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A Snapshot of Home Broadband Traffic on Gigaclear’s FTTP Network

18th November, 2015 (19 Comments)

Rural fibre optic ISP Gigaclear, which this week announced plans to launch a new 5000Mbps service during early 2016 (here), has today revealed a few interesting bites of information about data traffic on their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network.

ISPA UK Doubts EU Can Deliver Digital Single Market Policy On Time

9th July, 2015 (0 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has warned that Europe’s attempts to introduce a new Digital Single Market strategy by the end of 2016, which covers everything from tackling “illegal” Internet content to boosting investment in faster broadband or mobile networks, is in “serious danger” of missing its target.

ISPA Reveal Winners from the 2015 UK ISP Internet Industry Awards

2nd July, 2015 (2 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has officially announced the winners of their 17th annual 2015 Internet Industry Awards, which saw Hyperoptic pick-up the prize for “Best Superfast Broadband” provider (third time in a row) and they also secured the gong for “Best Consumer Fixed Broadband“. But there were many more categories and winners.

ISPA Reveals UK Internet Hero and Villain Shortlist for 2015 Awards

18th June, 2015 (0 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today revealed the final shortlist of potential winners for their annual Internet Hero and Internet Villain gongs at the forthcoming 2015 Internet industry awards and it’s no surprise to find that both lists are once again being dominated by Internet snooping.

ISPA Unveils Finalists for the 2015 UK ISP Internet Industry Awards

5th May, 2015 (2 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today announced the official shortlist of finalists for their forthcoming 17th annual 2015 Internet industry awards, which sees Exa Networks, Hyperoptic and Keycom leading the way with 5 or more nominations each across various different categories.

ISPA Says UK Political Parties Need “More Ambitious” Broadband Policies

17th April, 2015 (0 Comments)

The Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has given its verdict on the 2015 General Election Manifestos of the three main political parties. Broadly speaking the trade association welcomes many of the proposals, but they also caution against increased net surveillance and call for a “more ambitious” aim to deliver “ubiquitous superfast broadband“.

ISPA UK Starts Hunt for the 2015 Best Broadband ISP Awards Finalists

8th December, 2014 (3 Comments)

As seems to be customary at this time of year the Internet Service Providers Association UK (ISPA) has officially started their hunt for next year’s annual Internet industry awards, which are seeking nominations for a string of familiar categories (e.g. ‘Best Superfast Broadband’ and ‘Best Consumer Broadband’) and several new ones.

UK ISPs Propose Principles to Limit Government Internet Snooping

13th October, 2014 (4 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today set out the five principles that it hopes will be used by the Government as part of on-going plans to reform state surveillance laws and related regulations, which some fear could result in a broadening of powers and more unnecessary snooping on innocent individuals.

ISPA UK Sets Out Proposals to Improve Consumer ISP Complaint Handling

5th August, 2014 (4 Comments)

The Public Affairs Manager for the UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA), Andrew Kernahan, has today set out what sort of changes they’d like to see in order to improve Ofcom’s Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process for handling serious consumer complaints against broadband providers. Would you support a pay to complain system?

ISPA Name the WINNERS of their 2014 UK ISP Internet Industry Awards

10th July, 2014 (1 Comment)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has tonight announced the winners of its 16th annual 2014 Internet Industry Awards, which saw Hyperoptic’s urban FTTH service pick-up the prize for ‘Best Superfast Broadband’ and PlusNet secure a win as the ‘Best Consumer Fixed Broadband’ provider. But there were many more categories and awards.

ISPA UK Reveal Internet Hero and Villain Shortlist for 2014 Awards

12th June, 2014 (6 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has this afternoon revealed the final shortlist of potential winners for their annual Internet Hero and Internet Villain gongs at the forthcoming 2014 Internet industry awards. You can probably guess who’s on this year’s Villains list.

UK ISP Zen Internet Shuns Proposal for Voluntary P2P Piracy Warning Letters

19th May, 2014 (2 Comments)

The Regulatory Manager for UK ISP Zen Internet, Gary Hough, has criticised the Government’s efforts to introduce a new Voluntary Copyright Alert Programme (VCAP) of Internet piracy warning letters. Zen noted the distinct lack of engagement with the wider ISP industry and said that they currently had no intention of signing up to such a scheme.

ISPA Announce Finalists for its 2014 UK ISP Internet Industry Awards

8th May, 2014 (2 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today revealed the official shortlist of finalists for its forthcoming 16th annual 2014 Internet industry awards, which has seen broadband providers including Hyperoptic, Sky Broadband and PlusNet gaining nominations across several consumer focused categories.

ISPA UK Calls for Changes to Tackle Vexatious Consumer ISP Complaints

13th March, 2014 (3 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association has called for changes to the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process that could address the problem of “vexatious” consumer complaints and, in relation to that, situations where broadband ISPs pay hundreds of pounds in ADR fees despite winning their case.

ISPA UK Begins Hunt for the 2014 Best Broadband ISP Awards Shortlist

10th December, 2013 (0 Comments)

The Internet Service Providers Association UK has officially launched the hunt for next year’s annual Internet industry awards, which is seeking nominations for a string of familiar categories (e.g. ‘Best Superfast Broadband’ and ‘Best Consumer Fixed Broadband’) and two new ones.

UPDATE ISPA Conference to Discuss Future of the UK Internet and Broadband

6th November, 2013 (6 Comments)

The 8th annual ISPA Conference, which will be held on Wednesday 27th November 2013 (9:15am – 4pm), has set out quite an interesting agenda and one that intends to look at the state of national broadband provision (both now and post-2015) as well as what ISPs might look like in ten years’ time.

ISPA Reveal the WINNERS of its 2013 UK ISP Internet Industry Awards

12th July, 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.