Forfas seeks broadband planning office
Technology development agency Forfas has called for a planning office to be established to co-ordinate the roll-out of Ireland's EUR300m broadband plan.
March 28 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

Europe to force cuts in mobile charges
The European Commission has accused the Dutch telco KPN of significantly over-charging for connecting calls from fixed line phones to mobiles.
March 28 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

Nordic telcos seal pact in major merger
Telia of Sweden and Sonera of Finland confirmed on Tuesday that their rumoured merger would proceed, creating an EUR18 billion Nordic telecommunications group.
March 27 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

BT restructures call centres
BT on Wednesday announced that it is to close 53 call centres within the next two years, resulting in the loss of 2,200 jobs.
March 27 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

Europe to implement .eu top-level domain
The EU has decided at last to implement the .eu top-level domain, allowing Europeans to begin using Web and e-mail addresses that are identifiably European.
March 26 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

Web usage by European women increases
The number of European women going on-line over the last year has increased by close to 30 percent, according to research from Jupiter MMXI.
March 21 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

UK Govt releases rural broadband plans
The UK government has finally said how it intends to spend STG30 million in bringing broadband to rural areas -- a year after it first pledged the cash.
March 19 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

ODTR alters leased line delivery standard
Under a new directive from the ODTR, Eircom will soon be required to deliver 95 percent of leased lines to other telecoms by their promised date.
March 19 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

SIP will be worth EUR3bn by 2007
According to a new report by research and consultancy company Analysys, instant messaging will propel SIP revenues to almost EUR3 billion by 2007.
March 15 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

ALTO lashes out at the ODTR
A group representing telecom companies has said its members lack confidence in the ODTR and its ability to liberalise the telecoms market in Ireland.
March 14 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

DSL may become available soon
After a six-month dispute between the ODTR and Eircom, Irish consumers and businesses many soon have access to DSL technology.
March 14 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

Telecom revenues up as employment falls
The ODTR said on Wednesday that total telecom revenues in Ireland were up three percent in Q4 to EUR3.2bn, despite a two percent drop in employment levels.
March 13 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

US Congress considers '.kids' domain
New legislation passed by a US Congress sub-committee will see the formation of a new second level domain, kids.us, a safe haven for children on the Net.
March 11 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

The Net is now second nature to US users
The Internet has gone from novelty to utility, according to a new survey in the US which shows an increasing dependence on the Net in users' everyday lives.
March 05 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

Boeing commits to airborne broadband
Despite a number of setbacks, aerospace giant Boeing is pushing ahead with its Connexion service giving users in-flight broadband Internet access.
March 04 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

Irish group bids for .eu headquarters
The European Parliament has endorsed the proposed implementation of the .eu domain name as an Irish consortium pushes to establish .eu's headquarters here.
March 04 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

Fixed-line voice revenues on the decline
New research says that over-reliance on traditional voice services represents a dead end for European telecoms companies.
March 04 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

Irish Web use jumps by over 20,000
The number of Irish people going on-line in January increased by over 20,000 and there are now nearly 640,000 accessing the Internet from their homes.
March 01 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

Monti predicts action against EU telcos
EU Competition Commissioner, Mario Monti, will take "concrete action" this year to force telecoms to drop prices and open networks to more competition.
February 27 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

W3C backs away from royalties
The World Wide Web consortium has made a u-turn from a proposal last year that would have allowed companies to demand royalties for Web software standards.
February 27 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

BT slashes broadband prices by half
BT is to cut monthly wholesale line rental costs for consumer broadband connections from STG30 to STG14.75 to boost the sluggish take-up of broadband in the UK.
February 26 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

ICANN calls for major overhaul
ICANN in its current form has not become the effective steward of the global Internet's naming and address allocation systems, admitted the ICANN president on Sunday.
February 25 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

European broadband to take-off in 2003
Next year will be Europe's watershed year for broadband rollout and take up, according to new research.
February 25 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

The Net is running out of space, says EC
The European Commission has called for the accelerated roll out of a new version of the Internet Protocol because space on the Net is due to run out by 2005.
February 22 in INTERNET & TELECOMS

Melly examines Irish telco deregulation
Sean Melly, the chief executive of eTel Group, has issued a grim warning over the future of telecommunications in Ireland.
February 19 in INTERNET & TELECOMS