In what some are calling a second privatisation of British Telecom, Ofcom has revealed that pricing restrictions which have held back British Telecom for some time are to be removed. The company has not been able to subsidise landline facilities to make their bundles more attractive, putting the company on a less competitive footing compared [...]

After finally agreeing a deal with broadband regulators which will see BT increase the wholesale broadband price it charges competitors to use its broadband network, the company has now announced a significant increase in the rate of rollout of its superfast broadband network. After initially looking to have superfast broadband available in around 500,000 homes [...]

Despite BT being heavily involved in the early development of online advertising system Phorm, the telephone giant has effectively walked away from a deal to roll out the controversial system across its whole network. The system, which has caught the attention of privacy campaigners, effectively monitors and analyses the internet usage of those surfing the [...]

As the likes of Virgin Media continue to make great strides in the UK broadband market, British Telecom sees more and more customers returning to the fold and Vodafone and Three Mobile take on the mobile broadband market, slowly but surely competition in the sector is coming under pressure. This is the reason why OFCOM [...]

Zen Internet has revealed plans to offer free upgrades to its 20 Mb per second Internet broadband service for existing and new customers. While not all customers will be able to access the top speeds it has been shown that average speeds of between 9 Mb per second and 13 Mb per second are readily [...]

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 [...]

While just a few years ago BT was struggling with competitors appearing on a regular basis it would appear the company has now reinvented itself and is set to play a major role in the UK broadband market of the future. The ongoing development of BT’s fibre-optic network, which will be finished in 2012, will [...]

In a rather surprising move it has been revealed that Ofcom have no plans to introduce pricing restrictions regarding BT’s next-generation fibre-optic network. There had been speculation that Ofcom would severely limit the return on investment which British Telecom seeks from its new fibre-optic network which is about to be rolled out across the UK. [...]

The £1.5 billion fibre-optic network investment plan announced by British Telecom some months ago was officially given the go-ahead by Ofcom earlier this week. Despite suggestions that Ofcom would severely limit the potential return on investment for BT it appears as though the recession will see a relatively lax regime with regards to the creation [...]

It has been revealed that Ofcom, the official regulator of the broadband industry, will not stand in the way of British Telecom’s fibre-optic network project to roll out superfast broadband to 10,000,000 UK homes by 2012. The company is set to spend£1.5 billion on the project although there had been a suggestion it could be [...]