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European Parliament Report Criticises UK for Mass Internet Surveillance

9th Jan 2014 (7 Comments)

The European Parliament’s civil liberties committee has today published a damning new report that heavily criticises the USA, United Kingdom and other EU member states for their activities towards fostering mass Internet surveillance, which MEPs said often appeared to involve “illegal actions” that should be prohibited.

Vodafone UK and EE Bring Mobile Broadband to the Channel Tunnel

9th Jan 2014 (0 Comments)

Mobile operators Vodafone and EE have signed a new 10-year deal with Eurotunnel that will make their 2G and 3G based voice and Mobile Broadband services available to commuters travelling 100 metres below sea level on trains along the Channel Tunnel (North Tunnel) route that connects the UK to France (4G will follow later).

UPDATE Sony Shun Broadband Speed Concern to Unveil Cloud Gaming Service

8th Jan 2014 (15 Comments)

Entertainment giant Sony has this week officially announced the launch of their new cloud-based PlayStation Now (PS Now) service, which works in a similar way to OnLive by using Gaikai video streaming tech to allow gamers to remotely play console games via their existing broadband ISP connection (without having to download anything).

Sky Broadband, TalkTalk and Virgin Media Slapped for Misleading UK Ads

8th Jan 2014 (1 Comment)

The United Kingdom’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has kicked off 2014 by upholding a variety of complaints against “misleading” adverts for broadband and other services supplied by Sky Broadband (BSkyB), AOL Broadband, TalkTalk, Virgin Media and separately also YouView’s (IPTV) platform that some of the big ISPs use.

Admin Fail Causes Hassle for BT Openreach Quality of Service Consultation

7th Jan 2014 (0 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has apologised after a “typographical error” meant that anybody who submitted a web form response to its consultation on proposals that would require BTOpenreach to meet better “minimum performance standards” (here) will not have been heard.

Consumer Broadband ISP Routers Exposed via New Backdoor Exploit

7th Jan 2014 (2 Comments)

Broadband ISP customers that own some models of Cisco, Netgear, Linksys or certain other routers could be vulnerable to a new backdoor exploit that allows a hacker to remotely input their own admin password and possibly gain full access to your network.

EE Set to Break 70% UK Population Coverage for 4G Mobile Broadband

7th Jan 2014 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (4GEE) has revealed that its “superfast” 4G (LTE at 1800MHz) based Mobile Broadband network will exceed 70% population coverage of the United Kingdom before the end of January 2014 and that 2 million customers have now joined the new service.

UPDATE UK ISP Sky Broadband Removes TorrentFreak Block from Censor List

7th Jan 2014 (8 Comments)

The curse of dubious categorisation has struck the land of censorship again after news site TorrentFreak.com criticised Sky Broadband for including it under the ‘File Sharing’ category of their new network-level Internet filtering service (Sky’s Broadband Shield), which acts as a Parental Control for “adult content“.

UK Storm Damage Gives BT Openreach Engineers a Busy Start to 2014

6th Jan 2014 (30 Comments)

BT’s national UK phone and broadband network, especially along some of the hardest hit coastal and river areas, has taken a severe battering over the Christmas and New Year period after a series of violent storms turned gale force winds, heavy rain and flooding into an almost daily occurrence.

UK ISP PlusNet Business Reintroduces Half Price Broadband Offer

6th Jan 2014 (2 Comments)

PlusNet Business has cut the monthly rental cost of its standalone broadband packages and bundles in half for the first six months of service, which is only available to new customers.

Major Power Failure Knocks UK Hosting Giant and ISP Fasthosts Offline

6th Jan 2014 (4 Comments)

Customers of UK Internet hosting and access provider Fasthosts are gradually seeing most of their services return to normal after an “external infrastructure issue” triggered a primary power supply failure, which has caused a weekends worth of disruption for all of their services including the communication systems and status page.

YouTube Test Broadband Connections with Low Bandwidth 4K Video Streams

6th Jan 2014 (22 Comments)

Internet technology giant Google has confirmed that its massively popular online video streaming service, YouTube, will soon give consumer broadband ISP connections a run for their money when they join Netflix to begin streaming “lower bandwidth” 4K videos (Ultra HDTV – 3840 x 2160 pixels) using the new VP9 standard.

The Best Broadband ISPs for 2014 – ISPreview UK Editors Pick

6th Jan 2014 (15 Comments)

It’s no fun having to walk the United Kingdom’s minefield of often confusing broadband ISP choices, where internet speeds can vary due to a multitude of often opaque factors and service quality frequently fails to match expectations. So here’s our annual editors pick to help out. IMPORTANT: This article has now been superseded by the new 2017 edition – The Best Broadband ISPs for 2017.

UK Government Set to Discuss Rural Broadband Cover on 14th January

4th Jan 2014 (15 Comments)

The Government’s Communications Minister, Ed Vaizey MP, will chair another round table event at Parliament on 14th January 2014 to discuss extending faster broadband Internet connectivity into rural areas. A key focus of the meeting is likely to be the new £10 million competitive fund.

Call for Ofcom Probe After Another Cable Break Hurts Broadband in Shetland

4th Jan 2014 (15 Comments)

The remote Shetland Islands (North of Scotland, UK) have seen local broadband services disrupted again after yet another subsea fibre optic cable break on the SHEFA-2 (Faroese Telecom) link resulted in outages and slow performance for some ISPs but not others, which has triggered calls for Ofcom to investigate network resilience.

Residents of St Kew in Cornwall UK Start Petition for Superfast Broadband

3rd Jan 2014 (19 Comments)

Locals residing in the Cornish parish of St Kew, which includes various smaller hamlets and villages, have launched a new petition that calls upon the joint BT and EU funded £132 million Superfast Cornwall project to extend its faster broadband connectivity into the area.

The UK Top 6 Fastest Fixed Line Home Broadband ISPs for 2013

3rd Jan 2014 (0 Comments)

The latest consumer Internet speed testing data for December 2013 reveals that Virgin Media has maintained its position as the fastest broadband ISP with a download speed of 35.387Mbps (Megabits per second). By contrast the overall national average download speed for all the largest providers was 18.376Mbps and uploads hit 3.320Mbps.