Tag: BT

700 Scottish payphones completely unused in 2015

Deadline News Journalist - October 5, 2016

MORE than 700 payphones in Scotland went through the whole of 2015 without a single phone call being made. BT is consulting on plans to...

I sink therefore I am: French ship Rene Descartes drops a cable

In Brief

Deadline News Journalist - September 22, 2014

PLANS to bring high-speed broadband to the Western Isles have been delayed after a ship’s crew dropped a £3.6m cable. The blunder in the Sound...

Communication breakdown hits village

In Brief

Peter Laing - February 7, 2013

A REMOTE Scottish village that campaigned for years to get mobile phone reception was plunged into a total communications blackout – after the landlines...

Ofcom to ban automatically renewing contracts

Business

Deadline News Journalist - September 13, 2011

CONTRACTS which automatically renew unless the customer opts out are to be banned by watchdog Ofcom. Currently telephone and broadband companies which operate “Automatically Renewable...