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Almost half of garda stations have no internet

13.02.2012 Almost 300 of Ireland’s 700 garda stations have no access to the internet or email, it has been reported. More »
Dublin telecoms tech firm wins deal in Sudan

13.02.2012 Dublin-based telecoms technology company i-conX Solutions has been chosen to deploy its routing optimisation technology by Sudanese telecoms company Canar. More »
Cubic Telecom signs MVNO deal with Vodafone in the UK

13.02.2012 Entrepreneur Pat Phelan’s Cubic Telecom low-cost call and data service has signed a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) agreement with Vodafone in the UK to sell voice, text and data services as an operator in its own right. More »
Alcatel-Lucent strategy takes complexity out of tablets and smartphones

07.02.2012 Communications technology giant Alcatel-Lucent has revealed a new strategy and portfolio aimed at helping telecoms operators to differentiate themselves in the burgeoning smartphone and tablet business. More »
Global internet usage via handsets doubles in January

06.02.2012 World internet usage via mobile devices – with the exception of tablet computers – has almost doubled to 8.5pc, up from 4.3pc last year, according to StatCounter. More »
Every Irish secondary school to get 100Mbps broadband by 2014

06.02.2012 By 2014, every secondary school in Ireland will have 100Mbps broadband, Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte, TD, and Education Minister Ruairi Quinn, TD, said today. The national rollout will see 200 more schools connected by September and a further 450 by 2014. More »
UK broadband prices set to fall following Ofcom changes

06.02.2012 Broadband prices in the UK are set to fall as a result of new changes proposed by regulator Ofcom that will affect wholesale provider Openreach. More »
ASAI upholds Magnet ‘fastest broadband’ complaint against UPC

03.02.2012 In what seems like a case of ‘my data pipe is bigger than your data pipe’, the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI) has upheld a complaint by Magnet objecting to UPC advertising its product as ‘Ireland’s fastest broadband.’ More »
Holy smokes! BT plans to offer 300Mbps broadband across UK

03.02.2012 Following successful trials of FTTP on Demand in Cornwall, BT says it will soon be able to offer end users speeds of up to 300Mbps anywhere on BT’s fibre footprint, including Northern Ireland. More »
UK broadband speeds are 22pc faster than last year

02.02.2012 Broadband speeds in the UK have shot up by 22pc on last year, a new survey by Ofcom reveals. Residential broadband speeds in November were 7.6Mbps, compared with 6.2Mbps a year earlier. More »