Podcast - 8th May 2013
We start today's programme with the promise of a faster roll-out for the UK's mobile broadband services.
Next on the agenda is tablet sales... followed by mobile security, mobile boarding passes, quarterly results, acquisitions, advertising and management succession.
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Categories: Handsets and manufacturers, Retailing, Networks and operators, Operating systems, Applications, Podcasts
Tags: podcast, broadband, ofcom, uk, 4g, apple, tablet, android, htc, facebook, advertising, applications, intel
Ofcom has published its eighth quarterly report that show the level of complaints for telephone, broadband and pay TV services, covering the three months until the end of 2012.
The proportion of complaints about fixed-line phone, broadband, ‘pay as you go’ mobile phone and pay TV services decreased, although there was a slight increase in the proportion of ‘pay monthly’ mobile phone complaints.
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Ofcom has published a report that compares the coverage, take-up, usage, price and choice of fixed and mobile broadband services in the UK with services available in other European countries.
It’s known as the European Broadband Scorecard and measures progress towards the UK government’s ambition that the UK should have the ‘best superfast broadband network’ (usually defined as faster than 30Mbps) of any major European country by 2015.
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British Sky Broadcasting Group plc has agreed to buy the O2 and BE consumer broadband and fixed-line telephone businesses from Telefónica UK. Adding these half a million customers will make Sky the second-largest provider of broadband in the UK.
Sky is paying Telefonica £180 million for the deal, with the option of an extra £20 million if the transfer runs smoothly. It currently has 4.2 million broadband customers and 4 million telephone customers.
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Mobile broadband customers want more value-added services to choose from and are willing to pay their network operator for personalisation across these extra services.
Those are some of the findings from a survey sponsored by mobile broadband specialist Tekelec.
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Categories: Networks and operators, Applications, News
Tags: research, broadband, internet, security, email, browsing, uk, usa, brazil, india, south korea
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