UGC Offers Voice Calls Over Broadband in Europe
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UnitedGlobalCom, Europe's largest cable TV provider, said on Tuesday it would start offering telephony services to its broadband Internet customers, which would dramatically cut phone bills.
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But UK still in the dark There are now over one million fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband connections in Europe, according to an Informa report.â¦
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Europe has been slow to adopt 3G mobile-phone services, and now the opportunity for cashing in may have passed. A new Wi-Fi design from a British company threatens to cut away the ground 3G has gained. By Wendy Grossman.
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Flarion Technologies is making its European debut by powering T-Mobile's wireless broadband service in The Hague.
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Deployment on Mediterranean island nation includes promise of bundled broadband, telephony and mobile services.
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Ofcom, the United Kingdom&#39;s regulatory agency for telecommunications, revealed plans to facilitate voice over IP in the residental market, including a new prefix for broadband numbers.
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(InfoWorld) - Even if an 11-year-old school girl from the tiny village of Wick in South Wales was the first person to place a call over BT Group'sÂ new next-generation network, U.K. businesses will be among the big benefactors of the all-IP (Internet Protocol) network. "We're moving toward giving far more empowerment to our corporate customers," said Neil Rogers, managing director of BT's 21st Century Network (21CN) project. "We want to give them more visibility and control of what's happening on the network." The 21CN project is one of the most ambitious network overhauls of its kind in the world. BT is replacing its 16 legacy voice and data networks with a new network built entirely on IP technology. On Tuesday, Laura Wess became the first 21CN user when she made a call from her school, which BT selected as the launching pad for its new network. The move to an all-IP network will allow BT to offer consumers and small businesses "triple-play" voice, data and video services over a single ADSL2+ (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) broadband connection, at speeds up to 24Mbps. Among the new services supported by the network are VOIP (voice over IP) and IPTV. The next-generation network will also allow BT to offer a far more flexible service to enterprise customers. "Today, the managed service contracts we offer are very manually intensive at the front end," Rogers said. "Even though we try to integrate our operating systems with the front-end premises systems of our customers, we still find the process to be very labor-intensive. Our all-IP approach gives us much more flexibility." Resilience -- the ability to recover from network hiccups -- and security are two additional features of 21CN that should interest corporate customers, according to Rogers. Because BT has chosen to build a completely new IP network from scratch instead of adding an IP overlay over its legacy systems, the operator has been able to design resilience and security into the network from the very beginning. Although Rogers sees little room for BT to lower prices as a result of the network overhaul, he expects the new network to give the operator greater flexibility in how it charges customers. "More attractive pricing is quite difficult in the U.K., where prices are already very aggressive," Rogers said. "But we plan to be more flexible in our pricing, for instance by charging for services as opposed to physical capacity or even allowing customers to pay on-demand for some services." Testing has proved among the biggest challenges of the next-generation rollout, according to Rogers. "It's been a huge effort to test network interoperability and customer premises equipment," he said. "It's an ongoing challenge." Although some experts have questioned whether BT's choice of ADSL2+ technology to link homes and small businesses could someday become a bottleneck for services requiring speeds higher than 24Mbps, Rogers said the technology offers sufficient bandwidth for the operator's planned high-speed services for the next four to five years. "At some point, we'll look at local fiber deployment," Rogers said. "At the moment, however, there's no business case for fiber in the U.K."
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Company launches new VoIP service that lets Internet phone calls be made through a browser without a heavy client software download.
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Plan promises downloads of up to 3mbps to lure in gamers and other high-bandwidth users.
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EasyGroup, the interactive company led by Stelios Haji-Ioannou, is considering launching mobile telephone services in the Netherlands, Greece and Germany following the planned roll-out of its maiden mobile business in Britain this spring.
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The amount consumers are charged for making mobile calls while abroad is to be investigated by EU regulators.
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54.5 million Europeans surfed the Web over a broadband connection, a 60 percent increase from 34.1 million 12 months earlier. AMSTERDAM: More than half of Europe&#39;s Internet surfers now have a high-speed broadband
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They plug in to a broadband connection jack and a standard home phone jack and can send and receive Skype calls over the Internet as well as calls from a regular home phone number.
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More than half of Europe&#39;s Internet surfers now have a high-speed broadband connection at home, which has helped to push the number of Web users in Europe through the 100 million mark, a survey found on Thursday.
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Ring, Ring. Someone answer the computer. Voice-over-Internet Protocol got a boost today as The Federal Communications Commission ruled that providers of the service are exempt from some major state regulations
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British mobile phone giant Vodafone said it planned to launch a high-speed broadband Internet service for its millions of customers in Britain.
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Telecoms standards group seeks developers