Earlier in September it was announced that the UK operations of T-Mobile and Orange would merge to create a jointly-owned subsidiary. Now that the excitement (and hysteria) has calmed down a little, Teresa Cottam looks at what this really means for the UK mobile industry.
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Categories: M&A, Opex reduction, Regulatory Tags: 3G, BSS/OSS, Business, Ericsson, Market share, mobile, NEP, NSN, Orange, T-Mobile UK, Telecommunication, UK, Virgin Mobile
In a move welcomed by Ofcom, six UK mobile service providers have published their Principles of Good Practice for marketing mobile broadband services. by Teresa Cottam
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Categories: Marketing, Microsperience, Regulatory, Standards/guidelines Tags: 3, bandwidth, mobile broadband, Mobile Broadband Group, Mobile operators, MVNO, O2, Orange, QoS, QoS billing, qualilty of service, T-Mobile, tariff, tariffing, UK, variable billing, Virgin Mobile, Vodafone
Your national emergency number is probably one of the first telephone numbers you learnt by heart and it remains a hugely important number for the rest of your life. But few Europeans know that a Europe-wide emergency number has been in existence for a very long time. Last month 500 MEPs called for greater publicity for 112, and for member states to evaluate how they handled emergency calls. But is anyone listening? by Teresa Cottam
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Categories: Microsperience, Regulatory, Telesperience Tags: 101, 112, 999, EENA, EU, European Emergency Number Association, national emergency number, telephone numbers, Telesperience
by Teresa Cottam
Over here in the UK we’re all getting rather excited about a new report that should have been out earlier this week, but adding to the suspense was delayed until today. So why is there so much interest in this report? Well the Digital Britain interim report looks at, among other things, the digital divide and presents ideas on the UK’s digital destiny.
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Categories: Regulatory Tags: broadband, Digital divide, Nesta, Rory Cellan-Jones, spectrum-for-speed, superfast broadband, UK, United Kingdom, universal service obligation, USO, Virgin
by Darran Clements
I had a great Christmas break, feet up next to the fire, at home with the family, watching TV and not really doing too much. Unfortunately I spent half of my time flicking through channels trying to find anything worth watching. Read more…
by Teresa Cottam
You might have noticed the recent article on IT Pro by By Asavin Wattanajantra – Analysis: Do businesses need superfast broadband? (13 Jan 2009).
Wattanajantra asked whether businesses really need superfast broadband. He quoted Analysys-Mason’s Rupert Wood, who with characteristic scepticism noted that “tales of consumer dissatisfaction and demand for bandwidth” came from “over-excitable bloggers”. Read more…
Categories: Regulatory, Telesperience Tags: Analysys-Mason, bandwidth-hungry applications, businesses, Colette Bowe, IPTV, IT Pro, Ofcom, pricing, regulator, superfast broadband, tariffing, telecoms, Telesperience, videoconferencing
