2Circles Blog
Please find below some updates, news, and insights from our team at 2 Circles...
Happy New Year! Please find below some updates, news, and insights from our team at 2 Circles Consulting
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As previous articles have highlighted, Openreach will be switching off the digital phone network - known as ISDN - in 2025, and will no longer be...
Thomson Cooper Accountants have become one of the first Fife-based businesses to secure their £3,000 voucher to connect them to a Gigabit broadband...
Android have released a new version of Android - Android Go - which is designed to help Android handsets with less than 1GHz of RAM to run...
As the nation struggled under the burden of The Beast from the East, many of us in metropolitan areas were able to keep working due to good use of...
The government has recently launched a pilot scheme offering businesses £3,000 vouchers to connect to gigabit broadband speeds. This is very...
The BBC has reported that homes and businesses will have a legal right to demand faster broadband speed by 2020.
This might be good for the likes of...
Extreme weather conditions of various types e.g. snow, rain, wind can affect the normal running of operations, which is one of the key reasons we...
Back in 2009 when I began with 2 Circles, the country was bouncing back from a worldwide financial crisis and the priority for the majority of...
The UK’s largest alternative provider of wholesale fibre network infrastructure is building Gigabit Cities throughout the UK.
A genuine...
Caterpillar, famed for building solid and dependable machinery, has been in the mobile phone market for a number of years now, but their latest...
What has Tequila and Tacos got to do with WiFi and 4G Calling? Well it may be a bit tenuous but bear with me...
I was recently lucky enough to...
It staggers me that IT and Telecommunications, which are now an integral part of how modern day business is run today, are the only services that are...
Following a Broadband price increase back in October 2016, and a line rental increase on March 1st 2017, BT is set to increase their pricing for the...
With the recent spate of hacks affecting businesses across the globe, most notably a number of NHS trusts, the Scottish Business Resilience Centre...
This is why I love Cisco Meraki - it just works!
As the IT solutions guru for 2 Circles, I have always said it is one of those products in the IT...
With the government on track to hit its target of Superfast broadband delivered to 95% of the population by 2018, and the launch of Ultrafast...
2Circles featured in this month's edition of the HTA News magazine.
Please click below to read a great article about the importance off guaranteed...
While its very existence is still hotly debated, research from App Annie has confirmed the app economy is real and growing fast.
Total usage of apps...
Introducing Configuration Templates for Combined Networks
For most, technology has become a powerful and perhaps even essential tool in our daily...
Home entertainment may be the main stimulus for gigabit expansion, two broadband experts have said.
Lincoln Lavoie, senior engineer at the...
Free phone lines for businesses who sign up before December 20th
Since Openreach’s announcement at the start of this year that they will be...
Earlier this year BT announced their intention to switch off the PSTN and ISDN networks by 2025. Customers will be migrated to a single IP core...
We have now reached a point in the UK where over 50% of businesses are using IP-based telecom solutions rather than the traditional BT digital...
You've likely heard the term "Internet of Things" at some point from a colleague, an article, or an advertisement. But the term is broad and can...
SMEs that received help in getting online through the government’s broadband connection voucher scheme in 2015 are generating much more money,...
Now, more than ever, businesses are recognizing the benefits of VoIP systems. A cloud-based phone system can do wonders for productivity and customer...
As technology moves away from the desktop and into the cloud, it’s easy to overlook the most important link in the technology chain: your internet...
Before you or anyone on your team goes abroad, please make sure to call your account manager on 03456 200 200 to check you have the correct bolt-on...
For those of you who can remember that far back, 1986 saw the introduction of ISDN, BT’s digital telephony network. I was 2 years old so wasn’t...
The Internet of Things is here and it’s growing rapidly. Internet of Things (IoT) or Internet of Everything (IoE) refers to devices or objects that...
2015 has been an incredibly successful year for the 9dots team. January kicked off with an engagement for one of the team members, followed by...
For most people the last time they renewed their business mobile contract the questions would've been, “what network?” and “what handset?”...
We have just had notification that group applications for the Broadband Vouchers are no longer being accepted across the country, and the City of...
There are already 15 billion connected devices in the world, and have been around since 1974. ATM’s were the first truly ‘Connected Devices’...
£410m has been committed to help Scotland access Superfast internet by 2017 and Fife has set a target to ensure over 98% of premises can access...
The Scottish Government has announced the extension of the current NHS 24 online British Sign Language (BSL) Video Relay Interpreting Service pilot...
The exponential growth in Cloud services has been catalysed by the government’s heavy investment in high-speed connectivity and the £3,000...
Blackberry, once ubiquitous with business users, now experiences such an unassailable void against its competitors and you now struggle to find a...