While some operators in some countries (like the U.S. and Japan) have already celebrated birthdays for their LTE services, 4G in the UK hasn’t even been born yet. But now at least it looks like we might have a due date. UK regulator Ofcom today set out new proposals for…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is no stranger to patent lawsuits these days, but the latest development could be the first to see a carrier go after the search giant over such violations. UK-based BT (NYSE: BT), one of the biggest telcos in Europe, on Sunday filed suit against Google over patent…

Virgin Media’s TV and online commercial executive director Alex Green is defecting to BT (NYSE: BT) to become TV commercial and product director.

A new twist today in the battle of media companies trying to stop their content from being distributed by illegal means online: the UK’s main music trade body, the BPI, has today teamed up others in the creative industries to request BT (NYSE: BT), the UK’s leading broadband provider, to…

BT (NYSE: BT) Vision has become the fastest-growing pay-TV service in the UK, adding more customers in a quarter than BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) for the first time since launching more than four years ago.

In a major win for Hollywood, a High Court judge told the country’s biggest internet service provider, BT (NYSE: BT), that it has two weeks to block customers from accessing Newzbin2, a website where members share unauthorized copies of music and movies. And, in a move to prevent a whak-a-mole…

Frustrating news for those in the UK who have eagerly been awaiting the first 4G services. The country, home to some of the most mobile-savvy consumers in the world, is now facing a delay well into 2012 before its national operators can even begin to consider how they would deploy…

OnLive, which lets consumers play remotely-hosted games on multiple client devices, launches in the UK on Thursday through Game Group online retail and through BT (NYSE: BT), after the telco secured a 2.6 percent stake in the company with an earlier investment.

Hollywood film studios won a landmark UK high court ruling on Thursday forcing BT (NYSE: BT) to block access to an illegal file-sharing website accused of operating “on a grand scale”.

BT (NYSE: BT) added 251,000 DSL connections between April and June, while TalkTalk lost 27,000 broadband customers. BT signed up 71,000 fibre broadband customers in the quarter - but TalkTalk only 1,000.

Hollywood film studios will take their battle against illicit downloading to the high court in London on Tuesday in an attempt to force Britain’s largest internet service provider, BT (NYSE: BT), to block access to a website that allegedly distributes pirated material.

LTE is far from being a widely available technology, but operators in some countries—such as the U.S., Russia and Sweden—have been quicker off the mark to offer it than others. Today, the UK could have seen its first bid to join that group, as BT (NYSE: BT) and Everything Everywhere…

From BT’s quarterly earnings report… High-speed Infinity broadband (>40Mbps) is adding 5,000 customers a week (total 144,000). 

The Technology Strategy Board, a UK government-funded exploratory digital helper agency, is giving £1.8 million to a new consortium comprising Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), BT (NYSE: BT), the Internet Advertising Bureau and digital agency Somethin’ Else, to develop a “cloud radio” service codenamed “Apollo”.

One by-product of travelling to a different city—for example, Barcelona last week—is that it serves as a reminder that not everyone has to lose mobile connectivity when travelling on the city subway service, as we do on the London Underground. Now it looks like London may be catching up with…

BT (NYSE: BT) had a good last quarter of 2010 on broadband and IPTV sign-ups… BT Vision sign-ups doubled to 40,000 (highest for seven quarters). 188,000 broadband sign-ups (53 percent of the market). ARPU up £5 to £322 per year, “largely due to the increasing penetration of broadband in our…

BT (NYSE: BT) says it added 24,000 IPTV customers between July and September - a third more than the same time last year - taking it up to 520,000. Over 50,000 have subscribed through BT Vision to Sky Sports, which was added in August after Ofcom ruled BSkyB (NYSE: BSY)…

The IPTV news is coming thick and fast this week, not least because the IBC conference is happening in Amsterdam… —Miniweb: The interactive TV company is launching “Woomi”, a brand which includes online video content from several distributors, as a service on Samsung’s Internet@TV gateway. It will afford pay-for video.…

BT (NYSE: BT) Vision quarterly sign-ups slowed to their lowest for two years during Q2, as the hybrid Freeview/IPTV service added 14,000 customers, taking it up to 481,000. BT clocked six percent higher EBITDA of £1.39 billion, despite four percent lower revenue of £5 billion.