Carphone Warehouse to pounce on LLU

Carphone Warehouse is poised to make a major investment in broadband technology. The Sunday Times reports that the mobile phone retailer plans to invest 'millions of pounds' on installing local loop unbundling (LLU) kit in BT exchanges. Carphone Warehouse currently has around 70,000 broadband customers connected via BT. ...more

BT uses bar-room technology to fine-tune fibre pipes

BT has solved a major problem en route to connecting UK homes and businesses with optical fibre using beer pipes. Technology used to join lengths of piping for delivering beer from barrel to bar proved ideal for joining optical fibres, which work best when they have as few joins as possible. Optical fibres will play a big part in BT's 21st Century Network programme, as they enable the delivery of high bandwidth content such as video. ...more

Investor to sue SCO over 'inconsistent' revenue forecast

Venture capital company BayStar is to launch legal action against SCO. Last Friday, SCO said that the US Security and Exchange Commission had declared effective the filings that retired BayStar's Series-A1 Preferred stock in return for cash and common stock. But BayStar quickly followed with a statement saying that SCO had breached the investment agreement between the two companies and that as far as it was concerned, it was still holding the Series-A1 Preferred stock and intended to file 'action requesting a declaratory judgment,' against the company. ...more

ISPs juggle prices, speeds in broadband battle

AOL is cutting prices by ?2 on its 256Kbps service to ?17.99 a month. The move by AOL on it's uncapped silver service mirrors BT, which pared ?2 off its own 512Kbps service to ?17. ...more

Apple should use our chips, says Intel exec

A senior Intel executive has lambasted Apple for using IBM chips in its new Power PC G5 computers. Pat Gelsinger, Intel's senior vice president and chief technology officer, says, unsurprisingly, that Apple should have used Intel chips instead, a mistake the company has been making for 20 years. 'I think Steve Jobs has made the wrong CPU choice for 20 years, he just added a few more years to the life of his bad decisions,' Gelsinger told the Edmonton Journal. ...more