BT Wholesale Bags O2 Contract To Consolidate Networks

Authorities have decided in favour of telecom British giant BT as the new ruling allows BT to charge higher rate for connecting calls for numbers termed as non-geographic.The ruling is expected to fetch BT millions of pounds once...

12 month contracts are gaining popularity of late, due to a recent change in the European Telecoms Law and their flexibility of not being tied to lengthy price plan, over a large period of time – along with the accompanying range...

Mobile telecoms outfit O2 has announced its plans to deploy 'a market-changing public Wi-Fi platform' in the UK. In a statement, the company said it would be creating a scaled Wi-Fi platform which would be double the size of its...

Orange has become the first ISP to hand over its own LLU network to BT in exchange for the possibility of using BT's own rehauled infrastructure to deliver broadband services to new and existing services. In effect, Orange...

O2 has piled pressure on Orange, which has just started selling the iPhone, by cutting the price of the tethering option and giving free landline ADSL broadband to its existing iPhone customers with tethering bolt on in a deal...

A massive campaign, launched by mobile operator 3 and the telecoms giant BT, for trimming down the mobile call charges handed over a petition comprising more than 114,000 signatures to the communications watchdog Ofcom.Dubbed as...

Virgin Media was the winner by a wide margin of Ofcom's latest report on the state of broadband in the UK although the lowest speed the ISP offers was 25 percent higher than the rest of the field."Over 60 million separate service...

Mobile Network Operator O2 has announced that it will be partnering with telecoms company BT to provide its customers with 3,000 WiFi hotspots across Britain. O2's mobile broadband users as well as iPhone owners will be able to...

Mobile phone giant Vodafone is expected to launch its own mobile application development initiative to populate millions of its customers' smartphones with apps. The plan will see the operator allow developers to access its...

Telecom giant BT has announced that it will be partnering with Coffee Shop chain Starbucks to provide with BT Openzone Hotspot services to all its 678 outlets from today. Importantly, all O2 customers with Apple iPhones will be...

Communications minister Stephen Carter call to mobile network companies to provide basic internet communications to rural areas has been met with some scepticism. In his Digital Britain document, Stephen Carter outlined plans to...

Orange has announced that it will be upping the download speed of 300 of its customers to up to 20Mbps as it start its ADSL2+ service before launching it nationwide. The France-Telecom owned internet service provider currently...

In a bid to achieve his ambition of universal broadband in Britain by 2012, Lord Carter, the minister for communications has called a meeting with executives of five prominent mobile phone networks in UK in order to discuss...

Most of the major telecoms and technology players in UK are geared up to seize the multi-billion pounds contract for manufacturing and installing “smart electricity meters” for all 26 million households in UK by...

BT won't be alone in the race for the first UK provider to deliver broadband services capable of 50mbps; O2 is also considering plans to launch its own fibre-to-the-home network but is awaiting on Ofcom to amend telecoms...