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BT Issues Weather Warning for its UK Phone and Broadband Network

3rd May, 2012 (0 Comments)

BTOpenreach has officially declared a status of Matters Beyond Our Reasonable Control (MBORC) in the areas worst affected by recent bad weather and flooding, which has resulted in serious delays to related telecoms repair and upgrade work across the United Kingdom.

TalkTalk UK ISP Trial Reveals New Router for Forthcoming YouView TV Service

3rd May, 2012 (0 Comments)

Broadband provider TalkTalk UK appears to have revealed the first picture of its next generation ‘Plus‘ package router (Huawei HG533), which is specifically said to include support for their forthcoming YouView (IPTV) based TalkTalkTV service (due to launch sometime during “summer 2012“).

Internet Piracy Measures Push 40% Rise in Young Adults Surfing Anonymously

3rd May, 2012 (3 Comments)

A new study conducted by Sweden’s Lund University (Cybernorms.net) has revealed that 40% more 15 to 25-year-olds are now “hiding their activities online” than in 2009, such as by using services like Virtual Private Networking (VPN), and often as a means to avoid the increasing crackdown against internet piracy and unlawful file sharing.

UK Internet Provider Griffin Celebrates 20th Birthday

3rd May, 2012 (0 Comments)

Derby-based business ISP Griffin (Griffin Internet), a UK focused channel supplier of managed internet (IP) services that first began life all the way back in 1992 before the modern online world had sprung up, has this week celebrated its 20th year in the industry with an ample supply of “champagne and bucks fizz“.

Mobile Devices Set to Dominate Internet Email Usage by the End of 2012

2nd May, 2012 (1 Comment)

Return Path, an email certification and reputation monitoring company, has predicted that by the end of 2012 more people will be reading internet emails on a mobile device (e.g. Smartphone, Tablet etc.) than via a computer desktop or webmail service.

BSkyB Tops 3.86 Million UK Sky Broadband ISP Subscribers

2nd May, 2012 (2 Comments)

Sky (Sky Broadband) has today released its latest financial results to 31st March 2012 (Q1), which confirms that it managed to add a staggering +212,000 new home broadband subscribers during the first quarter to reach a new total of 3,863,000 (well above the +166,000 added in Q4-2011). A very strong quarter indeed.

The Top 9 UK Fastest Big Broadband ISPs for April 2012

2nd May, 2012 (3 Comments)

The latest monthly anecdotal consumer broadband ISP speed testing data from Broadband.co.uk, which covers the month of April 2012, reveals that the average UK internet download speed has surged upwards once again from 10.73Mbps (Megabits per second) in March 2012 to 14.12Mbps now.

UK Broadband ISP Connections Top 20.43 Million in Q4 2011

1st May, 2012 (1 Comment)

The communications regulator, Ofcom, has confirmed in its latest quarterly Telecommunications Market Data Tables (Q4 2011) update that the UK is home to a total of 20.43 million fixed line home and small business broadband connections (excludes corporate), which includes 412,000 from superfast fibre optic based services (FTTC etc.).

CityFibre and Fujitsu Join Forces to Deploy Fibre Optic Broadband in UK Cities

1st May, 2012 (9 Comments)

CityFibre Holdings, which builds Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) style fibre optic infrastructure, has announced a new engineering agreement with Fujitsu that will progress their plans for deploying ultrafast broadband (100Mbps+) services “throughout the UK’s second tier cities” to reach 1 million homes and 50,000 businesses.

High Court Forces More UK ISPs to Block The Pirate Bay Piracy Website

30th April, 2012 (9 Comments)

The High Court of Justice (London) has today ruled that UK ISPs Sky Broadband, Everything Everywhere (Orange UK and T-Mobile), TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media must all follow BT in blocking The Pirate Bay, one of the world’s largest BitTorrent (P2P / File Sharing) tracker websites, because it allows internet copyright infringement (piracy) to take place.

Akamai Study Finds UK Average Broadband Speeds Fell to 4.9Mbps in 2011

30th April, 2012 (2 Comments)

Akamai‘s global Content Delivery Network (CDN) has released its latest State of the Internet Q4 2011 report, which found that the average global internet download speed had fallen to 2.3Mbps (Megabits \ sec) by the end of last year (down from 2.7Mbps in Q3-2011). The UK average speed also dropped to 4.9Mbps (down from 5.1Mbps in Q3).

UK ISP Zen Internet Launch 35Mbps Ethernet in the First Mile EFM Service

30th April, 2012 (2 Comments)

Business focused ISP Zen Internet UK has upgraded its Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) product, a dedicated multiple copper pairs based Ethernet service that is claimed to be more reliable than ADSL style solutions, to offer guaranteed symmetric internet connection speeds of 35Mbps (Megabits per second) with unlimited usage.

ISPA Improves Member UK ISP Benefits with CISAS ADR Complaints Handler

30th April, 2012 (0 Comments)

The UK Internet Services Providers Association (ISPA) reports that members (ISPs) of the industry group will now gain expanded benefits if they also join up with the CISAS Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) scheme, which is designed to supplement a providers own internal consumer complaints procedures.

4G Mobile Could Reach 10 Million UK People in Superfast Broadband Notspots

30th April, 2012 (0 Comments)

Everything Everywhere (Orange UK and T-Mobile) has today kicked off their new 4GBritain campaign, which calls on the industry and government to help speed up the country’s rollout of superfast Mobile Broadband services, by claiming that next generation “4G” tech could reach “at least” 10 million people who won’t be able to get a fixed line superfast broadband ISP by 2020.

NetGear Launch First 802.11ac Based R6300 WiFi Router with Gigabit Speeds

30th April, 2012 (2 Comments)

NetGear, a global manufacturer of networking equipment, appears to have become the first in the industry to launch a home/office wireless broadband router based off the new 802.11ac dual band gigabit WiFi standard. As a result the R6300 claims to deliver “5th generation” wireless network connectivity at “gigabit speeds“.

Europe Aims to Cut Superfast Broadband Rollout Costs by 25%

27th April, 2012 (15 Comments)

The European Commission (EC) has today opened a new consultation that aims to cut the costs of broadband investment by 25% and thus make it cheaper to deploy new networks for “high speed internet” in the EU. Priority will be given to reducing the costs associated with civil engineering (i.e. digging up roads to lay fibre optic cable), which can account for up to 80% of the total cost.

Fixed Telecom Operators to Spend GBP33bn on Fibre Optic Rollouts by 2017

27th April, 2012 (0 Comments)

Consultancy firm Analysys Mason has estimated that fixed telecoms operators, specifically those in developed countries (Central and Eastern Europe, developed Asia–Pacific, North America and Western Europe), will over the next 5 year period (between 2012 and 2017) spend £33 billion (USD53.5bn) on the roll-out of new superfast fibre optic broadband networks (e.g. FTTH).