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• February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15

  Board-level executives to be held responsible for nuisance calls

  A proposed change to the law will give the ICO more clout to go after firms that bombard consumers with nuisance calls and texts

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  London’s Air Ambulance swaps A-Z maps for mobile apps

  London’s Air Ambulance has halved emergency dispatch times through an incident information and routing app from Mubaloo

• February 23, 2015 23 Feb'15

  Schuh deploys public Wi-Fi and mobile stock checking in-store

  Shoe retailer schuh selects cloud Wi-Fi provider Purple WiFi to offer in-store access for customers and staff

• February 20, 2015 20 Feb'15

  Government to move forward with national emergency text alert system

  The Cabinet Office has proposed amending the Privacy and Electronic Communications legislation to implement a national mobile alert system

• February 20, 2015 20 Feb'15

  Berners-Lee foundation calls for urgent steps to secure mobile comms

  Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web Foundation has called for urgent steps to secure mobile communications

• February 20, 2015 20 Feb'15

  Spy agencies’ hacking of mobile encryption keys is no surprise, says security expert

  The alleged hacking of Sim maker Gemalto by UK and US spy agencies is not a huge surprise, according to a Europol adviser on cyber security

• February 20, 2015 20 Feb'15

  Gemalto denies knowledge of GCHQ and NSA Sim card hack

  Gemalto says it cannot verify a report that it was hacked by the NSA and GCHQ to steal encryption keys

• February 19, 2015 19 Feb'15

  4G to reach 2.4 billion people by end of 2015

  A third of the global population will be covered by 4G networks by the end of 2015, according to a GSMA report

• February 18, 2015 18 Feb'15

  Robust security and consumer buy-in needed for smart city success

  Juniper Research names its top ranking smart cities for 2015 and points to a number of areas of concern that need to be addressed

• February 18, 2015 18 Feb'15

  Scaling appropriately an issue for digital startups, says report

  Digital startups often scale their customer bases too quickly before they have had time to implement the appropriate infrastructure

• February 12, 2015 12 Feb'15

  Airwave's Tetra emergency services radio "costly and inflexible"

  Incumbent Airwave failed to advance to the next stage of the Emergency Services Network procurement because its Tetra radio technology was too inflexible for current needs, according to reports

• February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15

  Airwave dropped from Emergency Services Network procurement

  Incumbent network operator Airwave will take no further part in the Emergency Services Network bid process, the Home Office has revealed

• February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15

  EE gives £1.5bn to address UK’s ‘under-developed’ networks

  Mobile operator EE launches Signalling the Future network manifesto as it commits to spending £1.5bn on network improvements in two years

• February 08, 2015 08 Feb'15

  BDUK passes two million homes and businesses

  BDUK scheme passes its two-millionth property, as the controversial government-sponsored national broadband roll out continues

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  Vodafone returns to growth in the UK

  Mobile network operator Vodafone managed to squeeze some growth out of the UK market in the third quarter of its fiscal 2015

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  Atos UK & Ireland bids farewell to desk phones

  The UK and Ireland arm of services consultancy Atos removes desktop telephones from its London HQ in favour of a Microsoft Lync unified comms system

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  BT agrees purchase terms with EE

  BT has announced it has reached a definitive agreement with mobile operator EE to acquire it for £12.5bn

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  Milan Expo 2015 builds smart city with Telecom Italia and Cisco

  The organisers of Milan Expo 2015 have built a smart city site from the ground up with the support of Telecom Italia and Cisco

• February 03, 2015 03 Feb'15

  Aeris and Tech Mahindra to launch carrier IoT platform

  M2M technology provider Aeris has linked up with services supplier Tech Mahindra to target mobile carriers that want to develop their IoT business

• February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15

  Government failed to make best use of publicly-owned networks

  The Cabinet Office has published a map detailing where it could make better use of its infrastructure to benefit businesses and consumers

• February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15

  Dixons Carphone joins MVNO fray to support internet of things

  Electronics retail giant to launch mobile network using Three MNO services to support growth in the internet of things

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  BDUK accused of not being “vigilant” in upholding broadband targets

  MPs accused BDUK of not being vigilant enough to deliver its own current superfast broadband coverage targets

• January 23, 2015 23 Jan'15

  Three and O2 talks no surprise, but strategic questions loom

  Three’s £10.25bn acquisition of O2 raises strategic questions over the future of mobile networks in the UK

• January 23, 2015 23 Jan'15

  Property business enhances efficiency with Vodafone mobile… in 1985

  Property boom spurs a small business to enhance its workforce productivity with a mobile communications deployment – 30 years ago

• January 23, 2015 23 Jan'15

  Mobile network operator Three confirms talks to buy O2

  Hutchison Whampoa, parent of of mobile network operator Three, confirms it is in talks with Spanish operator Telefónica to buy O2

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Cancer Research UK trials contactless donations

  Cancer Research UK installs four smart charity shop windows to enable contactless donations

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  Dartmoor National Park brings public wireless to remote sites

  Dartmoor National Park Authority deploys Cloud in a Box to offer visitors Wi-Fi at its facilities

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  Airwave tackles network traffic spike on New Year’s Eve

  Emergency services comms supplier Airwave records its most concentrated network usage ever in central London on New Year’s Eve

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  O2 turns to Three for sale

  After being shunned by BT, Telefónica enters talks to sell O2 to Hutchison Whampoa, owner of Three

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  EE, Virgin Media and Vodafone sign net neutrality pledge

  EE, Virgin Media and Vodafone are last of the UK’s major internet service providers to sign up to Open Internet Code of practice

• January 15, 2015 15 Jan'15

  Vodafone names Ericsson's Johan Wibergh as CTO after Pusey retires

  Vodafone names Ericsson’s Johan Wibergh as its chief technology officer after incumbent Steve Pusey announced plans to retire

• January 15, 2015 15 Jan'15

  BlackBerry: We’re not selling to Samsung

  BlackBerry has issued a statement denying recent claims it is to be bought by consumer electronics brand Samsung

• January 14, 2015 14 Jan'15

  Government extends PSN in response to supplier query deluge

  The Crown Commercial Service is extending the PSN Connectivity and Services frameworks for a further 12 months, after receiving a deluge of questions about its impending replacement

• January 14, 2015 14 Jan'15

  Home Office cans Lot 4 of Emergency Services Network

  The Home Office concedes the fourth contract for the Emergency Services Network is to be scrapped

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  Case study: Scandinavian Airlines hands pilots worldwide Wi-Fi pass

  SAS has implemented iPass Wi-Fi across its iPad estate, giving pilots and crew access to 15 million hotspots around the world

• January 12, 2015 12 Jan'15

  National roaming SIM to hit the market in weeks

  MVNO 24 Seven trials national roaming SIM in bid to pick up rural business customers

• January 09, 2015 09 Jan'15

  Video, memes and music driving 4G data usage, says EE

  EE reports record mobile data usage in 2014, with sporting events and concerts driving major spikes in demand

• January 08, 2015 08 Jan'15

  UK outdone by superfast European broadband

  Britain’s fall down the average broadband speed rankings continues, according to web watchers Akamai

• January 08, 2015 08 Jan'15

  CES 2015: Samsung CEO talks internet of things

  Samsung president and CEP BK Yoon told audiences at CES that the internet of things is not as distant as we think

• January 06, 2015 06 Jan'15

  Suppliers walk away from Emergency Services Network bid process

  Communications suppliers, including Airwave, walk away from contract to build mobile masts for emergency services in national parks

• December 24, 2014 24 Dec'14

  Top 10 networking stories of 2014

  Computer Weekly takes a look back at the year in networking with a round-up of the biggest stories from 2014

• December 22, 2014 22 Dec'14

  Huawei, EE and Qualcomm in LTE partnership

  Huawei has partnered with EE and Qualcomm to work on LTE Category 9 testing to improve wireless download speeds

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  Government chief scientific adviser: 'Don’t trivialise the internet of things'

  Government chief scientific adviser publishes report on the internet of things, making several policy recommendations

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  Government scraps national roaming in £5bn "not spot" pledge

  Government strikes £5bn ‘landmark’ deal with UK MNOs to address mobile "not spots"

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  Technology needed to help ambulance services cope with increased demand

  The future of the ambulance and emergencies services needs more investment in networking

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  US interception in the EU faces new legal challenges

  US government orders against Microsoft to hand over email data 'infringes privacy legislation' in other countries

• December 16, 2014 16 Dec'14

  Ofcom names HM Treasury’s Sharon White as chief executive

  Sharon White, second permanent secretary at the Treasury, will take the wheel at Ofcom in March 2015

• December 15, 2014 15 Dec'14

  BT to buy EE for £12.5bn

  BT announces intention to buy mobile network EE from Deutsche Telekom and Orange, rejecting a takeover of O2

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  Whitechapel Bell Foundry to ring in 2015 with 4G network

  One of the UK’s oldest running businesses uses EE 4G network to sell its iconic bells around the world

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  JCDecaux partners with Vodafone to build small cell networks

  Vodafone joins outdoor advertising firm JCDecaux to deploy small cell technology on billboards to increase network performance

• December 10, 2014 10 Dec'14

  BT to decide between O2 and EE before Christmas

  The BT board has been locked in discussions over the possible acquisition of mobile network operators O2 or EE

• December 09, 2014 09 Dec'14

  Quad-play operators to drive telecoms recruitment, says Manpower

  Recruitment is slowing slightly in telecoms sector, but competition will rise in the new year, according to ManpowerGroup

• December 05, 2014 05 Dec'14

  NSA mobile phone network hacking raises security concerns

  Snowden documents reveal NSA unit dedicated to hacking mobile phone networks

• December 04, 2014 04 Dec'14

  BT hires across Europe to meet broadband roll-out obligations

  BT updates MPs on its progress in getting broadband to rural communities to support the digital by default government policy

• December 01, 2014 01 Dec'14

  Vodafone explores merger with Virgin Media owner Liberty Global

  Vodafone explores options in wake of BT’s talks with EE and O2

• December 01, 2014 01 Dec'14

  Barclays bank launches mobile video banking

  Barclays Bank has launched a 24-hour video banking service that will enable customers to receive face-to-face service from anywhere

• November 28, 2014 28 Nov'14

  Three pondering bid for O2 or EE, say reports

  As BT conducts sales talks with both O2 and EE, reports have emerged the owner of Three is also preparing a bid for one or other of the two networks

• November 28, 2014 28 Nov'14

  CGI secures communications between pilots and air traffic control

  Satellite communications firm Inmarsat has outsourced the provision of security IT and services to CGI

• November 27, 2014 27 Nov'14

  The IPv6 dilemma – are we making the same mistake?

  In 2012, the Regional Internet Registry for Europe claimed the five internet registries each had just 16.8 million IPv4 addresses left

• November 26, 2014 26 Nov'14

  EE in sales talks with BT

  EE owners Deutsche Telekom and Orange eye up a sale to BT just days after news O2’s owner is also looking to exit the UK market

• November 24, 2014 24 Nov'14

  BT in talks to buy mobile operator O2

  BT is currently in talks with Telefonica over buying the mobile network operator O2.

• November 21, 2014 21 Nov'14

  Network Rail extends fibre network to rural broadband providers

  Network Rail Infrastructure asks Ofcom for more powers to build out its fibre network for the benefit of broadband and mobile suppliers

• November 20, 2014 20 Nov'14

  Tech Mahindra buys network engineering firm Lightbridge Communications

  ICT consultancy Tech Mahindra buys Lightbridge Communications for £153m to develop IP-based and virtualised networks

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  UK will get 700MHz TV spectrum for mobile data – in 2022

  Ofcom will make the 700MHZ terrestrial TV spectrum available for mobile data when it falls out of use in 8 years' time

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Increase in mobile users sees 2.7 billion devices worldwide in 2014

  Mobile subscriptions have increased by 800 million in 2014, bringing the total number of devices to 2.7 billion worldwide, according to a report

• November 17, 2014 17 Nov'14

  Tech Mahindra backs Milton Keynes smart city project

  Tech Mahindra’s telco services wing to support development and deployment of smart city solutions and IoT sensor networks

• November 13, 2014 13 Nov'14

  Hull gets dark fibre injection for EE and Three

  Mobile Broadband Network Ltd (MBNL), a joint venture between EE and Three, deploys dark fibre backhaul connections to masts in Hull

• November 13, 2014 13 Nov'14

  Cisco CEO John Chambers attacks Barack Obama over net neutrality

  Just days after US president Barack Obama backed net neutrality, Cisco CEO John Chambers says it will hurt business

• November 12, 2014 12 Nov'14

  Ericsson ranks Stockholm, London and Paris the world’s most connected cities

  Ericsson’s Networked Society Index puts London near the top of its connected cities table but others may challenge it soon

• November 11, 2014 11 Nov'14

  Microsoft Lync becomes Skype for Business

  Microsoft rebrands Lync before updating unified communications and collaboration suite

• November 11, 2014 11 Nov'14

  Vodafone launches UK residential broadband service

  Mobile operator Vodafone announces UK consumer broadband service as it steps up its 4G network investment

• November 07, 2014 07 Nov'14

  Ofcom to auction tranche of MoD-owned spectrum

  190 MHz of spectrum in two bands currently controlled by the Ministry of Defence is to go under the hammer

• November 07, 2014 07 Nov'14

  Vodafone’s Rural Open Sure Signal 3G communities begin to go live

  The first communities to receive 3G mobile coverage over femtocells under Vodafone’s Rural Open Sure Signal programme have been announced

• November 07, 2014 07 Nov'14

  How networking brought innovation and automation to Heathrow Terminal 2

  Heathrow Airport has put automation and collaboration at the heart of a £34m network deployment in Terminal 2

• November 07, 2014 07 Nov'14

  Ofcom launches initiative to plug SMEs' lack of confidence in communications services

  Regulator Ofcom launches online portal to help business owners exploit commercial communications services

• November 06, 2014 06 Nov'14

  Huawei invests £5m in University of Surrey 5G innovation centre

  Huawei invests £5m in the University of Surrey’s 5G innovation centre (5GIC) to develop 5G network technology

• November 06, 2014 06 Nov'14

  ITN deploys wireless transmission technology for breaking news

  ITN introduces camera-mounted wireless transmission technology from BT to track breaking news stories around London

• November 06, 2014 06 Nov'14

  Advanced Mobile Location pinpoints 999 calls to within 30m

  BT, EE and HTC deploy a new service to pinpoint the source of 999 calls from mobile phones with a far greater degree of accuracy

• November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14

  Why national roaming may not be the answer to mobile not-spots

  Industry suggests alternative strategies as government threatens to force mobile operators to allow national roaming

• November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14

  Government may force networks to accept national roaming

  The government plans to eliminate poor mobile coverage in the UK by making MNOs adopt national roaming

• November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

  The View from The Shard to deploy Aruba mobile location services

  London’s highest viewing gallery, the View from the Shard, helps launch Aruba Network’s new Mobile Engagement service

• November 03, 2014 03 Nov'14

  West Yorks Police deploys 4,000 Samsung Galaxy Note 3 phablets

  West Yorkshire Police force partners with Samsung to provide 4,000 Galaxy Note 3 devices to frontline staff

• November 03, 2014 03 Nov'14

  MPs launch inquiry into rural broadband coverage for farmers

  Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee launches inquiry into rural broadband coverage and its impact on digital-only services

• October 30, 2014 30 Oct'14

  BT sees increasing fibre demand, but sales remain flat

  BT attracts new fibre customers but fails to translate growth to revenues in the second quarter of 2014

• October 30, 2014 30 Oct'14

  EE LTE Advanced network goes live in London

  EE has switched on its LTE Advanced 4G+ network in central London, but other cities will have to wait until next summer

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Internet of trains takes centre stage for Cisco IoT startup contest

  Cisco launches contest to help startups and SMEs engage the transport sector around the internet of things (IoT) for railway stations of the future

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  UK government cracks down on nuisance calls and texts

  Government consults over making it easier for the ICO to prosecute rogue firms that make nuisance calls and texts

• October 26, 2014 26 Oct'14

  How big data, mobile and cloud are fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone

  IBM applies data analytics, mobile technology and cloud computing to help fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa

• October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14

  Six networks that changed the world forever

  The Science Museum opens its Information Age gallery, dedicated to the history of information and communications

• October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14

  MasterCard to offer free Wi-Fi to cardholders visiting Britain

  MasterCard will offer its customers free Wi-Fi when travelling abroad as part of its Priceless Cities initiative

• October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14

  Mobile operators will lose $14bn to OTT services this year

  Report says mobile network operators will lose $14bn of potential sales to over the top services this year

• October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14

  EE boasts most 4G subscribers in Europe

  EE continues to grow its 4G subscribers, but its sales remained flat during the third quarter of 2014

• October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14

  Government seeks suppliers for £2bn telecoms framework

  The government is seeking suppliers for a £2bn procurement framework to replace Whitehall’s telecommunications requirements

• October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14

  Prime Minister’s Digital Taskforce targets skills and networks

  The Prime Minister’s Digital Taskforce has established a remit around skills, investment, and networks

• October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14

  Forget devices, we still need signal, says WWF IT director

  Organisations such as the WWF are still trying to focus on sufficient connectivity for remote workers says WWF director of ICT services, Linda Humphrey.

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  Samsung claims 5G speed record

  Samsung hits a data transmission speed record over a 5G network

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  Motorsport firm replaces ageing comms with cloud telephony

  Motorsport and automotive engineering firm Prodrive adopts cloud telephony to ease the pain of an office move

• October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14

  Embedded SIMs key to unlocking internet of things

  GSMA’s eUICC Embedded SIM Specification will help M2M communications and the IoT become mainstream, say analysts

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  White space wireless trial brings free meerkat videos to wider audience

  Ofcom trials new wireless technology using vacant TV spectrum gaps with help from ZSL London Zoo and other organisations

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  Samsung warns of 60% fall in profit

  Quarterly profits at Samsung Electronics are expected to drop by 60% due to increasing competition from smartphone rivals