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Mobile TV excites

The findings of two consumer trials into mobile television and radio, organised by telecoms players BT, o2 and Virgin and digital broadcast specialist Arqiva, come as a welcome vindication to the legion of UK firms seeking to capitalise on the market. Read

Companies: ANV BT.A OOM UBC

YOO

Ericsson selects Marconi

Swedish telecommunications equipment behemoth Ericsson, the world’s top maker of mobile phone network equipment, is buying the bulk of crestfallen Marconi for £1.2 billion ahead of a forecast demand boom for fixed and mobile broadband Internet. Read

Companies: BT.A ECK

MONI RGO SMY

Happy talk

The email age may be well and truly upon us but, for teenagers at least, the lure of the phone remains as strong as ever, or so latest research from US-based organisation Pew suggests. Read

Companies: BT.A CPW

BT gives smaller players a fillip

Small telecoms resellers received a welcome fillip in mid-June when sector leader BT bowed to regulatory pressure to lower its wholesale prices. Read

Companies: BT.A

Capacity war launched

BT upped the ante in the already furious battle of the broadband service providers last month, announcing that it is doubling the amount of bandwidth available to business customers.

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Companies: BT.A PNT

VoIP dilemma

Broadband was the undisputed technology success of 2004, with customer connection rates easily outstripping analyst expectations. Yet it is the supplementary technologies that broadband facilitates that possess the potential to truly revolutionise the communications industry.

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Companies: PNT

Broadband drives BT forward

Consumer demand for broadband services continues to boost the telecoms market, with the latest research from sector analyst Telecom Markets revealing that more than five million UK households (20 per cent of the market) now possess a high-speed internet connection. Moreover, according to Telecom Markets, this figure continues to rise exponentially with a total of eight million connections expected to be up and running by the end of 2005.

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Companies: THUS

Broadband optimism

Collective telecom sector valuations may continue to lag some way behind the two-year highs set back in mid-January, but for the majority of individual companies, the omens remain largely positive.

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