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UK High Court Forces Big ISPs to Block Websites for Trade Mark Abuse

17th Oct 2014 (7 Comments)

The High Court of Justice in London has today ruled on a case that concerned the abuse of commercial Trade Marks. Crucially the outcome means that several of the United Kingdom’s largest broadband ISPs (BT, Sky Broadband, Virgin Media, EE and TalkTalk) can now also be forced to block websites that abuse company trademarks / logos, such as by dealing in counterfeit goods.

UPDATE5 Sky Broadband and Talk Outages Hit North West England

17th Oct 2014 (8 Comments)

Customers of Sky Broadband’s service in the North West of England, particularly those who reside in and around the Liverpool and Manchester areas, have been hit by a major service outage this morning after the operator reported problems at multiple telephone exchanges in the region.

Dorset UK Reveals Phase 3 BT Superfast Broadband Rollout Areas

17th Oct 2014 (0 Comments)

The Superfast Dorset project in central southern England has today announced the next batch of telephone exchange areas that will soon benefit from an upgrade to BT’s latest “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network as part of the programmes third roll-out phase, which is expected to help another 9,000 local premises to connect.

UPDATE2 BT Openreach Add Performance Update and Service Outage Search

17th Oct 2014 (0 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which works to maintain and upgrade BT’s national telecoms and broadband network across the United Kingdom, looks set to update their performance information website (www.expect.openreach.co.uk) next week with the latest repair statistics and the addition of some interesting new features.

Expedia Study Finds Complimentary WiFi is a Crucial Hotel Perk

17th Oct 2014 (1 Comment)

A new study of 8,556 employed adults across 25 countries, which was conducted by the Canadian division of online travel giant Expedia, has found that travellers increasingly prioritise WiFi accessibility. Some 56% of travellers worldwide said that WiFi availability and pricing impact their purchasing decision when booking travel or hotels.

PC Pro Excellence Awards 2014 See UK ISPs Zen Internet and PlusNet Top

17th Oct 2014 (2 Comments)

Consumer magazine PC Pro has published the results of their annual PCPro Excellence Awards 2014 event, which much like last year named Zen Internet the “Best Broadband ISP“. Meanwhile PlusNet was the “Highly Commended” runner-up in second place.

Telecoms Leaders Say You Only NEED 25Mbps Broadband

16th Oct 2014 (11 Comments)

A snap survey of members from the so-called Broadband 100 group, which rather boldly claims to bring together the “greatest minds from the Telecoms, Media and IT industries“, have perhaps unsurprisingly concluded that today’s homes only need broadband Internet download speeds of up to 25Mbps.

Gigaclear Target 5000 Premises for FTTP Broadband in Rural Northamptonshire

16th Oct 2014 (5 Comments)

Fibre optic broadband ISP Gigaclear has announced that their 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP/H) network is set to reach 5,000 homes and businesses in several rural Northamptonshire villages (East Midlands of England) by the end of 2017.

A1 Telekom First to Connect Customer via 536Mbps G.fast Broadband

16th Oct 2014 (55 Comments)

Austrian ISP A1 Telekom (Telekom Austria Group) and Alcatel-Lucent claim to have connected the first customer in the world to a domestic copper telecoms network using G.fast (ITU G.9700/1) technology, which some predict could eventually replace BT’s up to 80Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) service in the United Kingdom.

VIDEO Samsung Demo Next Gen 5G Mobile Broadband Speeds of 7.5Gbps

16th Oct 2014 (0 Comments)

Electronics giant Samsung claims to have successfully delivered record setting Mobile Broadband speeds of a staggering 7.5Gbps (Gigabits per second) using a prototype of their next generation 5G technology, with the uninterrupted speeds falling away to 1.2Gbps when the service was tested while travelling at just over 60Mph (Miles per hour) on a 4.35km long racetrack.

UK ISP Eclipse Internet Quietly Withdraws Home Broadband Products

16th Oct 2014 (6 Comments)

Without even so much as a whisper the KCOM owned ISP Eclipse Internet has quietly updated their website to remove residential home broadband and phone products in order to re-focus more on the delivery of business services.

Growth Improves as Sky Broadband Reaches 5.32m UK Customers

16th Oct 2014 (0 Comments)

After a predictable slowdown in the second quarter Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has today seen its growth improve in Q3-2014 by adding an extra +75,000 (up from +50k in Q2 and +70k in Q1) home broadband subscriptions to total 5,322,000, which has no doubt been helped by the recent spate of aggressive discounts (24 months free broadband etc.).

EE UK Ready to Switch-On 300Mbps 4G LTE Advanced Mobile Speeds

16th Oct 2014 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator EE has told ISPreview.co.uk that their ultrafast 300Mbps (peak – shared capacity) capable 4G network upgrade, which will make use of the latest LTE-Advanced (Long Term Evolution) and Carrier Aggregation technology, is imminently due to exit its trial phase and go live.

Wales UK Reveals Autumn 2015 BT “Fibre Broadband” Rollout Plan

16th Oct 2014 (2 Comments)

The Superfast Cymru project has this morning announced the next batch of communities that, from September 2015 onwards, will be upgraded to support BT’s “fast fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network. The announcement means that related work is now effectively planned to take place in every telephone exchange across Wales.

Mobile Operator EE Gives a Christmas Gift of FREE 4G Data

15th Oct 2014 (4 Comments)

Customers of EE’s mobile network in the United Kingdom, specifically those new subscribers who take a Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) Smartphone or Tablet computer, will this Christmas be given 100MB (MegaBytes) of free mobile data each and every month.

17 BT Fibre Broadband FTTC Cabinets Go LIVE on the Shetland Islands

15th Oct 2014 (16 Comments)

Residents of the remote Shetland Islands community will be pleased to learn that the first 17 street cabinets (serving 4,000 premises) equipped with BT’s up to 80Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) broadband technology have gone live today. The work forms part of the wider £410m Digital Scotland partnership.

Study Finds UK ISP Internet Censorship Not the Best Approach for Kids

15th Oct 2014 (2 Comments)

A new survey of over 2,000 children (aged 14 – 17) from across the United Kingdom, which was jointly conducted by the Oxford Internet Institute and The Parent Zone, has claimed that restricting kids from accessing the Internet by using network-level ISP censorship (Parental Control) systems might not be as effective as allowing them to self-regulate their own online use.