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Oh no, not again. TalkTalk has found itself in yet more hot water over their security after the ISP admitted that private information being held by its own “BrightSparks” engineers (NOT Openreach) had been compromised and strategically abused to defraud several subscribers.
UK ISP TalkTalk has today announced that they’ve joined ten other broadband and mobile providers in signing Ofcom’s Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Nuisance Calls, which commits them to develop new technical measures for “reducing the impact of unlawful nuisance calls on consumers“.
Over the coming months BTOpenreach will start to introduce a new NTE5C Master Socket, which could make life a lot easier both for consumers who like to tinker and Openreach engineers who have no choice but to work with the existing sockets (NTE5 A / B) or even far older ones.
Shropshire-based communications provider Entanet, which supplies broadband and telecoms services to a number of UK ISPs and many businesses, has this month celebrated its 20th anniversary and announced “further significant investment” for its national network.
Residents, businesses and visitors to the most popular parts of central Leicester (e.g. the Clock Tower, Jubilee Square and outside the Richard III centre), which is a city in the East Midlands of England, will be pleased to learn that BT are planning to roll-out a free WiFi zone in the area.
The EEF, which is a trade association that champions manufacturing and engineering in the United Kingdom, has claimed that over a quarter of small firms and half of medium-sized firms are paying “inflated” costs of more than £5,000 a year for broadband Internet connectivity.