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Telecoms News
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Arcatech Limited in Lisburn is investing over £450,000 with support from Invest Northern Ireland to design and develop an innovative new product for the global telecoms market.
The company provides simulation and test equipment for network operators, telecoms equipment manufacturers, laboratories and universities throughout Europe, the USA and South East Asia.
Arcatech’s new product will be a testing system which will enable its customers to verify that their equipment operates effectively with the IMS network which provides for IP/Multimedia services. |
 Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has welcomed a £25million upgrade to Northern Ireland’s 2G and 3G telecommunications networks.
The Minister was speaking after a meeting with representatives from mobile companies Three UK, Everything Everywhere and Mobile Broadband Network Limited who are jointly funding the initiative. When the upgrade is completed at the end this year, the companies predict 3G coverage at 94%, a significant improvement on existing levels and in network performance and customer experience. |
February 07, 2012 |  |
 BT Business today announced a new 1p broadband and phone deal to help small and medium businesses in Northern Ireland get more value from their communications spend. In the competitive communications marketplace, BT Business is committed to supporting local businesses growth and expansion with business broadband, phone and mobile packages for just 1p each month* for the first three months.
Business broadband from BT features speeds of up to 40Mbps with our fibre option (dependent on line and location) and unlimited Wi-Fi minutes giving access to over 142,000 Northern Ireland hotspots. |
Telecoms entrepreneur Denis O’Brien will give an inspirational talk at the University of Ulster’s Belfast campus tomorrow.
The Irish businessman will be guest speaker at Belfast-based chartered accountants, FPM’s 20th Anniversary Leadership Lecture, hosted by broadcaster Gerry Kelly.
Denis O'Brien is one of Ireland's and indeed the world's leading entrepreneurs with extensive investments across several sectors including international telecoms, radio, media, property, aircraft leasing, golf and other leisure interests. |
 Cable&Wireless Worldwide has made two new senior appointments, it was announced today. Sean Mahon has been appointed as managing director of THUS, a Cable&Wireless Worldwide business and will also have overall responsibility for the Cable&Wireless Worldwide Mid-Market Channel. Meanwhile, Stephen Colgan has been appointed head of sales Ireland at Cable&Wireless Worldwide. |
January 11, 2012 |  |
 Newtownabbey based Northgate Managed Services (Northgate) has further cemented its reputation as one of the UK’s leading providers of ICT services by being named as Classroom 2000’s (C2k) preferred supplier for the new ‘Education Network Northern Ireland’ (ENNI) contract. The news was announced today at BETT 2012, Europe’s largest education ICT event in London.
The five year contract will see Northgate design, implement and manage a completely new and innovative Private Cloud environment for all schools in NI, providing secure access to resources online, 24 x 7 from a wide range of devices. |
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster today welcomed the announcement that Belfast is to benefit from the £100million urban broadband fund announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his Autumn Statement.
BT and Virgin Media have supported this initiative and committed to strengthening their networks in winning cities by offering broadband services with 80-100Mbps potential.
Arlene Foster said: “It is right that Northern Ireland should continue to benefit from national telecommunications infrastructure programmes. |
October 11, 2011 |  |
 Worldwide integration and embedded telecoms specialists Asidua, is celebrating once again! During the 2011 National Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) Excellence Awards, the IT services provider was recognised as the leading work-related learning employer in the UK.
Since forming in 2002 Asidua, has played a pivotal role in the ongoing development of local students. |
September 22, 2011 | |
 22 September 2011
For the third successive year, Newtownabbey-based Northgate Managed Services (Northgate) is offering young people a career development opportunity in Information Technology (IT) through the recruitment of up to 10 apprentices.
The announcement reflects the strength of the IT sector and in particular the demand for IT & Telecoms professionals in Northern Ireland which is forecasted to grow by 3.71% in the next decade. |
 Using proprietary technology, telecoms solutions company CMASS is providing dial plan changes for a global business information provider in 14 sites across 10 countries. Due to be fully completed at the end of September 2011, these changes are part of a global rationalisation programme within the organisation and will improve user-friendliness for this world leader in news and business information services.
The project involves converting multiple digit numbers to 7 digit numbers for over 12,000 extensions on Meridian 1 and CS1000 telephone switches in the 14 locations, including Brazil, Australia, Canada, Germany and Japan. |
September 01, 2011 |  |
Causeway’s relationship with the London-based asset management company deepens following three years of cost-effective, on-demand IT infrastructure management and application development services
London & Belfast, Sep 1st, 2011 – London-based asset manager CCLA has further extended its relationship with Causeway, the application management services arm of Kainos, in the run-up to the launch of a major new fund by the company.
CCLA provides specialist investment services to not-for-profit organisations, and they have recently launched The Public Sector Deposit Fund, a triple-A rated cash fund for local authorities and other public sector bodies
The launch of the new fund required a major upgrade to CCLA’s business-critical dealing and registration system. CCLA instinctively entrusted the redevelopment work to Causeway Application Management Services, which provides critical infrastructure and application support services to the company. |
 New research from Ofcom shows that consumers in Northern Ireland are among the most enthusiastic consumers of communications technology in the UK.
92 per cent of Northern Ireland residents use a mobile phone and of those people, almost a quarter have a smartphone (23 per cent).
Furthermore, Northern Ireland leads the way across the UK for sending text messages (93%), taking photos with a mobile (71%), sending photo messages (64%) and playing games on their phone (31%). |
July 30, 2011 | |
 In recognition of their ‘Delivering the Customer Promise’ training initiative, Surrey County Council were crowned winners of the Asidua sponsored ‘Contact Centre Training’ award during the recent Good Communication Awards.
Now in its seventh year, the Good Communication Awards promotes and encourages the public sector’s efforts towards effective communication with its citizens and its workforce. Hosted by former newspaper editor, writer and broadcaster Eve Pollard, this year’s event was held in the magnificent surroundings of Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium. |
 The Next Generation Broadband Project has completed on time and on budget, Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has announced.
Over £52million has been invested in the telecommunications infrastructure as part of the project, which involved the introduction of new technology to increase broadband speeds, primarily for businesses users, across Northern Ireland.
The Minister said: “The initial construction phase of this project to develop Northern Ireland’s telecommunications infrastructure completed on time and on budget and Next Generation Broadband Services are available. |
July 28, 2011 |  |
Employment and Learning Minister, Dr. Stephen Farry, and Enterprise Minister, Arlene Foster, today jointly launched the Software Testers Academy.
The pilot training programme aims to provide graduates with the skills and experience required to take up exciting new opportunities in the IT industry. |
 Fujitsu is pleased to announce the extension of its highly successful contract with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) for the provision and management of its ICT Managed Services.
The initial 5-year, £34m contract was signed in 2008 and saw the PSNI reduce the complexity of its service management by consolidating its existing, multiple IT service providers into a single provision by Fujitsu. This included the Service’s service desk, fixed line telephony network, data networks (covering WAN and LAN), desktop and laptop computer requirements, applications hosting services, a network of static and mobile automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras and a range of applications support services. |
Local graduates could miss out on hundreds of highly paid software testing jobs that are expected to be created here in the next few years because many are unaware of major new opportunities arising in the industry or they believe they will not be suited to them.
That is the concern of a group of 20 companies in Northern Ireland who have come together to encourage people to consider a career in the fast expanding field of software quality assurance. The group which was brought together by Invest Northern Ireland includes multinational firms such as Openwave, Deloitte, Allstate, NYSE and Liberty IT as well as leading local employers including Almac, First Derivatives and Replify. |
June 09, 2011 | |
 Following their successful partnerships with Disability Action and the NSPCC, global IT services provider Asidua, is now aiming to make a ‘Big Impression’ with their new charity of the year TinyLife.
Since forming in 2002, the telecoms and data integration specialist’s dedicated CSR policy has continued to be at the heart of its business operations. In 2009 they expanded this commitment further by announcing a new initiative, the Asidua Charity of the Year, which sees the company engage and support a specific employee nominated charity each year. |
May 03, 2011 | |
 Leading Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) campaigners, Asidua, continued their remarkable community support initiatives by raising £10,053.91 to assist the NSPCC in their fight to end child cruelty across the UK.
Since forming in 2002, the telecoms and data integration specialist’s dedicated CSR policy has continued to be at the heart of its business operations. |
May 02, 2011 |  |
Ofcom Press Release April 21, 2011
The most complained about major telecoms providers were today revealed by Ofcom,.. |
 Omiino Limited, a Belfast-based telecoms start-up, has been acquired by Xilinx – the world's leading provider of programmable logic devices – which is based in San Jose, California.
Omiino was founded in mid-2007 through an initial funding round of $1.5m led by Belfast-based Crescent Capital.
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March 28, 2011 | |
 Belfast based global IT services company Asidua, have expanded their successful Scholarship Programme for local IT and Engineering students, with the placement of five new scholars for the 2010/2011 academic year.
Now in its third year the Asidua Scholarship Programme, which was launched in co-operation with both Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Ulster, aims to attract fresh talent into the IT sector by supporting new IT and Engineering students financially during their academic studies and professional careers.
During a recent award ceremony held at Asidua’s head offices in Belfast, the worldwide IT and telecoms specialists announced that their 2010/2011 Scholarship Programme was awarded to five new local students - Emma Davidson, Victoria Potts, Alan Foster & Christopher Kane (Queen’s University of Belfast) and Michael Telford (University of Ulster). |
March 02, 2011 |  |
 The Irish Times and InterTradeIreland this evening, March 2nd 2011, announced that Intune Networks is the winner of the overall ‘Innovation of the Year’ award. The winner was announced at an event hosted in the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Kilmainham and will receive a communications and advertising package from the Irish Times worth €200,000.
Intune Networks
Headquartered in Dublin, Intune Networks has plans to revolutionise the telecoms industry by changing the opportunities for service providers. |
February 15, 2011 | |
Building on recent business successes, global IT software services provider, Asidua, has announced a further significant achievement with the award of the ISO 27001 Information Security accreditation.
Since forming in 2002, Asidua has been actively committed to the key principles of ISO 9001 Quality Management, to help them deliver world-class services to their global client base. Recently the data and telecom integration specialists enhanced their successful working practices with their award of the ISO 27001 Information Security accreditation. |
December 22, 2010 | |
- Communications and IT services company responsible for more than 4,800 jobs in Northern Ireland
BT generated some £214 million for the Northern Ireland economy last year according to a report published today.
The report, by DTZ Consulting, also shows that the global communications company supports nearly 4,800 jobs in the local economy through direct employment, expenditure with contractors and suppliers and the spending of its employees.
The overall beneficial financial impact of BT activities is expressed as a “Gross Value Added” (GVA)* contribution. |
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