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ISP News Archives for July 2012

Go ON UK Launch Campaign to Help Disabled People Surf the Internet

5th Jul 2012 (0 Comments)

Go ON UK (formerly RaceOnline 2012) has today launched a new national campaign (Go ON Gold) that aims to help disabled people get online. Apparently 43% (4 Million) of disabled people in the UK have never surfed the internet, which equates to roughly half of the UK’s total offline population.

UPD2 Ofcom UK Moot Cheaper High Speed BT Wholesale Leased Line Prices

5th Jul 2012 (3 Comments)

Ofcom has today proposed new controls that will “lead to [a] real-terms price reduction” of BTWholesale’s Leased Line services, which are used by businesses, mobile operators and broadband ISPs around the UK. The move is part of the regulators wider review (detailed here) into the country’s £2bn market for business telecoms.

Virgin Media UK Network Carries 4.2 Petabytes of Broadband Data Daily

5th Jul 2012 (5 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media has revealed that its national UK telecoms network, which is home to 4.4 Million residential broadband ISP subscribers, carried a daily average of 4.2 Petabytes of data during Q1-2012 (4.2 million billion bytes). The volume of data consumption has thus increased by nearly a third in the 6 months from Q3 2011.

Foreign Police Forces Also Allowed to Snoop on UK Internet Users

5th Jul 2012 (0 Comments)

The Home Office’s revived Communications Data Bill, which seeks to expand the country’s existing internet snooping laws (data retention) and force ISPs into logging a much bigger slice of everybody’s online activity, is in trouble yet again after it was confirmed that foreign authorities will also be granted access to the data. But how much?

Samba Launch FREE Ad Supported UK Mobile Broadband Service

4th Jul 2012 (8 Comments)

Samba, a virtual mobile network operator that uses the Three UK (3) platform, claims to have launched the country’s first FREE Mobile Broadband service today. Naturally there are a few catches.

UPDATE Europe REJECTS Controversial ACTA Internet Copyright Treaty

4th Jul 2012 (3 Comments)

The European Parliament (EP) has officially voted to reject (478 in favour – 39 against – 165 abstentions) the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a treaty that threatened to toughen international copyright enforcement standards and make broadband ISPs more liable for the content they deliver; but will something similar replace it?

Virgin Media UK Connects 41 of 120 London Tube Stations to its FREE WiFi

4th Jul 2012 (0 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media has today confirmed that 41 London underground tube stations have been connected to its free public wireless internet access (WiFi) service, which will rise to 82 before the end of July 2012 and 120 before the end of this year.

UPD YouView UK Subscription Free Broadband TV Service Heads to Retail

4th Jul 2012 (4 Comments)

The YouView (Project Canvas) IPTV product, a subscription free, broadband internet based, video-on-demand and catch-up TV service that will be bundled by several big ISPs, has today confirmed that it will be available through major retailers by the end of July 2012. TalkTalk has also pledged to reveal its related bundle at a Strategy Day for investors on 26 July.

European Commission Stalls UK Superfast Broadband Rollout Plans

4th Jul 2012 (36 Comments)

The government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) plan to roll-out superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services to 90% of the UK by 2015, which after spending £3m on consultants has left itself with a choice of just two firms (BT or Fujitsu), appears to have stalled after the European Commission (EC) expressed concern over the allocation of state aid.

BT Bid for Troubled UK South Yorkshire Digital Region Broadband Network

4th Jul 2012 (10 Comments)

The troubled Digital Region (DRL) network, which spent £100m of public funds building an alternative wholesale supplier to BT that could help 80% of premises in South Yorkshire access superfast broadband ISP services, has ironically whittled the bidders in its tender process down to a choice of either BTWholesale or ETDE SA.

ASA UK Advert Ban Stops ISPs Excluding Line Rental from Broadband Prices

4th Jul 2012 (6 Comments)

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has today given UK ISPs three months to adapt after a revised ruling against Virgin Media banned the provider, and all others, from separating out the cost of compulsory phone line rental in their broadband bundles.

UK Internet Service Providers Association Reveals 2012 Award Winners

4th Jul 2012 (2 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today announced the winners of its 14th annual 2012 internet industry awards, which saw PlusNet pickup the gong for Best Consumer Broadband ISP. Similarly MacAce won the new Best Customer Choice award and Hyperoptic walked away with the prize for Best New ISP.

Zen Internet UK Confirm Plan to Launch 330Mbps FTTP Broadband Service

3rd Jul 2012 (2 Comments)

Rochdale-based ISP Zen Internet has today confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that they’re planning to launch a 330Mbps (Megabits per second) capable fibre optic broadband package using the latest Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology upgrade, which was yesterday made commercially available (here) to the UK market.

CLA Expects UK Government to Miss its 2015 Superfast Broadband Target

3rd Jul 2012 (13 Comments)

The Country Land and Business Association (CLA), a land owners lobby group for England and Wales, has warned that the UK governments plan to help roll-out superfast broadband (24-30Mbps+) services to 90% of the country by 2015 (the last 10% will get at least 2Mbps) could be missed because of a “slow funding process” and “reliance on fibre optic networks“.

UPD UK Satellite ISP Tooway Direct Launches 18Mbps Broadband Package

3rd Jul 2012 (5 Comments)

Satellite ISP Tooway Direct (SSW), which uses Eutelsat’s KA-SAT spacecraft at 9° East to deliver broadband to almost anywhere in the UK, has revamped its services and launched a new Tooway 18 MAX package that pushes the top download rate up to 18Mbps (6Mbps uploads) alongside FREE hardware and connection.

Top 9 UK Fastest Broadband ISPs by Internet Speed for June 2012

3rd Jul 2012 (10 Comments)

The latest anecdotal monthly consumer broadband ISP speed testing results from Broadband.co.uk, which covers the past month of June 2012, reveals that the average UK internet download speed has shot up yet again from 15.286Mbps (Megabits per second) during May 2012 to 17.662Mbps now.

Three UK Come Top in Roaming Mobile Broadband Performance Study

2nd Jul 2012 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has been named the best overall provider in this year’s Broadband Genie Road Trip 2012 study, which tested all of the five main Mobile Broadband operators (plus Virgin Mobile) for reliability and performance while roaming on a 2:30hr trip from King’s Cross to Exeter in England.