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ISP EE UK Nudges Past 694K Home Broadband and 318K 4G Customers

23rd April, 2013 (1 Comment)

The latest Q1-2013 financial results from EE (Orange UK and T-Mobile) have revealed that their fixed line Home Broadband subscriber base increased by just +1,000 in the quarter to total 694,000, while their 4G (LTE) based mobile subscribers grew from zero to 318,000 in the first five months since its launch.

Virgin Media Business Help 2000 London UK Schools Get WiFi and VoIP

22nd April, 2013 (2 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media Business has confirmed that 2,000 schools across London (England) can now benefit from wireless internet (WiFi) and VoIP connectivity via their new Public Services Network (PSN) that has been built alongside the London Grid for Learning (LGfL).

UK Government Denies Superfast Broadband Targets Slipping to 2016

22nd April, 2013 (12 Comments)

The government’s Communications Minister, Ed Vaizey, has told the House of Commons that he still hopes 90% of the United Kingdom will have access to a superfast broadband (25Mbps+) ISP by the end of 2015. But he admitted that they were still “actively looking at the options” for a post-2015 strategy.

UPDATE ICO Demands to See Evidence for UK ISP Internet Snooping Bill

22nd April, 2013 (0 Comments)

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which deals with data protection and freedom of information issues for the government, has reportedly ordered the Home Office to publish any advice that ministers received regarding the design, cost and risks for key parts of the controversial internet snooping bill (Communications Data Bill).

CLANNET Enables FREE WiFi Hotspot for Appleton Wiske in Yorkshire UK

22nd April, 2013 (2 Comments)

The small rural village of Appleton Wiske in the Vale of York (North Yorkshire, England) now has access to a free wireless internet (wifi) service after community ISP CLANNET installed a new transceiver at the local village hall.

ISP Sky Broadband Unblocks Legal Website Caught in The Pirate Bay Net

22nd April, 2013 (0 Comments)

It took three weeks to get resolved but Sky Broadband UK (BSkyB) has now apologised to its customers after a seemingly legal website was mistakenly caught up in the ISPs censorship of the The Pirate Bay (internet piracy) website, which was blocked last year following a court order.

EE UK Launch 150Mbps Capable 4G Mobile Broadband and WiFi USB Modem

20th April, 2013 (7 Comments)

Mobile operator EE, which recently announced that it would double its headline 4G based Mobile Broadband speeds up to 80Mbps (here), has now launched one of the United Kingdom’s first LTE Category 4 (150Mbps capable) based mobile WiFi modems (MiFi) – the Huawei E5776.

OFT to Rule on Sky Takeover of O2 UK Home Broadband in May 2013

19th April, 2013 (11 Comments)

The anticipated £180m+ acquisition by BSkyB (Sky Broadband) of O2 UK and BE Broadband’s fixed line internet and phone customers (full details), which was originally due to complete by the end of April 2013 (subject to regulatory clearance), could suffer a delay.

UPDATE3 BT Reveal UK FTTC Self Install and Vectoring Broadband Trial

19th April, 2013 (91 Comments)

BTWholesale has revealed the seemingly imminent launch of a new ISP trial to test the operators first wires-only self install superfast broadband service (no engineer required), which could dramatically cut the setup cost and contract length of UK FTTC lines. A trial of VDSL Vectoring (faster FTTC speeds) is also on the cards.

UPDATE Ofcom Fine UK ISP TalkTalk £750k for Abandoned and Silent Calls

18th April, 2013 (9 Comments)

Budget ISP TalkTalk has once again got itself into hot water with the national communications regulator, Ofcom, which has today fined the provider £750,000 for making an “excessive number” of abandoned and silent calls to potential customers during 2011.

UK Supreme Court Agrees Viewing Webpages is Not Copyright Infringement

18th April, 2013 (0 Comments)

Can you commit copyright infringement (piracy) simply by viewing web-pages on a website? Five judges at the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom have this week ruled to protect millions of innocent internet users from incurring unfair civil liability for merely coming upon a web-page that happens to contain copyright material.

People in the United Kingdom Spent 37 Billion Hours Online in 2012

18th April, 2013 (0 Comments)

The latest Experian Hitwise statistics have revealed that the UK spent 37 billion hours online in 2012 and 22% of all that time was spent on a social network (e.g. Facebook, Twitter etc.), which equates to about 13 minutes of every hour online. Entertainment websites and online shopping were also popular.

UK ISP BT to Close Unused Yahoo Email Accounts After 150 Days

17th April, 2013 (1 Comment)

ISP BT Retail has changed the terms of its Yahoo! Mail (e.g. @btinternet.com and @openworld.com addresses) based email accounts so that, effective from 17th June 2013, any customers who have not used their mail accounts for more than 150 days will find the account closed.

BT UK Sign GBP18.9 Million Superfast Broadband Deal for Northumberland

17th April, 2013 (3 Comments)

The Northumberland County Council (NCC) in North East England has today signed a new £18.9 million state aid supported deal with BT that will make superfast broadband (25Mbps+) speeds available to 91% of premises by early 2016 (95% will be covered by the fibre optic based FTTC network but some won’t be “superfast“).

T-Mobile and TalkTalk Adverts Banned for Unlimited and YouView Claims

17th April, 2013 (2 Comments)

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned several ads for TalkTalk’s YouView TV product, which misleadingly described the set-top-box as being “free” despite a £50 install fee. The watchdog also banned an ad for T-Mobile’s (EE) £36 Full Monty Plan after it promoted “Unlimited internet” despite a Traffic Management policy.

28000 UK Homes in Brentford and Isleworth to Test for 4G TV Interference

17th April, 2013 (0 Comments)

The at800.tv (DMSL) group, which was setup by UK mobile operators as part of a £180m effort to stop new 4G (LTE) based mobile services in the 800MHz band from knocking out digital terrestrial TV (Freeview) services, has announced a third interference trial in Brentford and Isleworth (London Borough of Hounslow).

BT Nears Final Phase of UK Retirement for 20CN Broadband ISP Services

17th April, 2013 (5 Comments)

BT’s strategy to retire their older 20th Century Network (20CN) based broadband ISP services (e.g. 8Mbps ADSL / IPStream Connect products) remains on course to begin its final phase in October 2013, which by 31st March 2014 should see related services being removed from a total of 2549 telephone exchanges around the United Kingdom.