[02.06.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Ensuring Ireland is a level playing field for alternative operators to win business and provide competitive services is an all-consuming passion for the new chairman of ALTO.
While forum after forum is created by pundits, stakeholders and government ministers around the nebulous topic of next-generation networks (NGNs), alternative operators […]

[29.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Google has brought its popular Google Earth feature to the browser.
The search company has unveiled the Google Earth API and browser plug-in.
The API will allow developers to quickly and easily use 3D mapping information on their own web pages, utilising the same technologies Google uses in its desktop […]

[29.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]From a fledgling start-up in 1996, Oliver Coughlan has transformed mobile operator O2 from a voice and text network to a full broadband provider
The current debate in the Irish telecoms industry centres around the building of next-generation networks (NGNs) and, of course, how the country will ensure high-speed […]

[28.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Cable & Wireless has signed a five-year €125m contract with Tesco to create a new next-generation telecommunications network for the retail group’s UK and international operations.
The company will become the exclusive supplier of data, fixed and mobile voice telecommunications to Tesco in the UK, streamlining the group’s existing […]

[27.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Irish-headquartered mobile services firm Anam has been named one of the three Top Innovators in the US leg of the 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition in the category of ‘Most Innovative Mobile Application in a Vertical Market’.
This innovation award was given to Anam for services including its […]

[27.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]According to O2’s current technology roadmap, 1Mbps handsets using EDGE technology will debut in the Irish marketplace by the middle of next year, the company’s outgoing chief technology officer, Oliver Coughlan, told siliconrepublic.com.
While there is much speculation over whether Apple will introduce a 3G version iPhone on 9 […]

[26.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]More mobile solutions are becoming available and there is a willing market for them among SMEs.
The novelty of being able to pick up and send email from a BlackBerry has been replaced by an expectation of choice from businesses, according to Billy D’Arcy, O2’s head of corporate […]

[23.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]O2 Ireland has introduced a new service whereby mobile phone customers can sign up for a post-paid product without having to sign a contract.
Under the O2 Clear SIM package, mobile phone users are required to give just 30 days notice if they wish to withdraw.
“Our customers have been […]

[22.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Ireland needs to move quickly to future fibre networks, otherwise it risks not only trailing at the bottom of the OECD broadband league-tables but dropping off the tables altogether, experts claim.
A report in recent days found that while Ireland recorded one of the highest increases in broadband adoption […]

[21.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]A new service – BT Innovate – that caters for IT management in the SME space has been launched today by BT Ireland.
Organisations using the new service will have their IT managed from BT’s remote management facility and the company claims it is a cost-effective way of running […]