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The UK Top 8 Fastest Home Broadband ISPs for February 2013

2nd March, 2013 (0 Comments)

The latest monthly summary of anecdotal consumer broadband ISP speed testing data from Broadband.co.uk has revealed that the average download speed in the United Kingdom slipped from 16.914Mbps in January 2013 to 16.514Mbps now, while the average upload speed jumped to 2.704Mbps (up from 2.387Mbps).

Musicmetric Data Claims ISP Blocking of Piracy Sites Has Limited Impact

1st March, 2013 (0 Comments)

Analyst firm Musicmetric has published new data to show that court ordered website blocks (censorship) imposed by broadband ISPs in the United Kingdom against internet piracy websites (e.g. The Pirate Bay) have had “little impact” on “illegal” BitTorrent based file sharing (P2P) activity.

Ofcom Publish Latest UK Telecoms Complaints Data to January 2013

28th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has today published its latest telecoms complaints bulletin to January 2013. Overall complaint levels have fallen and saw a fairly typical Christmas dip in December, although worryingly the number of consumers complaining about how ISPs actually handle their gripes has continued to grow.

The Average Cost Per Megabit by Broadband ISP Technology for 2012

28th February, 2013 (3 Comments)

Point Topic UK has published its latest Q4-2012 analysis of global standalone and bundled broadband tariffs, which found that residential consumers in Western Europe pay the lowest for cable broadband based ISP services. But consumers in the Asia-Pacific region still get the best deal for fibre optic (e.g. FTTH) and older DSL services.

UPDATE ISP O2 UK Sees Home Broadband Subscribers Fall to 560100

28th February, 2013 (11 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP O2 UK (BE Broadband) has suffered another painful quarter after their latest results for Q4-2012 showed that its fixed line home broadband subscriber base had fallen by -19,400 in the quarter to reach a new total of 560,100 customers. Meanwhile rumours of a sale to BSkyB continue to persist.

1 Euro Price Drop in Fibre Optic Broadband Can Fuel ISP Subscriber Boom

22nd February, 2013 (3 Comments)

The latest Q4-2012 internet tariff analysis from Quantum-Web has claimed that an 86p (1 Euro) decline in the price of fibre optic based superfast broadband ISP tariffs can be equated to an increase of over 400,000 new subscribers in Europe between Q4-2009 and the end of last year.

Fibre Overtakes Cable to Become Worlds 2nd Biggest Broadband ISP Tech

20th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

The latest Point Topic and Broadband Forum study for Q3-2012 has revealed that the world is now home to a total of 635.9 million broadband subscribers. But most interesting of all is how fibre optic (FTTx) based ISP technologies have overtaken cable (e.g. Virgin Media) to become the second largest method of internet connectivity after DSL (ADSL etc.).

ONS Study Finds 7.42 Million UK Adults Have Never Used the Internet

20th February, 2013 (1 Comment)

The governments Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released its latest Internet Access Quarterly Update Q4-2012, which reveals that a total of 43.07 million UK adults have used the internet (85% of the population). The number of adults who have never gone online stands at 7.42 million (15%) and happily this has declined by 3% since Q3-2012.

EE UK Home Broadband ISP Subscribers See Sharp Fall to 693000

19th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

Telecoms operator EE has released its latest financial results to Q4-2012 and revealed that their fixed line Home Broadband subscriber base has suddenly declined to a total of 693,000 (down by -29,000 during Q4). The figure represents a shock fall and relates directly to the ending of Orange UK’s free broadband deal last year.

EU Release Updated Broadband Access Coverage Report to July 2012

18th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

The European Commission (EC) has today published new data on the number of broadband lines and ISP speed in Member States, including the UK, gathered to July 2012. Overall 95.7% of EU homes are already passed by at least one fixed broadband ISP but 9.1 million homes still do not have coverage (over 90% of which are in rural areas).

4G Might Not Work as a Substitute for Fixed Broadband in Rural Areas

16th February, 2013 (26 Comments)

Consultancy group Analysys Mason has warned that the UK government’s plan to make faster 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband services available to “at least 98%” of the country by the end of 2017 may not work as a viable “replacement” for slower legacy copper based fixed line services in rural areas.

RootMetrics Tests EE 4G Mobile Broadband Speeds in 3 UK Cities

12th February, 2013 (11 Comments)

RootMetrics has posted the results from 95,672 separate speedtests of EE’s new 4G (LTE 1800MHz) based Mobile Broadband network in the UK cities of Liverpool, Cardiff and Sheffield. The study found that EE was broadly living up to its promise of delivering internet speeds that range from 8-12Mbps (Megabits per second).

Santander Name Top 74 UK Towns and Cities for Broadband Connectivity

11th February, 2013 (3 Comments)

Banking giant Santander has released its annual ranking of the top 74 UK towns and cities by the competitiveness of their respective business environments. One of the key categories is Connectivity, which revealed that Edinburgh (Scotland) is one of the best places for broadband speed and uptake. Meanwhile Milton Keynes is one of the worst.

Online Video to Push Mobile Broadband Traffic to 134 Exabytes by 2017

11th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

Cisco’s latest forecast has predicted that online video services will represent 66% of global Mobile Broadband traffic by 2017 (up from 51% in 2012), which will help to push total mobile data use from 0.9 Exabytes per month (i.e. 885 Petabytes) now to 11.2 EB in just five years’ time and outpace global fixed data traffic.

Halifax Study Claims Good Broadband Access Boosts UK House Values

8th February, 2013 (7 Comments)

A new survey of just over 2,000 UK adults conducted by ICM for the Halifax (Lloyds Banking Group) has claimed that 20% would pay more for “good broadband” (defined as speeds greater than 2Mbps) and two thirds (67%) of those were prepared to pay up to 3% more (22% would pay between 4% to 10% more).

OECD Ranks UK 9th for Fixed Broadband Penetration out of 34 Countries

8th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which engages with 34 countries that claim to support a market economy and democracy, has ranked the United Kingdom 9th in its latest fixed line broadband penetration tables to June 2012 (down from 8th a year earlier). But we do poorly in other areas, such as fibre optic uptake.

BPI Claims 7 Million UK People Use Illegal Internet Piracy Services

7th February, 2013 (3 Comments)

The British Phonographic Industry, which represents the United Kingdom’s music industry and recently reported “strong growth” from digital music sales in 2012, has claimed that 345m tracks were downloaded “illegally” over P2P (BitTorrent) during H1-2012 (compared with 239m legal tracks) and around 7m individuals use at least one service “where content is hosted illegally” every month.