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ISP News Archives for 2012

Most UK Mobile Broadband Users Could Swap Providers over Skype Blocks

30th May 2012 (0 Comments)

A new study by Rebtel, which claims to be the largest independent VoIP (Voice-over-IP) provider after Skype, has found that almost 60% of UK Smartphone users would be prepared to switch Mobile Broadband networks if operators continue to impose traffic blocks or slow down access to online voice calling and other internet streaming services.

UK Business ISP Xifos Merges with Perceptive Online Limited

30th May 2012 (0 Comments)

Two business ISPs based in the Thames Valley region, Xifos and Perceptive Online, have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to merge their businesses. The combined provider that results will become “dedicated to providing quality Cloud based services“.

ASA Ban Utility Warehouse Ad for UK Cheapest Broadband Bundle Claim

30th May 2012 (0 Comments)

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a “misleading” circular advert for the Utility Warehouse (Telecom Plus plc) ISP after it claimed to offer the “UK’s cheapest” home phone and broadband bundle. Identical claims were also made for the provider’s mobile tariffs, gas and electricity.

European Commission Pledges to Stiffen ISP Net Neutrality Rules

30th May 2012 (0 Comments)

The European Commission (EC) has responded to BEREC’s final report into Net Neutrality (the principal of treating all internet traffic as equal), which criticised fixed line broadband ISPs and Mobile Broadband operators over a lack of transparency, by proposing to stiffen industry guidelines through “strong and targeted action” and deliver more “effective consumer choice“.

Congestion Problems Hit Spotify Access for UK Virgin Media Broadband Users

29th May 2012 (0 Comments)

Cable giant Virgin Media has blamed a Spotify access problem on peak-time congestion that occurs between the ISPs network and the music streaming services data centre. The situation, which dragged on for the best part of two weeks, made the Spotify service effectively unusable for many of Virgin’s superfast broadband customers.

Sky Broadband UK Denies it Has Plans for a Mobile Phone Service

29th May 2012 (0 Comments)

BSkyB (Sky Broadband) has today played down speculation that it could be about to enter the quad-play market (broadband, tv, phone and mobile) with a mobile phone service after several reports indicated that the group had held related talks with Everything Everywhere (Orange UK and T-Mobile).

Ofcom Opens Review of UK ISP ADR Consumer Complaints Handlers

29th May 2012 (0 Comments)

The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has launched a new review into its two Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) consumer complaint handlers – Ombudsman Services (OS) and the Communications and Internet Services Adjudication Scheme (CISAS) – after it was revealed that the system could sometimes impose unfair financial penalties against broadband ISPs.

BT On Track to Offer 500k London UK WiFi Hotspots for 2012 Olympics

29th May 2012 (0 Comments)

BT has today confirmed that it’s still on-track to offer 500,000 wireless internet access hotspots across London in time for the 2012 Olympic Games, which will be mostly delivered via their FON wifi community of retail broadband ISP subscribers. The telecoms operator claims that 475,000 hotspots are already live in Greater London.

Wales UK to Spend GBP400 Million on Superfast Broadband Deployment

29th May 2012 (4 Comments)

The Welsh Government (WG) recently published its final Wales Infrastructure Investment Plan (WIIP), which revealed that the region intends to invest a total of up to £400 million into the roll-out of 30Mbps+ superfast broadband services to reach 100% of the country’s businesses by the middle of 2016 and homes by 2020.

Labour MP Claims UK Superfast Broadband Funds Only Help Rich Rural People

29th May 2012 (3 Comments)

Only rich people live outside of towns and cities in the United Kingdom. At least that’s what the Labour MP for Hyndburn, Graham Jones, appears to think. Jones suggested that the government’s plan to make superfast broadband services available to 90% of the country by 2015 would only “mean faster internet shopping for millionaires; it will not generate business in rural communities.”

Appleton and Eaton in Oxfordshire UK to Get 1Gbps Ultrafast Broadband

28th May 2012 (6 Comments)

Gigaclear, a UK telecoms and infrastructure development company that gobbled up rural ISP Rutland Telecom last year (here), has today announced that 400 homes in the neighbouring civil parish villages of Appleton and Eaton (Oxfordshire) will soon be able to get a new 1Gpbs (Gigabits per second) capable fibre optic broadband (FTTP) service from £37 a month.

YouView Broadband ISP Based UK IPTV Service Begins Final Customer Trials

28th May 2012 (4 Comments)

The subscription free YouView (Project Canvas) broadband internet based video-on-demand (VoD) and catch-up TV (IPTV) service, which will be bundled by a number of big UK ISPs (e.g. BT, TalkTalk etc.), has reportedly agreed to begin the final stage of its “alpha” trial with 350 homes (currently being trialled by 100 staff from the Joint Venture partners).

Scottish Government Slams Westminster over UK Small City Broadband Funds

28th May 2012 (0 Comments)

The Scottish Government has today criticised the UK’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), which is managed by the increasingly embattled Culture Secretary (Jeremy Hunt MP), for excluding the smaller cities of Inverness, Glasgow and Stirling in Scotland from their £50m second wave of Urban Broadband Funding (UBF).

Welsh ISP Exwavia Criticises Patchy UK Lobbying Effort for Better Broadband

28th May 2012 (0 Comments)

Welshpool-based ISP Exwavia (Wales) has today criticised the largely “un-co-ordinated” effort to lobby the UK government for better national broadband infrastructure and services, which has seen a slew of strong but ultimately “patchy” campaigns launch from various groups and ultimately fail to make much headway.

UPD2 Database Scare as TalkTalk UK Contract Details Left Exposed to the Public

28th May 2012 (4 Comments)

Somebody has unwittingly exposed sensitive contract details for a TalkTalk Business UK ISP subsidiary (Greystone Telecom) to the internet by failing to prevent anonymous access via their Microsoft IIS web server. TalkTalk claims to be busy tracking the source down.

UPD2 UK Virgin Media Broadband ISP Users Affected by Website Routing Woes

26th May 2012 (37 Comments)

An unspecified number of Virgin Media’s broadband ISP customers are currently being affected by a seemingly sporadic Major Service Outage / routing issue (Fault Ref F002014417), which has caused difficulties when attempting to load certain websites.

UPD PostOffice Moves Broadband Platform from BT to Fujitsu and TalkTalk UK

25th May 2012 (5 Comments)

The Post Office has chosen to scrap its limited BTWholesale and Logica based managed broadband and phone platform, which is still stuck on old ‘up to’ 8Mbps ADSL technology, in favour of a huge new and potentially more competitive unbundled (LLU) solution delivered by Fujitsu and rival ISP TalkTalk.