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UPDATE Sky Broadband UK to Launch Network Level Adult Website Filter

5th February, 2013 (4 Comments)

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has today confirmed that it plans to follow TalkTalk’s sometimes controversial HomeSafe solution by launching its own “whole-home” automatic network level filtering (censorship) service in the UK, which would block access to websites that contain adult content.

UPDATE3 Liberty Global Preps Bid for UK Cable Operator Virgin Media

5th February, 2013 (10 Comments)

Virgin Media, which delivers fixed line phone, broadband and TV services to roughly half of the United Kingdom (mostly urban areas), could be sold to international cable provider Liberty Global after reports of a bid worth up to £12.7 billion began to circle the internet (enterprise value of $20bn).

UK ISP TalkTalk Returns to Growth with 4.053m Broadband Subscribers

5th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

Budget UK internet and phone provider TalkTalk can celebrate today after the ISP returned to growth, following a three year period of decline, by adding +10,000 new broadband subscribers during Q4-2012 (total 4,053,000). The number of customers taking their superfast “fibre” broadband (FTTC) package also increased to 52,000 during Q4 (+22k).

ISP KC Change Eligibility Criteria for its Cheap Line Rental Service in Hull

5th February, 2013 (1 Comment)

Broadband and phone provider KC, which operates almost exclusively in the Hull area of East Yorkshire (England), has adjusted the eligibility criteria for its Social Access Package that offers cheaper phone line rental (£5.62 a month) to the unemployed (low income groups) and those with other special needs.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Pick BT for GBP60m Broadband Boost

5th February, 2013 (4 Comments)

BT has unsurprisingly been chosen by the joint Cambridgeshire and Peterborough project in England (UK) to help make superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services available to 90% of local premises by 2015 (note: “very nearly” 100% will also get speeds of at least 2Mbps by the same date).

Safer Internet Day 2013 Preaches Online Rights and Responsibilities

5th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

Today is officially the 10th annual Safer Internet Day, which works to help educate web surfers and children from around the world about the dangers of internet use and how to stay safe online. This year’s theme is “online rights and responsibilities” and encouraging web users to “connect with respect“.

Brits Still Seek Clampdown on Misleading Broadband ISP Adverts

4th February, 2013 (6 Comments)

The results from 846 respondents to ISPreview.co.uk’s latest monthly reader poll have found that 89% still feel that big broadband ISPs are continuing to mislead consumers with their advertising practices, especially in regards to promotions of internet service speed and pricing. Time for tougher rules perhaps.

Three UK to Offer 4G Ultrafast Mobile Broadband At No Extra Cost

4th February, 2013 (7 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK (Hutchison 3GUK Ltd.) has announced that their forthcoming 4G (LTE) based “ultrafast” Mobile Broadband network will, unlike its rivals, offer the service across all existing and new price plans “without customers needing to pay a premium fee to upgrade“.

The Top 8 UK Fastest Broadband ISPs for January 2013

4th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

The latest summary of anecdotal consumer broadband ISP speed testing data has revealed that the average download speed in the United Kingdom fell sharply from 19.374Mbps (Megabits per second) in December 2012 to 16.914Mbps during January 2013. Meanwhile the average upload speed is largely unchanged at 2.387Mbps.

O2 UK and BE Broadband ISP Users Receive 250 GoldenEye Piracy Letters

2nd February, 2013 (6 Comments)

Customers of ISP O2 UK (BE Broadband) have this week begun to receive the first 250 of just under 1,000 initial internet piracy threat letters from Golden Eye International (GEIL), which targets internet users whom are suspected of having “illegally” shared (P2P) copyright content that belongs to the Ben Dover porn brand.

Rights Holders Moot Internet Piracy Fines Instead of ISP Disconnection

2nd February, 2013 (3 Comments)

One of the most controversial parts of the UK Digital Economy Act 2010 (DEAct), a “technical measure” that could eventually see prolific internet pirates being disconnected (“account suspension”) from their broadband ISP, might be dropped in favour of a set financial penalty (e.g. £100+ fine).

Sky, Virgin Media and PlusNet Top UK Home Broadband 2013 ISP Awards

2nd February, 2013 (2 Comments)

A new Home Broadband Survey 2013, which combined the results from 50,000 speed tests with consumer research from OnePoll, has named PlusNet the best broadband provider in the United Kingdom after it secured the highest scores across most categories (e.g. speed satisfaction, support and reliability).

ISP BT UK Adds Totally Unlimited Broadband to its Unlimited Packages

1st February, 2013 (11 Comments)

Internet provider BT Retail has today introduced “Totally Unlimited Broadband” on all but its entry level offerings, some of which were already supposed to be “unlimited” in the first place. The key difference appears to be a policy change and related products are now “free from traffic management” (e.g. P2P and video streaming restrictions).

UPD Ofcom UK Propose to Open 900MHz, 800MHz and 2100MHz for 4G

1st February, 2013 (0 Comments)

As expected the UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed to allow 4G (LTE) superfast Mobile Broadband services to also be delivered over the 900MHz, 1800MHz (EE are at present the only one allowed to do this) and 2100MHz radio spectrum bands that are currently used for a mix of existing 2G and 3G services.

UK ISP BT Tops 6.56 Million Broadband Subscribers as Fibre Access Grows

1st February, 2013 (0 Comments)

National UK telecoms operator BT has today released its latest Q4-2012 financial results, which revealed that their retail broadband ISP subscriber base grew by +122k (up from +88k in Q3-2012) to total 6,569,000 customers (more than 1m of which are fibre optic based BTInfinity superfast broadband subscribers).

Wife of AAISP UK Boss Narrowly Escapes Falling Tree at ISPs HQ

1st February, 2013 (1 Comment)

The “root of all evil” struck in the car park of Bracknell based business ISP Andrews and Arnold (AAISP) earlier this week after high winds on Wednesday felled a large tree, which narrowly missed a car belonging to the wife of boss Adrian Kennard.

Entanet Explains the Problem of Compensating Users for Broadband Loss

1st February, 2013 (4 Comments)

Communications provider Entanet, which supplies a number of ISPs in the United Kingdom, has claimed that it “really isn’t practical” to compensate all customers for a loss of broadband service.