Monthly Archives: May 2009

A report by Screen Digest has highlighted a potential problem for the mobile broadband sector amid suggestions that popularity in the short term is beginning to wane. The report suggests that customers who signed up to early mobile broadband contracts, many of which were two years in length, will soon be seeing their contracts end. [...]

It has been revealed that the Scottish government has spent in excess of £25 million over the last five years in a bid to increase broadband usage and broadband availability across the country. A report in August 2001 confirmed disappointing news with broadband available to just 43% of the population, highlighting a significant underinvestment in [...]

With news that more and more of the U.K.’s broadband providers are working on speeds in excess of 50 Mb per second there is speculation as to how high UK broadband speeds can go. While broadband speeds in the hundreds of megabits per second have been realised over very short distances it is a little [...]

As the number of broadband packages and broadband offers on the market continues to grow there is a debate as to whether it is sensible to be loyal to your broadband provider or whether you should be looking around on a regular basis. While there is no doubt that the “churn rates” of the leading [...]

As the UK broadband market becomes ever more competitive there is a serious dispute raging between BT and Carphone Warehouse. The battle is over who is the U.K.’s leading broadband provider with Carphone Warehouse now suggesting, after the recent acquisition of the Tiscali UK broadband operation, that it has more residential broadband customers than BT. [...]

As we covered in one of our posts some time ago, the development of the Virgin Media fibre-optic broadband network could prove to be something of a regulatory headache in the medium to longer term. Much like British Telecom is forced to allow competitors to use its own broadband network, and the future fibre-optic broadband [...]

In what was most certainly a well timed and audacious bid from Carphone Warehouse, the company has managed to secure the acquisition of Tiscali’s UK broadband division which has been up for sale sometime. While there were concerns that the longer the operation was starved of funding, because of the financial status of Tiscali itself, [...]

Building on the recent success of the Virgin Media broadband service the company is now looking to bundle together broadband, telephone and TV services with significant discounts available and free installation. There have been signs of success in this particular field and even though a recent announcement from the company suggested that the rate of [...]

In a surprise development it is being revealed that Virgin Media has seen a slowdown in broadband signups in the first quarter of 2009. New signups totalled just over 47,000 against a figure of just over 88,000 in the same quarter last year although the short-term impact of the recession could be a significant reason [...]

There are strong rumours in the market that Deutsche Telekom, the owner of T-Mobile, and France Telecom, the owner of Orange, could be about to enter talks about a change in ownership of the T-Mobile business. The UK is one of few European countries where five mainstream mobile phone networks are still in operation and [...]