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27th November, 2012 (0 Comments)
KC, the incumbent internet and phone provider for Hull and East Yorkshire (England), has successfully completed the initial roll-out of their “super-fast” 350Mbps capable and fibre optic based Lightstream broadband service to pass 15,000 local premises. It now plans to reach an extra 30,000 homes and businesses by March 2015.
26th November, 2012 (2 Comments)
The subscription-free YouView broadband ISP based TV (IPTV) service, which recently lost a High Court battle with online billing firm YourView (Total Ltd.) over the rights to retain its name, is now officially being sued for trade mark infringement by Total Ltd.
26th November, 2012 (0 Comments)
Customers of broadband ISP Andrews and Arnold (AAISP) look set to benefit from additional internet data usage flexibility after the provider announced a number of special changes and rates for the forthcoming Christmas holiday period.
26th November, 2012 (3 Comments)
The results from 552 respondents to ISPreview.co.uk’s latest reader poll found that over a third (39.8%) would like to see their broadband ISP improve its registration system, which is despite the fact that 78.4% claimed the sign-up process itself was “Easy“.
26th November, 2012 (2 Comments)
Mobile operator Three UK has announced that it is giving away 20 free Mobile Broadband modems (dongles) to community hubs in the isolated Highlands and Islands villages of Melvich and Durness in Scotland. The port town of Invergordon further south will also get similar treatment.
24th November, 2012 (16 Comments)
Several Lancashire based broadband ISPs, including LonsdaleNET, B4RN, TalkTalk and others, suffered a serious loss of internet connectivity that lasted for over 10 hours between Tuesday and Wednesday after BTOpenreach engineers accidentally cut through a vital GEO fibre optic cable.
24th November, 2012 (0 Comments)
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has told a Westminster Media Forum event that it will be the responsibility of each broadband ISP to decide which of their customers are officially defined as “subscribers” and thus susceptible to the new copyright infringement rules, which are designed to clampdown on “illegal” internet piracy.
23rd November, 2012 (0 Comments)
Business internet and telecoms provider Claranet UK has acquired STH Limited and its managed technology services subsidiary, Star (Star Technology Services), for the sizeable sum of £55 million.
23rd November, 2012 (0 Comments)
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23rd November, 2012 (2 Comments)
The EU has released data on retail prices for fixed broadband ISP services, which reveals a pattern of price reduction over the last three years for bundled offers. It also finds that price competition is mainly taking place in the market for download speeds of above 4Mbps (Megabits per second).
23rd November, 2012 (8 Comments)
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23rd November, 2012 (13 Comments)
The latest research from consultancy firm Ventura Team and finance group Portland Advisors has estimated that at the current “snail’s pace” it could take Europe 92 years and £211bn to completely switch from existing copper-based telephone and broadband ISP infrastructure to a fully fibre optic (FTTH) service.
22nd November, 2012 (0 Comments)
Ofcom UK has today proposed a new framework to support the future use of White Space (IEEE 802.22) based wireless broadband technology on a licence exempt basis. The new service harnesses unused radio spectrum, which exists between Digital TV channels (470MHz to 790MHz), to deliver wifi style connectivity over a wide area.
22nd November, 2012 (2 Comments)
MS3 Communications has entered into a new partnership with another telecommunications developer, Compass Infrastructure UK (CI-UK), which will work alongside MS3 to help them build out their independent ultra-fast fibre optic broadband ISP network around Hull in Yorkshire (England).
22nd November, 2012 (9 Comments)
Internet service providers have today given a broad welcome to the European Commission’s (EC) recent decision to grant final approval for the release of State Aid funding to help 90% of UK people gain access to superfast broadband ISP services by spring 2015. But privately many continued to express competition concerns.
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