News - October - 2009
14th Oct, 2009 06:59 AM
Broadband and Website Hosting ISP Namesco UK has reiterated its support for the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a charitable organisation that works with UK ISPs to help filter out illegal child abuse and race hate content from the Internet. The news comes on the IWF's official Internet Awareness Day.
13th Oct, 2009 12:20 PM
BSkyB's 24 hour Sky News TV channel can now be viewed live online directly via their website. Viewers will be required to install a small Silverlight extension for their website browser (Microsoft's equivalent of FLASH) and obviously a broadband connection is also needed; only available to the UK and Ireland.
13th Oct, 2009 11:13 AM
The Government's digital inclusion champion for its Digital Britain report, Martha Lane Fox, has revealed that 17% of the UK population (10m people) have never been online. The research, which was conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, found that families without an ISP connection could be missing out on savings totalling roughly £560 a year (i.e. inability to access cheaper products and service deals).
13th Oct, 2009 07:57 AM
Broadband ISP TalkTalk ( The Carphone Warehouse ) has launched its Digital Anthropology Report, which claims to offer an insight into how British people use the Internet. The report, which is based on a survey of 2000 people, reveals that the UK can be broken into six very different tribes – from "Digital Extroverts" at one end of the spectrum to "Timid Technophobes" at the other.
13th Oct, 2009 07:24 AM
The 'Digital Vault' online storage and backup service provided by BT to customers of its Total Broadband ISP package(s) has been branded as "totally useless" by some of its users. Problems with the facilities auto backup manager, slow support, connection and incorrect storage levels are just some of the gripes being aired since late August.
13th Oct, 2009 00:01 AM
UK ISP Be Broadband ( O2 ) has announced a new partnership offering customers unlimited online storage. Customers will get a 35% discount on Livedrive services, which enables them to share files between all of their computers, and securely access them online from anywhere.
12th Oct, 2009 13:06 PM
The Prince of Wales, writing for the Daily Telegraph, has attacked the poor quality of broadband services being delivered to rural parts of the UK where most are still "unable to access the Internet at satisfactory speeds".
12th Oct, 2009 13:01 PM
Business ISP Griffin Internet has won the 2009 Comms National Award (CNA) for 'Service Provider of the Year'. Griffin was shortlisted with four other companies (Chess, Entanet, Murphx, Vanilla IP) in a process that involved resellers volunteering written testimonials which were then compared by a panel of judges.
12th Oct, 2009 12:40 PM
The CEO of BT's Internet TV ( IPTV ) service - BT Vision, Marc Watson, has warned that it will miss its target of having 2m-3m subscribers by December 2010. The target, which was originally set by BT CEO Ian Livingston, will apparently not be reached within this timeframe and a figure of 1m is more likely (BT Vision had nearly 450k subscribers in June 2009).
12th Oct, 2009 11:38 AM
No last weekend’s football match between England and the Ukraine, which was screened as an online only event, did not cause the Internet to crash, implode, slow to a crawl or obliterate the entire human race as some reports had claimed. In fact most UK broadband ISPs reported only a marginal increase in traffic when just 500,000 of the original estimate (2.5 Million) tuned in to view (there were over 250k actual subscribers).
12th Oct, 2009 08:02 AM
The European Commission (EC) has once again repeated its call for EU countries to do more to tackle online privacy threats to the public. A new study reveals that although in recent years several countries have taken some measures to enforce Europe's ban on SPAM (junk email), including fines, the number of prosecuted cases and sanctions imposed on lawbreakers vary considerably.
12th Oct, 2009 07:10 AM
BSkyB UK ( Sky Broadband ) and Universal Music (UM) have today revealed the finalised details for Sky Songs; their forthcoming legal broadband music download service, which will launch on 19th October next week. However those hoping to find an "unlimited" subscription model option for track downloads will again be disappointed.
12th Oct, 2009 00:01 AM
In the space of less than two years Mobile Broadband services, delivered by each of the country's (UK) five main cellular mobile phone network operators ( O2 , T-Mobile , Vodafone , Three (3) and Orange ), have gone from being slow and costly business-only services to an affordable product with mass market appeal – fast wireless broadband Internet access wherever you want it.
10th Oct, 2009 07:58 AM
UK ISP Vivaciti just sent us a quick email to confirm the launch of their new look and feel website. The site is much cleaner and adds new control panel functionality to make things easier for customers as well as to take the strain off the providers support team with basic calls like forgotten username and passwords etc.
10th Oct, 2009 07:36 AM
Mobile operator Three (3) UK won the Best Mobile-Broadband Package gong at last night’s Mobile Choice Consumer Awards 2009. Elsewhere O2 came top for Best Network and Virgin Media won the category of Best Customer Service.
09th Oct, 2009 12:29 PM
Long held plans by Virgin Media UK and Universal Music to launch a DRM-free "unlimited" music download and streaming service for broadband customers could have hit yet another wall. Reports indicate that the crucially important 'unlimited downloads' tier might have been dropped, leaving only a Spotify style streaming option to carry their unlimited slogan.
09th Oct, 2009 08:07 AM
BT has officially extended its £1.5 billion programme to roll-out fibre optic based super-fast broadband services around the UK, which will now see 2.5 Million homes covered by their fastest 100Mbps Fibre to the Home ( FTTH / FTTP ) technology instead of just 1 Million. More pricing details and exchange enablement dates have also been disclosed.
09th Oct, 2009 07:37 AM
ISP Virgin Media UK has revealed that customers of its non-cable (Virgin National / Virgin.net) broadband DSL based packages could soon be given access to a new Internet TV ( IPTV ) service. This would allow the operator to offer a triple play bundle (broadband, phone and television) to those who remain outside of its stronger cable platforms reach.
09th Oct, 2009 06:46 AM
Charles Dunstone, CEO of The Carphone Warehouse ( TalkTalk ), claims that sales of Mobile Broadband services have peaked and many customers are now believed to be heading back to the sanctuary of fixed land-line broadband connections instead. Growing dissatisfaction with poor speeds and limited coverage take most of the blame, although that's hardly surprising when most operators raise expectations to almost ridiculous levels.
08th Oct, 2009 12:54 PM
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has released its annual 2009 communications technology (ICT) report. This predicts that worldwide Mobile Broadband subscriptions will top 600m by the end of the year; global mobile subscriptions as a whole are expected to reach 4.6bn.
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