Category: Telecommunications

Wave Telecom is calling all islanders who are planning to travel to Jersey for Jersey Live 2010 to get involved in its sister company’s initiative to create Jersey’s largest ‘tagged’ photo of the event. Jersey Telecom will take a crowd photo from the main stage of the event on Saturday 4th September at 6pm which [...]

Building on its existing support for local music talent, Wave Telecom marks its commitment to supporting the local community as it announces its sponsorship of one of Guernsey’s longest running local music events. The Cobo Bay Hotel Balcony Gigs have been staged at the Hotel for the past 25 years and the third in the [...]

The launch of Sure Indie, a third payment option for mobile phone users, is set to shake up the island’s telecoms market. For the first time, islanders will be able to choose a mobile service which provides the benefits of call minute and text message bundles without the need to sign up to a contract. [...]

Two of the biggest telecommunications aerials in the island have been removed from the St Peter Port skyline. The aluminium dishes, 10ft in diameter, have been prominent on a mast off Monument Gardens, just up the road from Cable & Wireless’s Upland Road base. They carried the signals for the Telettra PDH microwave radio system [...]

Broadband has arrived in Herm this summer. Engineers from Cable & Wireless have brought the island up to speed with the rest of the Bailiwick. Previously limited to a dial-up Internet service, broadband services are now available for island residents and visitors through fixed line services. Herm Island is also planning to install Wi-fi in [...]

CABLE & WIRELESS Guernsey has won a prestigious international e-gaming award. The company was named as Connectivity Supplier of the Year at the E-Gaming Review awards evening in London. In its sixth year, the EGR awards are the industry’s premier awards ceremony, rewarding the best in the online gaming industry. “This international award is a [...]

SURE mobile customers will receive information about roaming charges when they travel to Europe this summer. The mobile phone operator has moved to assist customers in being aware of the costs they may build up when using a mobile when abroad, and introduced a new offer to cut roaming bills. The EU regulator has today [...]

Staff at Sure in Guernsey will be backing England in the office on Wednesday afternoon – watching through Sure’s newest online launch. Screens have been set up at the company’s offices in Upland Road and Centenary House, and those interested in the game will be allowed to take a two-hour break from 3pm tomorrow (Wednesday [...]

Sure’s High Speed Mobile Broadband is getting faster and will soon be the fastest available in Guernsey. Sure is upgrading its 3G mobile network in Guernsey to download speeds of up to 7.2 Megabits per second (Mbps) from its current 3.6Mbps and is on the verge of launching the island’s fastest network with speeds of [...]

Sure has cemented its position as the leading mobile operator in Britain’s offshore jurisdictions having grown its number of customers to more than 77,000 across the Channel Islands and Isle of Man. The mobile operator now has more than 40% of the total market available. This continued growth in customers enables Sure, which has its [...]