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Digital Economy Bill supports creative and digital industries

The UK digital economy accounts for nearly 10% of the revenue produced by the whole British economy each year, according to business secretary

Facebook stock value up 42% to $9.5bn

The price of Facebook stock has jumped as much as 42% in the past four months. Membership is topping 300 million users to take Facebook into profit for the first time.

T-Mobile and Orange to merge

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  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 06 November 2009
Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom have signed contracts to set up a 50:50 joint...

Ofcom opens up TV spectrum for rural broadband

Ofcom has cleared the way for spare television spectrum to be used to provide broadband...

Digital divide can be tackled with next generation broadband, says Ofcom

The Ofcom Consumer Panel has called on policy-makers to tackle the digital...

Avaya victorious after lengthy Nortel auction

Avaya has emerged victorious from the protracted...

How the government taxes UK's broadband future

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  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 04 November 2009
In 2003, Vtesse Networks, a small UK fibre network operator, challenged the Valuation Office Agency's assessment of BT for business rates in British and European courts. It argued that the VOA's assessment amounted to an unfair subsidy to BT.

Verisign hopes to end phishing attacks

Verisign has begun working with the internet community to deploy DNS Security Extensions ( DNSSEC ),...

Digital Britain implementation plan: Government seeks control of UK internet domains

The government wants to reserve the right to allocate internet domain names under the implementation plan for Digital Britain published today.

Ethernet switch for WAN could cut telecom bill by 30%

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  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 05 November 2009
Most firms could save 30% of their telecommunications bill by optimising their wide area networks and switching to Ethernet, according to research. The...

Fibre reaches 5.5m more homes, but not in UK

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  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 05 October 2009
Fibre network operators defied the recession to add more than 5.5 million new residential and business subscribers worldwide, 15% up on six months ago, says...

UK needs regional powers to fast-track broadband roll-outs

Businsses could be offered with high-speed broadband more quickly if the rest of the UK followed Scotland's example of targeting broadband black spots, Scotland's enterprise minister said this week.

Tesco’s IT strategy to support international expansion

Tesco plans to centralise IT applications across its stores worldwide, after signing a £100m network and voice contract to support its overseas expansion programme.

What will be the impact of BT's fibre optic network?

Anew national fibre optic network could fuel demand for bandwidth-hungry applications such as videoconferencing ,...

Broadband to become a universal service obligation

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  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 15 January 2009
The Carter Report on Digital Britain will recommend that broadband access be made a universal obligation on network operators, according to reports.

Banks can make money from Faster Payments

The Faster Payments system can generate new revenue streams for banks and is not just a tick in the box for bank compliance, research has revealed.

CSC seeks new $2.bn deal with Zurich Financial Services

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  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 06 October 2009
Zurich Financial Services Group has entered exclusive negotiations with IT outsourcer CSC 10-year...

Cornwall villages trial 50Mbps broadband

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  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 09 October 2009
Up to two million businesses and homes in remote rural areas could get high-speed broadband if trials of a 50Mbps broadband service in two Cornish towns proves its technical and commercial viability.

BT overcharged network operators £41.7m

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  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 19 October 2009
BT will have to refund and pay interest on £41.7m it overcharged fellow network operators for rent on 2Mbps trunk services between 24 June 2004 to 30 September...

Testing is crucial for business continuity success

Responsive business thrives on continuity. William Knight finds that the trick to uninterrupted business is testing continuity processes before disaster strikes.
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