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ISPs win appeal, landline-to-mobile cap to drop 85pc
Aside from conducting research studies, Ofcom also has the authority to propose and call for the implementation of price caps. It recently set out to lower the prices that BT charges for the services being offered by its infrastructure division, Openreach. It tried to do the same last year with mobile ...
Europe’s mobile web access price caps are ‘set too high’
If you're at home, you stay online via WiFi. If you're at work, you've got your network to stay connected. And when you're out and about or travelling, you've got mobile broadband. There's no doubt that many people have chosen to go mobile. A recent study conducted by Cisco predicted ...
Leeds and Bradford to become ‘super-connected’
With the goal of improving the state of broadband in the UK, the government launched the Broadband Delivery UK project. It is hoping to set up universal broadband access with speeds of at least 2Mbps in the country. Furthermore, it is pushing to bring next-generation broadband technology to ninety percent ...
Warwickshire’s council puts in £3m for faster broadband
Many broadband users are discontent with the state of their broadband connections. So it probably came as a surprise to them when a recent study by Ofcom revealed that the current broadband connections they have now are 22% faster than they used to be twelve months ago. The report revealed that ...
Council urges Kent users to make demands for faster broadband
There's no doubt that the Internet is considered more than just a resource. Over the years, it has become an important tool that firms and establishments can use to further their interests worldwide. The government has been pushing to bring better broadband services to the entire country with their Broadband ...
Hertfordshire to get superfast broadband soon
The UK government has been pushing to bring faster broadband services to the entire country. This is something they hope to achieve with the launch of the Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) project. The program has two primary goals: -to bring superfast broadband to the whole of Britain with speeds of at ...
Lords committee to look into ‘out-of-date’ broadband plans
Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt had earlier warned that he might withdraw up to £530 million from the fund allocated for the Broadband Delivery UK project, amid the delays in delivering superfast broadband to the rural areas in the country. Hunt had said that "there is £530 on table to help ...
TalkTalk requires users to set access controls
TalkTalk has had it rough the past few quarters. The provider was found to be the most talked against provider in a survey conducted last December, where the firm received 0.55 complaints for every one thousand of its customers. Add in the fact that TalkTalk has been consistently losing customers ...
Cisco: Mobiles will outnumber humans by 2016
Most people nowadays can't live without their mobile phones. It's what people use to communicate with one another, check their email, maybe even play some games or do a bit of surfing on the world wide web. We live in a highly mobile culture where it's pretty common to see ...
Tesco announces £2.50 per month broadband deal
A report published by Ofcom last December revealed that there were more users signing on to cheaper deals, even if these were bundled with longer contracts. The report called The Consumer Experience noted that fifty percent of subscribers in the UK were locked into contracts with various operators. This figure ...
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