News - May - 2010
21st May, 2010 11:51 AM
The UK Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has called on the new coalition government to make "basic broadband speeds" a Universal Service Obligation (USO) to help small firms grow and strengthen recovery. This is as opposed to it being a soft "commitment" (USC), as currently appears to be intended.
21st May, 2010 09:00 AM
Internet search giant Google has announced its Google TV service, which together with Sony, Logitech and Intel, will offer set-top-boxes (plus a remote control and wireless keyboard) that can interface with your existing broadband ISP connection to deliver internet content onto your television.
21st May, 2010 06:27 AM
The new coalition government, which is a mix of Conservative and Liberal Democrat party members, has officially made Ed Vaizey MP responsible for implementation of the controversial Digital Economy Act (DEA) and rollout of "superfast" Next Generation Access (NGA) broadband ISP services around the UK.
20th May, 2010 11:34 AM
In a move that will surprise absolutely nobody. The new UK coalition government, which is made up of Conservative and Liberal Democrat political party members, has officially adopted the Tory solution to deploying superfast next generation fibre optic broadband services around the country.
20th May, 2010 09:05 AM
The UK Internet Service Providers Association ( ISPA ) has officially revealed the finalists for its 12th annual industry awards for 2010. Finalists in the majority of categories are selected based on three months of testing by ISPA's technical testing partner, Epitiro.
20th May, 2010 07:36 AM
Mobile and broadband operator O2 UK has fended off competition from rival ISPs PlusNet and the Utlilty Warehouse to be named Best Technology Services Provider at the 2010 Which? Awards last night. Each of the shortlisted companies provide several technology services, such as mobile phone services, home phone, broadband and TV.
20th May, 2010 06:38 AM
The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has thrown out its investigation of Project Canvas, an open standard that will deliver subscription-free broadband TV services directly into homes via ISPs and special IPTV set-top-boxes, because it does not have jurisdiction to review it under the merger provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002.
20th May, 2010 00:22 AM
Broadband ISP Eclipse Internet has warned that 54% of Britons risk causing "computer chaos" by going online to watch this summer's World Cup 2010 while at work. Eclipse fears that such activity could play havoc by slowing down – or in extreme cases – even crashing office computer systems.
20th May, 2010 00:00 AM
UK ISP Be Broadband has released several interesting charts that show the collective internet traffic (bandwidth) usage on their network. The following two images highlight the daily and yearly traffic usage of BE's customers, representing a somewhat unique insight into internet usage on their platform.
19th May, 2010 11:21 AM
The European Commission (EC) has today set out its Digital Agenda, an action plan designed to boost Europe's prosperity and well-being. The agenda promises, among many other things, to help stimulate the music download business, bring basic broadband to all Europeans by 2013 and superfast 30-100Mbps services by 2020.
19th May, 2010 08:03 AM
The Devon County Council (DCC) has released the results of its Digital Devon survey, which found that 22% of the UK county suffered from slow broadband ISP connections. The study began last September and asked thousands of people in the area to use a special website - www.devonbbsurvey.com - in order to analyse their broadband connections.
19th May, 2010 07:34 AM
The UK Online Measurement (UKOM) company has revealed that broadband internet users in Britain spend 22 hours and 15 minutes surfing the net each month, which equates to a 65% increase on three years ago. Social networking and blogs take up the lion's share of time spent online (22.7%), although surprisingly email is now more popular (7.2%) than it was three years ago (6.5%).
19th May, 2010 07:22 AM
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint made by Sky Broadband against a TV advert for TalkTalk , specifically its broadband and phone service bundle. Sky challenged whether the claim "we can cut your bill to just £6.49 a month" was misleading because it did not take into account call charges beyond those that were inclusive.
19th May, 2010 01:27 AM
The Mayor of London (UK), Boris Johnson, has told a Google Zeitgeist event in Hertfordshire that the city should be totally covered by Wi-Fi broadband wireless internet access Hotspots before the 2012 Olympic Games have even begun. It's understood that existing street lights and bus stops will be used to carry the service.
19th May, 2010 00:01 AM
Broadband and mobile provider O2 UK will launch a new £5m 'Niggles and Narks' TV, press and online advertising campaign on Friday 21st May. It aims to promote the operators new Home Phone and fast broadband internet bundles by simultaneously attacking rivals for their "mis-leading" cost, download speed and quality claims.
18th May, 2010 12:01 PM
The governments Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has confirmed rumours that it will appoint a new minister for broadband by the end of this week. The BBC reports that Culture Minister Ed Vaizey is rumoured to be one possible candidate for the role.
18th May, 2010 08:23 AM
Internet access provider PlusNet has issued a note to say that its special 4 MONTHS FREE BROADBAND promotion, which is available to everyone that signs up online, has been extended from 18th May to midnight on the 27th May 2010. Further details can be found in our earlier news item (here).
18th May, 2010 08:01 AM
Customers of ISP TalkTalk UK, specifically those who are still existing Tiscali Broadband users, have been offered a free router as part of trials to test the new Huawei HG521 and the Huawei HG532 wireless ADSL2+ routers on their service.
18th May, 2010 07:55 AM
Market regulator Ofcom has informed the UK Internet Service Providers Association ( ISPA ) that broadband ISPs with less than 400,000 subscribers are likely to escape the initial Digital Economy Act (DEA) crackdown on unlawful copyright file sharing (P2P). Mobile Broadband operators will also escape, at least for now.
18th May, 2010 06:26 AM
Ofcom has released its latest quarterly Telecommunications Market Data Tables Q4-2009 (PDF), which includes a breakdown of residential and small business broadband internet connections. This reveals that at the end of last year the UK was host to 18,233,000 fixed line broadband ISP subscribers, an increase of nearly 1 million lines over 2008.
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