Thanks to one of our readers for informing us that Entanet also has charts that show the distribution of the broadband speeds received by customers on the provider’s network (e.g. ADSL24 , Aquiss etc.). This follows yesterdays news where PlusNet posted nearly identical data for its ISP (here).

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UK ISP Be Broadband ( O2 ) has partnered with Cerberus Networks to provide a reseller programme for business providers. The partnership gives access to Be's 'up to' 24Mbps unbundled ( LLU ) ADSL2+ broadband network. With over 1200 exchanges enabled, the partnership reaches 80% of the UK population.

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ISP Orange UK (France Telecom) has issued its latest half-year results to the end of June 2009, which shows that the provider is still shedding broadband subscribers and has dropped from a total of 1m in Q4-2008 to 954,000 in Q2-2009.

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UK ISP O2 ( Be Broadband ) has released its latest results to the end of June 2009 (Q2), highlighting a continued slowing of its broadband subscriber uptake by going from 404,484 in Q1 to 456,882 now. The growth of +52,398 new broadband users represents a rough 10k per quarter slowing compared with Q1-2009's +63,618 and Q4-2008's +73,776.

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Broadband ISP Tiscali UK has been accused of being lax with the security of its user’s private personal details after it allowed a customer’s phone number and address to be published in public directories, despite repeated requests for it to be removed.

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Microsoft (MSN) has launched an advertising-funded broadband video and TV player website, which is not unlike the BBC's iPlayer, Hulu or even YouTube. The service is due to be officially introduced next week and will include 300+ hours of TV shows and be operated under trial (beta) status.

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Serious damage has been caused to the 9,300mile long undersea SAT-3 cable, which has resulted in major disruption to West African Internet access and services. Several countries, including Benin, Togo, Niger and Nigeria, have all been hit hard. The cable itself runs between Europe (Portugal and Spain) to South Africa, via West Africa.

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BT Group has released its latest second quarter results to 30th June 2009, which reveals that the operator was holding steady with a total of 4.8m retail broadband ( BT , PlusNet etc. ) customers, the same as they had in Q1.

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