Tagged: Cable & News
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Telecoms consortium to build undersea cable system linking India, Far East, Mideast News
01.05.2013 The growth of new services and applications in the Far East, Middle East, and the Indian sub-continent will receive support in the form of a new 100Gbps submarine cable system... -
Sea Fibre Networks’ C-fibre solution links Dublin to Paris News
29.04.2013 Carrier-neutral fibre player Sea Fibre Networks is enabling the cloud economy with the expansion of its C-Fibre portfolio from the greater Dublin area to Paris, via London. -
Cloud Valley plan to make Cork a tech gateway to Europe News
09.04.2013 Local internet service providers (ISPs) and technology organisations in Cork City are putting their weight behind Cloud Valley, an ambitious plan to develop fibre infrastructure...Categories: Communications, Economy, Internet, Investments, Networking & Telecoms, Networks, Telecommunications -
Authorities arrest divers trying to cut undersea cable off Egyptian coast News
28.03.2013 Egypt's coastguard has arrested three divers reportedly trying to cut through a subsea internet cable of telecommunications company Telecom Egypt. The damage to the cable slowed... -
Google to sell Motorola Home business to Arris for US$2.35bn News
20.12.2012 Google is to sell its TV set-top box business Motorola Home, which it inherited earlier this year as part of its US$12.5bn acquisition of Motorola Mobility, to the... -
Ireland is nowhere near ‘digital heaven’ targets set out by European Commission News
05.12.2012 While EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes has set down ambitious Digital Agenda targets of all citizens getting superfast broadband by 2020, Ireland is only 36pc of the way towards... -
Youth revolution: half US and UK viewers consume TV via broadband News
28.11.2012 Some 50pc of US consumers and 48pc of UK consumers are watching over-the-top (OTT) video through a broadband connection on their TVs in addition to traditional cable or... -
Can tea dances prevent 200k homes from losing TV during ‘Digital Switchover’ on 24 October? News
17.09.2012 This afternoon, Ireland's Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte, TD, kicked off National Digital Switchover Week, 17-23 September. The very tone of the campaign suggests that... -
Ireland ranks below OECD average for fixed broadband penetration News
18.07.2012 Fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions reached 314m in the OECD area at the end of 2011, with year-on-year subscriptions rising by 4.1pc, but Ireland is lagging behind the... -
EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes’ Digital Agenda targets are achievable News
21.06.2012 European Commissioner Neelie Kroes’ Digital Agenda targets to achieve a minimum of 30Mbps broadband access across Europe are achievable and widespread coverage of 100Mbps is... -
Broadband demand in Ireland flattening out News
14.06.2012 Subscriptions for broadband in Ireland are holding steady but not showing any significant increase, the latest quarterly report from ComReg reveals. Overall internet... -
Weekend news roundup: another dot.com bubble, Iraq's telecoms boost, HSE conspiracy case News
16.04.2012 A roundup of technology news coverage in some of the weekend's newspapers, including the potential of another dot-com bubble with Facebook's US$1bn acquisition of Instagram,...Categories: Telecommunications, Science, R&D, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Energy, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Ireland has second-highest cost per megabit in EU News
14.03.2012 New research based on the Ookla Net Index reveals that Ireland is the second most expensive country in the EU for each megabit of data at US$8.85, only trumped by Cyprus at... -
Intel planning internet-based subscription TV service? News
13.03.2012 Intel is rumoured to be developing an internet-based TV service which could see it offer TV channels to US consumers online similarly to how cable and satellite TV subscriptions... -
BT uses Irish technology to battle copper thieves News
07.03.2012 BT is hoping to stem losses of up to stg£2,000 a day through the theft of copper cable by deploying state-of-the-art surveillance technology developed by Dublin company Kinesense. -
UK broadband speeds are 22pc faster than last year News
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... -
Hibernia Atlantic in fibre deal with Interxion News
22.11.2011 Transatlantic fibre cable provider Hibernia Atlantic is to host a point of presence for its cable system at Interxion’s DUB2 data centre. -
UPC hits 241,400 Irish broadband customers – up 31pc News
03.11.2011 Cable TV and telecoms provider UPC reported a net gain of 32,000 new subscribers in Q3. The company’s broadband subscriber base now stands at 241,400 subscribers. -
Ireland-UK under-sea fibre cable to go live in December News
27.09.2011 Described as one Europe’s most advanced sub-sea cable networks, CeltixConnect has revealed that its €15m Ireland to UK fibre optic network will go live on 12 December. -
99pc of UPC broadband customers to upgrade to 20Mbps News
20.07.2011 UPC is embarking on a major upgrade that will see 99pc of its existing broadband customers move to speeds of 20Mbps or higher. The company also revealed that one-third of...Categories: Networking & Telecoms, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Communications