The negotiations are over: pending regulatory approval, BT will get back into the U.K.’s mobile scene in a big way by buying EE from Deutsche Telekom and Orange for £12.5 billion… Read more »
BT is stepping up its superlatives. “Superfast” broadband speeds are so 2014 – now the British telecoms giant is planning a shift to “ultrafast” broadband of up to 500 megabits per… Read more »
The pairing-off of major U.K. telecommunications players continues: On Friday, Three’s Hong Kong owner, Hutchison Whampoa, said it was now in exclusive takeover discussions with Telefónica’s O2. The merry dance began… Read more »
BT, the company once known as British Telecom, said on Monday that it is now exclusively negotiating a possible £12.5 billion ($19.6 billion) takeover of the mobile carrier EE, a joint… Read more »
The company said on Monday that it was in preliminary acquisition talks with two carriers, one of which it confirmed as being O2. The other is reportedly EE. Read more »
The move comes more than a year after the British government said it would force ISPs to filter out extremist and terrorist material. It seems the ISPs caved in after lengthy… Read more »
Privacy International has failed in an attempt to get the OECD to censure multinational telecoms firms that reportedly helped UK spy agency GCHQ engage in mass surveillance around the world. Read more »
The European Commission says there’s sufficient competition in much of the fixed telephony market, which is in any case being usurped by mobile and VoIP. However, the EU’s consumer organization has… Read more »
The country’s big ISPs have rejected a request by the Gambling Commission to insert warnings when customers are trying to access unlicensed offshore gambling websites. Read more »
Mobile carrier Vodafone(s vod) and British broadcasting and broadband firm BSkyB are in talks to create some sort of partnership, according to a report (subscription required) in The Sunday Times. The… Read more »