http://www.thinkbroadband.com en The large sum of money involved in the partnership between Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy looks set to allow Carphone Warehouse to expand its grip on the telephone and broadband market across Europe. http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3542-carphone-warehouse-gets-1-1bn-for-share-of-retail-stores.html Fri, 09 May 2008 11:21:27 +0100 After a period of time when the service was available to BT staff, the smartphone service which provides Wi-Fi and GPRS access when out and about is available to the general public. http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3540-bt-retail-launches-its-bt-togo-smartphone.html Thu, 08 May 2008 11:05:27 +0100 Virgin Media is continuing to grow in the face of growing competition. http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3541-virgin-media-adds-88-400-cable-broadband-customers-in-last-quarter.html Thu, 08 May 2008 11:00:01 +0100 For once a town outside the major cities in the UK looks set to be at the cutting edge of internet access. http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3539-bournemouth-picked-for-fibre-roll-out-by-h2o-networks.html Thu, 08 May 2008 09:08:50 +0100 The latest industry update reveals a grand total of some 4,486,000 lines that have been unbundled. http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3538-april-update-from-telecommunications-adjudicator.html Wed, 07 May 2008 12:57:57 +0100 Virgin Media has updated its website with information on Phorm and the Webwise service that it is currently evaluating, indicating that it has not signed a commitment to actually implement the system. http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3536-virgin-clarify-agreement-with-phorm.html Fri, 02 May 2008 15:02:00 +0100 PlusNet have increased the included usage available on their Broadband Your Way packages and also released a new usage calculator to check how much you use a week. http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3535-plusnet-rejig-broadband-your-way-packages.html Thu, 01 May 2008 16:54:44 +0100 O2 have released businesses broadband packages and also increased their broadband coverage nationwide by using the BT wholesale network where O2 have not unbundled exchanges. http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3534-o2-release-business-broadband-and-nationwide-coverage.html Thu, 01 May 2008 15:54:17 +0100 Yesterday saw the official launch of Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC) on BT's new 21CN platform which will kick start the roll out of their ADSL2+ platform offering faster speeds to broadband users. http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3533-21cn-s-wbc-quietly-goes-live.html Thu, 01 May 2008 12:15:13 +0100 Today sees the launch of the iPlayer to another new platform, available on demand to 3.5 million Virgin Media cable TV subscribers. http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3532-iplayer-available-on-virgin-media-tv.html Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:31:59 +0100 The deadline to submit bids for the purchase of Tiscali of May 5th is fast approaching. http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3531-deadline-to-buy-tiscali-approaching.html Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:59:23 +0100 Sky have increased their broadband subscriber base by 229,000 in the first quarter of this year, 41% of which were new customers to Sky. http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3530-sky-broadband-customer-numbers-up-19.html Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:59:19 +0100 BT are to develop an alternate method to record your opt-out status to Phorm as opposed the default cookie based system. There are also still concerns with regards the legality of the opt-in system with regards multiple users of a computer. http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3529-bt-to-implement-better-phorm-opt-out.html Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:35:20 +0100