This week we see the importance of getting the little things right. Last weekend The Feathers Hotel Group, based in the North West of England counted the cost of a poor internet connection, when an unnamed Formula 1 team checked out of their hotel and into a rival property just a few doors away. This [...]
In the first important strategic decision since the merger of Orange and T-Mobile last month, the company has announced it is abandoning its own fixed-line telephone network in the UK and handing it over to BT . Bt will integrate this into its own network and observers believe this will significantly improve performance for Orange’s [...]
This story first appeared in Times Online on September 23rd http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article6846178.ece “BT is set to almost double the number of UK homes and businesses that can receive faster broadband services over its copper lines by extending the reach of its “next-generation” network to cover 75 per cent of the country, The Times has learnt. Around [...]
The government has finally published its Digital Britain report. The major impact on UK businesses is that A 50p-a-month levy will be imposed on all fixed copper lines to help create an independent “next generation fund” to help pay for faster broadband access – targeted as 2 megabits per second from 2012. Follow this link to [...]