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Smoothwall Fears Web Connections Will Grind to a Halt During 2012 Olympics

17th Jul, 2012 (0 Comments)

Smoothwall, a developer of internet filtering solutions for UK schools, has warned that serious connectivity problems could potentially start “occurring every day” during the London 2012 Olympic Games and in some cases web connections might even “grind to a halt” completely. Much as they did for O2 last week.

UPD Sky UK Switch On New Broadband Television and Film Service NOW TV

16th Jul, 2012 (6 Comments)

BSkyB (Sky Broadband) will tomorrow switch-on its new web-based internet TV and Film (video streaming) service, NOW TV, which aims to challenge Netflix and LOVEFiLM by making the media giants huge library of content available via a “wide range of broadband-connected devices” (computers and smartphones etc.).

Olympic Video Streams to Gobble 30 to 60 Percent of Internet Bandwidth

16th Jul, 2012 (0 Comments)

Californian-based technology firm Blue Coat Systems has predicted that 30-60% of internet traffic will be turned into “wasted bandwidth” as workers go online to watch the London 2012 Olympic Games via various video streaming services, which it fears could put ISP networks and productivity at risk.

Big UK ISP Claims the The Pirate Bay Block Had Little Impact on P2P Traffic

16th Jul, 2012 (3 Comments)

One of the country’s largest broadband ISPs has revealed that the recent censorship of The Pirate Bay website has had only a short-lived impact upon overall P2P file sharing traffic, with data volumes dipping 11% immediately after the ban before returning “pretty much back to where they were before“.

Shetland Telecom Claims Scottish Highlands Need More Money for Broadband

14th Jul, 2012 (9 Comments)

The project manager for Shetland Telecom’s effort to roll-out a new fibre optic infrastructure around the remote Shetland Islands, Marvin Smith, has warned that the Scottish Government‘s (UK) recent allocation of £120m to improve broadband in the Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) region will not be enough.

Welsh AM Russell George Launches Montgomeryshire Broadband Campaign

13th Jul, 2012 (7 Comments)

Welsh Assembly Member, Russell George (Conservative), has launched a new campaign to help bring faster broadband to Montgomeryshire (Maldwyn) in north Wales (UK). As part of this effort he wants locals to help him identify broadband “Not Spots” by undertaking an area-wide speed test over 18-19th August.

Zen Internet UK Explains its Preparations for the 2012 Olympic Games

13th Jul, 2012 (2 Comments)

Rochdale-based UK ISP Zen Internet has unveiled its strategy for coping with the “massive amount of demand for bandwidth” (e.g. from online video streaming services) and related concerns during the forthcoming London 2012 Olympic Games, which will begin at the end of this month.

ISP Entanet UK Slams Anti-Piracy Digital Economy Act Law as Out of Date

13th Jul, 2012 (2 Comments)

Communications provider Entanet has warned that the UK government’s controversial anti-piracy Digital Economy Act (DEAct), which aims to impose stiff new rules upon internet providers and their customers, will now come so late that it risks going “out of date before it’s even implemented“.

UPD2 EU Sets Out Rules to Boost Fibre Broadband Competition Until 2020

12th Jul, 2012 (9 Comments)

The European Commission (EC) has today set out new rules to help boost investment, development and competition in the rollout of superfast broadband technologies and services right across Europe, which will “apply at least until 2020” and support its wider Digital Agenda targets.

Ripley Town Residents Challenge Obstructive BT FTTC Broadband Cabinets

12th Jul, 2012 (82 Comments)

Some 60 residents in the Derbyshire UK town of Ripley have handed a petition to BTOpenreach that calls for one of its new superfast broadband (FTTC) street cabinets, which is placed on a corner at the very end of Leamington Street, to be moved because, they claim, it could cause a potentially fatal car crash.

ISP O2 and BE Broadband Expand UK Unbundled LLU Coverage

12th Jul, 2012 (9 Comments)

Internet provider BE Broadband (O2 UK) is continuing to quietly expand the coverage of its unbundled (LLU) ADSL2+ (up to 24Mbps) broadband platform and appears to have enabled a further 17 telephone exchanges since November last year.

EU Delay Revision of Internet Data Retention Directive to Boost Privacy

12th Jul, 2012 (1 Comment)

The European Commission (EC) appears to have quietly confirmed that it will not revise the controversial Data Retention Directive (DRD) this year, which could affect the UK’s draft Communications Data Bill that seeks to expand the country’s internet snooping power through big broadband ISPs.

UPD O2 UK Hit by National Outage of Mobile Broadband and Phone Services

12th Jul, 2012 (4 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP O2 UK has suffered a serious nationwide outage of its Mobile Broadband and phone network (i.e. data, calls and texts), which began yesterday afternoon at around 1pm and continues to be sporadically affecting thousands of customers this morning. MVNO’s GiffGaff and Tesco Mobile have also been hit.

Fujitsu Withdraw from Broadband Projects in Cumbria and North Yorkshire UK

11th Jul, 2012 (7 Comments)

Japanese technology giant Fujitsu UK, which is one of only two major telecoms operators left in the government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) project to improve the country’s national internet infrastructure (the other is BT), plans to withdraw from bidding in two further regions – Cumbria and allegedly also North Yorkshire.

Draft UK ISP Internet Snooping Law Will Not Log Web Page Addresses

11th Jul, 2012 (4 Comments)

Yesterday’s meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee that is responsible for scrutinising the draft Communications Data Bill, which threatens to expand the UK’s existing internet snooping laws and force ISPs into monitoring a bigger slice of everybody’s online activity, appears to have confirmed that the bill will not require full web page addresses (URL) to be logged.

Vouchers to Help 900000 UK Homes Fix TV Loss Caused by 4G Services

11th Jul, 2012 (8 Comments)

The governments Communications Minister, Ed Vaizey MP, has set out the terms for a £180 million scheme to help 900,000 UK homes avoid the loss of Freeview Digital TV (DTV) services, which is expected to be disrupted by interference from the next generation of superfast “4G” (LTE) Mobile Broadband services.

ACTA Internet Copyright Treaty Still Alive in Canada-EU Trade Agreement

10th Jul, 2012 (2 Comments)

Significant chunks of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which threatened to make broadband ISPs more liable for the content they deliver but has since been dramatically rejected by the European Parliament (EP), have been found inside a leak of the new Canada-EU Trade Agreement (CETA). Here we go again?