Home » UK ISP News Archive » ISP News (17503 Posts)
Sponsored Links
You are viewing the latest news and article summary for the ISP News category, where the latest and historic items are kept for readers to access and view.
Search ISP News
Search ISP Listings
Search ISP Reviews
 

Latest ISP News

 

17th Jul, 2013 (27 Comments)

The FTTH Council Europe, which campaigns for the adoption of a fully fibre optic telecoms and internet infrastructure, has heavily criticised Europe’s “lacklustre performance” after a recent progress update showed that the EU was still a long way from achieving their Digital Agenda targets for superfast broadband.

17th Jul, 2013 (3 Comments)

The Rutland County Council (RCC) in England has today confirmed that the first community (village) to get access to BT’s new superfast broadband (FTTC/P) service through its publicly funded £3 million Digital Rutland project is North Luffenham.

17th Jul, 2013 (0 Comments)

Global telecoms giant Alcatel-Lucent claims to have set a new world record after it successfully transmitted information (data) at the staggering speed of 31Tbps (Terabits per second) over a single long-haul 7200km optical fibre cable (i.e. simulating undersea transoceanic cable distances).

Advertisement

17th Jul, 2013 (3 Comments)

The national NextGen Conference is fast racing towards its headline event in London between 14-15th October 2013, which gathers representatives from the UK telecoms and broadband market together to discuss plans for related services to help stimulate economic regeneration and tackle the government’s ever changing approach.

16th Jul, 2013 (6 Comments)

As expected the Football Association Premier League (FAPL) has successfully won a court injunction that will force broadband ISPs in the United Kingdom to block their customers from being able to view the FirstRow website (FirstRowSports), which is often used to stream video of football and other TV sport matches.

16th Jul, 2013 (1 Comment)

Cheshire-based ISP Vispa appears to be on the road to putting right some of the problems that have recently afflicted its 60Mbps (Megabits per second) capable City Wireless broadband platform and have today re-opened the network for new installations following some improvements.

Advertisement

16th Jul, 2013 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK has warned that today’s move by Ofcom (here), which has created the “opportunity” for 10 new Freeview HD TV channels to be launched by using airwaves in the 600MHz radio spectrum band, could hinder the plan to free up existing 700MHz spectrum for use by future ultra-fast 5G based Mobile Broadband services.

16th Jul, 2013 (41 Comments)

The next generation of FTTC (VDSL2) technology, which is better known as G.Fast and could one day deliver peak internet speeds of up to 1000Mbps (Megabits), has passed its first stage of approval on the road to becoming an official ITU standard in early 2014.

16th Jul, 2013 (7 Comments)

The government’s culture secretary, Maria Miller MP, and BT have met local action groups (some of which were smaller ISPs) in an effort to resolve the impasse over which parts of the UK will not gain access to superfast broadband (25Mbps+). It’s currently hard for alternative operators to fill the gaps without first knowing where the gaps are.

Advertisement

15th Jul, 2013 (2 Comments)

BT WiFi has today announced that its free wifi wireless internet hotspots will be rolled out to 140 Young’s and Geronimo pubs and bars in London and the South East over the next five months.

15th Jul, 2013 (0 Comments)

The “entire share capital” of business ISP Goscomb Technologies has been acquired by rival hSo (HighSpeed Office Limited), a little known UK managed IT and cloud services provider, for an undisclosed sum.

15th Jul, 2013 (17 Comments)

Furious ISPs have leaked the full text of a controversial new letter from the government, which at the last minute appears to call on them to introduce a number of controversial changes for improving their approach to the censorship of adult websites. It also reveals a worrying level of political meddling, possibly to satisfy the Daily Mail.

Advertisement

15th Jul, 2013 (0 Comments)

The European Commission’s recent promise to “guarantee” Net Neutrality by ensuring that broadband ISPs and mobile operators give citizens access to the full and open internet, “without any blocking or throttling of competing services” (here), has been called into question after a draft of the new regulation was leaked.

15th Jul, 2013 (0 Comments)

The latest ISPreview.co.uk poll of 536 website visitors has revealed that almost two thirds of respondents find the current process of switching between home broadband ISPs to be confusing and 93% support Ofcom’s (telecoms regulator) efforts to simplify the system. But most people would be put off if this came at a cost.

13th Jul, 2013 (2 Comments)

Estyn, the education and training inspectorate for Wales (United Kingdom), has published the first of two new reports into the standards and impact of ICT (computers, communication and related technology) in Welsh primary and secondary schools. In short, broadband needs to be better and overzealous web blocking causes problems.

12th Jul, 2013 (7 Comments)

Virgin Media Business has today released more information about its “significant” ten-year deal with O2 (Telefonica UK) for the provision of new backhaul network capacity to 1,500 sites, which is intended to help “supercharge data speeds” and support the operators imminent launch of 4G based mobile broadband services.

12th Jul, 2013 (23 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today unveiled the full winners list from last night’s 15th annual 2013 Internet Industry Awards, which saw the award for ‘Best Superfast Broadband‘ go to London ISP Hyperoptic and the gong for ‘Best Consumer Fixed Broadband‘ being won by Sky Broadband.

 Cheapest Big ISPs for 100Mbps+
Community Fibre UK ISP Logo
100Mbps (100Mbps up)
Vodafone UK ISP Logo
Vodafone £22.00
150Mbps (27 - 150Mbps up)
Virgin Media UK ISP Logo
Virgin Media £23.99
264Mbps (25Mbps up)
Plusnet UK ISP Logo
Plusnet £23.99
145Mbps (30Mbps up)
Promotion
Cheapest ISPs for 100Mbps+
Gigaclear UK ISP Logo
Gigaclear £17.00
300Mbps
Gift: None
Community Fibre UK ISP Logo
100Mbps
Gift: None
toob UK ISP Logo
toob £19.50
150Mbps
Gift: None
Vodafone UK ISP Logo
Vodafone £22.00
150Mbps
Gift: None
Beebu UK ISP Logo
Beebu £23.00
100 - 160Mbps
Gift: None
Large Availability | View All
Promotion
Cheap Unlimited Mobile SIMs
iD Mobile UK ISP Logo
iD Mobile £16.00
Contract: 24 Months
Data: Unlimited
Talkmobile UK ISP Logo
Talkmobile £16.95
Contract: 1 Month
Data: Unlimited
Smarty UK ISP Logo
Smarty £18.00
Contract: 1 Month
Data: Unlimited
ASDA Mobile UK ISP Logo
ASDA Mobile £19.00
Contract: 24 Months
Data: Unlimited
O2 UK ISP Logo
O2 £21.24
Contract: 24 Months
Data: Unlimited
Sponsored

Copyright © 1999 to Present - ISPreview.co.uk - All Rights Reserved - Terms , Privacy and Cookie Policy , Links , Website Rules , Contact
Mastodon