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BT Group UK Picks Gavin Patterson to Succeed Ian Livingston as CEO

19th June, 2013 (11 Comments)

BT Group has today selected the current CEO of its BTRetail division, Gavin Patterson, to take over the running of its telecoms and broadband empire from September 2013 after Ian Livingston decided that a role in government as the ‘Minister of State for Trade and Investment’ would apparently be more interesting.

Legal Squabbles Over the UK 4G Auction Result in Tougher Ofcom Rules

19th June, 2013 (0 Comments)

The legal threats and challenges that preceded this year’s much delayed auction of new superfast 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband spectrum (800MHz and 2.6GHz) have resulted in the government’s Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) proposing new rules to prevent future hold-up’s.

UK Government Told to Spend £5.5bn from HS2 on Ultrafast Broadband

18th June, 2013 (50 Comments)

The New Economics Foundation, an independent think tank that aims to inspire “real economic well-being“, has advised the government to scrap its £33bn High Speed Two (HS2) railway link and instead invest £5.5 billion from the effort into rolling out “ultra fast to-the-door” broadband coverage across the United Kingdom.

Big Four UK ISPs Commit GBP1m to Help Tackle Online Child Abuse

18th June, 2013 (1 Comment)

Following this week’s controversial meeting with the government’s culture secretary, Maria Miller, four of the United Kingdom’s biggest broadband ISPs (BT, Virgin Media, TalkTalk and Sky Broadband) have agreed to collectively commit £1 million over the next 4 years to “crack down” on the creation and distribution of online child abuse content.

Broadband ISP UKFSN Dissolved But Will Continue to Function

18th June, 2013 (2 Comments)

The UK Free Software Network (UKFSN), a small internet access and web hosting provider that helps to fund free software projects from its profits, has today officially been struck off and dissolved by Companies House (company no. 05292112). But happily the ISP is not dead and will continue to operate.

Three UK and EE Come Top in 2013 Mobile Broadband Road Trip Test

18th June, 2013 (6 Comments)

Mobile operator’s Three UK and EE have come top in the latest annual study of roaming Mobile Broadband performance. Overall Three UK delivered the highest peak internet download speed of 8.66Mbps (Megabits per second), while EE delivered the best average speed of 3.43Mbps. But once again it’s bad news for Vodafone.

UK ISP TitanADSL Closes Web Hosting and Preps Broadband Merger

18th June, 2013 (6 Comments)

Internet provider TitanADSL has suddenly discontinued its web hosting and email services because it only had a small number of users and thus wasn’t economically viable. On top of that the ISP has also confirmed that its fixed line broadband services will shortly be merged with another company.

UPDATE Orange UK Accused of Blocking YouTube on its Mobile Network

17th June, 2013 (1 Comment)

The Open Rights Group (ORG) has heavily criticised Orange UK (EE) for allegedly blocking access to Google’s hugely popular internet video streaming site YouTube through its child safety filtering service “Safeguard“, which is switched on by default.

Big UK ISPs Clarify the Confusion over Network Level Internet Filters

17th June, 2013 (5 Comments)

A few remarks made by the Conservative MP for Devizes, Claire Perry, to the Westminster eForum on 14th June last week have generated a significant quantity of often misleading reports suggesting that default internet filtering of adult website by UK ISPs will be introduced by early 2014. But this isn’t entirely correct.

Last 10% Uncertainty Still Hampering Investment in UK Rural Broadband

17th June, 2013 (7 Comments)

Broadband investment in the most rural and remote parts of the United Kingdom is still under threat due to a lack of clarity from local authorities concerning which areas constitute the last 10% of the country where BT and the government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) scheme have yet to help.

UPD UK ISPs BT and TalkTalk Toughen their IWF Block of Child Abuse Sites

17th June, 2013 (3 Comments)

Broadband providers BT and TalkTalk have adjusted their voluntary blocking of online child abuse websites by replacing the old generic error messages with a more descriptive warning, which shows to anybody whom attempts to access related internet pages.

Site Status – ISPreview UK ISP Listings Database Update

16th June, 2013 (0 Comments)

A quick update to say that ISPreview.co.uk has just completed a lengthy update sweep of all the Internet Service Providers in our UK ISP Listings database, which is performed every few months to ensure that all our prices and information is up-to-date across the 200 or so providers that we list.

VIDEO Google Bring the Idea of Broadband from Hot Air Balloons Back to Life

15th June, 2013 (2 Comments)

The idea of distributing a broadband internet connection from High Altitude Platforms (balloons) is certainly not a new one (the 2006 CAPANINA project) but it’s never quite taken off before. Now Google hopes to make affordable internet access available to developing countries by re-inflating the idea.

ISPA UK Confirms Internet Hero and Villain Shortlist for 2013 Awards

14th June, 2013 (2 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today announced the finalists for their annual Internet Hero and Internet Villain gongs at the forthcoming 2013 internet industry awards, which this year appears to be dominated by issues of online surveillance and privacy related matters.

The Top 10 Countries Requesting Your Internet User Data from Tech Firms

14th June, 2013 (3 Comments)

In amongst all the concern surrounding PRISM, the is/is not defunct Communications Data Bill and growing concerns over how some commercial internet giants might be abusing their positions and our personal data. Yes in amongst all that we have this somewhat scary chart courtesy of Reuters and the United Kingdom is in at no.2.

Bird Watchers Boosted by New 50Mbps Wireless Service in Langstrothdale

14th June, 2013 (1 Comment)

LN Communications has this week expanded the coverage of its up to 50Mbps fixed wireless broadband network to the valley of Langstrothdale in North Yorkshire (England) which, aside from helping to connect several local villages, has also enabled wildlife watchers to access live CCTV streams of their cameras.

Cumbria UK Reveals Tentative £51m BT Superfast Broadband Rollout Plan

14th June, 2013 (1 Comment)

The £51m Connecting Cumbria project, which will use a mix of public and private funding to help expand the reach of BT’s superfast fibre broadband (FTTC/P) services to over 93% of the English county by the end of 2015 (last 7% to get at least 2Mbps), has detailed its preliminary telephone exchange upgrade plan.