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The Co-operative Phone and Broadband (The Phone Co-op) ISP has announced a sales increase of 6%, with profit before distributions remaining strong at £339,000. As a result the provider’s members, who are also customers, will benefit from a dividend payment of £57,800 (equating to 1.5% of their purchases).
Michael Coyle of London-based law firm Lawdit Solicitors, which has a lot of experience defending broadband users in the United Kingdom against copyright trolls, has offered to help support those who receive bullying “speculative invoice” letters from Rights Holders that demand money in order to settle alleged Internet piracy abuses.
The UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) appears to have delayed a long-planned strategy that would have effectively forced farmers in remote rural parts of England to go online, which is despite a lack of good broadband connectivity and IT skills among some in the community.
One of Cisco Systems better known Penetration Tester’s, Kyle Lovett, has this week warned a UK security conference that more than 700,000 ADSL broadband routers from various different manufacturers and countries are still vulnerable to a Directory Traversal attack that was first uncovered in 2011.
The Internet Telephony Services Providers Association (ITSPA), a trade body for the United Kingdom’s Voice-over-IP (VoIP) industry, has today announced the winners of their 7th annual 2015 ITSPA Awards. This year saw Orbtalk collect the gong for Best Consumer Provider, even though their website appears more business focused.
Urban focused ISP Hyperoptic has announced that their Gigabit (1Gbps) capable Fibre-to-the-Building (FTTB) broadband network has today been expanded to cater for businesses across various parts of the 12 UK cities in which they currently have a presence.