UK chancellor Philip Hammond is to announce that local authorities will be allowed to bid for part of a £740 million fund to trial super-fast 5G mobile networks in his Autumn Statement. The statement is set to be announced in full ...
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Premier League 2016/17 TV and Live Streaming Guide: We breakdown the best deals and cheapest packages across Sky Sports, BT Sports and Virgin Media to help you watch every match live on your TV, iPhone, iPad, Android device or PC. ...
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BT Sport and partner Timeline Television have implemented a high-speed data transfer and automation platform from Aspera for BT's live sport coverage. Aspera's fasp transfer solution and Orchestra workflow automation software were the ...
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BT has hit back against press criticism generated by the National Audit Office's report into the rising costs and delays that have affected the government's rural fibre-broadband rollout. The company says, in particular, that it has not ...
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Google has admitted it has its eyes on the money with Google Fiber, the company's 1Gbps fibre broadband business it's currently trialling in Kansas City. Speaking at the Fiber-to-the-Home Council meeting in Kansas City, vice president of ...
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The government needs to regulate high-speed broadband networks to end the dominance of BT, according to rival telecoms group TalkTalk. BT is currently responsible for rolling out the national broadband fibre network, which - according to ...
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Jason Stamper summarises the most recent technology results and deals announcements. Of those reporting in this period it is Cisco that's the bellwether, and its results should give a little encouragement to the sector as a whole. But not ...
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EE, the UK's first mobile network to launch 4G, has revealed that it has made a loss before tax of £249m in 2012. The loss is more than double the £113m it lost in 2011, while its annual revenue also reduced by 1.9 per cent ...
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BT has announced the next stage of its £2.5bn fibre broadband rollout, which will extend availability to a further 1.2 million premises. The company said 99 new fibre-enabled exchanges will bring fast broadband to 600,000 premises ...
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Revenues at BT Group dropped in the three months to 31 December 2012, according to a statement released today, but the firm still managed to produce a profit thanks to cost cutting and lower operating costs. The statement presented ...
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Work on the Welsh government's Superfast Cymru programme is under way, the Welsh business minister Edwina Hart has announced. The project looks to deliver high-speed and "world class" broadband access to 96 per cent of Welsh homes and ...
The idea that broadband projects face a struggle to find finance is a myth, according to the director general of non-profit organisation FTTH Council Europe, Hartwig Tauber. "Because of the financial crisis, people say there is no money ...
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BT is wrong to claim that the UK does not have the demand to justify rolling out a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) product nationally, according to the director general of the non-profit organisation FTTH Council Europe, Hartwig Tauber. The ...
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Plusnet is to launch a TV advertising campaign highlighting its new fibre offering. Plusnet, the home phone and broadband provider, has announced the launch of a new TV campaign, bringing to life its new fibre offering, which is eight ...
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Dido Harding, the CEO of TalkTalk, has called for regulatory intervention into the superfast broadband market in order to encourage greater competition. Speaking at the Huawei Broadband Forum, Harding said 95% of the fibre broadband ...
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