18th August 2011Ofcom has fined TalkTalk and Tiscali UK £3m for breaking consumer rules by charging thousands of customers for services they had not received. Ofcom discovered that among those affected were...
Early this morning I was invited to attend a Labour Party Press Conference in Dublin and I must admit that I was a bit surprised by the subject that was discussed. However, as I have campaigned for many years for...
The proposed merger between two of Britain's largest mobile phone operators - T-Mobile and Orange - has been thrown into doubt after a last minute intervention by the 5 mobile broadband networks and the Government....
A recent study investigating the broadband quality across 66 countries worldwide has found that only 9 countries are ready for future demand, with two-thirds barely meeting the criteria for today's requirements only. Conducted by MBA students at Oxford's Said Business School...
UK broadband users will be paying a "broadband tax" before the next election - which is due in the first half of 2010. At a speech before the British Computer Society, Stephen Timms - the Minister for Digital Britain - argued that the tax would raise £175 million and...
British Telecom is a large company - and for years it has had its hands tied to stop it sweeping away new telecommunication companies - now that has been removed."Until now BT has been constrained from offering “triple-play” packages of fixed-line calls, digital...
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For a number of centuries, roughly 800 AD to 1800 AD, feudal lords with land along the Rhine River in Germany, collected tolls from passing cargo ships. In an effective effort to back this control, large iron chains were laid across the river and raised high enough to block...
Later in the show he presented this In or Out 2010 list which should be adopted as a Tea Party platform as we ALL start throwing the bums out on both sides of the aisle in this most corrupt ever seen 111th congress...
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The firm is currently pitching its broadband packages at rural consumers, amid negotiations between government and mobile operators to deliver universal 2Mbit/s broadband. Not cheap, but better than nothing!!!!!! " A French firm plans to launch a satellite next year that it...
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"When it comes to consumer issues like broadband and network neutrality, the FTC in recent years has spent most of its time nodding dumbly at carriers, allowing them to "self-regulate." The idea that corporations can effectively monitor themselves for bad behavior has been...
There goes poor old Britain, imposing more 'levies' on business at the beginning of the worst economic downturn in over a hundred years. This looks like a legal fraud scheme to me. "Philip Webster and Dan Sabbagh div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p...
A British broadband and phone company has taken an unusual step of giving its customers a lifeline during the credit crunch by waiving its broadband fees for six months. TalkTalk's CEO announced the package...
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VODAFONE has said that its trials of 16Mbit HSPA+ broadband on its Spanish network have been a great success. Now it says it plans to test 21Mbit HSPA+ in the first quarter, which should provide punters with download speeds of up to 13Mbit in good conditions and a following...
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OK, so it’s hard to imagine the supreme being huddled behind a computer checking emails from his flock. But let's suspend disbelief, just for a moment.... Let’s imagine for a second that every time a prayer is uttered a message is sent to God (OK, so it’s a pretty...
State owned BSNL launched interactive personalised television and video services, (IPTV) in Haryana on Wednesday. The service will be initially available in Gurgaon, Ambala and Faridabad in association with Smart Digivision Pvt Ltd. Speaking on the occassion BSNL chairman and...
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