Monthly Archives: March 2009

After a period of uncertainty and disappointment it appears that Yahoo! is back with the rebirth of Yahoo! Mobile. While Google and Microsoft have dominated the mobile Internet market for some time the sleeping giant of Yahoo! is stirring again. The company has relaunched its Yahoo! Mobile service which is now bigger and better than [...]

It has been reported that Vodafone and Telefonica are looking at the possibility of acquiring Telecom Italia’s German broadband Internet business. The Hansenet division is also attracting the attention of other possible suitors although it is only Telefonica and Vodafone that have been asked to submit non-binding offers. The offers need to be in by [...]

As the future of Tiscali, and in particular the company’s UK broadband division, comes under closer scrutiny many are asking if the UK division can survive. Share trading in Tiscali was suspended some time ago after the banks demanded the production of a repayment program to cover their debts. The company is currently under a [...]

As an Internet revolution continues to roll around the world many businesses are looking towards their Internet services and wondering exactly how they would survive without it. Over the last few years our dependence upon the World Wide Web has continued to grow with more and more businesses moving “online” to reduce their costs as [...]

The Broadband Forum has today announced a significant increase in IPTV viewing figures around the world. While IPTV has not really caught on in the UK as yet, there has been a significant increase in many areas of the world. Of particular interest is the North American IPTV market which more than doubled in 2008 [...]

A recent report from the mobile industry consulting group Ovum has earmarked mobile broadband as a potentially earth shattering technology for the future. The report suggests that by 2014 there will be over 2 billion mobile broadband users, both via mobile phone handsets and laptop computers, against just 181 million at the end of 2008.
However, [...]

It has been revealed that UK mobile phone operator 3, will this week announce record sales of more than 1 million mobile broadband dongles as the latest must have gadget grabs the attention of more and more UK consumers. In essence, the dongle allows mobile broadband access anywhere that receives a mobile network signal and [...]

Broadband users in Belfast have been selected to be amongst the first group of users in UK to have access to BT’s new superfast broadband. The service will offer speeds up to 10 times that which are available at the moment as part of BT’s £1.5 billion superfast broadband project. Broadband users with access to [...]

As the mobile broadband sector continues to grow in popularity throughout the UK, those looking to use the roaming system have received a warning to ensure that they do not exceed their monthly limits. A recent survey shows that mobile broadband users who exceed their limits by up to 1GB could see up to £200 [...]

In a move which could see significant changes in the short to medium term Ericsson has announced a successful trial of its new broadband technology which has seen speeds of up to 500Mbps reached over short distances. The beauty of the new system is the fact that it is compatible with existing copper wire networks [...]