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Flat services performance hits BT revenues
A decline in the wholesale business and a flat performance in the global services business hit BT in the second quarter. The telco giant saw its Global Services division increase revenues by just 1% for the three months ended 30 September to £... News | 03 Nov 2011
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BE Wholesale pollinates Daisy channel
Daisy Wholesale has announced a new partnership with BE Wholesale to offer O2 broadband services to its channel partners, extending its existing mobile-centric relationship with O2. BE'sservices will be made available to its 1,000-strong partner comm... News | 02 Nov 2011
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Channel all dressed up for Halloween
The channel has come out in force for Halloween, withthe offices ofManchester-based networking and comms distie Nimans (pictured above) among thoseresembling scenes from a very busy horror movie as staff dressed up to raise money for the National Dea... News | 31 Oct 2011
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BT launches broadband recruitment drive
BT is to recruit 520 new engineers in the UK as it brings forward £300m of investment in its commercial fibre broadband venture, with the bulk being hired from ex-armed forces personnel. The telco today said it was speeding up its roll-out of s... News | 31 Oct 2011
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Smartphone sales boost Samsung Q3
The success of Samsung's Galaxy smartphone fuelled a 37% increase in its telecom business in Q3 and helped to offset declining sales at its semiconductor and display panel operations. The results revealed the telecom unit contributed nearly 60% of th... News | 28 Oct 2011
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Motorola split pays off for strengthening Solutions biz
Motorola Solutions, the enterprise and public-sector facing networking vendor that split from Motorola Mobility in a velvet divorce at the start of 2011, has turned in adecent performance during the third quarter, with sales rising 10% andnet profit ... News | 28 Oct 2011
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ShoreTel Q1 revenues up but UK and EMEA may struggle to hit 20% growth target
Shoretel added more than 1,000 customers and increased its global market share in the Pure IP telephony market as Q1 revenues rose 22%. Gross margin for the quarter ending 30 September was down slightly at 65.9% and the company reported a GAAP loss o... News | 28 Oct 2011
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Entanet resellers get access to BE Wholesale services
Wholesale voice and data comms provider Entanet has signed an agreement to provide BE Wholesale's ADSL2+ broadband connections alongside its BT-based portfolio. Entanet, which has been conducting ordering and provisioning trials with BE, expects to m... News | 27 Oct 2011
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Retail data booms for Virgin Media, but sales still fall flat
Double digit growth in retail data sales were not enough to offset declines in retail voice and wholesale voice and data at Virgin Media Business (VMB), which has turned in third quarter sales of £154m, up just 1.2% year-on-year. A4.4% slide in... News | 27 Oct 2011
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Sony takes control of smartphone destiny
Sony has taken full control of its smartphone destiny and sketched out its ambitions for the market after buying Ericsson's stake in the Sony Ericsson joint venture for just over $1bn. The purchase appears to lay the ground for Sony to follow the... News | 27 Oct 2011