News - June - 2009
24th Jun, 2009 12:00 PM
Ofcom has released its latest chart showing the complaint trends of the top six most complained about telephone and broadband ISP issues over the past 12 months to May 2009. The graph shows a clear reduction in all types of complaints, including broadband migrations and tag on line issues.
24th Jun, 2009 11:03 AM
Spitfire, the UK Internet access and Internet telephony operator, has become the latest ISP to be selected by BT Wholesale to take part in the first consumer trials of VDSL (Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line) technology. Spitfire is one of nine ISPs in the UK , including Entanet and PlusNet , to have been selected for the trials.
24th Jun, 2009 07:49 AM
Fans of the popular BBC TV show Top Gear won't be surprised to learn that the premier of its latest season also had a dramatic impact on broadband BBC iPlayer (Web-based Internet TV) usage among several UK ISPs, including PlusNet . The episode featured a dramatic unveiling of THE STIG, a masked race driver whom has been with the series for some years, which contributed to the show’s popularity.
24th Jun, 2009 07:34 AM
Cable operator Virgin Media UK has launched yet another promotion for new customers wishing to build their own triple or quad-play bundle of TV, broadband, voice and or mobile phone services with the provider. Those who choose to build their own custom bundle online will be given a free installation and £20 off your first bill.
24th Jun, 2009 07:25 AM
UK ISP TalkTalk ( The Carphone Warehouse ) is offering the chance to win £1,000 worth of shopping vouchers for having a bash at its new online game to celebrate free local calls, as part of their Essentials Home Phone and Broadband package.
23rd Jun, 2009 12:27 PM
The Commission for Rural Communities (CRC) has warned that Lord Carter's Digital Britain Report (here) pledge of making a minimum UK broadband speed of 2012 available to everybody by 2012 may not be enough. The warning is part of CRC's 'Mind the Gap: Digital England - a rural perspective' (Adobe Reader .PDF) report.
23rd Jun, 2009 12:07 PM
Mobile operator Vodafone UK has launched a new Access Gateway device/service, which uses Femtocell (Access Point Base Station) technology to help extend the indoor coverage and reception of its 3G using mobile phone and Mobile Broadband customers.
23rd Jun, 2009 06:53 AM
Specialist Apple Mac-only broadband ISP MacAce.net has won the coveted "Best Mac-Friendly ISP" award at this year’s MacWorld Awards. The little known provider managed to topple stiff opposition from some of the biggest names in the industry, including O2 , Sky Broadband , Virgin Media , TalkTalk and Zen Internet .
22nd Jun, 2009 11:52 AM
The KCOM Group (Kingston Communications, Eclipse Internet), which is best known for being the dominant fixed telephone line (voice and broadband) operator in Hull (Karoo), has announced a new deal with BT to extend its UK network reach through access to BT’s national infrastructure. It will also outsource the management of its network assets to BT Wholesale.
22nd Jun, 2009 07:17 AM
The results from 774 respondents to our latest survey reveals that 58.6% of ISPreview visitors are still not satisfied with the broadband speed they receive from their current ISP and 55.2% would be willing to pay extra for "significantly faster" performance.
22nd Jun, 2009 07:02 AM
Cashbox, a UK supplier of ATM cash machines, has teamed up with BT to integrate Wi-Fi (wireless) broadband Hotspot access into all of its new and existing ATM sites. The new five-year deal allows anybody close to one of their cash machines to access the Internet via Wi-Fi equipped computers and devices. Initially just 10 Cashbox ATM’s will be upgraded, although the group has 2,500 across the country.
22nd Jun, 2009 00:33 AM
Business ISP Vaioni has launched a 1Gbps Fibre Optic Ethernet based Leased Line broadband service across London from just £1250 +vat per month; QoS is enabled as standard.
21st Jun, 2009 07:35 AM
We've received several emails from customer's of the BT Total Broadband service complaining that the ISP has blocked them from accessing RapidShare, which is an online file hosting/download service (not P2P). Similar issues have occurred in the past, often due to cache conflicts or a restriction imposed by Rapidshare itself, thus we do not believe the problem to be intentional on BT's part.
20th Jun, 2009 07:55 AM
Residents and businesses of the remote Shetland Islands are sadly no strangers to broadband and telephone connectivity problems (here and here), so it probably came as no great surprise when the Island's BT based mobile, telephone and broadband network was put out of action for nearly 7 long hours, again, yesterday.
20th Jun, 2009 07:22 AM
OUT-LAW.COM, an online legal information site, has warned that neither regulators nor law protect Net Neutrality (restriction free access to legal online content and services) in the UK, where ISPs are free to block content from those that do not pay them to deliver it.
20th Jun, 2009 06:40 AM
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has released new research that predicts a significant growth in the UK Internet access market (wireless and fixed-line broadband) over the next four to five years. This equates to a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7% from 2009 to 2013, an overall rise of 40% (£6.23bn to £8.71bn spend).
19th Jun, 2009 08:12 AM
Cable giant Virgin Media UK is offering £50 off the first bill when new customers create their own triple-play bundle of broadband, TV and phone services with the operator. The offer, which is available from their front page, will end on 22nd June.
19th Jun, 2009 07:45 AM
Customers of Be Broadband ( O2 ) have accused the UK ISP of deliberately blocking access to popular P2P BitTorrent file sharing tracker sites after several of the most popular destinations ( e.g. The Pirate Bay ) became inaccessible yesterday.
19th Jun, 2009 07:16 AM
The UK Internet Service Providers Association ( ISPA ) has revealed the finalists in the Internet Hero and Internet Villain categories for this year's ISPA Internet awards. The Hero award recognises an organisation or individual's achievements for the Internet industry and the Villain award is obviously given to those that have had a negative impact upon the sector.
18th Jun, 2009 12:59 PM
The European Commission (EC) has hinted that Digital Britain plans for a 50p per month tax on all telephone lines (here), which will help to foster the rollout of UK next generation broadband lines to 90% of the country by 2017, could still fall foul of competition rules.
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