UK ISP Andrews & Arnold (AAISP) has written an interesting BLOG POST about the problems they're having with BT and upgrading their platforms to the operators latest 21st Century Network (21CN / ADSL+) network. It makes for a good read and helps to show the difficulties that ISPs often have to deal with behind the scenes.

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Recession, what recession? Virgin Media appears to be bucking the protectionist trend of other UK ISPs by launching a new 60 second TV advertising campaign to help promote its "unique fibre optic [BROADBAND] network." The ad depicts a man working on his laptop in the kitchen, which is promptly interrupted by flashing lights and shaking. Sounds like a typical Friday night out.

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Broadband ISP PlusNet has added yet another 155Mbps segment of central ADSL bandwidth capacity to its older 20CN based network. Customers connecting to the new segment will access the Internet through the gateway known as pcl-ag04. We've lost track of how many new 155Mbps pipes they've added recently. Meanwhile some users are still hoping to see performance improvements.

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Existing customers of Vodafone UK's mobile Internet services will be able to go online for FREE today. The promotion, which only appears to be valid for Internet enabled smartphone users and not USB Modem based Mobile Broadband connections, is designed to promote the operators new 50p per day mobile Internet tariff. Sadly the FREE DAY is only available today and ends tonight.

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Satellite operator Eutelsat Communications has launched its new Tooway consumer broadband service in the UK, which aims to offer download speeds of up to 2Mbps (256Kbps upload) for just a fraction of the price (£29.99 +vat per month) that most two-way (download and upload) satellite ISPs offer. Furthermore, come 2010, Eutelsat's new KA-SAT satellite will also enable Tooway to offer speeds of up to 10Mbps!

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BSkyB ( Sky Broadband ) has released its latest set of quarterly results to 31st March 2009. The groups broadband service saw a slight decline in quarterly uptake by adding +130,000 new customers to its service, which compares with +163,000 during Q4-2008. However this is still strong growth and helped to take their total broadband base from 1,955,000 in Q4 to 2,085,000 now.

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UK broadband ISP O2 ( Be Broadband ) has won six key service satisfaction categories as well as being voted best overall provider by the latest survey from comparison site BroadbandChoices. The survey also revealed that 53% of people were considering changing their ISP in the next six months, while 49% were Very Satisfied or Fairly Satisfied with their ISPs After Sales Support.

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The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) has become the latest major Internet organisation to warn that IPv4 addresses will run out by 2010. ARIN has now begun issuing letters to ISPs owning blocks of IPv4 addresses, which encourages them to adopt IPv6. The group will also begin making it more difficult to gain new IPv4 addresses via a tougher vetting process.

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