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26th March, 2012 (5 Comments)

BT has announced plans to deploy a new burglar alarm technology across its national UK network of copper based telephone and broadband ISP lines. The solution, called RABIT (Rapid Assessment B.T Incident Tracker), actively monitors the operators network and informs BT’s Security Control Centre when a physical disconnection (e.g. cable cut) has occurred.

24th March, 2012 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 UK (Telefonica) has warned that Ofcom’s plan to auction off the 800MHz and 2.6GHz radio spectrum frequencies, which would be used by a new generation of 4G superfast Mobile Broadband services, could be put at “further risk of delay” after the regulator allowed T-Mobile and Orange UK (Everything Everywhere) to launch the country’s first 4G service over their existing 1800MHz (3G) band.

23rd March, 2012 (0 Comments)

Red Bee Media, a media management company, has revealed new research which suggests that the UK television industry expects revenue from the a new generation of online video services, fuelled by faster broadband ISP connectivity, to quadruple by 2020. But incumbent broadcasters aren’t going to be the main winners as competition from new services (e.g. Netflix , YouView etc.) will begin to eat away at the established market.

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23rd March, 2012 (4 Comments)

The Rutland County Council (RCC) has awarded the contract for its Digital Rutland project (Local Broadband Plan), which mirrors the UK governments goal of making superfast broadband (24Mbps+) ISP services available to 90% of premises by 2015, to BT (subject to EC State Aid approval).

23rd March, 2012 (1 Comment)

The hugely popular LOVEFiLM Instant (Amazon) service, which from just £4.99 a month allows broadband ISP customers “unlimited” access to stream video from thousands of TV shows and Movies online, has “for the first time ever” streamed over 20% more films and TV series instantly over the internet than physically rented DVDs, Blu-Rays and Video Games.

23rd March, 2012 (2 Comments)

An interesting development occurred in the USA yesterday when, for the first time, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a new Voluntary Code of Conduct for consumer broadband ISPs and network operators called the Anti-Bot Code of Conduct (ABC). The code is designed to help internet providers tackle Botnets (i.e. Trojan / Virus / Malware infected computers).

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22nd March, 2012 (5 Comments)

The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has today published its latest quarterly customer complaints data (Q4-2011) for broadband and mobile telecoms providers (those with a market share of more than 4%). Unfortunately the data shows that TalkTalk remains the most complained about ISP and, after having improved in previous quarters, appears to have returned to its old ways with complaints on the rise.

22nd March, 2012 (0 Comments)

The Internet Telephony Services Providers’ Association (ITSPA), a UK trade body for the Voice-over-IP (VoIP) industry, have announced the winners of its 4th annual 2012 ITSPA Awards. During the ceremony Voiptalk was named as Best Consumer VoIP provider.

22nd March, 2012 (1 Comment)

Yesterday’s Budget 2012 announcement (detailed summary) from the UK government appears to have drawn a mixed reaction from Internet Service Providers (ISP) and related organisations. The budget revealed which 10 cities will get “ultrafast” broadband services and better mobile / wifi connectivity through the £100m Urban Broadband Fund (UBF) and added a further £50m to support similar efforts in “smaller cities“.

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22nd March, 2012 (1 Comment)

A new Russian Optical Trans-Arctic Submarine Cable System (ROTACS) from the Polarnet Project, which will boost international broadband internet connectivity to the UK, is about to become the first submarine fibre optic cable to cross the Arctic Ocean with a run between London and Japan / China that crosses the coast of Northern Europe and Russia.

21st March, 2012 (0 Comments)

The Broadband Forum and UK telecoms analyst firm Point Topic have today reported that the world added 65.49 Million new broadband ISP lines in 2011 and ended the year (Q4-2011) with a global total of 597 Million. Sadly quarterly growth was down from 3.08% in Q3-2011 to just 2.6% in Q4.

21st March, 2012 (12 Comments)

The UK governments Chancellor, George Osborne MP, has this afternoon presented his annual Budget 2012 announcement to the House of Commons (Parliament) and confirmed which 10 cities can now expect to get “ultrafast” broadband ISP services and “high speed public wifi” through the £100m Urban Broadband Fund (UBF). A further £50m has today also been allocated for a second wave of “smaller cities“.

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21st March, 2012 (4 Comments)

Media giant Sky (Sky Broadband) has today announced that its new internet TV (video streaming) service, which is due to launch this summer 2012 and deliver access to Sky content via a “wide range of broadband-connected devices“, will be called NOW TV.

21st March, 2012 (3 Comments)

The former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of BT, Dr Peter Cochrane, has told a Lords Select Committee Inquiry into the UK governments superfast broadband strategy that the country would need to invest “at least £15bn” if it wanted to upgrade the national telecoms infrastructure properly and deliver a truly fibre optic (e.g. FTTH) service to everybody.

20th March, 2012 (2 Comments)

Return Path, an email certification and reputation monitoring company, has today released its latest biannual Global Email Deliverability Benchmark (H2-2011) report. The study found that the number of emails reaching peoples inbox (globally 76.5% make it through SPAM filters) is “rapidly decreasing” (down 6% in H2-2011) and consequently “email marketers are continuing to pour money down the drain” (oh how terrible).

20th March, 2012 (21 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which provides UK ISPs with access to BT’s local and national telecoms infrastructure, has today announced the next batch of 73 new telephone exchange upgrades for its superfast ‘up to’ 40-80Mbps Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) and 100-300Mbps Fibre-to-the-Premises ( FTTP ) based internet access technologies.

20th March, 2012 (1 Comment)

The BBC’s free web-based broadband video streaming TV service, iPlayer, has today become available to owners of Microsoft’s popular XBox 360 games console via the online XBox LIVE service.

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