Tag: Communication

UK Post Office eyes mobile phone venture

Posted by | Nov 16, 2001 | |

Twenty years after it was split from British Telecommunications, the Post Office is considering a mobile phone business as part of its re-entry into telecoms.
Consignia, the state-owned group that runs the Royal Mail, is partnering Sweden’s pan-European telecoms operator, Tele2, to launch a fixed-line service next week that will use Post Office outlets and branding.
It is understood both parties see a mobile phone service as a logical next step if that operation is successful.
The move represents an effort by Consignia to expand its revenue base, which has been hit by the spread of e-mail and private postal companies.

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Tele2 to launch fixed line telephony in UK for the Post Office from Nov 19

Posted by | Nov 15, 2001 | |

Tele2 AB said it has won an order from the UK’s The Post Office to launch fixed line, “pay-as you-go” telephony services in the UK from Nov 19.
The deal marks the The Post Office’s first move into fixed line telephony since it was divested from British Telecommunications in 1981.
Tele2 AB’s chief executive officer, Lars-Johan Jarnheimer, said the deal provided it with “a very strong platform from which to attack the UK market” – the only major European country where it does not offer fixed line services.
Tele2 will provide the telecommunications expertise and infrastructure and The Post Office the branding and distribution network for the new service which will be positioned as a low cost brand for national long distance, international and fixed to mobile calls, and will, Tele2 said, offer customers substantial savings.

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SDS makes security upgrade

Posted by | Nov 14, 2001 | |

Hijackers who used insecure radio communications between trucks and their base to help them trace and rob vehicles in the Republic of Ireland later prompted the operator of the stricken vehicles to upgrade systems to a full fleet communications operation.

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Greek and Bulgarian Post & Telecommunications services to cooperate

Posted by | Nov 14, 2001 | |

Bulgaria’s Council of Ministers [on] Thursday [8 November] approved an agreement on cooperation in post offices and telecommunications with Greece, the Government’s Information and PR Directorate (IPRD) said. The agreement was signed in Sofia on 17 July 2001 and envisages exchange of information and specialists under various liberalization, consultancy and training programmes.
Bulgaria and Greece will cooperate in research and design of post-office and telecommunications equipment.

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Pass the parcel is no game for rival portals

Posted by | Nov 12, 2001 | |

The UK same-day courier market, with its thousands of small local operators, is, surely, just what the Internet was designed for. And two main products have emerged – financed in different ways, but both designed on the principle that if you can bring together a parcel or vital document and an empty-running driver, your electronic sub-contractor network can maintain service levels while improving efficiency.
How Courier Exchange & Expeditus operate

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