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New UK Government Strategy Demands ISPs Block Suicide Websites

10th September, 2012 (2 Comments)

First it was child abuse, then hate speech, then piracy, then “adult” websites and today Norman Lamb MP, Minister of State at the Department of Health (DH), has called on broadband ISPs to increase their censorship of the internet by blocking “harmful suicide-related content online“.

UK ISP Vispa Expand 60Mbps Warrington Wireless Broadband to 4000 Homes

10th September, 2012 (2 Comments)

Cheshire-based internet provider Vispa has extended the coverage of its superfast wireless broadband network, which offers internet download speeds of up to 60Mbps (Megabits per second), into Westbrook, Kingswood and Chapelford (Warrington, England).

Local Government Association Slams Broadband Planning System Changes

10th September, 2012 (3 Comments)

The Local Government Association (LGA), which claims to be the national voice of councils across the United Kingdom, has warned that last week’s newly proposed measures to boost the roll-out of superfast broadband services by relaxing planning rules will result in a “significant erosion of people’s ability to influence their local environment“.

ISP Home Wiring Confusion Affects Some UK BT Superfast Broadband Installs

8th September, 2012 (34 Comments)

BTOpenreach has apologised after some of its engineers were left unable to perform the Home Wiring Solution as part of their superfast broadband (FTTC and FTTP) installations because ISPs had incorrectly assumed that they no longer needed to give specific authorisation for it.

UPD2 Culture Secretary Fixes UK Planning System for Broadband Rollout Boost

7th September, 2012 (16 Comments)

The UK government’s new Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt Maria Miller MP, has announced plans to “fast-track” the roll-out of superfast broadband (25Mbps+) services around the country by resolving “unnecessary bureaucracy” in the current planning system. However the proposals are nothing new.

International Internet Capacity Growth Falls as Bandwidth Climbs to 77Tbps

7th September, 2012 (1 Comment)

TeleGeography’s latest research reveals that global Internet capacity growth has fallen to its lowest pace in five years (down from 68% in 2008 to 40% in 2012), yet actual Internet bandwidth has more than doubled between 2010 and 2012 and now stands at 77Tbps (Terabits per second).

BT Extend UK ISP Proactive Cable Theft and Damage Report Trial Nationwide

7th September, 2012 (0 Comments)

BTOpenreach has announced that its proof of concept trial, which uses a new system to proactively notify broadband ISPs and phone operators about Major Service Outage’s (MSO) on BT’s UK telecoms network (e.g. such as those caused by cable theft or damage), will soon be extended nationwide.

Broadband ISP Aquiss Launches UK Telephone Line Rental Service

7th September, 2012 (0 Comments)

Bridgnorth-based broadband ISP Aquiss has officially announced the launch of their new landline telephone service, which apparently took the best part of 12 months to develop, for both consumers and businesses in the UK.

JT Connects 1000 Homes to its 1Gbps FTTH Broadband Network on Jersey

6th September, 2012 (4 Comments)

JT Global (Jersey Telecom) claims to have exceeded expectations after it connected the first 1,000 homes to its new ultra-fast 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband ISP network on Jersey (Channel Islands), with around 3% choosing to take their 100Mbps (Megabits per second) service.

The Cloud First to Enable Default UK Internet Censorship on its Public WiFi

6th September, 2012 (0 Comments)

The Cloud, a BSkyB (Sky Broadband) owned company that operates thousands of public wireless internet Hotspots (wifi) around the UK (approximately 11,000), today claims to have become the first such provider to “filter out adult content by default on its network“.

BT Openreach UK Warns Broadband Engineer Delays to Last for Months

6th September, 2012 (23 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which is responsible for managing access to BT’s UK telecoms network, has responded to our recent concerns about the delays affecting installation of new broadband and phone services. The operator asks customers to “bear with us” and warns that lead times are expected to remain higher “for some months to come“.

Broadband Can Cut Energy Consumption by 2 Per Cent in USA and EU States

6th September, 2012 (2 Comments)

The Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) has published new research that reveals the impact of broadband use on reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions in the USA and EU-5 (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and UK). The total savings came out with an upper end of about 2% of total energy consumption for both regions.

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.