News - January - 2012
19th Jan, 2012 11:25 AM
Networking solutions firm Brocade has warned that Mobile operators in the UK are at risk of a "breakdown", unless they prepare themselves for the "deluge of data" that a new generation of superfast 4G mobile broadband services will bring.
19th Jan, 2012 07:39 AM
The UK's national chain of Premier Inn hotels will soon get full WiFi wireless internet access thanks to a new contract with Spectrum Interactive.
19th Jan, 2012 07:05 AM
UK ISP Vispa Internet has managed to deliver wireless broadband internet download speeds of up to 100Mbps to several homes in southern Manchester via its City Wireless trial.
19th Jan, 2012 06:20 AM
BTOpenzone, the public wireless internet operator division of BT's national UK telecoms network, has revealed that the country is now home to over 3.5 million WiFi Hotspots. But most come from the operators own fixed line broadband ISP customers.
18th Jan, 2012 12:57 PM
The UK county of Leicestershire has announced that it intends to match funding from the government with its own contribution of GBP4 Million. The money will be used to help deploy superfast broadband internet access into the county's many rural areas.
18th Jan, 2012 11:34 AM
An independent review of UK film policy, which was commissioned by the government, has called for the controversial anti-piracy Digital Economy Act (DEA) to be implemented by broadband ISPs and Ofcom "as soon as possible".
18th Jan, 2012 09:21 AM
Broadband ISP PlusNet and mobile giant O2 UK last night managed to win most of the 15 categories at uSwitch's Broadband Awards 2012 ceremony in London.
18th Jan, 2012 08:07 AM
Internet Service Providers (ISP) and major websites, such as Google and Facebook, have set World-IPv6-Launch day for 6th June 2012 when they will all begin using the "new" Internet Protocol v6 ( IPv6 ) addressing standard on their servers.
18th Jan, 2012 07:22 AM
Several UK ISPs have warned customers that a number of major websites might become unavailable today (e.g. Wikipedia and the Internet Archive) as part of a deliberate 12 to 24 hour blackout campaign against a controversial new Internet Anti-Piracy law.
18th Jan, 2012 06:58 AM
Customers of Virgin Media's broadband services in the UK were hit by a major national service outage yesterday afternoon, which lasted for roughly 3 hours but has now been resolved.
18th Jan, 2012 06:19 AM
NEC appears to have set a new record after it demonstrated the ability to send 1.15Terabits per second of data / internet connectivity via a single laser and over a single "ultra-long haul" (10,000km) fibre optic cable with no repeaters.
17th Jan, 2012 13:09 PM
South Yorkshire's traumatised Digital Region project, which aimed to deploy superfast broadband services to 80% of regional homes and businesses by mid-2012, has continued to bleed money and now risks collapse after posting an annual loss of over £9m for 2011.
17th Jan, 2012 12:15 PM
More than 400 families stationed that RAF Leeming in the UK will soon be able to access faster broadband ISP speeds of up to 10Mbps thanks to a new wireless network.
17th Jan, 2012 11:15 AM
A major brand review at UK mobile operators Orange and T-Mobile, which in 2010 merged to be controlled by a joint corporate management company (Everything Everywhere), has reportedly resulted in the development of a new single name for both operators.
17th Jan, 2012 07:19 AM
Scotland's (UK) Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has confirmed that its project to rollout superfast broadband services in the rural north and west of the country will, with help from BT as the only interested operator left, start in 2013 and cost up to GBP300 Million.
17th Jan, 2012 06:13 AM
Cable giant Virgin Media has issued an update to confirm that UK customers on its 50Mbps cable broadband packages will now be upgraded to the faster speed of 120Mbps instead of 100Mbps as originally announced last week.
16th Jan, 2012 11:50 AM
Two UK Internet Service Providers, BT and TalkTalk, have today begun their appeal against the governments controversial Digital Economy Act (DEA). The ISPs claim that the anti-piracy act is not compatible with several European laws, a position that was upheld last year by Lord Justice Lewison.
16th Jan, 2012 08:58 AM
ISP Seethelight has today revealed the first live coverage locations for IFNL and Fluidata's new UK focused and 1Gbps (Gigabits per second) capable fibre optic (FTTH) broadband internet access service.
16th Jan, 2012 08:07 AM
The Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG), an internet access focused think-tank for the UK government, has welcomed new tax guidance that could make it fairer and cheaper to deploy superfast fibre optic broadband ISP lines into rural areas.
16th Jan, 2012 06:25 AM
Andrew Crossley will today go before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) as part of a prosecution brought against him by the SRA. This relates to ACS:Law's "amateurish and slipshod" attempts to "bully" UK internet users into paying hefty fines for alleged involvement with illegal copyright infringement (piracy).
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