News - October - 2009
19th Oct, 2009 08:22 AM
The UK governments Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has launched a consultation (Download the .PDF) on new proposals to help free up radio (wireless) spectrum among the country's five main mobile network operators for use by Mobile Broadband ( 3G , 4G )services.
19th Oct, 2009 08:09 AM
The Open Rights Group has posted the results of a new YouGov survey, which found that just 16% of those surveyed would be in favour of an ISP disconnecting customers “suspected” of involvement with the downloading of an illegal file (music, films etc.). The majority (68%) said suspects should have the right to a fair trial in a court of law, prior to restrictions being applied.
19th Oct, 2009 07:09 AM
The UK Conservative Party has pledged to scrap plans for a 50p a month tax ('Next Generation Fund') on all fixed phone lines to help fund the deployment of next generation broadband services around the country. The proposal formed part of June's final Digital Britain report (here) and could rake in around £175m per year, which many believe would not have been enough anyway.
19th Oct, 2009 00:01 AM
First established in 1997, Andrews and Arnold Ltd. ( AAISP ) began life as family run business that has since grown into a small but thriving company with two offices in Bracknell as well as equipment racks in many UK data centres.
17th Oct, 2009 07:15 AM
The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) has recommended that the UK government increase its commitment to deliver a minimum UK broadband download speed of 2Mbps to everybody by 2012 (USC) to 4Mbps. It added that the service should also be "affordable", "reliable", have low latency and include a minimum upload speed of 1Mbps.
16th Oct, 2009 11:55 AM
The latest uSwitch survey of 12,000 UK ISP consumers has revealed that 55% are satisfied with the technical support offered by their broadband company and nearly £6 million per year is spent calling help-lines. The average call was revealed to last for 17 minutes, 6 minutes of which is spent on hold. Orange and Tiscali customers are unsurprisingly the least satisfied.
16th Oct, 2009 07:46 AM
The All Party Parliamentary Communications Group (apComms) has published its final report - 'Can we keep our hands off the net?' (.PDF) - following a lengthy inquiry into Internet traffic to assess regulation of UK ISPs. The topic covered a range of traffic issues from behavioural advertising ( i.e. Phorm ), illegal P2P file sharing and privacy to child abuse images and Internet neutrality and asked what role Government should play.
16th Oct, 2009 07:27 AM
ISP Cerberus Networks (CN) has launched what it claims is the UK's first bonded ADSL2+ broadband service – offering up to 48Mbps downstream and 5Mbps upstream with unlimited usage and low contention. The service states that its product offers true bonding – not the aggregation or load-balancing seen to date from other providers.
16th Oct, 2009 06:55 AM
Business broadband ISP Fusion Media Networks (Fusion) has cut the cost of its 1:1 contention based 2Mbps SDSL (symmetric - same speed both ways) broadband service to £199 +vat per month. The package is based on a minimum 12 month contract and there is also a one-off setup fee of £350.
16th Oct, 2009 00:01 AM
ISP Be Broadband are running a half price promotion on their BE Value product. The service normally costs £13.50 per month (free connection) but is now available for just £6.75 a month for the first 12 months. The basic package includes speeds of up to 8Mbps (1.3Mbps upload) and a free wireless router modem and. New customers can get the discount (until 31st October 2009) by entering the offer code "halfprice" during signup.
15th Oct, 2009 13:23 PM
Broadband ISP TalkTalk ( The Carphone Warehouse ), which has consistently opposed Lord Mandelson’s plan to tackle illegal file sharing, recently sent one of its Internet security experts to visit The Highway, a residential road in Stanmore, Middlesex. The expert managed to identify networks that would be vulnerable to unauthorised file sharing and could potentially lead to the owners being accused of an offence that they never committed.
15th Oct, 2009 13:03 PM
Ofcom, as part of the governments final Digital Britain report, has formed a new consortium for the promotion of Digital Participation, which among other things will seek to boost the take-up of UK broadband services. It is also a part of the Race Online 2012 initiative by the Governments Champion for Digital Inclusion - Martha Lane Fox.
15th Oct, 2009 11:42 AM
Ofcom has granted a request by broadband wireless ( WiMAX - 802.16 ) ISP FREEDOM4 to vary its Wireless Telegraphy Public Fixed Wireless Operator 3.6GHz to 4.2GHz licence. The wISP has since confirmed that this mobility extension to its national 3.6GHz licence will allow it to roll-out a mobile WiMAX (4G) network.
15th Oct, 2009 09:06 AM
Broadband analyst firm Point Topic has predicted that true next generation fibre optic broadband services, which deliver the cable directly into homes ( Fibre-to-the-Home/Premises - FTTH ) for even faster speeds, will eventually become more dominant in the UK than the halfway house of Fibre-to-the-Cabinet ( FTTC ) technology.
15th Oct, 2009 00:47 AM
UK ISP Nildram ( Tiscali ) has recently increased their advertised headline broadband package speeds from ‘up to’ 16Mbps to 24Mbps. However customers will not see any improvement in their connection speeds as the same ADSL2+ technology remains in place. The move is purely one for marketing purposes.
14th Oct, 2009 11:26 AM
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web (WWW) and director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), has - tongue in cheek - finally said sorry for putting those "unnecessary" double slashes // at the beginning of Internet addresses. Yeah thanks for that Tim, bit late though :) . He told The Times newspaper that "it seemed like a good idea at the time," much like Hitler.. wait, poor comparison. I'll get my coat.
14th Oct, 2009 09:13 AM
The Labour MP for West Bromwich East, Tom Watson, has tabled a new Early Day Motion (EDM) that questions the UK governments proposal to disconnect illegal file sharing (piracy) "suspects" from their broadband ISP. The EDM is signed by 9 additional MP's and could end up being debated in the House of Commons.
14th Oct, 2009 08:27 AM
The governments Technology Strategy Board (TSB), which is partly responsibility for implementation of the Digital Britain strategy, is proposing to run a new trial that would turn three UK villages into high-tech communities with superfast broadband networks by the middle of 2010.
14th Oct, 2009 08:01 AM
The South Ayrshire Council has just become the first customer to sign-up for a new superfast (100Mbps) fibre optic broadband network via a Fibrezone ring that is being built by H2O Networks ( i3 Group ). Launched earlier this year by H2O Networks, Fibrezone is designed as a solution to the UK’s problem of connectivity and high speed broadband in rural and semi-rural areas.
14th Oct, 2009 07:32 AM
The UK government's Home Office has backed down from plans that were due to be revealed in this year’s Queens Speech and would have forced UK broadband ISPs to block online child abuse websites. Failure to comply with the mandatory order would have resulted in a fine or possibly even criminalisation (original news).
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