EE extends headstart by rolling out 4G service in 17 more cities December 13, 2012 THE UK’S biggest mobile network operator, EE, will double the number of cities that its 4G service covers next spring. The move will extend the company’s headstart on Vodafone and O2, which will not be able to launch their own high-speed mobile internet services until early summer. EE said yesterday it would bring 4G to an [...]
This year buy tech gifts that will last December 12, 2012 Attacknid combat robot £49.99 This beast is sure to get more attention on Christmas morning than any other gift. With eight moving legs and an independently operated, foam disc-firing turret, it is as close to Robot Wars as most people are ever going to get. Realistically, it will probably end up in a cupboard by [...]
BT to sell $183m stake in India’s Tech Mahindra December 11, 2012 BT is selling its 9.1 per cent stake in Tech Mahindra in a deal expected to raise about $183m (£113m) and see the British telecoms operator exit an Indian IT services group it co-founded more than two decades ago. The Tech Mahindra shares are being sold at a floor price of 855 rupees ($15.68), according [...]
Sky comes out on top in survey December 4, 2012 Sky has come ahead of rivals BT and Virgin Media in a consumer satisfaction survey conducted by Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator. The company was voted best in the landline, broadband, and pay-TV categories. In a survey of mobile networks, O2 came far ahead of the competition, followed by Three and T-Mobile, then Orange. Vodafone was [...]
Virgin Media in plea to modify internet fund December 2, 2012 AN OVERHAUL of the government’s multi-million pound superfast broadband initiative could be on the cards under Maria Miller, the new culture secretary. Virgin Media is today writing to Miller with a list of recommendations for the government’s criticised £150m urban broadband fund – which was set up by George Osborne to boost internet speeds for [...]
BT in Olympic park move November 29, 2012 BT yesterday announced plans to set up the headquarters of its new sports channel BT Sport at the Olympic park in East London after inking a ten-year deal with bosses to rent studios in the grounds of the iconic stadium. BT will start redeveloping the site – which housed 28,000 journalists during the Olympics – [...]
Who’s switching jobs November 28, 2012 Aviva Phil Pavitt has been appointed to the role of IT transformation director at the insurance group. He joins from HMRC, where he was general director of change. Pavitt has also held chief information officer positions at Centrica, Virgin Media and BT. MasterCard Will Judge has been appointed vice president for travel and transit. He [...]
BT makes plans to appeal Sky’s controversial sports pricing win November 27, 2012 BT has announced plans to appeal a controversial competition ruling over the price Sky is able to charge other broadcasters for its sports channels. The telecoms company said it had asked permission to challenge August’s decision from the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), which stopped Ofcom from forcing Sky to lower the prices it can charge [...]
Superfast network keeps Hull internet provider KCOM in line November 27, 2012 YORKSHIRE-BASED telecoms company KCOM said “strong demand” for its superfast “fibre” broadband service had enabled profits to remain steady despite a fall in revenues. The company, which announced plans to treble its fibre network, posted a 4.7 per cent reduction in revenues to £188.7m in the half-year to October, which it blamed on “challenging conditions”. [...]
YouView sued by Yorkshire telecoms group in trademark name dispute November 26, 2012 YOUVIEW, the internet-connected set top TV box company backed by BT and the BBC, has been sued in the High Court for trademark infringement, and may have to face a hefty payout or change its name. The lawsuit, from Yorkshire-based telecoms firm Total, comes after YouView lost an appeal to have its name trademarked. Two [...]