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4G Mobile Broadband Spectrum Auction Could Force UK Rail Coverage

7th Mar 2012 (0 Comments)

A new report created by Mott MacDonald for Ofcom has suggested that the much delayed auction of 800MHz and 2.6GHz radio spectrum, which will be used to deploy the next generation of 3G and 4G superfast Mobile Broadband services (e.g. LTE), could boost mobile coverage of the national UK rail network by including an “obligation for rail corridor coverage” in future licenses.

UPD Ofcom UK Makes BT Cut its Wholesale Broadband and Phone Line Prices

7th Mar 2012 (0 Comments)

As widely expected the UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has today introduced a new round of price cuts (“charge controls“) upon BTOpenreach’s national telephone and broadband lines, which affects services delivered via both BT’s own Wholesale Line Rental (WLR) and rival Local Loop Unbundling ( LLU ) lines. As a result ISPs like Sky Broadband , TalkTalk and Be Broadband should now pay a little less. But will consumers see any benefit?

3 Mobile UK Scraps Out-of-Bundle Data Charges for Mobile Broadband

7th Mar 2012 (3 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has announced that it is bringing an “end to out-of-bundle data charges for all new Smartphone contract customers“. Instead new customers will be given a choice between one of the operators all-you-can-eat (aka – “Ultimate Internet“) Mobile Broadband data offerings (from £18 a month) or a 250MB allowance with a “guarantee” of no out of bundle data charges.

Sky UK Offers 9 Months Half Price Unlimited Broadband and Calls Bundle

7th Mar 2012 (0 Comments)

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has today launched a new UK promotion that offers 9 months half price unlimited broadband (i.e. £5 per month instead of the usual £10) to new customers when the service is taken alongside their free calls and phone line rental bundle.

Deutsche Telekom Break Record with 512Gbps Data Speed via Fibre Optic Cable

7th Mar 2012 (0 Comments)

Researchers working for Deutsche Telekom (DT), a German telecommunications giant, and Alcatel-Lucent have broken last year’s world record (here) after they were successfully able to send 400Gbps (Gigabits per second) worth of usable data over a long distance single optical-fiber wavelength channel (running at a total of 512Gbps – the difference was used for error correction) for the first time.

Ofcom UK Report Claims Satellite Broadband is Bad for VPN, VoIP and Gaming

7th Mar 2012 (3 Comments)

The communications regulator, Ofcom UK, has quitely published a new “small-scale report” that investigated the quality of experience and user satisfaction when using broadband Satellite ISP services for applications such as online video gaming (multiplayer), Virtual Private Networks (VPN), video/audio streaming and Voice-over-IP (VoIP).

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