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UK Telecoms Says Full-Fibre by 2025 is Possible but Difficult
Since becoming Prime Minister last week, one of the first things that Boris Johnson has said he’s like to achieve (other than Brexit on the 31st of October) is full nationwide coverage (in the UK) of full-fibre internet. While a significant number of homes (circa 80%) now have access to…
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Canadian Telecoms Boss Publicly Shames Daughter For Netflix VPN “Piracy”
The new President of Canadian telecoms company Bell Media has branded her daughter a “thief” and reprimanded her for watching US Netflix through a VPN. Mary Ann Turcke found out that her 15-year-old daughter was accessing the US Netflix, rather than make do with the inferior Canadian service, but Turcke…
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BT Aims for 500Mbps UK Broadband Speeds by 2025
British telecoms company BT has announced plans to upgrade its fibre network to offer “initial speeds of a few hundred megabits per second to millions of homes and businesses by 2020″ and up to 500Mbps speeds by 2025. “We know the technology is capable, so it’s just looking at how…
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CNN Name T-Mobile Tech Company of the Year
News network CNN has declared T-Mobile as its Tech Company of the Year for 2014. Faced with stiff competition from Apple and Microsoft, CNN posits that “no other tech company shook up its entire industry the way that T-Mobile (TMUS) did this year.” In 2013, mobile telecom provider T-Mobile shifted its business model,…
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Hutchison to Battle BT for EE and O2 Acquisition
Telecoms company Hutchison Whampoa, owner of the Three mobile network in the UK, has emerged as a contender to buy EE and O2 networks. BT was the first telecoms company linked with EE and O2, earlier this week, but it seems they might have competition from Hong Kong-based Hutchison, who…
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