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ISP News Archives for May 15, 2013

UPD Confusion as Chess Telecom Acquire South Yorkshire ISP LittleBigOne

15th May 2013 (5 Comments)

South Yorkshire ISP LittleBigOne (LBO), which uses the largely independent but financially troubled Digital Region network, has without any prior notice informed customers that “with effect from 1st April 2013” (the message was only posted today!) their service is now owned by business ISP Chess Telecom.

UPD BPI Preparing to Ask Big UK ISPs to Block 25 More Internet Piracy Sites

15th May 2013 (14 Comments)

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) appears to be preparing for another run of court orders after music licensing firm PPL revealed a new list of 25 website domains, which are all accused of facilitating copyright infringement (internet piracy), that the UK music body would like broadband ISPs to block.

UK ISP Tesco Offer Unlimited Broadband and Calls FREE for 12 Months

15th May 2013 (10 Comments)

Tesco has once again cut the cost of their fixed line home broadband and phone bundles by offering the service free for the first 12 months, albeit only if you are one of their mobile subscribers. The standard price has also been cut to just £2 a month for non-Mobile users.

Some 86% of the UK Population or 43.5 Million Adults Have Gone Online

15th May 2013 (0 Comments)

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) have today published their latest Internet Access Quarterly Update Q1-2013, which reveals that the number of adults in the United Kingdom that have NEVER gone online has shrunk from 7.42 million (15%) in Q4-2012 to 7.1 million (14%) in the last quarter.

UPD West Sussex UK Sign £20.1m BDUK Contract for BT Superfast Broadband

15th May 2013 (6 Comments)

The West Sussex County Council (WSCC) in southern England has today signed a new £20.1 million state aid supported contract with BT that will aim to make superfast broadband (25Mbps+) ISP connections available to 98% of local premises by the “start” of Spring 2016 (the rest will get at least 2Mbps).

UPD London Tests Find Fears of 4G Knocking Out TV Signals are Overblown

15th May 2013 (2 Comments)

The at800.tv (DMSL) group, which is jointly funded by £180m from UK mobile network operators, reports that preliminary results from 170,000 homes in South East London (England) have identified NO cases where 4G (LTE) based mobile services in the 800MHz band have disrupted terrestrial TV services.

Sky Broadband Tells Staff to Handle Fear of Rupert Murdoch with Sensitivity

15th May 2013 (6 Comments)

Some of O2 UK’s fixed line home broadband and phone customers are reportedly refusing to be shifted onto the network of new owner Sky Broadband (BSkyB) because it’s partly owned by Rupert Murdoch’s infamous News Corporation.

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