Telecoms

  • EE to offer UK’s first 4G services

    EE to offer UK’s first 4G services

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    Everything Everywhere, the parent company of Orange and T-Mobile, has rebranded as EE and says it will offer its new 4G services exclusively through the new brand. The new brand will co-exist alongside Orange and T-Mobile. Last month Ofcom allowed the company to launch 4G mobile data services using its existing bandwidth. Other networks must…

  • Freesat announces new catch-up TV service

    Freesat announces new catch-up TV service

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    Freesat has unveiled the next generation of its subscription free satellite TV service. New Freesat boxes will include a backwards EPG plus catch-up content from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. iPlayer and ITV Player will be available at launch with 4oD and Demand Five promised by Christmas. Viewers will also have access…

  • How Sky and Virgin Media responded to the launch of YouView

    How Sky and Virgin Media responded to the launch of YouView

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    How have the UK’s pay TV giants responded to the launch the free TV & catch-up service?

  • Virgin Media launches new £18 per month phone, TV and broadband package

    Virgin Media launches new £18 per month phone, TV and broadband package

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    Virgin Media has launched a new budget ‘Collection’ of phone, TV and broadband services. Earlier this year the cable firm revamped its offerings into collections which combine all three services for a single monthly fee. The new Classic Collection includes Virgin Media’s TiVo service, 30Mb broadband and home phone for £18 per month plus landline…

  • O2 announces no Android 4.0 upgrade for Xperia ray, arc and neo

    O2 announces no Android 4.0 upgrade for Xperia ray, arc and neo

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    UK mobile operator O2 has said users of its Xperia ray, Xperia arc and Xperia neo handsets will not be getting upgraded to the latest version of Android. In a posting on its blog, the company said testing of the Sony supplied Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) upgrade “didn’t meet our requirements” and the handsets…

  • LOVEFiLM support claim YouView presence

    LOVEFiLM support claim YouView presence

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    A rogue tweet from the LOVEFiLM Twitter support team has boosted speculation that the movie-streaming service is poised to join YouView. The Amazon owned LOVEFiLM already features high on lists of content providers users of the Digital TV/IPTV platform want to see come on board. On Wednesday a LOVEFiLM Twitter support member told one YouView…