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27th Jul, 2009 11:43 AM
The new owners of UK broadband ISP Breathe Internet (Breathe Networks Limited), which was purchased in a surprise management buyout last week (related news here and here), have been accused of blocking access to a former partners website and thus unfairly preventing customers from accessing their old email history.

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27th Jul, 2009 07:28 AM
The results from 400 respondents to our latest monthly survey reveal that 83.7% of visitors think the UK governments (Digital Britain report) target of delivering a 2Mbps minimum broadband speed (USC) to the whole country by 2012 will not offer a fast enough service.

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27th Jul, 2009 06:23 AM
The GSM Association estimates that connections to the current generation of HSPA based Mobile Broadband services will surpass the 150m mark by the end of this summer. The growth will not stop there and is expected to hit 200m connections by Q1-2010. Meanwhile Nokia has predicted that mobile data usage will outstrip voice traffic by 2011.

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24th Jul, 2009 12:27 PM
The Carphone Warehouse ( TalkTalk , AOL UK , Opal etc. ) has posted a new Interim Management Statement revealing its latest first quarter trading update. Not including May's recent £236m Tiscali UK acquisition (too soon), TalkTalk managed to add 47,000 (net) new broadband subscribers and push its total from 2.8m to 2.85m.

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24th Jul, 2009 11:23 AM
Hull's only broadband ISP, Karoo (KCOM - Kingston Communications), has drawn anger from both the Open Rights Group and Consumer Focus after it emerged that the provider was disconnecting customers suspected of piracy and doing so without warning them first. The shocking situation has been made worse by the fact that residents of Hull have no other alternative but to use KCOM's ISP.

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24th Jul, 2009 07:21 AM
The UK City of Lincoln has created a new wireless broadband focused partnership with local ISP AB Internet, which will see the provider extending its initial 'City Centre' focused Wi-Fi deployment to cover the entire city.

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24th Jul, 2009 06:54 AM
Broadband provider AAISP UK (Andrews & Arnold) has kindly given Thinkbroadband a sneak peek into BT's first trial deployment of its next generation Fibre to the Cabinet ( FTTC ) broadband technology. The article focuses on an installation at East Finchley Budgens, a Muswell Hill (North London) based store.

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23rd Jul, 2009 12:45 PM
Cable operator Virgin Media UK has appointed SamKnows , Ofcom’s appointed Technical Partner for broadband performance/speed testing , to conduct an independent trial to measure the performance of its cable broadband services.

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23rd Jul, 2009 12:24 PM
Six of the Flybe airline's 12 passenger lounges have now been equipped with BT Openzone's broadband wireless ( Wi-Fi ) Hotspot services, allowing customers access to the Internet. The airline’s lounges in Belfast, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Exeter, Gatwick and Glasgow have all been updated.

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23rd Jul, 2009 10:38 AM
Back in February we reported that UK ISP Be Broadband ( O2 ) was planning to re-vamp the providers image (original news) by moving away from its quirky 'purple star with human heads on top' roots. Today the provider has revealed its new look, which if our first impressions are anything to go by, could deeply divide opinion.

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23rd Jul, 2009 10:01 AM
UK ISP Breathe Networks Group, which has this week been in the news following a slew of largely ZetNet related email problems and a sudden broadband platform migration (here), confirms to ISPreview that a management buyout has indeed taken place. This may at least be partly responsible for the recent disruption to the provider’s services.

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23rd Jul, 2009 05:51 AM
Members of the IEEE Task Group n (TGn) have finally, after years of bickering, agreed upon a completed specification for the next generation of wireless ( Wi-Fi ) networking - 802.11n (currently known as 'Draft N', 'Draft 2.0' or just 'N' if you've brought any supporting wireless kit recently).

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23rd Jul, 2009 00:01 AM
Network operator Entanet UK has warned that many broadband ISPs could be missing a "competitive opportunity" by adopting a risky "wait and see" approach to IPv6 adoption. The group, which supplies several ISPs and is itself an early adopter of IPv6, said that some providers could perhaps be deemed "technically negligent" and risk "compromising network performance" by delaying.

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22nd Jul, 2009 10:47 AM
Bluenowhere, a municipal wireless wholesale network operator, has warned that Mobile WiMAX broadband wireless technology is unlikely to see a proper UK-wide deployment because none of the country's five major Mobile Broadband operators have given it any firm backing.

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22nd Jul, 2009 06:44 AM
A new survey of 10,000 broadband customers conducted by ConsumerChoices.co.uk has revealed that 50% have not changed their ISP even once in the past four years, yet over the same period prices are estimated to have fallen by 37%, while speeds have increased by 700% (we assume that refers to the 'advertised' rate; in 2005 headline speeds of 2Mbps were common).

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22nd Jul, 2009 06:03 AM
Mobile operator O2 has left hundreds of thousands of its "Pay Monthly" customers, especially iPhone users, without Internet and MMS access after a problem with one of its related access points (APN) triggered a slew of connectivity issues. We have not seen any reports of O2 Mobile Broadband USB Modem users being affected, yet.

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21st Jul, 2009 11:33 AM
Business focused ISP Timico UK has announced early availability of its Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) access service, which utilises multiple existing BT based copper pairs to the end user premises with bandwidth increasing incrementally with each pair up to a total of 10Mbps.

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21st Jul, 2009 08:07 AM
UK ISP Eclipse Internet (KCOM) is hoping to steal away some of Nildram and Pipex's ( Tiscali ) business broadband customers by offering them £50 cashback when they migrate on to their service. The deal is available on Eclipse's Business Bronze, Silver and Gold options, albeit not the Home services. The offer is available until the end of July.

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21st Jul, 2009 07:37 AM
The controversial Phorm (WebWise) system, which has raised privacy concerns because of how it works with UK ISPs to monitor what websites you visit for use in targeted advertising campaigns, has suffered another blow today after it emerged that the Nationwide Building Society had become the latest major website to opt-out of having its pages scanned by the system.

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21st Jul, 2009 06:38 AM
The Director of Technical Solutions at UK mobile operator Three (3) , Phil Sheppard , has claimed that its Mobile Broadband service could be a "viable alternative" to fixed land line broadband ISPs and it would be possible with only a relatively small investment. That and access to more radio spectrum from its rivals.

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