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Labour Party Moot 3rd Attempt to Revive UK Internet Snooping Law

3rd March, 2014 (6 Comments)

The British Labour Party looks set to take a 3rd swipe at reviving their failed Internet Snooping laws, which over the past 6 years have twice been rejected due to issues of unpopularity, cost, technical viability and general confusion.

UPDATE North Yorkshire Police Investigate Wireless Broadband ISP Kit Theft

13th February, 2014 (0 Comments)

The North Yorkshire Police (England) have launched an investigation after a wireless broadband server, which helped to provide Internet access to the local area, was stolen from a mast located close to Newton-upon-Rawcliffe on Sunday 9th February 2014.

Innocent Home Owners Suffer Due to Crimes Committed on their Open WiFi

3rd February, 2014 (5 Comments)

The Scottish Government’s “Cyber Integrator” (cybercrime tzar), Keith McDevitt, has warned home owners to close their open wifi networks (wireless) after finding that an increasing number of cyber criminals, such as Internet paedophiles, were using them to commit offences that ISPs often trace back to innocent broadband users.

BT Openreach Launch Cable Theft and Damage Report Service for UK ISPs

18th December, 2013 (9 Comments)

BTOpenreach has announced that its LIVE cable monitoring system, which proactively notifies broadband ISPs and phone operators about Major Service Outage’s on BT’s national UK telecoms network (specifically those that stem from cable damage or theft), is now out of its long trial and has been made available to ISPs.

Copper Cable Theft Knocks Out Sky Broadband in South and West London

13th December, 2013 (2 Comments)

Tens of thousands of Sky Broadband customers in the South and West London area have been left without broadband and phone connectivity after thieves, whom attempted to steal vital copper telecoms cable from a site in West London (Great West Road) on 10th December, cut several vital fibre optic links.

UPD B4RN Rural Broadband Project Hit by Serious Criminal Theft in Lancashire

10th December, 2013 (25 Comments)

The B4RN (Broadband 4 Rural North) project in Lancashire (England) could face delays to the roll-out of their 1Gbps capable community-built and funded Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) based broadband network after thieves broke into one of their trailers and made off with critical equipment. Luckily locals have pulled together to help keep the work on track.

BT Employee and Copper Telecoms Thieves Jailed After UK Police Sting

2nd December, 2013 (3 Comments)

The Snaresbrook Crown Court has sentenced a corrupt former BT employee and members of a criminal gang to a total of over 32 years in jail after they were found to have colluded over the theft and damage of vital copper broadband and phone cable, which cost the telecoms operator a total of £279,635.00.

Two Yorkshire and the Humber Villages Struck by 5 BT Copper Thefts

22nd October, 2013 (21 Comments)

Copper cable thieves cut-off broadband and phone services to around 100 premises in the small villages of West Butterwick and Althorpe (North Lincolnshire, England) after they struck the area for the fifth consecutive time in the space of just two years.

Police Sting Nails Scrapyard Boss for Buying Stolen BT Copper Cable

23rd September, 2013 (2 Comments)

The boss of Albert Haigh and Son Ltd. scrapyard in Huddersfield (West Yorkshire, England), Paul Ellis (aged 42), has been put in the slammer for 14 months after a Police sting operation successfully sold him stolen BT copper telecoms cable on nine separate occasions.

Rights Holders and Big UK ISPs Working on Voluntary Internet Piracy Code

2nd September, 2013 (3 Comments)

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and associated record labels (music publishers) are once again attempting to push big broadband ISPs including BT, Virgin Media, Sky Broadband (BSkyB) and TalkTalk into adopting a potentially “unworkable” Voluntary Code of Practice for tackling Internet piracy.

BT and Vodafone Helped GHCQ Snoop on Transatlantic Fibre Optic Cables

3rd August, 2013 (24 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT (codename “Remedy“) and Vodafone (codename “Gerontic“) are among several major telecoms operators that have been named by former NSA employee, Edward Snowden, as helping the UK Government’s Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) to snoop on more than 200 of the world’s transatlantic fibre optic cable links.

Leaked EU Laws and Police Raid on ISPs Raise Net Neutrality Concerns

15th July, 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.

VIDEO BT and UK Police Explain the Problem of Telecoms Cable Theft

6th July, 2013 (4 Comments)

BT has teamed up with the police to release a well-polished video that is intended to help raise awareness and educate younger people about how much damage the theft of their vital copper telecoms cable can do, not just to businesses but also to ordinary people.

8 BT Engineers Arrested for Fake UK Car Clamping Business

1st July, 2013 (4 Comments)

Police in West London have arrested eight of BTOpenreach’s telecoms engineers and another thirty have been suspended after bosses at BT were allegedly tipped off about a fake car clamping business that had netted the fraudsters around £200,000.

Criminals Knock Out Critical BT Broadband and Phone Services in Oldham

28th June, 2013 (3 Comments)

BTOpenreach has declared a Serious Incident (SI) after criminals cut through and damaged seven of its vital fibre optic and copper cables in the Oldham (Greater Manchester, England) area just before midnight on Wednesday, which is affecting broadband and phone services across the region.

Ofcom Fines UK ISP Supatel and TimeTalk GBP60k for Mis-Selling

24th June, 2013 (4 Comments)

The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today fined broadband and phone provider Supatel Limited (TimeTalk) £60,000 for mis-selling (slamming) after they were found guilty of having switched 83 customers from one ISP to another without the individuals knowledge.

GCHQ UK Caught Snooping on Transatlantic Fibre Optic Connections

22nd June, 2013 (68 Comments)

The Government’s Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), which aims to provide intelligence, protect information and “keep our society safe and successful“, has been caught tapping into at least some of the world’s transatlantic fibre optic cable links that keep us all connected via the Internet and via phone calls.