http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk Independent Telecommunications Consultants provide 03, 0800, 0844, 0845, 0870 and 0871 numbers and outbound solutions tailored specifically to meet the communication requirements of the corporate business market. http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/bt-return-to-profit.html BT is expected to announce that it has returned to the black, after recording its first loss for eight years in 2009, while disclosing that it has cut 5,000 more jobs than expected... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/cw-telecoms-2010-2020.html For the telecoms industry, the last few decades have seen a steep acceleration in the pace of change, technology maturity and business adoption of mission critical communication solutions... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/bt-axes-local-business.html BT is making deep cuts to its Local Business network this week, following a year and a half of plummeting sales... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/02-challenge-BT-landline-market.html Mobile phone giant O2 is going full-circle to challenge former owner BT in the £9billion-a-year landline market... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/dialling-codes-change.html Homes and businesses face telephone chaos when new dialling codes are introduced, it emerged yesterday... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/ofcom-bt-wholesale-charges.html The communications regulator Ofcom could allow BT to increase its charges to wholesale customers such as BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse to help plug its £9.4bn pensions deficit... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/telephone-numbers.html Telephone numbers are probably not the first thing that spring to mind when you think of important national resources, but they’re vital in keeping communications running smoothly across the UK and one of Ofcom's roles is to ensure they’re managed effectively... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/special-services-telephone-numbers.html Find our about Special Services numbers in the UK and how they can benefit you... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/bt-pension-deficit.html BT has revealed that the deficit of its final salary pension scheme has more than doubled in the past six months from 4bn pounds to 9.3bn pounds... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/further-bt-job-losses.html BT has already announced 15,000 job losses this year, and there are fears this could increase after profits almost halved... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/death-of-landline-phones.html British government workers are getting a two-day taste of life without fixed line phones... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/cw-revives-demerger.html Discord over multi-million pound bonus payouts is threatening to further delay Cable and Wireless's plan for a £3.6bn demerger... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/cw-bonus-battle.html Discord over multi-million pound bonus payouts is threatening to further delay Cable and Wireless's plan for a £3.6bn demerger... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/bt-3-ofcom-call-cuts.html Terminate the Rate, the campaign launched by mobile phone group 3 UK and telecoms giant BT, will today hand the communications watchdog a 114,000-strong petition calling for a cut to the cost of calling mobiles... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/ofcom-rogue-mobile-phone-contracts.html Regulator cracks down on sales tactics... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/orange-tmobile-floatation.html Orange and T-Mobile are mulling a money-spinning stock market flotation for their merged UK mobile business... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/orange-tmobile-merger.html Orange and T-Mobile are currently the third and fourth-largest mobile phone operators in the UK market... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/orange-tmobile-merger.html Deutsche Telekom's subsidiary T-Mobile UK and France Telecom's Orange are set to announce they are in exclusive talks to form a joint venture, sources familiar with the situation said... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/cw-mobile-industry.html Senior executive from the business communications company has revealed it is adding to its products with a mobile solution... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/vodafone-o2-tmobile-bid.html Vodafone and O2 are both believed to have made £3.5bn bids for T-Mobile in the UK, going head-to-head in the battle to create a mobile phone operator which would dominate the British market... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/bt-global-services-boss.html BT has replaced Royston Hoggarth as head of BT Global Services UK with former Cable & Wireless marketing director Mark Quartermaine, most recently head of the division's public sector business... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/european-telecoms-regain-ground.html European telecom stocks, one of the laggards in the market rally, deserve investors' favour for their attractive dividends and strong growth opportunities in emerging markets... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/att-apple-voip.html US telecoms giant AT&T has admitted that it struck a deal with Apple to prevent iPhone applications from using its network for VoIP... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/telecom-sector-improvement.html European telecoms sector to 'overweight', anticipating an improved economic climate in the second half... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/bt-graduate-training.html BT have disclosed that it will be suspending its graduate recruitment scheme... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/terminate-the-rate.html Almost unnoticed, and certainly much earlier than expected, Ofcom, the communications regulator, last week slipped out an interesting set of documents on its website. http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/phonepayplus-0871.html Research undertaken by PhonepayPlus shows that millions of consumers are happily using services on the 087 number range (which includes numbers beginning 0871, 2, and 3 but excludes 0870). http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/phone-companies-profits-fall.html Three of Europe's biggest telecoms firms have reported falling profits, but the results came in ahead of analysts' expectations. http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/o2-warns-ofcom.html O2 has warned regulators that a reduction in the charges levied by networks to connect calls will harm consumers. http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/ofcom-number-porting.html The telecoms regulator, which failed in its last attempt to shorten the time it takes to transfer a mobile-phone number from one operator to another, has revived the issue. http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/ofcom-bans-0870-revenue-sharing.html Companies with an 0870 helpline will no longer receive a cut of revenues generated from customer calls. http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/verizon-job-cuts.html Verizon Communications is to cut 8,000 jobs by the end of the year, as it reported a 21 per cent decline in profits. http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/mobile-operators-secret-tax.html The biggest mobile phone operators are profiting from a "secret" tax by forcing landline customers to pay high charges for connecting calls to their network. http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/bt-managers.html BT plans to pay its executives less than the industry average, it emerged today, relying instead on performance-related bonuses to try to motivate managers to improve the company's results. http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/bt-holiday-for-pay-cuts.html Telecommunications giant BT is offering staff the chance of long holidays in return for a big pay cut. http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/cable-wireless-next-gen.html Telecoms giant Cable and Wireless has officially started the implementation of its pan-European next-generation network with a massive upgrade to its core infrastructure. http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/t-mobile-bidding-war.html The prospect of a bidding war for T-Mobile UK was looming last night after it emerged that Telefónica is looking at the case for buying Britain's fourth largest mobile phone operator. http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/ni-communications-cable.html A transatlantic telecommunications cable which will connect Northern Ireland directly to the US for the first time has been brought ashore. http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/bt-staff-work.html BT is to 'loan' out its staff in a desperate attempt to avoid redundancies. Workers at the telecoms giant are being encouraged to move temporarily to other companies or public sector jobs. http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/ofcom-fixed-line-regulation.html The national telecoms regulator of the United Kingdom, Ofcom, notified the European Commission and all EU national regulators of a draft regulatory measure withdrawing most of the obligations placed on telecom operators in the retail telephony markets in the UK. These are the markets for analogue and digital (ISDN) telephone lines and calls for consumers and businesses. http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/cable-wireless-support.html Cable and Wireless has insisted it has the backing of many of its leading shareholders despite news that the Association for British Insurers (ABI) is considering a red top alert ahead of the telecom company's annual general meeting. http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/india-china-telecoms-growth.html Growth in the telecoms market during the first quarter of the year was largely down to consumers and businesses in China and India, a new report has revealed. http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/global-telecoms-growth-stalling.html Revenues at top global service providers increase just 3 per cent year over year. http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/bt-rally.html BT rallied last night, after a leading broker turned positive, citing management's moves to restructure the telecoms group. http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/communications-minister-quit.html Communications minister Lord Carter, Gordon Brown's ex-strategy chief, is set to leave his post. http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/broadband-2012.html The UK's five mobile phone networks are to meet with Lord Carter on July 2nd to try to consolidate a deal to get broadband internet access to everyone in the UK by 2012... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/news-bt-charges-rise-ofcom.html Regulator Ofcom has lifted the wholesale prices BT can charge to other telecoms operators to cover the cost of inflation and rising costs... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/bt-15000-jobs-cut.html BT has said it will cut about 15,000 jobs this year, mostly in the UK, and has reported an annual loss of £134m... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/virgin-media-competitor-network.html The firm's plans to rent out part of its fibre-optic infrastructure could both appease the regulator and increase revenues... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/news-reduced-cost-0870.html New Ofcom rules announced today should soon make it cheaper to call 0870 numbers... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/ofcom-rules-misselling.html Ofcom today set out new proposals to stamp out slamming and other forms of mis-selling in the fixed line telecoms market... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/european-116-helpline-numbers Ofcom today confirmed plans to introduce pan-European 116 helpline phone numbers in the UK and launched the selection process to allocate the first three 116 numbers... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/c&w-cuts.html Cable and Wireless said yesterday that more than 70 staff have left the group following its acquisition of Glasgow-based Thus, as it trimmed the number of redundancies it expects from the deal... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/c&w-earnings.html Telecoms firm Cable and Wireless has said it is on track to meet full-year earnings targets, having been helped by the recent weakness of the pound... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/phonepayplus-plan.html PhonepayPlus ensures smooth transition to premium rate regulation of 0871 number range with six month implementation plan... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/kcom-job-losses.html Hull telecoms firm Kcom has announced it is to shed 150 jobs as a result of an on-going review of its operations... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/bt-telephone-bills.html Just two weeks after winning praise for scrapping fees for its customers with call packages to call 0870 and 0845 numbers, BT has been criticised by industry experts for its latest round of price increases... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/bt-scraps-charges-0870-numbers.html BT has announced it will be scrapping charges for 0870 and 0845 numbers... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/free-0845-numbers.html From 16 January 2009, 14 million BT customers with any of their call inclusive packages will benefit from free calls to 0845 and 0870 numbers... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/colette-bowe-ofcom.html Colette Bowe has been confirmed as the next chair of communications regulator Ofcom... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/openreach.html Ofcom consults on a new range of proposed prices that Openreach can charge communication providers for access to its main wholesale telecoms services... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/bt-prices.html BT could soon be allowed to charge other telecoms operators up to 11pc more for using its network under plans announced by the communications watchdog Ofcom... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/long-distance-call.html The long-distance telephone call, without the help of an operator, has now turned 50... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/silent-calls.html Complaints from UK householders about silent calls from call centres have more than tripled, says Ofcom... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/bt-job-cuts-march.html BT says it expects to have cut 10,000 jobs by the end of the financial year... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/virgin-media-job-cuts.html Virgin Media to cut 2,200 workers in next four years... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/bt-final-salary-pension.html BT is proposing radical changes to its main pension scheme to save money... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/phones-4u-breaching-law.html Independent retailer Phones4U have broken the law over mis-selling mobile phone contracts, following a six-month investigation by telecoms regulator Ofcom... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/bt-pension-scheme.html BT is planning to raise the staff retirement age as its £37bn pension scheme - the largest private-sector guaranteed fund in Britain - looks set to drop into a multibillion-pound deficit after the collapse of global stockmarkets... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/bt-pension-scheme.html BT is planning to raise the staff retirement age as its £37bn pension scheme - the largest private-sector guaranteed fund in Britain - looks set to drop into a multibillion-pound deficit after the collapse of global stockmarkets... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/bt-shares-slump.html BT has issued a profit warning, due to poor performance in its global services unit, sending its shares 20 per cent lower... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/bt-job-cuts.html BT is expected to cut thousands of jobs worldwide at its Global Services division as the group announced a profit warning... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/ofcom-face-challenge.html Media regulation Ofcom are expected to confront difficult new challenges in the future... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/cable-and-wireless-demerger.html Cable and Wireless has postponed plans for a demerger until next year because of the turmoil in financial markets... http://www.independent-telecom-consultants-uk.co.uk/news-curbing-bills.html Ofcom today announced proposals to curb unfair additional charges levied by communications providers on consumers' bills...