It isn't surprising most of the ISPs we tried to talk to had little to say about iowatch's service. And it's about time IT directors for companies that now, in many cases, bet businesses on the internet have some kind of assurance.silicon.com...
Telewest shareholders are urging the company's big cheeses to sit round a table with NTL's management and thrash out the terms of a merger. A merged NTL-Telewest would be better placed to take on the might of BT and BSkyB for telephony and TV...
NTL CIO Phil Pavitt has announced he will be leaving the cable company next year, a move bound to fuel rumours that a long-expected merger with fellow UK cable company Telewest is close. Speculation will now turn to the CIO at Telewest, the other...
Ahuja also revealed the newly united telco will start trialling a converged fixed-mobile service - where a single device is used for making mobile calls and 'landline' calls over the internet via wi-fi.
The net as it stands is a wonderfully chaotic place, fundamentally incapable of providing any form of real-time service - voice, video, any form of instant messaging or human interaction - with any guaranteed quality of service (QoS).
Most notable was the behemoth NTL:Telewest which swallowed Virgin Mobile and by offering mobile, fixed line, broadband access and pay TV, became the UK's first quad-play operator, though doubtless not the last.
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