British Telecom ( BT ) is facing a backlash from UK residents and businesses over its rollout of superfast 40Mbps capable fibre optic (FTTC) broadband services, which in some cases has excluded thousands of people from its coverage, even though they live in an enabled area.
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The UK county of West Sussex in the south of England has stepped up its campaign for superfast broadband by launching a new survey of internet provision and service quality among local businesses.
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Broadband provider AAISP has suspended new signups for its BE Wholesale based lines after customers who used their BE based line checker complained of having received marketing calls from O2 UK, which could be in breach of the law.
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BitTorrent, which is best known for inventing the hugely popular Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing protocol, has revealed that it could release the performance data for over 9,000 global broadband ISPs.
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Broadband ISP Aquiss UK has launched a new web-only promotional code that offers free migration and 30 days free service to new signups via their Family and Gaming products.
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The European Commission (EC) has warned the UK and twenty other member states that they must take "urgent measures" if they are to stand any chance of implementing support for a pan-EU mobile satellite broadband internet access service by May 2011.
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Home broadband ISP connections have topped a new list of the most loved innovations by UK adults, while Reality TV is rightly heading up an opposing list of the most hated.
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The budget conscious internet and phone provider, TalkTalk UK, has today slashed their broadband prices in half for new customers and also reintroduced FREE connections.
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A major UK cable operator, Virgin Media, has today reported strong Q4-2010 financial results and a total broadband ISP customer base that has ballooned to reach 4,287,000 subscribers.
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Microsoft has told this year's RSA Security Conference than its earlier proposal, which told broadband ISPs that they should block the internet access of Malware infected computers, simply couldn't work. Instead the firm has proposed a new form of Internet Health Certificate, which won't work either.
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Ofcom has confirmed that the largely unused UK 2010-2025MHz wireless radio spectrum band will in the future be released for use by Mobile Broadband services.
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Stanford University scientists have developed a new technology that allows wireless networks to send and receive signals simultaneously over a single channel, which could at least double the speed of current Wi-Fi communications.
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Internet phone (VoIP) calling giant, Skype, has expanded its Wi-Fi internet access service from 200,000 public Hotspots to 500,000; thanks to a series of new partner agreements.
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The UK advertising watchdog has once again slapped BT on the wrists after an advert for one of its broadband ISP bundles compared their 24-month contract term with a 12-month Sky Broadband package, albeit only in the small print.
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The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has opened an investigation into Total Asset Finance, which until recently funded the controversial Fibrecity / H2O Networks (i3 Group) fibre optic FTTH broadband service rollout in Bournemouth and Dundee to the tune of £91m in loans.
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Kaspersky Lab's has called for governments and the internet industry to work together in a combined global effort to target and "forcibly remove" malware infected computers from the online world.
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New research from IDATE has predicted that the next generation of superfast LTE based Mobile Broadband services will reach 371Million subscribers worldwide in 2015.
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New research has revealed how most European (EU) consumers still think that the cost of using their mobile phone for Mobile Broadband internet surfing, or indeed any other service (voice etc.), while abroad is still too expensive.
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Broadband Satellite ISP Avanti Communications UK has released its latest financial results and confirmed that its HYLAS 1 spacecraft is on-target to deliver the first 'up to' 10Mbps capable internet access services in March 2011.
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The latest ISPreview.co.uk survey has discovered that most UK consumers' value broadband internet access so highly that they would even pay more for a house just to get faster connectivity.
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