Essex County Council hopes to save £1.2 million a year with a framework agreement for next generation network (NGN) services that will also be available to other public sector bodies in the East of England.
BT has today revealed details of a £39 million five year contract with NATO's Consultation, Command and Control Agency (NC3A) to provide it with an extensive communications network.
London Underground has selected Virgin Media to offer free Wi-Fi in 80 tube stations in time for the summer's Olympic Games.
Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) does not increase broadband penetration in the UK's residential areas, according to research being carried out by Imperial College in London.
Joe Anthony, director of security, risk and compliance product management at IBM, has slammed the latest reforms to EU's data protection laws, claiming that 24 hours isn't long enough for companies to make meaningful notifications to authorities.
Researchers at Deutsche Telekom's Innovation Labs have broken the world record for transmitting data over a fibre optic network in a real-world environment, by more than doubling the speed of previous attempts.
CIOs and IT managers need to focus less on cost reduction when renewing contracts and more on innovation, according to Ovum analyst Evan Kirchheimer, who was speaking at a BT roundtable on intelligent networks.
Financial services provider Standard Life has signed a £30 million outsourcing deal with BT, which will manage the company's communications infrastructure for the next five years.
East Sussex County Council has revealed details of its plans to roll-out superfast broadband across the region, where it has said it will require "significant private sector investment" to make the project work.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is seeking a strategic partner to offer it advice and support on its Defence Core Network Services (DCNS) change programme, in a deal that could reach as much as £80m.
Investment bank Citigroup has entered into a multi-million pound deal to help finance the rollout of fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) gigabit broadband services to 'second-tier' cities across the UK.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has decided that the Department for Education has to respond to a freedom of information request asking for data sent in a private email account, as it amounts to departmental business.
Google has implemented its highly controversial new privacy policy, despite requests from EU regulatory bodies to delay it until further investigations into its impact have taken place.
The Department of Health has awarded a contract that could be worth up to £30m to a UK based SME, Methods Consulting, to provide the NHS with an electronic recruitment service.
Over half of public servants (56 per cent) working in an IT or commercial function do not know where their organisation stands in the process of adopting a public services network (PSN), according to a new survey.