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Telecoms Market Still Not Competitive Says Oftel
News Oftel admits Thursday that BT's prices are too high and that the telecoms market is still not competitive as it confirms it will maintain price controls on the telco. The telecoms regulator admits it has been forced to maintain the controls because...
[February 2, 2001, 11:01]
Telecoms Convergence Brings Revolution
News The next major advances in telecoms will come through the increased integration between mobile and fixed networks, according to network operators and equipment manufacturers speaking at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes on Monday.
[February 14, 2005, 13:25]
European Telecoms Set For Growth
News The European telecoms industry, one of the hardest hit by the ICT slump of the past few years, is now in a healthier state and will show modest growth this year, according to analyst IDC. In a report published on Friday, the company said that the...
[February 16, 2004, 10:55]
Converged Services Could Slash Telecoms Bills
News Telecoms watcher Analysys predicts the cheaper bills will be heralded by the advent of converged services, as businesses begin to route more of their voice traffic over Wi-Fi rather than cellular connections, helping them avoid fixed-to-mobile...
[March 9, 2007, 17:19]
Analyst: Beware The Telecoms Mini-bubble
News Analysts have warned of an imminent "mini-bubble" as telecoms companies rush into the converged world of triple-play services. Forrester telecoms analyst Lars Godell, who published a major report on triple-play strategies on Friday, told ZDNet UK...
[June 9, 2006, 14:35]
Small Firms Baffled By Telecoms Terms
Talkback Well I have worked in the telecoms industry for 20 years. My girlfriend looks after a small office of around 15 staff. When looking at a new PBX / Key system the people that came to see her assumed that she knew what lines, excahnge lines, camp on...
[June 14, 2005, 12:37]
EC To Host Hearing On The Future Of Telecoms
News The European Commission's public hearing on the future of telecommunications, starting Wednesday in Brussels, is expected to attract around 600 delegates as the stage is set to radically alter telecoms regulation across Europe.
[May 9, 2000, 13:35]
EU Telecoms Gets Regulatory Shake-up
News The European Commission has adopted a raft of proposals that will see Europe's telecoms infrastructure dramatically shaken up. At the heart of the proposals, which represent the biggest change in telecoms regulation for five years, is the...
[November 14, 2007, 13:24]
UK To Escape EC Telecoms Wrath
News ZDNet UK understands that a European Commission report due to be published on Monday will say that Britain is making better than average progress in many areas of the telecoms market, despite reports that the EC will express deep concern about the...
[December 6, 2002, 13:20]
End Of The Line For LogicaCMG Telecoms
News UK IT services firm LogicaCMG has pulled out of the telecoms market, an area where it once enjoyed huge profits thanks to the popularity of text messaging. On Tuesday, LogicaCMG announced that it had sold its Telecoms Products business to a...
[February 21, 2007, 16:00]
British Gas Takes On BT In Telecoms Market
News It claims the move is the first step towards a more competitive telecoms market. Marketing director of British Gas, Ian El-Mokadem believes there is a long way to go before the telecoms market is as open as the energy market in the UK.
[September 4, 2000, 10:19]
Telecoms Superpower Plans...claims UK Newspaper
News A coalition between all three telecoms could be worth as much as £25 billion. Press reports that Cable and Wireless Communications is planning to merge with NTL within the week, published in the Observer on Saturday, have been dismissed as "pure...
[July 12, 1999, 11:02]
Ericsson Charts Route In The 'new Telecoms World'
News Nilsson, who yesterday unveiled Ericsson's roadmap at the Business Design Centre, said convergence of the telecoms and datacoms industries was one of the key driving forces for the company's strategy and, to this end, he pledged strong commitment...
[November 3, 1998, 9:37]
BT Calls For Euro-wide Telecoms Regulations
News BT has released research that claims huge benefits to the European economy if telecoms regulation was harmonised across the continent, allowing more consistent IT contracts and services for multinational companies.
[April 7, 2008, 13:18]
BT-MCI Merger Will Create World's Second Largest Telecoms Group
News BT this morning announced it has entered a $20 billion merger agreement with MCI the US's second largest telecoms group. BT is roughly twice the size of MCI and acquired a 20 per cent stake in 1993, creating the Concert Communications Services...
[November 4, 1996, 11:26]
Intel Talks Up Telecoms, TV And Stephen Hawking
News Intel is keen to tap into the telecoms sector of the market, and sees wireless and optical technologies as the key. In a reprise of his recent speech at IDF in the US, Gelsinger said that the technology industry had been through a period of...
[April 20, 2004, 11:40]
Firms Unprepared For Telecoms Disasters
News Despite most companies admitting that a telecoms failure would massively impact their ability to do business, only one in ten firms have a back-up telecoms system in place, according to research published by the Business Continuity Institute (BCI...
[March 17, 2005, 10:15]
Telecoms Takeover Frenzy As Thus Targets Energis
News C&W; is reported to be offering around £710m for Energis, which is the third-largest UK telecoms firm behind BT and C&W.; Thus and Cable & Wireless (C&W;) have clashed in a battle to buy fellow telco Energis, as both strive to compete better against...
[August 15, 2005, 16:30]
BT Demands Open Standards In Telecoms
News Paul Reynolds, chief executive of BT Wholesale, told the 21st Century Communications World Forum on Monday that the telco wants to destroy the telecoms sector's culture of closed proprietary systems in favour of the "plug-and-play" ways of the IT...
[February 21, 2005, 16:05]
Telecoms Staff Work Hardest - Report
News If you're looking to find the hardest workers, you might want to turn your attention towards telecoms, according to a new report. Out of the 14 sectors that came under the microscope in the study by Proudfoot Consulting, the most productive was...
[December 4, 2003, 15:20]
