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Cable & Wireless launches enterprise VoIP service

News Cable & Wireless is widening its range of corporate Internet telephony products by launching a voice over IP (VoIP) service for UK businesses. It will be called Cable & Wireless IP Voice and the company says it will offer a better quality of...

17 June 2004, 14:25

Cable & Wireless surges back into broadband unbundling

News Cable & Wireless opened up a new assault on BT on Friday by purchasing Bulldog Communications for £18.6m. This acquisition will give Cable & Wireless a foothold in the UK local-loop unbundling (LLU) market, letting it create and sell businesses...

28 May 2004, 12:40

Wireless USB set to cut the cable

News The computer industry is still working on the paperless office, but new short-range wireless technologies on tap for next year could at last bring about the cable-free desktop. But in April, Freescale left the UWB Forum to focus on developing its...

18 October 2006, 9:52

Microsoft signs cable deal for HDTV support

News Microsoft has finalised a deal with the US cable industry that should pave the way for PCs to display high-definition cable TV by next Christmas, the company said on Wednesday. The pact, with the industry's technical arm, CableLabs, means that PCs...

17 November 2005, 8:58

New chipset promises gigabit broadband on cable and wireless

News A chipset that can simultaneously support gigabit wireless, gigabit cable access and 200-megabit networking over power lines has been announced by Pulse~LINK. We can use any of the proposed wireless ultrawideband (UWB) standards, at the same time...

11 May 2004, 14:20

Swindon tops UK charts for broadband

News Healthy coverage and furious competition between BT and cable company ntl:Telewest has led to the Wiltshire town having 51.1 per cent household broadband uptake -- the highest level in the UK, according to research firm Point Topic.

3 August 2006, 8:56

NTL:Telewest hit by network failure

News NTL:Telewest, the UK's cable broadband operator, has suffered a serious breakdown in its service. The cable operator's status page declared the service was not fixed until 9:11am on Tuesday. NTL:Telewest was formed last year, when the UK's two...

10 January 2007, 10:25

Is pay-per-view TV the future?

News Cable TV prices are on the rise, but US consumers are complaining there still isn't enough flexibility in the programming packages offered by cable providers. And the cable companies keep raising rates.

6 December 2005, 10:59

Wireless USB gadgets start the onslaught

News Wireless USB, a cable-free version of the ubiquitous device connection technology, is finally becoming a product and not just a promise. I want to put my camera on the coffee table and look at them on a 60-inch screen," Krell said, and not be...

17 July 2007, 10:07

Comcast sends out less spam

News Cable giant Comcast on Thursday said the volume of spam originating from its network has dropped 35 percent since it blocked an email loophole weeks ago. Web portal Yahoo ranks second with 297 million emails and Time Warner Cable's Road Runner...

30 June 2004, 8:25

NTL to take Virgin bride's name

News Cable operator NTL has completed its takeover of Virgin Mobile, creating the UK's first 'quadruple-play' telecommunications operator. The deal means that NTL -- which merged with fellow cable operator Telewest in April -- can provide mobile phone...

5 April 2006, 9:14

Broadband and the city

News Jim Baller is no friend of the large cable companies or the Baby Bells that dominate local telecommunications markets around the country. I would imagine phone and cable companies will try to address some of these issues then.

16 April 2004, 9:35

NTL follows Telewest with faster broadband

News Customers of Britain's two cable network operators had a welcome start to the week with the news that they'll be getting more broadband for their money. After several years of strong performance, the UK's cable sector has recently started to lag...

26 April 2004, 16:40

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