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ISP News Archives for May 2012

The Changing Role of the ISP – Guest Editorial by Piers Daniell MD of Fluidata

14th May 2012 (0 Comments)

I recently had a discussion with a prospect about the role and the value of the ISP in today’s telecoms industry. We discussed whether the opinion amongst some that see ISPs as “resellers; pointless middlemen; and a barely necessary layer between source and supply” had any validity and whether it’s, perhaps, more a case that the lines have blurred and ISPs have evolved to become more than simple service providers?

ISPreview Security Notice

13th May 2012 (0 Comments)

Some readers might receive a security warning when visiting ISPreview.co.uk, which stems from a problem we had on Thursday last week that has since been resolved. Unfortunately it can take awhile for such threat monitoring systems to update and as a result you may continue to experience the warnings for a little longer. We have no control over external monitors or their accuracy.

O2 UK First to Introduce Cheaper Mobile Internet EU Roaming Rates

12th May 2012 (1 Comment)

Telecoms operator O2 UK (Telefonica) has become the country’s first mobile network to announced cheaper prices for using your mobile phone or Mobile Broadband connection while roaming abroad within the EU, which reflects Europe’s new roaming regulation for voice, text (sms) messages and data charges (New EU Roaming Rules).

ISP O2 UK and BE See Slower Decline to 617800 Broadband Subscribers

11th May 2012 (5 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP O2 UK (Telefonica) has today released its latest quarterly results to the end of March (Q1-2012), which revealed that their fixed line broadband subscriber base (includes BE Broadband customers) had continued to decline by -2,500 (net) between Q4-2011 and Q1-2012 to reach a new total of 617,800.

BT Retire 20CN IPStream Connect Broadband Services at 425 UK Exchanges

11th May 2012 (14 Comments)

BT has informed UK ISPs that its legacy broadband retirement programme will, from November 2012, stop accepting new provide orders for its older 20CN based IPStream Connect products (e.g. mostly up to 8Mbps ADSL technology); albeit only at telephone exchanges where the latest 21CN based Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC) solution exists as an alternative.

Spectrum Interactive Offer FREE Wireless Internet in London with a Catch

11th May 2012 (0 Comments)

Communications provider Spectrum Interactive has announced that they are opening up their wifi hotspots in London (England, UK) to offer free internet access, albeit with a small catch. Users will only be granted access to FREE Street Wi-Fi if they first select a free promotional offer from one of the service partners.

Europe Finally Approves Cheaper Mobile Broadband Roaming from July 2012

10th May 2012 (2 Comments)

The European Parliament (EC) has today voted unanimously (578 in favour, 10 opposing and 10 abstentions) to adopt new rules that, effective from 1st July 2012 (all EU Member States), will make it significantly cheaper to surf the internet from your Mobile Broadband connection while roaming abroad within the EU. The price of mobile voice calls and text (SMS) messages will also fall.

UK Dominates European Mobile Web Traffic as World Usage Triples

10th May 2012 (0 Comments)

Website monitoring service Pingdom has used data from StatCounter to reveal that mobile web traffic (internet) worldwide, such as that which comes from Mobile Broadband and Smartphone connections, has almost tripled over the past two years. The UK was also found to have the highest share of mobile traffic, as part of total web traffic, in Europe at 10.71%.

DEFRA Open UK £20m Rural Community Broadband Fund for More Bids

10th May 2012 (3 Comments)

The UK governments Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has today opened up their £20 million Rural Community Broadband Fund (RCBF), which is designed to help lift thousands of farms and rural businesses into the modern internet age, for a second round of bids.

ISP BT Top 6.28M Broadband Customers as FTTC Passes 10M UK Homes

10th May 2012 (36 Comments)

National UK telecoms giant BT has released its latest results to 31st March (Q1-2012), which saw their retail broadband ISP subscriber base add +136,000 customers (down from +146k in Q4-2011) to hit a total of 6,280,000. Elsewhere its FTTC superfast broadband service has now passed 10 million homes and businesses (almost 40% of the country), well ahead of their original Q4-2012 target.

BT Explains the Challenges to Delivering Self Install Superfast Broadband

10th May 2012 (25 Comments)

Earlier this week we reported on how BT had launched a new trial that could pave the way for consumers to install their own superfast broadband (FTTC) services, without the need for an engineer visit (here). Sadly there are still some significant technical challenges to overcome, which BT has today been kind enough to discuss with ISPreview.co.uk.

UK ISP Allpay Promises FREE Internet for Every Herefordshire Housing Tenant

9th May 2012 (8 Comments)

A new deal has been announced that will result in every Herefordshire Housing tenant being given access to a free wireless broadband service within the next five years. The service itself will be delivered by local wifi ISP Allpay Broadband.

UPD Power Outage Hits BT Phone and Broadband Services in Eastbourne UK

9th May 2012 (6 Comments)

Approximately 20,000 BT broadband and phone customers in the Eastbourne and neighbouring Brighton area (dial code 01323), including local schools and hospitals, have today suffered a serious loss of connectivity after a power outage struck the local Eastbourne telephone exchange this morning at around 9:39am.

Queens Speech Confirms Expansion of UK CCDP Internet Snooping Law

9th May 2012 (5 Comments)

As expected the UK government has used today’s Queens Speech (State Opening of Parliament) to outline the revival of a £2bn plan to expand the reach of existing ISP based internet snooping laws (data retention) to log a much bigger slice of your online activity (e.g. Skype and Facebook access); regardless of whether or not you ever committed a crime.

ASA Bans Virgin Media Advert for Misleading UK Fastest Broadband Claim

9th May 2012 (4 Comments)

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a technology magazine advert for Virgin Media’s 50Mbps superfast broadband service after BT complained that its claim to offer the “UK’s fastest broadband” was misleading. Several other ads were also banned because they failed to include the cost of Virgin’s Phone Line service.

UK ISP TalkTalk Calls on Ofcom to Push BT for Cheaper Superfast Broadband

9th May 2012 (4 Comments)

Internet provider TalkTalk, which established itself in the UK market by offering extremely cheap home broadband services over their unbundled ADSL2+ (LLU) network, has called on Ofcom to develop a new regulatory framework that would effectively force BT to cut the wholesale / rental cost of superfast broadband services to ISPs from 2015.

UPDATE Anonymous DDoS Attack Knocks the Virgin Media UK Site Offline

9th May 2012 (11 Comments)

The website of UK cable operator Virgin Media looks to have been targeted by the Anonymous activist group, which has launched a serious Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack against the provider. The move is believed to be in retaliation after the ISP responded to a court order (here) that required it to block broadband customers from accessing The Pirate Bay piracy site.