News - July - 2009
14th Jul, 2009 06:39 AM
The popular British comic icon, Stephen Fry, shocked some of the attendants at last night’s iTunes (Apple) Live event when he admitted to using his broadband ISP connection to download music and TV shows illegally via BitTorrent file sharing (P2P) networks. He then promptly criticised the creative industry for trying to criminalise those who do it purely for personal consumption.
14th Jul, 2009 06:05 AM
Updata Infrastructure UK, a lesser known business broadband ISP and network builder, appears to have been be the focus of a management buyout after Investment firm LMS Capital Plc bought a majority 53.3% stake in the provider for a cash deal of £6.2m.
13th Jul, 2009 11:15 AM
CORRECTION The PCW item was incorrectly dated as 13th July 2009, it was actually posted on 19th June. Original article follows. Troubled Phorm (WebWise), the controversial service that works with UK broadband ISPs to monitor what websites you visit for use in targeted advertising campaigns, has reiterated in a new interview today that it still expects to sign deals with UK ISPs this year.
13th Jul, 2009 06:14 AM
The latest survey of 1000 music fans from Music Ally, a UK based digital music business information and strategy company, has revealed that the percentage of people who regularly (i.e. every month) download music from illegal file-sharing sources has declined from 22% in December 2007 to 17% in January 2009. The drop is even more significant amongst 14-18 year olds, where it fell from 42% to 26% over the same period.
13th Jul, 2009 05:58 AM
As part of its recently revealed 'Brighter' advertising campaign (here), broadband ISP TalkTalk has reintroduced its popular FREE Connection promotion. The limited offer saves new subscribers £29.99 off the original package price.
13th Jul, 2009 05:27 AM
Business ISP Vaioni has begun offering a "true" 2Mbps Leased Line service for just £375 +vat per month to firms in Manchester and Liverpool. The service includes a 99.95% Service Level Agreement (SLA) and backup connection.
12th Jul, 2009 06:04 AM
Several areas in and around Kent (UK), such as Selling (Canterbury), Kings Hill (West Malling) and Iwade (Sittingbourne), look set to benefit after Kent County Council (KCC) stumped up over £100,000 to improve the villages broadband networks. It's also possible that the budget could later be stretched to enhance Crockham Hill (Westerham) and Womenswold (between Canterbury and Dover).
11th Jul, 2009 07:19 AM
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web (WWW), has called on governments and businesses to preserve privacy by limiting how far they are willing to monitor (snoop) and record the online activities of innocent individuals. Sir Tim was speaking at The Web At 20 [years old] launch event for the BBC2 series Digital Revolution (to be broadcast next year).
11th Jul, 2009 06:51 AM
Orange UK has dropped Digital Rights Management (DRM) from its newly refreshed Music Portal - Orange.co.uk/music, meaning that customers downloading tracks or albums from the store will no longer be limited to how many devices they can put/play it on. Orange is also introducing new tiered pricing, with downloads now available from 79p.
10th Jul, 2009 11:46 AM
Speaking at the Ludwig Erhard Lecture 2009 at the Lisbon Council in Brussels yesterday, Viviane Reding, the EU Telecoms Commissioner, warned that "Internet piracy appears to become more and more sexy". Reding proposes to help fix this by freeing up EU regulation and developing a consumer-friendly legal framework for accessing digital content in Europe's single market.
10th Jul, 2009 09:40 AM
The Internet Service Providers Association ( ISPA ) has finally revealed the winners of its 11th annual UK Internet awards for 2009. O2 ( Be Broadband ) came out top for 'Best Consumer Fixed Broadband ISP', while Vodafone took top honours for 'Best Consumer Mobile Broadband'.
10th Jul, 2009 08:22 AM
Broadband ISP Tiscali UK has warned that, despite wanting their data to be kept private, people are freely making it available through a lack of caution in the use of social media. Tiscali's research of 2505 people found that the most common personal details we publish online are photos (68%), date of birth (49%), email addresses (40%) and 20% have even uploaded their job details.
10th Jul, 2009 07:34 AM
The Chief Executive of FremantleMedia, Tony Cohen, has received new support from one of ITV's Strategy Directors, Carolyn Fairbairn, with regards to charging consumers micropayments of around 5p to view individual TV shows online (e.g. via ITV Player's Video on Demand [VoD] service).
10th Jul, 2009 06:42 AM
BT has called on mobile phone users to be included in the government’s plans for a next generation broadband tax, which will force every owner of a fixed telephone line in the UK to stump up an extra 50p per month (related news). Under Lord Carter's Digital Britain report, this cash would go into a Next Generation Fund and support the rollout of even faster broadband technologies.
09th Jul, 2009 08:54 AM
UK ISP BT has just released a second list of 69 local UK telephone exchange locations where its new super fast (up to 40Mbps) fibre optic based ( FTTC ) broadband services will become available from. The acceleration will see 1.5 million homes have access to such services by early summer 2010. A million of those homes will have access by March next year, which is a doubling of the original pace of deployment (e.g. originally 500,000).
09th Jul, 2009 07:54 AM
Analysts at research group Point Topic have found that the money raised by the governments proposed 50p tax on all fixed telephone lines will be "more than enough" to support the rollout of next generation broadband to serve over 90% of the UK population. However they criticise the 2017 target as being "rather slack" and suggest that it should be brought forward to 2015.
09th Jul, 2009 07:46 AM
Business ISP Node4 as introduced a range of new high capacity Ethernet packages, which start at £399 per month for a 10Mbps connection. The services are available nationally in options of 10Mb, 100Mb, 1Gb and 10Gb services utilise BT's 21CN enabled exchanges located around the UK.
09th Jul, 2009 07:15 AM
New research from Futuresource Consulting has revealed that the global household penetration of fixed broadband services will break the 500 Million subscribers barrier next year. That's hardly surprising given that, according to Point Topic figures, the world had 429.2m subscribers to related services in Q1-2009 and 412.6m in Q4-2008 (+4.02% growth).
08th Jul, 2009 11:59 AM
The Communications Consumer Panel (CCP) has welcomed Ofcom's new focus on mobile coverage in its latest consultation, called Mostly Mobile (here). The news also follows Ofcom's publication of new UK 3G / Mobile Broadband coverage maps for each of the country’s five main operators (here).
08th Jul, 2009 07:18 AM
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint against a banner advert for DirectSave Telecom, which stated: "Unlimited Broadband & Free Calls with No Contract from only £9.95.. simple 28 day notice agreement.." The complainant challenged whether the ad was misleading because it did not make clear that a disconnection fee of £50 applied if the service was cancelled within 12 months.
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