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Fluidata Brings Choice of 50 UK ISPs to Digital Region in South Yorkshire

15th Aug 2012 (2 Comments)

The long suffering Digital Region network, which offers an alternative superfast broadband platform to BT in South Yorkshire, has received a boost after it adopted Fluidata’s Service Exchange Platform (SEP). The move could give local homes a choice of more than 50 ISPs instead of just a handful.

UPD2 Ofcom Report Finds UK Average Broadband ISP Speeds Rise to 9Mbps

15th Aug 2012 (20 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today published its latest study of the United Kingdom’s average fixed line internet performance. The report, which is based on data from May 2012, reveals that the average broadband download speed has jumped from 7.6Mbps (Megabits/sec) in the last survey to reach 9Mbps now (+19%).

ONS Q2 2012 Report Finds 7.82 Million UK Adults Have Never Gone Online

15th Aug 2012 (4 Comments)

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released its latest Internet Access Quarterly Update Q2-2012, which found that a total of 42.52 million UK adults have gone online (84% of the population; up from 83.7% in Q1). The number of adults who have never used the internet has thus declined since Q1 by -4% to 7.82 million (16%).

Quickline Set to Expand Wireless Internet Coverage in Lincolnshire UK

15th Aug 2012 (0 Comments)

Yorkshire-based Fixed Wireless ISP Quickline Communications has claimed that it will be able to bring superfast internet download speeds of up to 40Mbps to 100% of the “worst served broadband areas” in rural north and north east Lincolnshire by the end of 2012.

North Yorkshire ISP Brings Wireless Broadband to Three New Rural Villages

15th Aug 2012 (0 Comments)

Local ISP I Love Broadband (LN Communications) has once again expanded the coverage of its superfast wireless broadband service to include a further three rural civil parish villages in or near to the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire.

UK ISP Website Censorship Measures Face IP Address Sharing Nightmare

15th Aug 2012 (0 Comments)

An Ofcom commissioned CSMG investigation into the impact of IP address sharing upon website blocking measures, which makes such methods “technically complex” for ISPs to implement, has found that 97% of “top-level domains” (.com, .net and .org) reside on addresses that are shared with other sites. Block one and you risk hurting others.

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