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Broadband Provider Zen Internet Wins PC Pro 2012 Best UK ISP Award

11th Sep, 2012 (6 Comments)

Computing magazine PC Pro has announced the winners of its annual PCPro Excellence Awards 2012, which saw Zen Internet win the Best ISP gong for a ninth time (overall satisfaction score of 93%). Meanwhile BE Broadband (83%) and PlusNet (83%) walked away as runners up. Sadly other ISPs didn’t do quite so well.

UPD Everything Everywhere Launch EE for UK 4G Mobile and Fibre Broadband

11th Sep, 2012 (22 Comments)

Mobile operator Everything Everywhere (Orange UK and T-Mobile) has today announced the launch of a third new network and new brand, EE (4GEE), to support the forthcoming launch of its new superfast 4G (LTE) 1800MHz based mobile broadband and fixed line “fibre broadband” ISP services.

Analysys Mason Warns New ITU Regulation Could Break the Internet

11th Sep, 2012 (0 Comments)

Consultancy firm Analysys Mason has warned that plans to adapt the telephone settlement system, which established how phone operators compensate each other for terminating international voice calls (i.e. settlement payments), to the internet through the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR) could “halt growth and find users cut off“.

Analyst Slams UK Superfast Broadband Target as Irrelevant and Not Achievable

11th Sep, 2012 (4 Comments)

Tim Johnson, a telecoms analyst for Point Topic, has called the UK government’s target for having the “best superfast broadband in Europe by 2015” both “not relevant to Britain’s needs” and “not achievable“. Johnson instead called for the new Culture Secretary, Maria Miller, to replaced it with a more “intelligent” goal.

UK Mobile Operators Temporarily Halt Legal Threats to Ofcoms 4G Auction

11th Sep, 2012 (1 Comment)

Everything Everywhere (Orange UK and T-Mobile), O2, Vodafone and Three UK have agreed, under direct pressure from the government, to stall any legal challenges that could have resulted in further delays to Ofcom’s auction of the superfast “4G” mobile broadband compatible 800MHz and 2.6GHz bands.

UPD Controversy as UK Councils Decide Superfast Broadband Contract Winners

10th Sep, 2012 (27 Comments)

Several local authorities are this week expected to pick the winner(s) of their respective Local Broadband Plan (LBP) tenders, which will give them access to a slice of the £1bn+ Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) budget and bring faster internet access to more homes and businesses. But the outcome might also inflame Europe’s competition concerns.

New UK Government Strategy Demands ISPs Block Suicide Websites

10th Sep, 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 Sep, 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 Sep, 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 Sep, 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 Sep, 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 Sep, 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 Sep, 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.

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

6th Sep, 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 Sep, 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 Sep, 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 Sep, 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.