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The Government has budgeted around £175 million+ over 10 years to cover the cost of storing everyone’s Internet records as part of their controversial new Investigatory Powers Bill (details), but MPs have been warned by ISPs that this might not even come close to covering the actual costs.
Low cost UK ISP PlusNet has begun offering their ‘up to’ 38Mbps capable “Unlimited Fibre” (FTTC) broadband package free for the first 6 months of service (£14.99 per month thereafter).
The Watford Borough Council in Hertfordshire (England) has teamed-up with network operator intechnologyWiFi to deploy a free public WiFi (wireless Internet) hotspot service to cover local community centres and sheltered housing schemes.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned both a regional press and website advert for the Sky Broadband and Talk services after Virgin Media complained that the promotions misleadingly claimed that Sky offered the “best customer service” of any ISP, which could not be fully substantiated.
After the recent cyber-attack TalkTalk, which dubiously skipped their previous Q2 2015 report (here), has today published a financial update for Q3 2015 (calendar) and revealed that they’ve lost -80K broadband subscribers in the past 6 months to make for a total of 4.1 million (on-net).
Just like clockwork Virgin Media, which recently started boosting its cable broadband speeds up to 200Mbps (here), has this week announced a raft of major price hikes that will hit their new Internet and phone customers from 24th November 2015 and existing customers from 1st February 2016.