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TalkTalk UK and YouGov Study Finds 78% Reject Default Internet Censorship

6th September, 2012 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP TalkTalk has today published the results of its latest YouGov research, which asked 2,010 online UK adults which system would be best for helping to protect children from accessing adult content on the internet. Overall 78% rejected the idea of default filtering, which would be automatically enabled on all internet accounts.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee 2012 Web Index Ranks UK 3rd Best in the World

5th September, 2012 (0 Comments)

The World Wide Web Foundation, a non-profit organization that was established by WWW inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and aims to make the internet available to everybody, has today release its 2012 Web Index that uses 80 indicators to rank countries by broadband access, affordability and policy environment etc.

Europe Reconsiders EUR9.2bn Digital Agenda Superfast Broadband Funding

5th September, 2012 (1 Comment)

The European Commission’s (EC) plan to boost funding for its Digital Agenda strategy by €9.2bn (£7.3bn), which will help to make superfast broadband (30Mbps+) services available to 100% of EU people by 2020 and would directly impact projects in the UK, could be affected after the Cypriot presidency questioned the allocation.

ISP O2 UK and BE Unable to Confirm Superfast Broadband Service for 2013

5th September, 2012 (11 Comments)

Internet provider BE Broadband (sibling of O2 UK), which earlier this year admitted that they were “not making very good progress on fibre” and delayed their plans to launch a superfast broadband (FTTC) service until 2013, still “can’t yet confirm” whether this will actually happen. Separately they’ve today suffered major cable damage in London.

No Surprise as Birmingham University Reveals P2P File Sharers are Monitored

5th September, 2012 (1 Comment)

New research from Birmingham University UK has confirmed that most public BitTorrent (P2P) file sharers have their file transfers monitored by a third party organisation, such as Rights Holders for the purpose of taking copyright enforcement action against broadband ISPs and their customers. But the data collected is far from reliable.

RIPE Warn EU and UK Supply of IPv4 Internet Addresses to Run Out Next Month

5th September, 2012 (5 Comments)

Europe’s Regional Internet Registry (RIR), RIPE NCC, which handles the distribution of internet addresses for the UK and EU (needed by all devices that connect to the internet), has officially warned that they have just “one month worth of IPv4 address space” left (about 4,134,976 addresses).

Loyal Broadband Customers “Wasting” GBP1.1bn a Year by Not Switching ISP

5th September, 2012 (0 Comments)

A new uSwitch survey claims that 46% of British broadband users have never swapped ISP and might thus be overpaying by an average of £120+ a year (national total of £1.1 billion), which could be saved by swapping to a cheaper package. But is price the best measure of a good ISP?

UPD BTOpenreach UK Engineer Repair Delays Slow Broadband and Phone Work

4th September, 2012 (15 Comments)

Consumers requesting the installation of a new broadband and or phone service from their ISP are in some cases being left to wait for several months after BTOpenreach, which is responsible for managing access to BT’s national UK telecoms network, was hit by a spate of problems over the summer months.

Maria Miller MP Appointed to Oversee UK Superfast Broadband Policy

4th September, 2012 (10 Comments)

Prime Minister David Cameron has appointed the Conservative MP for Basingstoke, Maria Miller, to replace embattled Jeremy Hunt as the government’s new Secretary of State for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). But what does this mean for the UK’s national broadband policy?

UPD Entanet UK Call for Consumers to Pay for Rejected Broadband Complaints

4th September, 2012 (18 Comments)

Communications provider Entanet, which supplies broadband services to a number of ISPs in the UK, has controversially suggested that Ofcom’s official consumer complaint schemes should force customers to “pay for the costs” if their complaint against an internet provider is rejected.

O2 UK Claim Remote Working Services to Drive Business Broadband Uptake

4th September, 2012 (0 Comments)

Communications provider O2 Wholesale UK (formerly BE Wholesale) has surveyed 100 companies in the UK IT industry and revealed that 70% expect “uptake” of fixed broadband ISP services to increase over the next 6 months, with demand for remote working being the dominant factor.

Top 8 UK Fastest ISPs by Broadband Speed for August 2012

4th September, 2012 (2 Comments)

The latest monthly UK summary of anecdotal consumer broadband ISP speed testing data from Broadband.co.uk, which covers the past month of August 2012, reveals that the average internet download speed has fallen slightly from 17.262Mbps (Megabits per second) in July 2012 to 16.720Mbps now.

Charter UK Urges Ofcom to Tackle Individual Consumer Complaints Itself

3rd September, 2012 (0 Comments)

The boss of Charter UK, which is itself a provider of complaints management software, has today criticised the communications regulator (Ofcom) for being unable to handle individual complaints about landline, mobile phone and broadband providers and instead using two separate ADR schemes.

EU Propose Spectrum Sharing to Handle WiFi and Mobile Broadband Demand

3rd September, 2012 (0 Comments)

The European Commission (EC) has today moved to tackle the rising demand for Mobile Broadband and WiFi data traffic, which doubles every year and could soon reach over 1 Trillion MegaBytes per month in Europe alone, by removing the regulatory barriers that prohibit radio spectrum sharing and White Space tech.

TalkTalks New UK YouView Broadband TV Service Creates 500 Jobs

3rd September, 2012 (5 Comments)

The recent launch of TalkTalk’s new YouView TV (IPTV) service (full details), which is being included alongside the ISPs unlimited broadband and anytime UK calls “Plus” package bundle, will apparently also result in the creation of 500 new jobs; most of whom will be engineers. But big challenges remain.

Sky Broadband UK Hires Movie Star Bruce Willis to Sell You Internet Access

1st September, 2012 (28 Comments)

In the battle for celebrity endorsements Virgin Media, with a collection that spans from Uma Thurman to Mo Fareh, is surely king. Now Sky Broadband hopes to muscle in on the action by hiring action movie star Bruce Willis to help explain why, in a way that only he can, having Sky’s truly “unlimited” broadband is better than a restricted service.

Virgin Media UK Launch Cheaper 30Mb Broadband with TV and Phone Bundle

31st August, 2012 (3 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media has today announced the launch of its new triple-play Classic Collection package, which bundles together a 30Mbps superfast broadband service with TV (includes 500GB TiVo box and 58 channels) and free unlimited weekend calls to UK landlines and Virgin Mobiles from £9 a month.