Industry News
We monitor the National, International and Trade press on key issues relating to 4G, wireless and mobile along with general trade news and share it here. If you hover over the icon at the end of the news story title you can preview the story without having to leave the news page.
Ofcom to Examine UK Fixed Line and Mobile ISP Coverage (78) ISP Talk Talk UK Press ahead with Project Canvas Broadband ... (74) Businesses in Dorset UK demand broadband speeds of 10Mb by ... (64) HP reveals tablet plans (57) Reliance to choose WiMAX in India after all (64) Motorola sues Huawei for corporate espionage (63) Clearwire takes stake in Imagine (64) Ofcom forces UK Broadband ISPs to make users aware of ... (67) BT to increase line rental from October (67) Over reliance on BT for UK Broadband (60)
As required by section 1 of the controversial Digital Economy Act 2010 (DEA), Ofcom has to produce a report for the UK Government every 3 years giving a clear picture of the state of the country's landline, broadband, mobile and broadcast networks and services.
Despite threats of legal action by Virgin Media UK and a BBC Trust imposed condition that "access will not be bundled with other products or services", growing broadband ISP TalkTalk is still pressing ahead with its plans to launch a TV ( IPTV ) product based off the controversial Project Canvas platform.
The Dorset Chamber of Commerce & Industry has conducted a survey of the regions businesses and found that 64% required a connection speed of more than 10Mbps (Megabits / per second) and 86% want to achieve this within the next year.
The new owner of Palm has plans to break into the tablet market in the near future with a device that may well be called the ‘PalmPad’.
When the Indian BWA spectrum auctions concluded earlier this year, it seemed that the 2.3GHz TDD band - once considered a clear run for WiMAX - would actually be split between that technology and TD-LTE.
It has emerged that US vendor Motorola, which earlier this week agreed the sale of its networks unit to rival Nokia Siemens Networks, has sued Chinese firm Huawei over the alleged theft of trade secrets.
Clearwire, a Nasdaq-listed internet firm, has taken a minority stake in Imagine Communications, the telecoms firm headed by entrepreneur Sean Bolger.
Ofcom has today announced new measures that will force UK broadband ISPs into making their customers aware of the official complaint handling processes (Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) schemes). Sadly Many ISPs continue to hide such details away and some make no mention of them at all.
BT has confirmed that it will be increasing line rental by 50p from October. From the Autumn, the cheapest cost of renting a telephone line from the company will be £12.04. The costs of calls is also set to rise by around 10 percent.
"There is an over-reliance" on BT for broadband in the UK, according to Edd Dawson, editor of broadband.co.uk.
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