in the report as the 'Off-net' business added 18,000 customers bringing its total to 260,800 connected via ADSL services.

Thu, Mar, 1 2007
There are now over one million fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband connections in Europe, according to an Informa report.

Wed, Feb, 28 2007
The software and mobile giants have teamed up to support more flexible working practices for more than a thousand home workers.

Wed, Feb, 28 2007
UK consumers are increasingly unhappy with the broadband internet services they receive from ISPs, research reported today.

Mon, Feb, 26 2007
Tiscali, which acquired TV and VoD provider Homechoice for around £50 million in August 2006, plans to extend it service beyond its existing London footprint


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