The focus of the mobile industry of late has been ensuring the roll-out of 4G begins. However, with only one mobile network operator (MNO) capable of providing the faster network until at least the middle of next year, operators are always ...
Tags: mobile industry, MNO, faster network, 4G
IT services company Capita has purchased business travel company Expotel for £16m to "add reach and scale" to Capita's existing operations in the business travel market. The deal, which is on a cash-free, debt-free basis, will also ...
Tags: Capita, IT services, Salmat Speech Solutions, EXPOTEL
The majority of UK CIOs believe the work landline will be redundant within the next five years due to the rise in adoption of the smartphone. The figure was revealed in research from Virgin Media Business,which saw 500 CIOs questioned by ...
Tags: Smartphone, Landline, UK, Internet
Virgin Media, Vodafone and Everything Everywhere are refusing to sign up to a new code of conduct for internet service providers (ISPs) aimed at guaranteeing full and open access to the internet. Ten ISPs, including BT, O2 and Talk Talk, ...
Tags: Virgin Media, Vodafone, Everything Everywhere, internet service
Virgin Media posted a steady increase in sales for its second quarter of 2012, with total revenue up 4.2% to £1.03bn and business revenue up 9.8% to £166m, compared to the same period in 2011. Neil Berkett, CEO of Virgin ...
Tags: Virgin Media, superfast broadband, TV, broadband-related services
Communications supplier Virgin Media has revolutionised the way it trains staff through cloud-based learning supplier Cornerstone. Virgin Media was the result of the coming together of cable suppliers NTL and Telewest,which were ...
Tags: Virgin Media, cable suppliers, NTL, Telewest, Cornerstone service
A block on file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is proving ineffective, according to data from a top UK internet service provider (ISP). In May, the UK High Court ruled that UK ISPs must block access to The Pirate Bay site – but the 11% ...
Tags: file-sharing site, internet service, network, music-playing site
Regulator Ofcom says ISP TalkTalk and mobile operator 3 received more complaints than any of their rivals in the first quarter of 2012. In the latest quarterly report from Ofcom–which names and shames the worst customer offenders in ...
Tags: Ofcom, ISP TalkTalk, broadband, BT
Virgin Media today announced a new tariff to bring unlimited data to its customers. Named the Premiere tariff, it is akin to the One Plan from 3 and Full Monty from T-Mobile, offering unlimited mobile internet usage, alongside unlimited ...
Tags: Virgin Media, mobile internet, broadband, phone, mobile devices
Google and Amazon pay for faster connections Lack of transparency over traffic management EC could force net neutrality issue Consumers need to know about net management The questions of how to handle the growing amount of traffic on ...
Tags: Google and Amazon, transparency, EC, net neutrality issue