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Profile: Easynet’s MD, Chris Stening, on 100Mb fibre broadband launch

The increasing need for bandwidth as companies of all sizes conduct more business through cloud computing lies behind Easynet Connect’s launch this week of a £15k per year uncontended 100Mbps fibre service, according to its Managing Director, Chris Stening. Read more

Profile: Vodafone's Al Russell on its pay-as-you-go mobile broadband push

Vodafone will see in the New Year with a concerted push to encourage pay-as-you-go customers to use data to coincide with its launch of the iPhone. Although the network has not announced a date when it is allowed to start selling the iconic smartphone, it is widely believed to be from the first week of January onwards. It will then become... Read more

Profile: Interoute's Lee Myall on enterprise leading govt on fibre roll out

Businesses are driving fibre deployment across Europe at a far greater rate than governments. In fact, corporations and public institutions could even hold the key to widening the UK’s next generation footprint. That is the conclusion of Lee Myall, UK Regional Director for Interoute, a telecommunications company which claims to have more... Read more

Profile: Is Freerunner founder, Owen Geddes, the Robin Hood of Wi-Fi?

More than 50 free Wi-Fi hotspots are due to be switched on in not-spot areas by a company based around the premise there is more to the technology than fleecing businessmen in airport lounges. The locations, which include remote Scottish Islands, will be named next week. They won a competition run earlier this year by Freerunner, a business... Read more

Profile: Media lawyer, Patrick Gardiner, raises Digital Economy Bill concerns

It is not only campaigners who are concerned by the anti-piracy measures included in the Digital Economy Bill, legal experts are also at a loss to explain how the government can sanction giving future ministers seemingly limitless powers. Patrick Gardiner, Media Partner at international law firm, Eversheds, believes that Lord Mandelson is... Read more
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