Some of the UK's largest technology and media companies are working together to see if unused TV spectrum could be used as an alternative to WiFi and mobile data.
The BBC, BSkyB, BT, Microsoft, Nokia and Samsung are among the companies that have formed the Cambridge TV White Spaces Consortium.
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BSkyB, BT, O2, TalkTalk, Three, Virgin Media and Vodafone have all committed to providing better and more easily comparable information to consumers about traffic management. It's a voluntary agreement that's been arranged by the Broadband Stakeholder Group.
The participating companies account for around 90% of all fixed-line broadband customers and 60% of all mobile broadband customers in the UK.
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British Sky Broadcasting – better known by many as BSkyB or Sky – has acquired WiFi operator The Cloud. The deal was agreed on 11th January but has only just been made public.
Sky says the deal will give it ownership of over 5,000 public WiFi locations across the UK.
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Mark Bridge writes:
Last month I was struck by the way video streaming service Bambuser was being used by citizen journalists.
Now comes news of a different kind of photo-journalism. Instead of shooting behind-the-scenes images of a general election, prisoner Michael Long has been using his mobile to record from behind bars.
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Telecoms regulator Ofcom is warning consumers to check they aren’t owed money when they switch to a new communications provider. It estimates at least £10 million has been unclaimed in the past two years; that's around £5 for every customers who's switched to a different landline, mobile, broadband or pay TV provider.
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