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BT Group, the largest UK fixed-line phone company, can’t recover “hundreds of millions of pounds” of fees it paid to connect customers with Vodafone Group and other mobile operators, a London court ruled

Orange is hoping to revive its standing in the UK broadband market by merging its fixed-line network with the country’s fixed-line incumbent operator BT.

As expected, UK communications regulator Ofcom has proposed cuts in interconnection fees.

UK based landline operator BT has announced a five year managed services agreement that will see BT Wholesale consolidate O2's mobile and fixed core networks in the UK into one network using BT's 21st Century Network platform.

Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) technology is on its way to becoming an official 3G standard, according to an Unstrung report. The 3GPP’s GERAN working group approved the change request that adds support for 3G core network interfaces to the UMA specification at a meeting in Vancouver, Canada, last month.

Vodafone UK has struck a deal with BT to use the UK fixed-line incumbent's new "21CN" IP-based network for mobile backhaul. The deal is aimed at ramping up Vodafone's backhaul capacity in order to support high-bandwidth mobile services without requiring it to invest in its own infrastructure.

BT, the UK's fixed-line incumbent operator, today unveiled a plan to give away smartphones to its broadband customers in a bid to capture a portion of the UK's mobile market.