News - May - 2009
13th May, 2009 07:06 AM
UK ISP Be Broadband has teamed up with an interactive design agency based in Manchester, magneticNorth, to launch an interactive First Person Shooter (FPS) game to help promote their broadband service. The casual game, called 'Unreal Call of Brothers 5: the Road to Broadband Heaven', is a parody of classic FPS titles, including tongue-in-cheek references to popular games.
12th May, 2009 12:12 PM
Mobile operator Three (3) has expanded its Mobile Broadband and laptop bundles to include HP's Compaq CQ60 (Est: £320 inc. VAT) computer. Customers will pay £30 a month to receive the 24 month contract bundle, which includes the laptop, a ZTE MF627 USB Modem (Dongle) and 15GigaByte's (GB) of up to 3.6Mbps monthly broadband usage.
12th May, 2009 09:06 AM
The Times reports that BT could announce a cut of around 10,000 jobs from its 160,000 strong workforce. The move is likely to come on Thursday this week when BT reveals its full year results and a possible 50% profit slide, due in no small part to the recession. There's also an £8 billion strong deficit in the company’s £33 billion pension fund to consider. Last year’s pledge to spend £1.5bn rolling out super-fast fibre optic (FTTC, FTTP) broadband services will hopefully not be impacted.
12th May, 2009 08:51 AM
ISP AOL UK ( The Carphone Warehouse ) has launched a beta version of its new homepage, which allows users to access multiple email accounts and social networking sites from a single online portal. The new site will allow integration of third-party services, content and has already been proven successful in the USA.
12th May, 2009 08:16 AM
The Sales Director for UK business ISP Lixxus, Andrew Cooper, has warned that some broadband Internet Service Providers and their accompanying Service Level Agreements (SLA) are letting UK businesses down when it comes to voice services. Confusion over jargon and an inability to test the true performance of the service are apparently two key stumbling blocks:
12th May, 2009 07:07 AM
The UK Film Council, a government-backed lead agency for film, has called for persistent illegal broadband file sharers (P2P) to be forcibly removed (cut-off) from their ISPs. The group claims that over 50% of UK Internet traffic comes from illegal content, though it's not known how they arrived at that figure.
11th May, 2009 12:57 PM
The Institute of European Media Law (EML) has found that a levy (tax) on broadband Internet usage, which would essentially support the legalisation of illegal file-sharing (P2P) downloads, does conform to European copyright law; though it would require some changes.
11th May, 2009 12:42 PM
Broadband ISP consumers in the UK are, on average, receiving less than half (45.8%) of the advertised 'up to' speed they are paying for. That is the result of the latest research from comparison site Broadband Genie, which analysed data on the largest eight UK broadband suppliers across thousands of speed tests carried out by visitors to its website.
11th May, 2009 12:23 PM
The BBC's iPlayer boss, Anthony Rose, has revealed in an interview with ZDNet that on a big peak usage day its service can eat up a colossal 100Gbps (about 12.5GigaByte’s per second) of broadband bandwidth (total). The interview (here) also talks about what we can expect from iPlayer 3.0 and why the BBC backpedalled on its controversial P2P based IPTV download service (no mention of how some big ISPs moaned about what that did to their networks, a lot [Tiscali]).
11th May, 2009 11:45 AM
The latest research from In-Stat reveals that the number of broadband enabled airplanes stood at just 25 by the end of 2008. However, this figure is expected to jump by the end of this year to 800 and generate worldwide passenger revenue of approximately £32.4m. Furthermore, by 2012 the emerging in-flight broadband market will have grown to be worth £661m ($1bn)!
11th May, 2009 07:58 AM
Communications provider Entanet , a supplier of broadband services to several UK ISPs and resellers , has raised some concerns with the way the Internet Watch Foundation's (IWF) block list works. The IWF works with ISPs to help filter out sites that contain illegal child sexual abuse and race hate content. Sadly the methods used to deploy the system haven't always worked, with last year’s Wikipedia block (original news) being a prime example.
11th May, 2009 07:18 AM
Ofcom has published the results of a new survey into the performance of wireless broadband networks, specifically those based off the unlicensed 2.4GHz ( Wi-Fi ) band or IEEE 802.11b/g/i (you probably have one in your home). The study (DOWNLOAD - .PDF), which was carried out by Mass Consultants, reveals a wide variety of problems encountered by users that can seriously impact performance, especially in urban areas like London.
11th May, 2009 07:00 AM
Broadband ISP PlusNet has re-launched its popular "4 times the normal discount" referrals scheme offer, which gives customers an increased service discount for recommending the ISP to their friends and family.
08th May, 2009 11:21 AM
The Carphone Warehouse ( TalkTalk , AOL , Opal etc. ) has today officially confirmed that its broadband ISP division , TalkTalk , will acquire Tiscali UK in a £236 million cash deal that will create Britain's second largest broadband provider (biggest for consumer services) covering over 25% of all UK households. Existing customers should not suffer any interruptions or changes to their current email and services.
08th May, 2009 08:16 AM
Campaign group Consumer Focus has warned that plans for a universal 2Mbps minimum broadband speed (USO) in the UK could be scuppered if the services are too expensive and or lack usability. Readers will know that we've raised this issue a few times, usually in relation to the inherent problems with Satellite and Mobile Broadband solutions.
08th May, 2009 08:10 AM
UK ISP Zen Internet has appointed Andrew Saunders as Head of Product Management and Marketing. Immediately prior to joining Zen Andrew worked for a WiMAX Fixed Wireless Access provider, other previous experience also includes time with Avaya, Mitel, Samsung and SDX Business Systems. Andrew expects Zen's future broadband packages to include more Voice centric services.
08th May, 2009 07:54 AM
The latest study from Juniper Research has revealed that 722 Million business mobile Internet connections will be in use worldwide by 2014, with approximately 80% of those being delivered via 3G/4G ( Mobile Broadband ) networks (we assume the rest is Wi-Fi or something similar).
08th May, 2009 07:10 AM
ISP BT Business has confirmed that it intends to introduce faster broadband download speeds of up to 20Mbps (1Mbps upstream) during the summer, with 40% of Britain's businesses being covered by the end of 2009. Existing 8Mbps (ADSL MAX) customers will be offered the chance to upgrade at no extra cost, provided they agree to a new 12-month contract term.
07th May, 2009 11:36 AM
The European Parliament has officially approved £4.4 Billion (over two years) in special recession recovery funding for member states. Roughly £265 Million of the total will be allocated to the UK for a combination of investment in new energy projects and improvements to rural broadband infrastructure.
07th May, 2009 06:57 AM
The European Parliament has, in its FINAL vote (there have been five so far) on the matter, chosen to retain amendment 46 (138) of the new Telecoms Package by a majority of 407 to 57. Amendment 46 states that restrictions to the fundamental rights and freedoms of Internet users can only be put in place after a decision by judicial authorities, which protects ISPs from having to disconnect customers suspected of involvement with illegal broadband file-sharing (P2P) downloads.
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