• NEW MEDIA

  YouTube achieves 4bn daily views

  23.01.2012 Streaming is up 25pc in the last eight months

  

• COMMS

  Mobile money boom

  25.01.2012 3V moves into Dutch mobile money market

  

• START-UPS

  Social TV's shiny future

  22.01.2012 Axonista set to revolutionise future of social TV

  

• COMMS

  Vodafone reports 200k fixed line customers

  20.01.2012 Mobile giant three years into Irish fixed line market

  

• COMMS

  Do the Irish people want to pay an internet tax?

  19.01.2012 Does broadband access mean you watch TV?

  

Latest News

• Almost half of garda stations have no internet 13.02.2012

  Almost 300 of Ireland's 700 garda stations have no access to the internet or email, it has been reported.

• Dublin telecoms tech firm wins deal in Sudan 13.02.2012

  Dublin-based telecoms technology company i-conX Solutions has been chosen to deploy its routing optimisation technology by Sudanese telecoms company Canar.

• Cubic Telecom signs MVNO deal with Vodafone in the UK 13.02.2012

  Entrepreneur Pat Phelan's Cubic Telecom low-cost call and data service has signed a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) agreement with Vodafone in the UK to sell voice, text and data services as an operator in its own right.

• Alcatel-Lucent strategy takes complexity out of tablets and smartphones 07.02.2012

  Communications technology giant Alcatel-Lucent has revealed a new strategy and portfolio aimed at helping telecoms operators to differentiate themselves in the burgeoning smartphone and tablet business.

• Global internet usage via handsets doubles in January 06.02.2012

  World internet usage via mobile devices - with the exception of tablet computers - has almost doubled to 8.5pc, up from 4.3pc last year, according to StatCounter.

• Every Irish secondary school to get 100Mbps broadband by 2014 06.02.2012

  By 2014, every secondary school in Ireland will have 100Mbps broadband, Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte, TD, and Education Minister Ruairi Quinn, TD, said today. The national rollout will see 200 more schools connected by September and a further 450 by 2014.

• UK broadband prices set to fall following Ofcom changes 06.02.2012

  Broadband prices in the UK are set to fall as a result of new changes proposed by regulator Ofcom that will affect wholesale provider Openreach.

• ASAI upholds Magnet 'fastest broadband' complaint against UPC 03.02.2012

  In what seems like a case of 'my data pipe is bigger than your data pipe', the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI) has upheld a complaint by Magnet objecting to UPC advertising its product as 'Ireland's fastest broadband.'

• Holy smokes! BT plans to offer 300Mbps broadband across UK 03.02.2012

  Following successful trials of FTTP on Demand in Cornwall, BT says it will soon be able to offer end users speeds of up to 300Mbps anywhere on BT's fibre footprint, including Northern Ireland.

• UK broadband speeds are 22pc faster than last year 02.02.2012

  Broadband speeds in the UK have shot up by 22pc on last year, a new survey by Ofcom reveals. Residential broadband speeds in November were 7.6Mbps, compared with 6.2Mbps a year earlier.

• Telefónica launches mobile network for youth market 01.02.2012

  O2's parent company Telefónica has launched a new standalone operator called '48' that will focus on the 18 to 22 year-old marketplace. The new operator will offer unlimited calls and texts to any other operator for €10 a month.

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