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 British supermarket giant Tesco is, to put it mildly, having financial difficulties. On Thursday it unveiled a range of measures that it hopes will help dig it out of its… Read more »
Andrus Ansip has expressed worries over the apparent watering-down of EU net neutrality proposals in their final stage of development. But what will the outcome be? Read more »
The world’s largest broadband provider outside China is about to get a bit bigger, as it is buying out what it doesn’t already own of Dutch cableco Ziggo. Newly-installed Ziggo CEO… 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 »
The Dutch cable market may be about to see some major consolidation, as the biggest broadband provider outside China continues its expansion plans. Read more »
The European Parliament’s industry committee has approved a draft law that will make the sharing of infrastructure such a sewage and gas pipes and drainage systems a lot easier — thereby… Read more »
The Spanish carrier group and the Japanese equipment maker NEC have begun a pilot program in Brazil, where many of the complex routing functions are being virtualized out of the set-top… Read more »
The cuts are intended to save on costs, but also to help Alcatel-Lucent transition from something of a networking generalist to a specialist in IP networking and “ultra-broadband” access. Read more »
As we reported earlier this year, the UK is planning extensive trials of so-called white space connectivity – using the spectral buffer zones between TV channels in order to carry broadband… Read more »