Posted by Simon Perry on 25 October 2007 | Tagged as: Distribution, UK, Broadband
The UK Post Office is joining the ever increasing number of organisations that is offering broadband to the UK public.
To make their offering different they’re planning to leverage their 14,000 post offices (currently at this level, but reducing each time they close one), to take cash for the broadband service - claiming to be the […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 8 October 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Broadband, Wireless
Burger beasts try and nudge the brand upmarket with free Wi-Fi.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 8 October 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Europe, Vodafone, Broadband
Mobile giant gets its hands on broadband networks in Italy and Spain.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 24 September 2007 | Tagged as: Distribution, Wireless, Networking
Business use of wi-fi increased hugely, with London leading the pack
Posted by Simon Perry on 5 September 2007 | Tagged as: Services, Mobile, Industry Trends, Infrastructure
The ITU claims there were nearly four billion phone subscribers worldwide by the end of 2006.
In their “Trends in Telecomm- unication Reforms” report, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) said this figure was made up of fixed and mobile connections, with the largest growth in mobile.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 23 August 2007 | Tagged as: Ofcom (UK super-regulator), Business, UK, Broadband, Mobile, Research
Today Ofcom have released their yearly Communications Market report, covering fixed and mobile telecoms, TV, radio and Internet use.
It’s a massive collection of information and statistics running to 332 pages, covering the habits and preferences of the UK population during 2006.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 10 August 2007 | Tagged as: Distribution, UK, Broadband, Networking, Infrastructure
Solwise are celebrating their recent PlugFest certification by dropping the price of their HomePlug AV.
Posted by Simon Perry on 18 July 2007 | Tagged as: Distribution, News In Brief, USA, Mobile, Wireless, Networking
iPhone’s appear to be taking out chunks of the wireless network at Duke University in the US.
We won’t get all technical on you by delving in to the tech-laden reasons as to why it _might_ be happening - they still don’t know how it is happening for sure - but the upshot of it is […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 18 July 2007 | Tagged as: News In Brief, Germany, Business, Shift to Web delivery, Broadband, UK, Gaming
We nearly fell off our chairs when we saw the Independent reporting that Virgin-backed games company, A World Of My Own (AWOMO) were hoping to list for $1Bn in London and Frankfurt.
The Big Idea is that people will use the 3D world of AWOMO to download their games.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 16 July 2007 | Tagged as: Japan, 3G, Broadband, Mobile, Cellular
3G is a bit old hat in Japan. It’s been available commercially there since 2001 thanks to the dominant mobile provider there, NTT DoCoMo.
On Friday, NTT DoCoMo started talking to the world about where they see the standard evolving to. Named in an almost 1970s tribute - Super 3G, has a anticipated maximum download speed […]
