Yesterday, the chancellor of the exchequer stood at the dispatch box in the House of Commons to present his autumn statement to the UK. Much debate has occurred in the past 24 hours over the real term cuts to benefits, dropping the fuel ...
Tags: chancellor of the exchequer, fuel tax, 4G spectrum auction, broadband
BT will cut the wholesale cost of its "ultra-fast" 330Mbit/s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) by over a third. From June 2013, the service aimed at small to medium-sized businesses will drop from £60 a month to £38 a month. That ...
Leeds and Bradford have signed a deal with Virgin Media Business to get free public Wi-Fi as part of the government' super-connected cities scheme. The high performance Wi-Fi service will be open to all, and operated for Virgin Media ...
Tags: Leeds, Bradford, Wi-Fi, Virgin Media
Tom Baker, head of ICT at Sunderland City Council, has an office in the council's datacentre. It is not a bad place to have an office because the datacentre has been somewhat rejuvenated, thanks in part to modern IT that takes up far less ...
Tags: Interview, ICT, datacentre, commercial IT, cloud computing infrastructure
Virgin Media has signed a deal with EE and Vodafone to allow their customers to use its Wi-Fi network on the London Underground. Virgin Media offered free Wi-Fi on the London Underground in summer 2012 for anyone travelling through the 72 ...
Tags: Virgin Media, Wi-Fi, EE, Vodafone, London Underground
The schedule for the long-awaited, and much-delayed 4G spectrum auction has been finalised by communications regulator Ofcom, and could see further 4G services becoming available by next May. Mobile operators O2 and Vodafone are expected ...
Virgin Media Business will provide free citywide Wi-Fi to citizens of Leeds and Bradford after winning the first contract to offer the service outside London. The deal means Virgin will provide free mobile internet to 1.2 million people ...
Tags: Virgin, Leeds and Bradford, citywide free WiFi, small cell transmitters
Vodafone has claimed that mobile operators need help in tackling a "backhaul bottleneck" in order to roll out a successful 4G network. At a Westminster e-forum event today, Vodafone's head of regulatory affairs, Matthew Braovac, argued ...
Tags: Computer, Products, Successful
Facebook has been carrying out trials with local businesses, exchanging free Wi-Fi for check-ins on the social network. The project is called Social Wi-Fi and sees Facebook offer a small number of firms routers and free Wi-Fi if they ...
Tags: Facebook, Wi-Fi, social network, routers
The head of BT's broadband division has defended itself against claims of favouritism when it comes to the awarding of Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) contracts. Questions arose about BT's dealings with the national scheme, which will see ...
Tags: broadband, BDUK contracts, BT, Fujitsu
BT and Virgin Media have each submitted complaints to the European Commission (EC) about plans for a state-funded broadband network in Birmingham. The City Council was awarded the money for the project after applying to the Urban ...
Virgin Media has announced sales of just under £1.03bn for the third quarter of 2012, despite issues in its mobile division. The figure was a 2.8% rise compared to the £1bn it recorded in the same period last year, whilst ...
Tags: Virgin Media, cable, broadband, Wi-Fi
Virgin Media has confirmed its Wi-Fi service on the London Underground will remain free until the end of 2012. The wireless connections, which are now available in 72 tube stations, were only meant to be free for the duration of the ...
Tags: Virgin Media, Wi-Fi service, London Underground, wireless connections
CIOs will look to new manufacturers for their work mobiles over the next five years, leaving behind the traditional default of Research in Motion (RIM), according to a new study published by Virgin Media Business today. The study showed ...
Tags: CIOs, BlackBerry, new manufacturers, Research in Motion
Identity and access management firm Enline has revealed the details of the security solution underpinning Virgin Media's new Wi-Fi service on the London Underground. The service itself went live in 72 stations by the time the Olympics ...