News - March - 2009
12th Mar, 2009 13:02 PM
Point Topic, in cooperation with Gavurin, has released a new website to help frame the current state of regional broadband uptake and performance in the UK. Access to the data on the G-View site is free and only requires an email address to login:
12th Mar, 2009 13:01 PM
New research from Bango reveals that the USA has knocked the UK off the top slot for mobile phone based website browsing with 29% of the worldwide traffic compared to 20% in the UK:
12th Mar, 2009 11:33 AM
The Isle of Man operator Manx Telecom (MT) has claimed that its customers are benefitting from a higher than average broadband service speed of 5.5Mbps, which is above Ofcom's recently reported UK average of 3.6Mbps (original news):
12th Mar, 2009 11:30 AM
The Respect for Film campaign group has published the results of its latest Oxford Economics piracy survey, which revealed that illegal film downloads and sales were costing the UK economy $846m (£614m) a year in lost revenue.
12th Mar, 2009 08:35 AM
Bizzarely the BBC has admitted to hijacking (hacking) 22,000 personal computers without user consent. The computers were then turned into a botnet, though allegedly no personal information was accessed on any of the infected systems.
12th Mar, 2009 08:34 AM
Virgin Mobile and T-Mobile have won praise in the latest Mobile Broadband survey carried out by the Which? consumer magazine. Virgin came top for mobile usability, tied with O2 on customer service and was also the easiest to set-up.
12th Mar, 2009 08:00 AM
Transcripts from yesterdays House of Commons debate (original news) on Internet privacy, deep-packet inspection and Phorm have certainly turned up some interesting quotes and reactions. Chief among those were several comments made by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW):
11th Mar, 2009 11:29 AM
The HackersBlog page has exposed a seriously vulnerability in BT's website that could have allowed hackers the opportunity to steal crucial personal data, including customers’ login details:
11th Mar, 2009 11:28 AM
Business ISP Opal (TalkTalk), which recently launched a new up to 24Mbps ADSL2+ based broadband service from £10 per month, has published a new report on regional broadband speeds. The study found that Central London (EC, WC and W postcodes) lead the way with almost half of the city's businesses able to achieve a connection of between 8 - 24Mbps.
11th Mar, 2009 11:26 AM
Virgin Media has today released the results of its latest evaluation of web-based speedtests, which found that many such services are still unable to provide an accurate assessment of an ISPs broadband performance. However there were some improvements, with both ourselves and Broadband-Expert now making the grade for testing at up to 50Mbps.
11th Mar, 2009 11:26 AM
There will be an important debate today in the House of Commons between 10am and 12am about Online Privacy and the Interception of Internet Communications. The meeting will be chaired by Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer and attended by the following individuals:
11th Mar, 2009 11:24 AM
Lord Carter, author of the government’s recent and much criticised Digital Britain report, will this week outline further details about the new Rights Agency for tackling illegal broadband file sharing (P2P). The agency was first revealed during late January (here), though at the time its precise role was not clear.
11th Mar, 2009 11:22 AM
UK ISP Be Broadband (O2) has responded to concerns about the stability of Tiscali's UK service by encouraging the provider’s customers to jump ship and gain a £40 gift credit in the process. The move follows recent news (here) that Tiscali's sale talks with BSkyB had failed, forcing the operator to suspend shares and prepare for an uncertain future.
10th Mar, 2009 11:21 AM
New research carried out by Opinium for Moneysupermarket has revealed that the average Brit subscribes to seven Internet services, such as online banking or shopping sites, while almost 30% subscribe to even more. However 18% still used the same password for all their accounts.
10th Mar, 2009 11:20 AM
Mobile operator T-Mobile has won high praise for its Mobile Broadband service from a YouGov survey of 1,958 respondents with similar packages. The results ranked T-Mobile first in 9 out of 13 categories, including speed and value for money.
10th Mar, 2009 11:19 AM
The latest February 2009 website browser statistics from Net Applications and Secunia have revealed that while Apple's Safari may be gaining market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), Firefox was the most bug ridden:
09th Mar, 2009 11:18 AM
Budget broadband ISP TalkTalk has warned that proposed increases to the price BT is permitted to charge providers for access to its network via unbundled (LLU) lines could lock 1.8 million people out of Britain's digital revolution.
09th Mar, 2009 11:18 AM
Mobile operator Three (3) has launched a new promotion where it will be giving away 1,000 free Mobile Broadband USB Modems / Dongles (Top-up/usage allowance not included) until 9am tomorrow (10th March) morning:
09th Mar, 2009 11:15 AM
The latest study by Redshift Research for UK business ISP Pipex (Tiscali) has revealed that the majority of small businesses (79%) use their home broadband connection for professional use. In contrast, just under half (48%) use pure office/business broadband.
09th Mar, 2009 11:14 AM
Ofcom has asked The Broadband Forum (formerly DSL Forum) to help develop the specification for competitive super fast next generation broadband networks. That was the message delivered at the first quarter meeting of the Forum in New Orleans last week, by Chinyelu Onwurah, Head of Telecoms Technology at Ofcom:
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