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O2 UK Will Ask Competition Tribunal to Halt Early 4G Release on 1800MHz

31st August, 2012 (5 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 UK (Telefonica) has given notice of its plan to lodge a challenge at the Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT), which aims to halt Everything Everywhere (Orange UK and T-Mobile) from an early deployment of superfast “4G” Mobile Broadband services over their existing 1800MHz radio spectrum.

ISPreview UK Study Warns of Uphill Struggle for Bad Broadband ISPs

20th August, 2012 (4 Comments)

The results from 1068 respondents to ISPreview.co.uk’s latest monthly web-based survey has revealed that 63.6% would never return to a broadband ISP that had previously caused them problems and 78.3% are now unwilling to sacrifice quality for a cheaper price. Can ISPs ever overcome a bad reputation?

UPD A Closer Look at Latency and Packet Loss on the Biggest Broadband ISPs

17th August, 2012 (57 Comments)

Ofcom’s latest broadband speeds report (released this week) also includes a unique and useful insight into the Latency (Ping) and Packet Loss performance of the UK’s largest ISPs, which can have a serious impact upon the performance of specific internet applications (e.g. online video games, Skype etc.). But which provider is best?

O2 Wholesale Claims UK Businesses at Risk from Capped Data Allowances

14th August, 2012 (3 Comments)

Broadband ISP supplier O2 Wholesale UK (BE Wholesale) has warned that an “average business” of 50 employees can eat 61GB (GigaBytes) of internet data a month (i.e. email 26GB, browsing 22GB, video 1.7GB and video conferencing 7.9GB), which is allegedly more expensive for rival providers to cater for than their own “unlimited” option.

ISP O2 UK Suffers Sharp Decline to 602000 Broadband Subscribers

26th July, 2012 (24 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP O2 UK (BE Broadband) has released its latest results to 30th June (Q2), which revealed that their fixed line broadband subscriber base saw a shock fall to total 602,000 (-15,800 in the quarter). That’s a nosedive from the -2,500 lost in Q1-2012 and the -5,000 lost during Q4-2011.

UPD GoldenEye Send UK Internet Piracy Claim Letters to 2845 O2 Customers

24th July, 2012 (1 Comment)

Consumer Focus has today confirmed that Golden Eye International, which holds copyrights for adult films and is linked to the UK’s Ben Dover brand, will shortly begin sending the first of 2,845 internet piracy claim letters to O2’s UK broadband customers. But this figure is much smaller than their original target.

O2 Wholesale Signs New Business Broadband Deal with UK ISP Timico

17th July, 2012 (0 Comments)

Fixed broadband and mobile supplier O2 Wholesale (formerly BE Wholesale) has today signed two new partnership deals with UK telecoms firm QiComm and business ISP Timico, which will help to broaden the range of services from both operators.

ISP O2 and BE Broadband Expand UK Unbundled LLU Coverage

12th July, 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.

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

12th July, 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.

Three UK Come Top in Roaming Mobile Broadband Performance Study

2nd July, 2012 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has been named the best overall provider in this year’s Broadband Genie Road Trip 2012 study, which tested all of the five main Mobile Broadband operators (plus Virgin Mobile) for reliability and performance while roaming on a 2:30hr trip from King’s Cross to Exeter in England.

O2 WiFi Bring FREE Wireless Internet to 167 Debenhams UK Shops

15th June, 2012 (5 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP O2 UK (Telefonica) has signed a new deal with high street retail giant Debenhams, which will see the operators free wireless internet service being rolled out across the groups 167 shops and giving it the “largest wifi coverage of any department store in the UK“.

ISP BE Broadband UK Confirms Date for Delayed Core Network Upgrade

13th June, 2012 (16 Comments)

Internet provider BE Broadband (O2 UK) has finally revealed a date for the start of its migration over to a new core network, which was originally supposed to get underway by the end of February 2012 but has since faced delays. This has also affected its FTTC superfast broadband plan.

Mobile Operators Vodafone and O2 UK to Start 4G Network Sharing

7th June, 2012 (4 Comments)

Mobile phone operators O2 UK (Telefonica) and Vodafone have today officially entered into a new Network Sharing agreement that will help them to “deliver the capability for a nationwide” deployment of “4G” superfast Mobile Broadband services and close the Digital Divide between rural and urban areas by targeting 98% indoor population coverage across 2G / 3G by 2015.

ISP BE Broadband and O2 UK Begin Blocking The Pirate Bay Website

7th June, 2012 (7 Comments)

As widely expected BE Broadband, which is the sibling fixed line network operator of O2 UK (Telefonica), has today confirmed the implementation of a “network-wide block” that aims to prevent its internet access customers from being able to view the The Pirate Bay (BitTorrent P2P / File Sharing) website.

UK High Court Clears Golden Eyes Internet Piracy Letters for O2 UK Users

1st June, 2012 (2 Comments)

London’s High Court yesterday helped Golden Eye International, a firm that holds numerous film copyrights and is linked to the UK’s Ben Dover porn brand, to finalise the format of its controversial P2P internet piracy settlement letters. Thousands of O2’s broadband ISP customers (those accused of copyright infringement) can now expect to receive the letters, albeit not without some crucial limitations.

Carbon Footprint for 1MB of Mobile Broadband Data on O2 UK is 11g CO2e

21st May, 2012 (1 Comment)

Ever wonder how “green” your Mobile Broadband connection is? Probably not but mobile operator O2 UK, which has just had the carbon footprint of its network independently verified via a “robust analysis” from the Carbon Trust, is going to tell you anyway.

O2 UK First to Introduce Cheaper Mobile Internet EU Roaming Rates

12th May, 2012 (1 Comment)

Telecoms operator O2 UK (Telefonica) has become the country’s first mobile network to announced cheaper prices for using your mobile phone or Mobile Broadband connection while roaming abroad within the EU, which reflects Europe’s new roaming regulation for voice, text (sms) messages and data charges (New EU Roaming Rules).