News - July - 2009
08th Jul, 2009 06:38 AM
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has thrown out an interesting complaint by BT and a member of the public against a TV, national press and poster advert for Virgin Media's new up to 50Mbps broadband service. The adverts promoted 50Mbps as being the "fastest broadband" in the country, which BT claimed was untrue because of its 100Mbps FTTP trials in Ebbsfleet.
07th Jul, 2009 08:35 AM
Broadband provider Aquiss has launched a new range of its own unbundled ( Shared/SMPF LLU ) up to 24Mbps broadband packages, which cost from £21.48 inc. VAT per month and offer an "unlimited" monthly usage allowance. Further details of their Premium Unlimited Broadband Option 1 and 2 services can be found below.
07th Jul, 2009 08:11 AM
The latest statistics from comScore show that the total number of videos viewed online in the UK during April 2009 grew 47% versus one year ago to 4.7 billion videos. Naturally Google (YouTube) dominated the top 10 sites with 2.4 billion videos viewed, an increase of 58% versus a year ago. BBC sites, such as via its popular iPlayer service, came a notable but distant second.
07th Jul, 2009 07:54 AM
Broadband ISP PlusNet has broken the 2Gbps (Gigabits per second) broadband traffic milestone for BBC iPlayer (Internet TV) usage among its customers. The event occurred during last Friday's semi-final Wimbledon (Tennis) match between Andy Murray and Andy Roddick, which smashed the chart by a whopping 2.29Gbps. Queue an out of sync and comically cheesy video from PlusNet's staff :cheese: .
07th Jul, 2009 07:14 AM
The UK government’s one year old pledge to reduce Internet music piracy by 70% within two years has been quietly watered down. The changes were revealed in a leaked letter from the Culture Secretary, Ben Bradshaw, which had been sent at the end of June; shortly after the publication of Lord Carter's final Digital Britain report.
06th Jul, 2009 13:00 PM
H2O Networks ( i3 Group ) has begun on Yorkshire’s first Fibrezone, a next generation fibre optic broadband network offering carrier grade connectivity at a fraction of the normal cost. Similar to work in Dundee and Bournemouth, i3 will deploy the service around Sheffield city-centre, although this time they will use an existing 7km fibre optic cable deployed two years ago by ISP ASK4 .
06th Jul, 2009 12:45 PM
Comparison site Broadband.co.uk has released its latest anecdotal monthly broadband speed testing results for June 2009. It shows that the average UK broadband download speed has increased once again to 4.340Mbps, which is up from 4.248Mbps in May. The average upload speed stood almost completely unchanged at 0.433Mbps.
06th Jul, 2009 12:29 PM
Customers that attempt to cancel BT's Total Broadband service without requesting migration to another ISP will be forced to stump up £25, regardless of whether or not they're still inside of the original contract period. In addition this fee has recently been increased from £18.11.
06th Jul, 2009 12:22 PM
Popular broadband provider Zen Internet has appointed Michael Pennington as its new Voice Product Manager. Pennington had previously worked for Azzurri Communications as a Networks Specialist responsible for bringing to market ‘Azzurri Broadband’, providing wireless Internet access to the city of Hull.
06th Jul, 2009 11:52 AM
Spitfire, a business ISP and Internet telephony provider, has launched its new PureStream™ SDSL (symmetric) broadband service. The package combines a 2Mbps uncontended LLUStream (unbundled) SDSL (inc. Service Level Guarantees) with a 2Mbps uncontended SDSL(M) [This is actually a Tiscali based ADSL2+ service] as a backup circuit.
06th Jul, 2009 08:40 AM
I-NAP, a UK business broadband and connectivity provider, has called a meeting of creditors under 'Section 98' of the 'Insolvency Act 1986', which will take place on 16th July 2009. The provider, which some rumours suggest could have been in debt over Telehouse hosting fees to another ISP - Star Europe, is holding the meeting to determine the ISP's financial position and possibly the appointment of a liquidator.
06th Jul, 2009 08:19 AM
The Chief Executive of Geo UK, a telecommunications company that focuses on the design and build of bespoke dedicated fibre broadband networks, has warned that the final Digital Britain report could focus too much on the delivery of next generation broadband services to consumers and not enough on the needs of businesses.
06th Jul, 2009 06:59 AM
Privacy campaigners can celebrate today after it emerged that BT has quietly decided to stall deployment of Phorm (WebWise), which controversially works with UK ISPs to monitor what websites you visit for use in targeted advertising campaigns. BT had been due to deploy Phorm to its 4.8m Total Broadband customers later this year but now claims that the resources are needed elsewhere, such as to deploy its £1.5bn next generation fibre optic broadband network.
04th Jul, 2009 07:43 AM
The UK Governments Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has praised the work of broadband ISP NYnet in helping rural communities in North Yorkshire to access essential services via the Internet. Brown was speaking during a visit to the council library in Sherburn (Elmet) this week.
04th Jul, 2009 06:30 AM
Ericsson, one of the world’s leading suppliers of mobile phones and related network solutions, has warned that it could be 2012 before the first true next generation Mobile Broadband networks gain a good foothold in the UK. The deployment of Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology (aka - 4G), which could deliver download speeds of 150 to 1000Mbps, is being hampered by problems with releasing the needed 900Mhz spectrum.
03rd Jul, 2009 07:54 AM
Starting from Sunday 5th July the UK broadband ISP TalkTalk will launch a major new seven figure advertising campaign to promote themselves as the country's "brighter" phone and broadband company. The campaign is not expected to feature Tiscali UK, which the TalkTalk Group purchased for £236m during May.
03rd Jul, 2009 06:17 AM
BT has revealed new details about its forthcoming £1.5bn rollout of next generation Fibre to the Cabinet ( FTTC ) broadband technology. The operator has also warned that the government’s 50p tax on all fixed phone lines will only be enough to help cover 80% to 85% of the country with fibre optic broadband, which differs from the 90% figure that they previously alluded to (here).
02nd Jul, 2009 12:27 PM
The USA based Hulu, a free online broadband video (IPTV) service that offers web access to hit TV shows and is backed by News Corp, NBC Universal and Disney, has reiterated its intention to launch the service in the UK during September 2009 and promised to work with UK broadband ISPs.
02nd Jul, 2009 11:49 AM
Mobile operator and ISP O2 UK has today announced the launch of its new chargeable telephone service - 'O2 Tech Support'. It costs £7.34 a month (or £14.69 on a Pay as You Use (PAYU) basis) and provides a "range of expert services" to help solve technical problems with Mobile Broadband , Home Broadband and Laptop related dilemmas.
02nd Jul, 2009 07:51 AM
Mobile operator Vodafone UK has revealed a completely new range of tariffs for customer seeking to access their Mobile Broadband connections when outside of the UK. Prices for European data / Internet roaming usage will now start at £4.99 per day for up to 25MB (MegaByte's) and the same again if you want another 25MB. Those using less than 1MB, such as when viewing a 100Kb website, will be charged 50p.
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