Barcelona Wi-Fi, a public/private partnership serving the public WiFi needs of the groovy Spanish city, has expanded its service to Barcelona City Council's entire fleet of 1,003 buses. The service is powered by Aptilo Networks AB 's Aptilo Service Management Platform. The Barcelona Wi-Fi service is one of the biggest of its type in Europe, boasting more than 1,100 access points -- both indoor and outdoor -- across the city.

UK cable operator Virgin Media Inc. (Nasdaq: VMED) has 'fessed up and admitted that it was to blame for a fault that shut out some of its broadband customers from Facebook and Instagram, the BBC reports. Though the operator had originally blamed Facebook for the fault, it turns out that an interconnect router going down on Virgin's network meant that some of Virgin's DNS (domain name system) requests were not able to contact Facebook servers.

A row has broken out between Vodafone Germany and German regional broadcaster Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR) over the operator's refusal to distribute SR's high-definition (HD) channel, Broadband TV News reports. As is usual in such cases, both sides blame each other, but the spat is just the latest manifestation of a long-running legal battle between public broadcasters and cable operators over whether the former should have to pay the latter for the distribution of their channels.

Eurobites Towers will be closed for the Easter break to allow for annual maintenance and some of this. Eurobites will return to your screens on Tuesday, April 18.

— Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading