Competition concerns in Europe are putting the brakes on the UK’s roll-out of superfast broadband, the Government has complained. It said that EC competition watchdogs are holding up the process because they are unwilling to allocate infrastructure-building grants, as BT is the only company that is willing to take on the job. The European authorities
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Businesses are being urged to get serious about customers who call in after recent research suggested that many are not willing to wait on hold. The study by PH Media found that if customers have to wait for 30 seconds or more, businesses are at risk of losing calls and possibly sales. This is significant
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Ofcom has updated some of the proposals in its Business Connectivity Market Review consultation, launched to review competitiveness in the leased lines services market. The consultation review was published on 18 June 2012 and whilst the telecommunications authority is still considering all the responses it has received so far, it has also decided to make
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Newcastle is the latest place to enjoy the new fourth generation mobile service, 4G, after it was launched in the city on 4 December. The new superfast mobile technology has been installed through operator Everything Everywhere (EE), who selected Newcastle to benefit as part of its second-wave roll-out of its service. The first wave received
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IT executives claim that one of the biggest issues facing their data centres is the need for more network bandwidth. The findings were made during a study by Emulex, who spoke to 1,529 executives in Europe and North America. They claimed that there is more pressure than ever to increase bandwidth to their data centres.
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Businesses and residents of the Cambridge area have been signing a petition in their thousands to try to speed up broadband connections in the region. The latest figures show that a remarkable 13,000 signatures have been collected on the petition demanding fast broadband connections for the majority of businesses and homes by 2015. The campaign,
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The government looks set to miss one of its key targets for delivering superfast broadband this year, leaving some remote areas struggling with their connectivity. Reports from the Financial Times reveal that the timetable for local authorities seeking to use the government procurement process for rural broadband project has been set back by three months
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A Brighton conference centre is being revamped in a bid to attract more business customers. The Brighton Centre has invested £1 million in business-friendly features such as restaurants, revamped audtitoria, projectors and plasma screens. A 30Mbps leased line fibre internet connection has also been installed and will provide free Wi-Fi for delegates. The first phase
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Ofcom has proposed to introduce measures to make the cost of leased lines cheaper for businesses. The telecoms watchdog plans to impose limits on the wholesale prices BT can charge for products using leased lines. The move follows Ofcom’s Business Connectivity Market Review, published last month, which suggested that BT has significant power in the
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Council and business leaders have welcomed the news that Norwich is to get faster broadband. BT will this year roll out high-speed fibre broadband to an additional 23,500 Norfolk homes and businesses. The move should make upload and download speeds for residents and firms significantly faster, BT says. Brenda Arthur, leader of Norwich City Council,
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Hertfordshire County Council has urged residents to get behind a campaign to make superfast broadband available across the region. The council already has government funding in place to improve broadband speeds in the county. However, it is urging residents to show that the demand for faster speeds is there by logging on to a dedicated
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The UK is lagging behind when it comes to super-fast broadband, new figures have suggested. According to the European Commission’s new Digital Agenda Scoreboard, published earlier this week, just 1.1 per cent of UK fixed-line broadband connections are able to deliver 100Mbps or faster. The report assessed how well EU countries are doing when it
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Ofcom has launched a new consultation on the regulation of leased lines. The proposals aim to meet increasing demand for fast data services from UK businesses, mobile operators, internet providers and consumers. The Business Connectivity Market Review looks at the £2 billion wholesale market for leased lines used by businesses and mobile and broadband operators
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A new report from mobile device manufacturer, Ericsson, predicts that the number of mobile devices in circulation will exceed the population of the Earth within five years. The number of mobile subscriptions is set to rise from the current number of 6.2 billion, to 9 billion by 2017. By this point, the Earth’s population will
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The £2.5 billion superfast broadband network will be left empty if more competition is not stimulated in the market, according Talk Talk. The ISP’s chief executive, Dido Harding, claims that the current high prices charged by BT make using the cables installed by BT too expensive for many providers. She claims that the use of
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London businesses with leased line connectivity may be better prepared for dealing with the impact of the London Olympics come July, in light of warnings that some businesses could experience slower connections around that time. A recent article on think broadband.com responded to warnings from the Cabinet Office that internet access may have to be
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The Canary Islands government has announced it is installing broadband internet connection to remote areas around the collection of seven islands. The government currently uses a leased line network solution for its internet connection, but the new service would provide broadband connections of at least 3 Mbps.The 3Mbps minimum speed was necessary due to the
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All business delegates attending an event at the Brighton Centre will now have access to free high-speed Wi-Fi via a new leased line fibre internet connection. The Brighton Centre has recently undergone a £1 million renovation to bring it up to standard in terms of its business amenities for those attending conferences and other events.
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Businesses that rely on fast internet speeds and mobile networks should think about taking measures to protect their networks, through the use of leased lines for example, before the Olympics this summer. This is the advice coming from the government, which has published a new PDF document on the official Games website, outlining the threats
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Virgin leased line, cable and ADSL broadband customers experienced problems connecting to the internet on the evening of 17 January due to a ‘routing hardware issue’. The broadband giant issued a statement shedding some light on the situation after customers took to social networking boards to vent their frustrations about the outage. The frustration grew
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Robert Roberts and its subsidiary Findlaters have upgraded their IT system to include a virtualisation and recovery system in order to reduce the risk it is exposed to. The tea, coffee, wine and spirits distributer hopes that its investment will help with disaster recovery, therefore reducing business risk and improve up-time and availability. Robert Roberts’
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Recently shut down uploading site, Megaupload, has been found to have been a massive consumer of bandwidth compared with some similarly popular file sharing services. Megaupload was shut down by the FBI after seven associates of the site were found to be involved in “widespread online copyright infringement." The site has long been a popular
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Two major German telecoms firms are joining forces to share networks going forward. Under the new agreement, Deutsche Telekom will lease parts of its network infrastructure to Telefónica Germany under a leased line deal. This will see Deutsche Telekom using fibre optics to connect to some 2,000 of Telefónica’s concentration points as part of a
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Thousands of businesses and homes in Wales are set to benefit from BT's expansion of a super-fast broadband network. The telecommunications firm is targeting upwards of 32,000 premises in the roll-out of its fibre services, taking the number of homes and companies being passed by the new super-fast network in Wales to 475,000 when the
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Uptake of 10Mb leased lines could be set to grow as the UK's broadband networks are due to be improved in the coming years. Openreach has announced the latest phase in the nationwide plan to deliver super-fast broadband to the majority of the country. It has installed an additional 178 new exchanges in its fibre
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The development of super-fast urban broadband networks could deliver speeds of up to 100Mbps, it has been revealed. Businesses in Northern Ireland are the latest to gain from government investment in this technology, with Belfast recently confirmed as a benefactor of the £100 million urban broadband fund, announced by chancellor George Osborne in his Autumn
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Millions of pounds are being invested in broadband for communities that are currently stuck with slow internet speeds. The government has allocated £362 million to improve broadband connections in England and Scotland, ensuring that 90 per cent of remote communities have access to decent internet speeds by 2015. The money will help to improve regions
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Amazon has announced the global roll-out of its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), along with new enterprise capabilities for dedicated networking and identity management. The VPC is now available in multiple areas, including the EU, much of the US, Singapore and Tokyo, allowing users to make use of a private section of the cloud in which
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Changes in the way in which people do business could require the installation of leased lines if firms want to ensure a reliable network. For example, recent research form Citrix Online has revealed that nearly one in five businesses are adopting secure remote access software, such as remote IT tools and web conferencing solutions. These
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There has been a change in the way people use the Internet, with a renewed focus on movie and live event streaming, according to figures from the new Spring 2011 Internet Traffic Report from software provider Sandvine. The report shows that instead of file sharing, web users are becoming more inclined to pay for their
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If BT doesn’t come up with commercially acceptable proposals for sharing its Ducts and Telegraph Poles with rivals, the UK’s telecoms regulator OFCOM will do so, OFCOM’s CEO Ed Richards warned a House of Commons committee
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