UK average broadband speeds rise by a fifth to hit superfast level May 8, 2019 Average broadband speeds in UK households have jumped 20 per cent over the last year, according to new figures from Ofcom. The regulator said average speeds have passed the 50Mbps mark – one of the most commonly-available levels of superfast broadband – for the first time, after an 18 per cent surge to 54.2Mbps. Read [...]
City Moves for 8 May – Who’s switching jobs at Here East, Faraday Grid and Majedie Asset Management? May 8, 2019 Today's City Moves includes Here East, Faraday Grid and Majedie Asset Management. Here East Here East has appointed Louise Conolly-Smith as head of special projects (creative) with a focus on video games and e-sports for the tech and innovation campus. The move comes as Here East becomes home to a growing video games and e-sports cluster, [...]
Liverpool 4-0 Barcelona: Reds’ supporting cast come to the fore in stunning Champions League turnaround at Anfield May 7, 2019 Anfield has seen some famous nights, especially in European football, but this was special. Trailing 3-0 from the first leg, against one of Europe’s most prestigious, decorated and star-studded sides, Liverpool pulled off the biggest turnaround in Champions League semi-final history. Read more: Trevor Steven: The two factors that unite City and Liverpool Shorn of [...]
Virgin Media grows customer base amid superfast broadband rollout May 7, 2019 Virgin Media has posted a solid set of results for the first quarter as it focuses its efforts on a £3bn plan to rollout superfast broadband across the UK. Read more: Vodafone calls on German government to speed up fibre optic rollout The figures First-quarter revenue remained flat on the previous year at £1.3bn. Operating [...]
Huawei to build 400-person chip plant near Arm Holdings headquarters in Cambridge May 4, 2019 Huawei is planning to build a 400-person chip research and development factory in the centre of the UK's silicon chip industry, just outside of Cambridge. The Chinese telcoms group wants to develop the chips used in broadband networks at a base in Sawston, seven miles outside of Cambridge and just 15 minutes from Arm Holdings' headquarters, [...]
Which telecoms companies have the worst customer service? April 30, 2019 Talktalk has been named and shamed in a report into customer satisfaction at UK telecoms firms, ranking bottom of the table for the third year running. The latest report by regulator Ofcom revealed which broadband and phone companies have the most and least satisfied customers, based on the complaints it received last year. Read more: [...]
Shares in telecoms firm Kcom surge as it approves buyout deal April 24, 2019 Hull-based telecoms company Kcom has agreed to be taken over by a pension company for £504m, it announced today. Read more: London-listed broadband firm Kcom sees shares crash after profit warning Shareholders in Kcom will be entitled to receive 97p per share in the company under the terms of the takeover by the Universities Superannuation Scheme [...]
BT’s Italian accounting fraud linked to London, investigation reveals April 23, 2019 A criminal investigation into BT’s Italian division has uncovered a string of damning emails linking UK executives to alleged accounting fraud in the country. Emails seized by police and seen by Reuters appear to show that senior executives in the UK were involved in artificially inflating financial results for BT’s Italian business, despite the fact [...]
Which consumer survey reveals UK’s worst mobile network providers April 23, 2019 Vodafone has been ranked the UK’s worst mobile operator as big-name providers continue to lag behind their smaller rivals. Vodafone was rated the worst network, while O2 and EE completed the bottom three, according to the latest survey from consumer group Which. Read more: Vodafone broadband advert banned by watchdog for misleading consumers Virtual network [...]
Manchester City 4-3 Tottenham: Fernando Llorente and VAR the unlikely heroes on historic night for Spurs April 17, 2019 Manchester City’s dream of a quadruple is dead. And how. Amid an electric Etihad Stadium atmosphere, in a drama-packed, see-sawing Champions League classic it was one familiar hero – Son Heung-min – and two not so familiar ones – Fernando Llorente and the video assistant referee – who combined to give Mauricio Pochettino a night [...]