News - March - 2009
09th Mar, 2009 11:14 AM
The Broadband Stakeholders Group (BSG), a UK government advisory think-tank on broadband, has posted an interesting update about how telephone line lengths affect broadband speeds. One area of particular interest is the scatter graph below, which plots line length versus average throughput speed:
09th Mar, 2009 11:12 AM
Communications regulator Ofcom has confirmed that April will see the first release of its new broadband speed league table, which will reveal the real-world performance of UK ISPs. It will be based off the same system that allowed Ofcom to report the country's average downstream speed of 3.6Mbps (megabits per second) in January (original news).
07th Mar, 2009 11:10 AM
Popular UK ISP Zen Internet has been awarded its 7th Best Buy gong from Which?, topping the satisfaction tables for the past 4 years. The March 2009 Best Buy revealed five stars for Zen's customer service and support.
07th Mar, 2009 11:08 AM
The European Commissioner, Viviane Reding, has said that EU concerns over Phorm's controversial ISP based targeted advertising system could soon be resolved via the application of European law:
07th Mar, 2009 11:07 AM
The sale of Tiscali UK's assets to BSkyB (Sky Broadband), which Tiscali chief Mario Rosso last month claimed would be concluded by the end of March, has now been deemed "almost impossible". Instead the troubled ISP will have to renegotiate its debt payments and has already suspended shares.
06th Mar, 2009 11:06 AM
Orange UK has today begun trials of a new up to 20Mbps (ADSL2+) broadband service. The package will initially only be available to a select group of Orange's existing 8Mbps Home Broadband customers via the ISPs fixed broadband network:
06th Mar, 2009 11:03 AM
UK ISP PlusNet has extended its referrals discount special offer until the 10th of March. The deal means that customers who recommend somebody to a PlusNet package can expect to receive 8 times the normal monthly discount for 6 months back in return.
06th Mar, 2009 11:02 AM
UK ISP TalkTalk (The Carphone Warehouse) has published a smidgen of interesting internal research, which found that 16% of their customers would be likely or very likely to take up Mobile Broadband as an optional or complementary service.
06th Mar, 2009 11:01 AM
UK ISP Vispa Internet has announced the purchase of an additional 155MBps central pipe (broadband bandwidth) from BT, costing the provider upwards of £250,000. The move will be welcomed by subscribers, some of which have noted a recent dip in performance:
06th Mar, 2009 11:00 AM
Software giant Microsoft (MS) has revealed that it is in talks with mobile phone operators about future Netbook and Mobile Broadband service bundles. The Netbooks themselves would come equipped with MS's forthcoming new operating system (OS), Windows 7 (i.e. Vista 2):
05th Mar, 2009 10:59 AM
The European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA) has just published its latest twice-yearly Broadband Scorecard. This tracks European progress on Broadband Penetration and Local Loop Unbunding (LLU) in the 25 member states of Europe.
05th Mar, 2009 10:58 AM
Gateshead Technology Innovations (G-ti) plans to use its high-speed 100Mbps next-gen fibre optic broadband network to help hook-up a new Brownfield housing development, which was formerly used as a Freightliner depot for Gateshead town centre:
05th Mar, 2009 10:55 AM
Consumer magazine Which? has slammed 32 UK broadband ISPs for using higher-cost telephone support numbers. The survey of 45 providers found that just six, including BT, O2, Waitrose and UK Online, had adopted freephone lines. PlusNet users also had the longest wait time of 8 minutes for support.
05th Mar, 2009 09:17 AM
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has released its latest ICT Development Index (IDI), which compares developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) in 154 countries over a five-year period from 2002 to 2007.
05th Mar, 2009 09:16 AM
The online petition started to raise government awareness about concerns over Phorm's (i.e. BT WebWise) controversial behavioural advertising system has now ended, having gained a respectable 21,360 signatures.
05th Mar, 2009 09:15 AM
China-based Huawei Technologies has unveiled the final design for its newest E182E Mobile Broadband USB Modem (Dongle) at CeBIT in Germany, which was originally previewed last December. The modem is one of the first to support HSPA+ technology, which offers theoretical maximum speeds of up to 21.6Mbps download and 5.76Mbps upload:
04th Mar, 2009 09:14 AM
Orange UK's parent company, France Telecom, has issued its latest fourth quarter results to 31st December 2008, which show that efforts to turn the operators broadband fortunes around have failed to stop customers from leaving. However the rate of decline appears to have been cut in half.
04th Mar, 2009 09:14 AM
The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) has warned that Ofcom’s pledge to encourage super-fast broadband through deregulation could risk widening the existing rural/urban digital divide:
04th Mar, 2009 09:13 AM
New housing developments in Wembley City are celebrating the ability to receive speeds of up to 100Mbps over Velocity1's (PacketFront, Industria) Fibre to the Home (FTTH) network. Velocity1 is a triple-play TV, telephony and broadband ISP that is jointly-owned by UK property developer Quintain Estates & Development plc:
04th Mar, 2009 09:11 AM
Controversial behavioural advertising systems, such as those that work with UK ISPs to monitor users website browsing habits and thus develop targeted advertising campaigns (i.e. Phorm, BT Webwise), have been given a new set of guidelines by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB).
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