Around 20,000 people are thought to be signing up for broadband each week, either from a cable firm or an ISP that is reselling BT's broadband product. Britain's telecommunications industry is very close to signing up its one millionth broadband...
The Microsoft chairman, speaking at the opening session of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's annual trade show, announced a new software for bridging cable television and interactive digital technology.
At the wholesale level, BT has virtually all the market for ADSL, but the telco is keen to point out that the cable market - dominated by NTL and Telewest - is just as large. BT is set to urge the UK government to relax the regulations that govern...
To satisfy demand, the next stages for those rebuilding the communications infrastructure are tenders for about $75m of public switches as well as underground copper and fibre, satellite connections, internet access and access to the FLAG global...
Whitman wrote: "The telephone and cable companies in control of internet access are trying to use their enormous political muscle to dramatically change the internet. For their part, network operators from the telephone and cable industries, now...
The Public Knowledge advocacy group, which often supports additional regulation of large telecommunications companies, took issue with Majoras' comments, saying 98 per cent of broadband customers receive their service from either the telephone...