ISP News Archives for October 5, 2012

Telecoms analyst firm Point Topic has today published a new UK map of broadband infrastructure, which uses data collected during June 2012 to measure the quality of each local authority area by the kind of ISPs, networks and technologies that are available.

Now Broadband, which is owned by the UK branch of Hong Kong based telecoms firm PCCW (UK Broadband), has this week made its “fibre through the air” 4G (LTE) based fixed wireless broadband service commercially available to homes and businesses in Southwark (London) and Reading.

The Pinnacle Technology Group (PTG) has announced plans to launch a new super-fast wifi based wireless broadband service from early 2013. The network, which will focus on delivering coverage within the city of Cheltenham (England) and some outlying areas, could potentially reach thousands of local homes and businesses.

Wireless ISP County Broadband has once again extended the reach of its Next Generation Community Access (NGA) network, which can deliver residential broadband speeds of up to 64Mbps (Megabits per second), to two rural villages – Ufford and Little Waldingfield – in Suffolk (England, UK).

The UK Foreign Secretary, William Hague (MP), yesterday told the Budapest Conference on Cyberspace that he wanted an “open” and “transparent” internet that respected “individual rights of privacy“. But back at home the government’s effort to increase its monitoring and censorship of the online world continues to expand.