News - June - 2009
11th Jun, 2009 08:33 AM
The little known UK broadband ISP and ISP supplier, EurISP, appears to have entered into voluntary liquidation according to details spotted by an anonymous source on the Companies House website. It's not known how many customers the ISP has, though most will remember the provider for the Fast4/EurISP debacle last year (original news).
11th Jun, 2009 08:10 AM
The French proposed "Three-Strikes" initiative (HADOPI), which would have seen illegal broadband file-sharers being disconnected from their ISP for repeat activity following a warning, has been dealt a serious blow by the highest jurisdiction in France - The Constitutionnal Council.
11th Jun, 2009 06:58 AM
The BBC's Technology Correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones, has published extracts (BLOG) from an email the broadcaster received from broadband ISP BT. It quotes the provider as warning that content owners "can't expect to continue to get a free ride". In essence, BT expects content developers to help contribute to the costs of its broadband service.
10th Jun, 2009 13:01 PM
The trading brand names of two UK broadband ISPs acquired by Timico in recent months, KeConnect and Twang.net, will be changed to Timico. Timico hopes that the move will make its brand stronger and provide some key service enhancements to all of its customers (e.g. extended opening hours for the Technical Customer Service team and new online portals etc.).
10th Jun, 2009 12:41 PM
The Phorm system, which controversially works with UK broadband ISPs (e.g. BT WebWise) to monitor what websites you visit for use in targeted advertising campaigns, has managed to raise £15m by selling 3,333,333 new common shares in the company at a price of £4.50 per share.
10th Jun, 2009 12:20 PM
BT's broadband TV (IPTV) service, BT Vision, has suspended new sales of the Setanta sports channel following concerns over the channels financial situation (could go bust). Setanta itself has also stopped taking on new users. To make matters worse BT Vision has just lost its CEO, Dan Marks, over frustrations with subscriber levels and BSkyB's dominance of live Premiership football.
10th Jun, 2009 12:00 PM
UK ISP TalkTalk has extended its web-exclusive FREE Connection discount to new customers that signup for its Essentials Broadband and Phone (18 month contract) package via the provider’s website. The promotion, which saves new subscribers £29.99, had been due to expire at the end of May but was now been extended until 14th June.
10th Jun, 2009 08:38 AM
Ofcoms latest 'Accessing the Internet at Home' research, which was conducted by Ipsos Mori, has revealed that three quarters of all UK homes (70% of adults) will be online by the end of the year. However 17 million Brits (30% of the adult population) remain offline and 43% of those wouldn't even be persuaded if they were offered a free broadband service and computer.
10th Jun, 2009 08:29 AM
Mobile operator Three (3) UK has launched a new 'Broadband 5GB 1 month' plan, which as you might expect offers a Mobile Broadband service with 5GB (GigaBytes) of monthly data usage on a single monthly contract (i.e. no long 12 or 24 month commitment terms) for just £15 per month.
10th Jun, 2009 08:12 AM
Broadband benchmarking experts at Epitiro have revealed that the average Mobile Broadband download speed in the UK is just 0.9Mbps, which falls well short of the government’s 2Mbps universal minimum broadband speed (USO) target for 2012. The result was concluded from 1.4 million tests conducted around the UK, revealing that Mobile Broadband users typically receive just 24% of the top headline speed advertised by operators.
10th Jun, 2009 07:04 AM
The latest 2009 Digital Entertainment Survey of 1,500 UK consumers conducted by Wiggin, a media law group, has revealed that just 33% of illegal file sharing (P2P) downloader’s would stop their activity after receiving a warning letter from a broadband ISP. The figure is lower than the 70% reported in last year’s survey because the question was re-formed to ask how people would react if the letter contained "no specific threat" of action against them.
09th Jun, 2009 12:02 PM
Broadband ISP and telephony supplier murphx UK has been awarded 'ISP of the Year' during last week’s Comms Business Awards 2009. The gong comes just over one week after murphx was forced to cancel its broadband supply to UK ISP Hi-Velocity over what is believed to have been a financial dispute (original news).
09th Jun, 2009 09:10 AM
Apple's Safari 4 Website Browser has just been released following several months of beta testing. The new version offers performance improvements, iPod style cover flow navigation, a native windows theme (not shown below), tabs at the top of the window, history search, top sites (visual summary your favourite pages), improved developer tools and all the usual bug/security fixes.
09th Jun, 2009 08:12 AM
SpeedChecker, which offers various online speed testing services for broadband ISP users, has announced the launch of its new free Speed Test Plus service. SpeedChecker believes it is one of the most advanced and flexible online speed testing services available. Some of the core features of Speed Tester Plus are:
09th Jun, 2009 07:44 AM
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which manages the Domain Name System (DNS), has called on ISPs around the world to start moving towards adoption of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC). DNS translates IP addresses into human readable form (e.g. 87.106.143.49 becomes ISPreview.co.uk) but it is flawed, which can result in legitimate website addresses being diverted to malicious sites by hackers.
08th Jun, 2009 12:25 PM
UK TV broadcaster, Channel4, has announced that its back catalogue of programmes will be made available to watch online for FREE via its web-based 4oD (Channel4 Video-on-Demand) broadband Internet TV (IPTV) service. From July everything from Father Ted (I love that show) to Shameless will be viewable online.
08th Jun, 2009 11:54 AM
UK ISP Fasthosts, which is perhaps better known for its website hosting services than its considerably out of date broadband packages, has reportedly left many of its customers without email since Friday last week. The affected users have also complained about an inability to contact Fasthosts customer support department, which has been a historic problem for the provider.
07th Jun, 2009 06:54 AM
Charles Dunstone, CEO of The Carphone Warehouse and UK broadband ISP TalkTalk (at least until next summer - news), has warned the government that plans (here) aimed at forcing Internet Service Providers to halt illegal file sharing (P2P) are "naive" because pirates will always find ways around such measures.
05th Jun, 2009 11:42 AM
The Carphone Warehouse has issued a new Trading Update confirming that TalkTalk ( AOL UK , Opal , Tiscali , OneTel etc. ), it's UK broadband ISP division, will be completely demerged by July 2010 at the latest. The move is nothing new and has been expected ever since Best Buy USA brought a stake in the group.
05th Jun, 2009 08:13 AM
The UK governments culture secretary, Andy Burnham, has all but confirmed that the final Digital Britain report from Lord Carter, which is due to be published on 16th June, will not require broadband ISPs to disconnect illegal file sharers. Instead methods that involve ways to "limit or restrict" such activity will be deployed.
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