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Work from home – who needs to commute?

It’s every office worker’s dream – working from home in your PJs, no commuting and a comfortable, familiar environment without all the background noise and day to day stress of office life. But how realistic is it to think that we could all change the way we work in the future? Where you live is [...]

US Open Range satellite broadband project going no-where

Despite a bailout, desperate last-minute deals and grand promises to connect six million people to the Internet, US provider Open Range has closed up shop. The firm has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in America, laying off most of the staff and leaving thousands of rural communities out in the digital cold. Their grand plan [...]

Defra; reviewing the importance & future of rural broadband communications

It might sound a little obvious, but Defra has released a new document which concludes that if rural communities are to continue to thrive, then they need a diverse range of businesses and work opportunities to enable them to‘flourish’. In the past, Defra has been criticised in some circles for talking the talk but not [...]

Iridium launches Pilot – global satellite broadband at sea

The flexibility and reach of satellite broadband has increased significantly this week as specialist satellite operator Iridium Communications launched their 2nd generation maritime broadband platform – Iridium Pilot. (More on our Iridium products). Designed to operate in the harshest of briny environments, Pilot utilises Iridium Open Port services to deliver broadband connectivity and three independent [...]

Virgin Broadband – not flying quite so high

Well, this is embarrassing. Right in the middle of an major advertising campaign to promote the new Virgin Money banking service and basing their main sales pitch on their ’40 years of excellence’, Virgin Media’s broadband and cable customers weren’t quite so satisfied with Mr Branson last week. A UK wide failure of their ADSL [...]

Satellite option being ignored

Broadband customers in rural areas are missing out on faster download speeds because officials in the UK are not giving enough consideration to satellite options, a satellite hardware manufacturer has claimed. Satellite equipment company Hughes Network Systems says that despite clearly mandated government targets, service providers and local authorities are struggling to reach these goals [...]

Scrap metal theft damaging businesses. Do you have backup broadband in place?

Metal crime is on the rise. Like magpies intent on stealing something shiny, criminal gangs have realised that there’s money to be made by offering suspect scrap to unscrupulous dealers. The trouble is that one man’s scrap is another man’s broadband cable, gas pipe or a train signal cable – and it’s starting to have [...]

UK needs to embrace mobile satellite says EU

The EU has made a formal representation to the British Government stating it needs to take stronger steps to embrace new mobile satellite broadband technology. The UK is one of twenty one EU member states that have been formally approached by the European Commission (EC) and asked to urgently get on board with the European [...]

Satellite broadband to help SME’s with outages

Despite repeated warnings from the Government and risk management professionals, many small and medium enterprises (SME’s) still don’t take disaster preparedness seriously until it’s too late. Successive harsh winters and an increasing reliance on mission critical, web based applications have led the UK Government to be increasingly persistent in their recommendations. The Cabinet Office has [...]

Questions over fibre network future

Research by a leading scientist raises questions as to whether fibre optic technology is capable of being the universal solution for high-speed broadband that many people think. The future expansion of global broadband communications has been thought to have been guaranteed by fibre optics, and indeed most developed countries have been investing in a fibre [...]

Four million UK savers miss out

New research out this week from the consumer’s champion ‘Which?’ indicates that the High Street Banks are offering a raw deal to offline customers. British homes without internet access or who don’t bank online are missing out on the best rates on financial products. The Which? study uncovered that online savers could be hundreds of [...]

Carrier pigeons faster than some rural broadband

The use of carrier pigeons dates back to the Egyptians 3,000 years ago, but yesterday a race between 10 pigeons and a 300 Mb video file dispatched on a rural broadband connection highlighted the not-spot misery of as many as a third of the UK’s homes. The pigeons each carrying a USB key made their [...]

Welsh Broadband Support Scheme Takes Off

New figures out from the UN ahead of 2010 Millennium Development Goals Summit in New York on 19th September show a global disparity in the cost of fixed line broadband. Crucially poorer countries that would benefit most from having broadband to assist in things like education and telemedicine are the most costly places to get [...]

Universal 2 Mbps Delayed At Least Three Years

The new Government has come clean on the news that many have suspected for some time. It doesn’t have the money to fulfil the previous Government’s widely criticised Broadband Britain commitment of a universal 2 Mb broadband connection for all the UK by 2012. When it was announced last year by ex Communications Minister Lord [...]

Study shows the internet essential to modern life

The prominent Joseph Roundtree Foundation (JRF) has released its annual report on the public’s opinion on what UK people need to earn to achieve a socially acceptable standard of living. Despite the austere financial climate, those questioned in the research haven’t reduced what they consider to be life’s bare essentials. They still feel as a [...]

BT quoted pensioner in Wales £152,000 to connect to broadband

BT has apparently quoted a pensioner living in rural Wales £152,000 to be connected to broadband. Beverley McCartney, who lives in Salem near Llandeilo in South West Wales, was told previously by BT that they couldn’t offer her a connection. But they’ve relented and finally wrote to her last week and told her that they [...]

Reserve your IsatPhone Pro here!

Global Satellite Broadband ISP Tariam has released more information on its new world beating, small satellite phone ‘IsatPhone Pro’ and is now taking reservations ahead of the first handset deliveries expected in June 2010. IsatPhone Pro is the first global satellite phone that’s truly pocket sized and that has similar functionality to modern GSM cellular [...]

Stunning deal for satellite broadband home users

If you’re on dial-up or don’t have access to fixed line broadband, we’ll save you money – read on! At the launch of the company’s new cheaper home user offering, Tariam Managing Director, Andrew Walwyn says the question customers most often ask him is “why do I have to pay for the equipment and set [...]

Amazon adventure for the BBC with BGAN X-Stream

The BBC unleashed the portable power of BGAN X-Stream to cover the bold bid by TV presenter Helen Skelton to kayak the length of the Amazon for charity. Helen, 26, successfully completed her solo kayak journey along 2,010 miles of the great Amazon River at the end of February. The BBC used BGAN X-Stream to [...]

Tariam & Eutelsat fix Garage owner’s broadband nightmare

  Left to Right Mark Williams MP, Lynn Davis, Steve Petrie and Tariam Director Selwyn Petterson Aberystwyth, Wales, 19th March 2010 Aberystwyth garage owner Lynn Davies is celebrating after his Internet connection problems were finally solved with the help of the local MP, a county councillor and the Eutelsat Tooway™ Satellite Broadband service installed and [...]