High speed internet access has become as essential as water and electricity in the EU, claims Tim Johnson, chief analyst at broadband research specialists, Point Topic .
He said:
“Broadband is going to be on a par with water and electricity in terms of how much people need it and how much difference it makes to their lives.
“It is a major utility – the home which hasn’t got it will be seriously positioned.”
The target is for the whole of the EU to have access to super fast broadband at home by…
Selina Moses - 3 December 2012 | comments. Read more
Most people have become used to being able to access email and websites whilst waiting for the train.
Virgin Media have signed up EE and Vodafone as wholesale partners for its Wi-Fi service on London’s underground, so EE, Vodafone and Virgin Media customers will continue to be able to stay connected underground for free.
Virgin Media offered free Wi-Fi access to its public Wi-Fi network in the London underground. Originally this was just going to be free during the 2012 Olympic Games, but in October, Virgin Media announced that it was…
Helen Christie - 22 November 2012 | comments. Read more
PKTMNY, a digital money account for children is being launched today.
This digital pocket money account aims to help children learn about money management in a safe and secure way.
Children will have their own account which will let them check the balance of their card, although parents will have full control over the account.
Parents of 8 – 16 year olds will be able to top up a pre-paid debit card, but will be able to limit how much their children can spend and where. The Visa card will be contactless…
Helen Christie - 15 November 2012 | comments. Read more
BT is planning to simplify its product range by adding some and taking some away. Smooth move, says Broadbandwatcher.
By March 2014, BT plans to have shrunk its FTTP product range from 10 to 5. This means that packages which include speeds such as 40Mbps downloads and 15Mbps uploads, 100Mbps downloads and 15Mbps uploads, 110Mbps downloads and 15Mbps uploads, 100Mbps downloads and 30Mbps uploads as well as 330Mbps downloads and 20Mbps uploads are going to be no more.
This leaves the following to be in full operation (by ascending speeds):
- 40Mbps…
Edita Lozovska - 26 October 2012 | comments. Read more
Excited to get 4G? Who wouldn’t be? Now the time has come to find out how much does it cost. Yes friends, EE (T-Mobile and Orange) has revealed the pricing for its fourth generation mobile broadband offers.
Under a specific branding 4GEE, the services will start from £30 and £36 for business clients (SME – small to medium enterprises, larger companies will pay an additional £3 on top) and consumers respectively.
For £30 SMEs can expect services such as 1GB of data per month, 1,000 minutes and 1,000 texts per month….
Edita Lozovska - 23 October 2012 | comments. Read more
Life online is dangerous these days. Computer security firm, McAfee, has reported that in Q2 various types of malware have been popping up just like mushrooms after the rain.
To be exact, as many as 1.5m fresh and never seen before malware types have been constructed by cyber attackers in the second quarter of this year. The firm stated that this was the highest number since 2008.
McAfee also said that Mac owners too should start being wary seeing as the number of Mac OS attacks grew during the quarter –…
Geoff Slaughter - 14 September 2012 | comments. Read more
Good news comes from Virgin Media as it officially hit one of its most anticipated targets – the one million TiVO customers milestone.
This means the company installed its digital television services in more than 250,000 homes during the second quarter of 2012.
Meanwhile, 1.3m homes are currently enjoying superfast broadband of 30Mbps and above. During Q2 Virgin Media added 459,800 new fibre broadband customers to its cable network.
Neil Berkett, CEO of Virgin Media, said:
“This has been a quarter of improved revenue and OCF growth. We are well placed to benefit…
Edita Lozovska - 24 July 2012 | comments. Read more
Time for some good business news.
O2 Wholesale has just penned papers with both Timico, which is a successful business broadband supplier, as well as QiComm, a telecommunications provider.
This will expand the list of services that the companies will be able to deliver.
Timico, for instance, who is no stranger to having partnerships with O2 in the past, will get the key to the door of Ethernet services as well as the possibility of basing its products on O2Wholesale’s unbundled broadband (LLU) network.
Meanwhile, QiComm will use it to expand its fixed,…
Geoff Slaughter - 17 July 2012 | comments. Read more
According to the European Union, Google may have been abusing its high if not completely dominant position and has until early July to rethink its business strategy.
The EU demanded that the firm published a document which would reveal ways the search giant would alter its current policies.
Joaquin Almunia, the EU Competition Commissioner, sent a letter to the company less than a month ago saying that the EU’s investigation found that Google was unrightfully giving its own products priority over its competitors’ services. The aforementioned in-depth investigation into Google’s practices…
Geoff Slaughter - 8 June 2012 | comments. Read more
According to recent reports, TalkTalk took a difficult decision which can potentially cost 390 employees their jobs in favour to set up another 450 vacancies, elsewhere.
The ISP hopes that the move to relocate the call centre should make operating the business more straight-forward and simplified.
TalkTalk also took the opportunity to underline that it saw its customer services lines phone far less clogged up with complaints and queries, however, according to Ofcom’s calculations, the ISP was still at the bottom of its list getting roughly 0.61 complaints per 1000 customers…
Edita Lozovska - 24 April 2012 | comments. Read more
