Telecoms

Three Owner Hutchison Whampoa ‘In Talks’ To Buy O2

Hutchison Whampoa is reportedly in early stage talks to purchase O2, mimicking a similar takeover in Ireland

9 years ago

Virgin Media, Sky And O2 Offer ‘Best’ Customer Service

Regulator Ofcom publishes latest customer service satisfaction survey

9 years ago

Vodafone Expands 4G Roaming To 40 Countries

Vodafone expands roaming offering as Citizens Advice Bureau warns of growing risk of bill shock from lost and stolen mobile…

9 years ago

Vodafone To Let Firms Combine MDM Services With Total Managed Mobility

Vodafone aims to reduce the cost and complexity of managing different device types and operating systems

9 years ago

BT To Decide O2 And EE Takeover Plans Within ‘Ten Days’

BT board reportedly discusses mobile operator takeovers but has not yet made its decision

9 years ago

Red Hat, Huawei Partner On OpenStack For NFV

The two tech vendors see the OpenStack solution as an ideal platform for telecommunications vendors that want to bring NFV…

9 years ago

Three Says 3.1m Customers Are Now Using 4G

Three 4G now available to 48 percent of the country with a third of customers now using LTE

9 years ago

NHS Trust Gets More Efficient With Vodafone Patient Mobile Platform

District nurses can spend more time with patients thanks to Vodafone deployment which reduces amount of travelling and paperwork

9 years ago

EE Micro Networks To Connect 1,500 Rural Communities To 4G

Micro networks connect villages to EE service without cables, making it easier and cheaper to bring 4G to villages

9 years ago

Vodafone Blames ‘Human Error’ For Handing News UK Phone Records To Police

ICO investigates after Vodafone accidentally sends more than a thousand phone records to the Met who wanted details of just…

9 years ago

Are Mobile Phones Really Replacing Landlines?

Brits use their mobile phones at home more than anywhere else, but older people still prefer landlines

9 years ago

EE Owners Confirm Sale Talks With BT

BT is also reportedly in talks with Telefonica regarding possible sale of O2

9 years ago

BT Provides Telefonica With Exit Strategy To Avoid Quad-Play Wars

OPINION: AS the UK communications market becomes increasingly converged, not all can profit from the trend towards quad-play

9 years ago

EE And O2 Offer Channel Tunnel 4G

EE and O2 rollout LTE under the sea, but Vodafone and Three left out for now

9 years ago

EE Buzzard 2 Offers Simpler In-Car 4G

EE hopes Buzzard 2 will attract more users to its in-car 4G service

9 years ago

Which? Wants More Accurate Broadband Advertising

Consumer watchdog says many 'up to' broadband speeds can only be delivered to 10 percent of customers

9 years ago

TalkTalk Replaces Vodafone With O2 4G MVNO Deal

TalkTalk says new MVNO partnership will boost business and consumer mobile services and could let it create hybrid mobile network…

9 years ago

Ofcom: UK 4G Average Of 15.1Mbps Is Twice As Fast As 3G

Ofcom tests 4G and 3G speeds in Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and Manchester, with EE leading the way in speed…

9 years ago

CityFibre Provides EE And Three With Dark Fibre Backhaul

EE and Three to benefit from backhaul in Hull, but CityFibre agreement provides scope for rest of the country

9 years ago

TalkTalk Adds More Broadband Customers As B2B, Mobile And TV Demand Grows

TalkTalk says it is well placed to take advantage of 'quad-play' consumer demand and small business growth

9 years ago

Mobile Operators Defiant As Government Details National Roaming Plans

The UK's major mobile operators say national roaming network won't solve rural notspots as the government launches a new consultation

10 years ago

How Etisalat Misr Combines Cloud And Marketing To Drive Business Growth

Mobile telecommunications company’s personalised data-driven marketing approach is increasing revenue while delivering unique customer experiences

10 years ago

Embedded Apple SIM In iPad Air 2 Is ‘Challenge’ To Operators

Apple has included a software SIM card in the iPad Air 2, potentially changing the way users select data plans

10 years ago

Liverpool Has The Best Mobile Service In The UK

Research from RootMetrics shows Northern and Midland cities outperform the capital

10 years ago

How AT&T Is Helping To Overcome A Hurricane

We take a trip to AT&T’s national disaster recovery centre to learn how to get a devastated area back on…

10 years ago

BT Next Generation Text Relay Service To Make Real Time Communications More Accessible

BT Next Generation Text offers superior real time communications for those with speech and hearing impairments on Android, iOS and…

10 years ago

Ofcom: UK Adults Consuming More 4G, Fibre, VoIP And Public Wi-Fi

Ofcom Communications Market Report says smartphones, 4G and superfast broadband are encouraging the use of VoIP and public Wi-Fi services

10 years ago

Vodafone Agrees Fibre Sharing Deal With Portugal Telecom

Vodafone Portugal expands fibre reach to strengthen quad play and unified communications services

10 years ago

BT Returns To Mobile With One Phone Unified Communications For SMBs

One Phone unified communications service signals start of major BT mobile push

10 years ago

New Three SIM-Only Deals Offer Free 0800 Calls And Up to 4GB Tethering

New Three SIM-only tariffs offer spending caps and cheaper calls to non-geographic numbers

10 years ago