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19th Dec, 2011 11:24 AM
Ofcom has today moved to make UK superfast fibre optic broadband ISP services cheaper to procure and easier to install / maintain by slashing the minimum battery back-up time from 4 hours to just 1 hour. Others might view this as simply prioritising cost over safety.
19th Dec, 2011 07:56 AM
The new Chief Executive of Sony Music UK has launched a scathing attack on broadband ISPs for building their businesses "on the back of illegal filesharing". The comments appear to show a lack of knowledge about how internet provision works in the real world.
19th Dec, 2011 05:42 AM
A team of scientists working at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have announced a new record after they were able to transfer data in opposite directions, over a Wide Area Network (WAN) circuit, at a combined rate of 186Gbps.
16th Dec, 2011 11:30 AM
The next generation of 4G superfast Mobile Broadband phones and devices could suffer from compatibility problems because many countries around the world have chosen to use different radio spectrum bands.
16th Dec, 2011 06:40 AM
Telecoms operator BT has cut the price of its superfast broadband (40Mbps) internet access and free call bundles in the UK, with prices now starting at just £7.50 a month!
16th Dec, 2011 00:05 AM
Home internet and phone provider TalkTalk UK has announced that 100% of its electricity will now be coming from renewable energy sources, such as hydroelectric dams and wind turbines.
15th Dec, 2011 12:22 PM
The UK government's Secretary of State, Jeremy Hunt, has today warned local councils that they have until the end of February 2012 to submit a draft 'Local Broadband Plan' for helping rural areas access superfast broadband and the final plan must be agreed by the end of April 2012.
15th Dec, 2011 11:18 AM
Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has become the latest UK ISP to prevent its internet access customers from being able to access the Newzbin2 piracy website, although many still doubt that such blocks are effective and the EU recently suggested that they could even be "illegal".
15th Dec, 2011 07:45 AM
Entanet, a prominent UK ISP supplier, has reported "higher-than-expected demand" from business customers for its new generation of fibre-based (FTTC) superfast broadband internet access packages.
15th Dec, 2011 07:00 AM
The latest statistics from Eurostat have revealed that the UK is in an extremely strong position within Europe, at least we are when it comes to internet access provision and our love of online shopping.
15th Dec, 2011 06:18 AM
The UK Isle of Wight looks set to benefit after a plan to invest £15 Million into bringing superfast broadband services to the islands rural areas was finally approved.
14th Dec, 2011 12:39 PM
Technology company TTP has told the Cambridge TV White Spaces Consortium this week that 'White Space' (802.22) wireless networking technology could be used to bring broadband to 600,000 premises in remote rural parts of the UK where fixed line services fail to deliver.
14th Dec, 2011 11:44 AM
Point Topic reports that the UK added 289,000 new broadband lines in Q3 2011 (up from +240,100 in Q2), which made it the "best third quarter since 2008" for growth. The firm also suggests that take up of superfast broadband ISP services should "accelerate quite significantly" in 2012.
14th Dec, 2011 06:59 AM
Ofcom's latest 2011 International Communications Market Report has revealed that the UK compares well with other countries when it comes to the availability of superfast broadband ISP services (59%), yet it suffers due to a woeful uptake of just 4%. By contrast Japan has a 40% uptake and the USA sits on 10%.
14th Dec, 2011 06:16 AM
The UK government has put out a new tender to support its £150m plan for extending Mobile Broadband and voice coverage to 99% of the population by March 2015.
13th Dec, 2011 13:02 PM
Broadcom has confirmed that it expects the first 802.11ac compatible Wi-Fi wireless networking kit, which will deliver network speeds of up to 1Gbps (Gigabits per second), to ship by the end of 2012.
13th Dec, 2011 12:17 PM
Residents in the isolated rural hamlet of St. Brides Wentlooge (Wales, UK) can now access faster broadband speeds after ISP Spectrum Internet deployed a new wireless and fixed line service into the area.
13th Dec, 2011 11:19 AM
Eurostat has revealed a massive surge in the use of Mobile Broadband connections by enterprises in Europe, which has risen from 27% in 2010 to 47% in 2011 (in the UK it rose from 36% to 52% over the same period). By contrast fixed line broadband ISP connections grew from 84% in 2010 to just 87% in 2011.
13th Dec, 2011 06:45 AM
Efforts to rollout a superfast fibre optic broadband ( FTTH ) network on the UK Channel Island of Jersey have effectively been given the green light after funding was secured via the State of Jersey.
12th Dec, 2011 11:45 AM
Europe has hired Germany's former German Federal Minister of Defence, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, to help advise on its efforts to "resist any unjustified restrictions on the Internet" through their new 'No Disconnect Strategy'. But domestic EU policy still has some related problems of its own to solve.
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