News - April - 2009
17th Apr, 2009 12:45 PM
The four founders of The PirateBay, a website that distributes links to files that can be downloaded and shared via Peer-2-Peer (File Sharing) clients such as BitTorrent, have been found guilty in a Swedish court of assisting in making copyright content available. Typically many of the torrent links on PirateBay went to illegal copyrighted content.
17th Apr, 2009 12:33 PM
Wikipedia, which is one of the largest online websites in the world, has become the latest to officially opt-out of Phorm's WebWise behavioural advertising technology. Phorm works with UK ISPs to monitor what websites you visit for use in targeted advertising campaigns, though website owners can opt-out of having their sites included in its profiling.
17th Apr, 2009 11:27 AM
The latest Moneysupermarket survey of 2,165 British adults conducted in March, which was carried out by Opinium Research, has revealed that 55% of the population (26 million people) believe 2Mbps will be too slow for a national minimum broadband speed. A further 22% felt that universal broadband would leave some consumers with a limited choice in packages.
17th Apr, 2009 07:43 AM
Business ISP Avenir Telecom has teamed up with Opal ( TalkTalk ) to offer its business broadband package. The deal allows Avenir to sell Opal's Premium Grade broadband service to businesses, which offers speeds of up to 24Mbps (1Mbps upstream), a 100GB monthly usage allowance, bandwidth prioritisation, a router, static IP address and more from just £10 +vat per month.
16th Apr, 2009 13:04 PM
Broadband ISP Tiscali UK has threatened a broadband comparison site with legal action after it issued a press release remarking upon the provider’s current financial predicament and directly urging consumers to switch ISP.
16th Apr, 2009 12:36 PM
The BBC's popular Internet TV service, iPlayer, is being upgraded with a number of new features including high definition (HD) video content. Popular TV shows, such as Doctor Who, Kerwhizz and Dragons Den, are slated to be among the first HD streams available (also downloadable).
16th Apr, 2009 12:27 PM
Oxford-based business ISP and managed wide area networking (Wi-Fi) reseller, CI-Net, has completed the acquisition of Interdart, a rival provider, as part of its ongoing acquisition drive. The addition of Interdart's customer base will give CI-Net a combined total of 2500 active customers.
16th Apr, 2009 12:02 PM
UK ISP BT has today launched a new business bundle offering both broadband Internet access (BT Total Broadband Option 1) and voice calls (BT One Plan) to UK landlines, international destinations and mobile numbers for £30 +vat per month. The package does not include line rental, which is required at £14.10 per month.
15th Apr, 2009 12:41 PM
Broadband ISP TalkTalk ( The Carphone Warehouse ) has recently begun a new complete installation package pilot. Those requiring a new phone line for their broadband service will only be charged a connection fee of £59.99 to have the line hooked-up, which is a far cry from the £120 that some others apply.
15th Apr, 2009 12:24 PM
BT's website has just begun a new promotion, which offers 3 months free broadband when you switch back to them and take a BT Total Broadband and calls (option 1, 2 or 3) bundle. Typically an 18 month minimum contract applies and line rental of at least £11.25 per month is still charged.
15th Apr, 2009 12:06 PM
UK cable operator Virgin Media has copied Sky Broadband by moving from an in-house email platform to one based purely off Google's free Gmail service. Virgin will give customers 7GB (GigaByte's) of online storage with the service and should also be able to offer up to 10 addresses ending in @virginmedia.com.
14th Apr, 2009 12:10 PM
UK ISP Supanet has, as part of its restructuring strategy, appointed Kevin Cheston into the new role of Head of Operations. Cheston has over 20 years experience in the ICT (information and technology) industry and established his first company, Network Concepts, in 1996.
14th Apr, 2009 10:55 AM
The European Commission (EC) has opened an infringement proceeding against the UK after a series of complaints by Internet users, and extensive communication with UK authorities, about the use of Phorms behavioural advertising technology by broadband Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The move follows warnings last month by the EU that it could extend its investigation of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology to include Phorm (original news).
14th Apr, 2009 07:55 AM
The results from last month’s survey reveal that the vast majority of readers (74.8%) have never been warned by a broadband ISP about their usage (bandwidth / data) consumption. It also found that nearly half (45.4%) would switch ISP if they received such a warning from their provider and a further 41.1% would at least consider switching.
14th Apr, 2009 07:39 AM
Broadband ISP PlusNet has posted an interesting traffic (data usage) graph from a couple of weeks ago, which shows a record high usage of the BBC's online TV service (iPlayer) from roughly 2,000 of the ISPs customers. The biggest spike was on Thursday, when a record high usage figure of 973,73Mbps was recorded. Popular shows such as The Apprentice, football and the recent Malaysian F1 Grand Prix are largely to blame.
14th Apr, 2009 07:11 AM
Broadband ISP Tiscali UK has left some of its customers without an email service for nearly a whole week after addresses associated with their Screaming.net domain suddenly stopped working around 7th April. A similar issue cropped up twice in March, preventing users from either sending or receiving email, although those "only" took several hours to correct.
10th Apr, 2009 07:20 AM
Mobile operator and ISP Orange UK has begun offering a number of Mobile Broadband discounts on its website, which will be available until the end of this month. The monthly contract deals range from offers of a free USB Modem/Dongle (normal cost is £48.50) to discounted monthly service prices.
09th Apr, 2009 07:48 AM
Phorm (i.e. BT WebWise), which controversially works with UK ISPs to monitor what websites you visit for use in targeted (behavioural) advertising campaigns, has once again mooted the idea of offering a price discount to broadband users that consent to adopting its system.
09th Apr, 2009 06:59 AM
UK ISP Easynet Connect (BSkyB) has launched a new fixed-price Local Access Leased Line broadband service that is targeted at small businesses and can cost up to 50% less than other fibre Ethernet products currently available in the UK. The service is available to over 70% of UK businesses through Easynet's local loop unbundling project (LLU).
08th Apr, 2009 12:35 PM
Broadband ISP PlusNet has revealed their intention to introduce an updated set of Home Phone (voice calls and line rental) products to their service. The move follows the providers broadband revamp, which saw a dramatically different range of new products being introduced (original news) to replace the old options.
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