Income drops at Everything Everywhere July 25, 2012 BRITAIN’S biggest mobile operator Everything Everywhere saw income fall in the first half of the year as the Orange and T-Mobile owner invested in retaining customers and upgrading networks. Adjusted earnings decreased slightly to £673m, as revenues from calls and other services fell 1.8 per cent to £2.99bn due to an Ofcom-ordered cap on charges. [...]
4G high-speed mobile data to hit UK in 2013 July 24, 2012 TELECOMS regulator Ofcom yesterday said that the auction of licences to run fast 4G mobile networks will be held before the end of this year, enabling services to be rolled out by the middle of 2013. Countries such as the United States already have 4G networks offering high-speed mobile broadband connections capable of data-hungry tasks such [...]
Ofcom unveils 4G auction July 24, 2012 Telecoms regulator Ofcom has said that the auction of spectrum for 4G services will get under way by the end of the year, laying the path for the next-generation mobile services to be rolled out in 2013. The plans should see 4G services, which offer high-speed data speeds for mobile internet, reach at least 98 [...]
Currie to head antitrust body … July 17, 2012 FORMER Ofcom boss Lord Currie has been chosen as the first chair of the Competition and Markets Authority – the UK’s new antitrust regulator. Currie will earn £185,000 a year for the three-day a week commitment, serving as chair of the body for a four-year term beginning this summer. The CMA is part of the government’s [...]
Ofcom moves to cap BT’s wholesale prices July 5, 2012 TELECOMS giant BT could see its revenues suffer following yesterday’s proposal by Ofcom of price caps on its wholesale charges. The telecoms regulator wants to cap the fees BT charges for the lease of its telecom lines, which provide high-speed links for businesses, broadband providers and mobile services. The proposals follow a review by Ofcom, [...]
George Entwistle named the fifteenth BBC director general July 4, 2012 THE BBC yesterday appointed an insider as its new director general who will take the helm when Mark Thompson retires from the job later this year. George Entwistle, 49, pipped other front-runners Caroline Thomson, BBC chief operating officer, and Ed Richards, boss of Ofcom, to the post. Head since last year of BBC Vision, where [...]
Entwhistle named as new BBC director general July 4, 2012 The BBC named George Entwistle, currently director of vision, as its new director general on Wednesday. Entwistle will take up his new role in August from outgoing director general Mark Thompson but at a lower salary – 450,000 pounds a year as opposed to Thompson’s 671,000. Entwistle beat his BBC colleague and the corporation’s chief [...]
TalkTalk tops telco complaints table June 27, 2012 TALKTALK is again the most complained about telecoms provider, according to data published yesterday by Ofcom. The regulator said it is sent over 300 grumbles a day about telecoms services, which it publishes in a bid to promote competition and assist customers in choosing the right provider. In the first quarter of 2012, TalkTalk generated [...]
Murdoch’s plan to divide seen as a path to conquer June 26, 2012 THE Sky’s the limit once again for News Corporation. It took the first step in what looks like a bold new strategy to acquire the remaining 61 per cent of BSkyB yesterday. The media giant confirmed that it is “considering a restructuring to separate its business into two distinct publicly traded companies” – understood to [...]
BT Vision gamble might be costly June 26, 2012 Group’s football move must win customers from BSkyB BT VISION’S surprising capture of the rights to 38 live Premier League matches from the beginning of the season after next is described as “the largest thing we have done in television to date” by the group’s chief executive Marc Watson. The problem for BT Vision is [...]