The Managing Director of ISP Hyperoptic UK, Dana Pressman Tobak, has told ISPreview.co.uk as part of an exclusive new interview that she believes the entire country will be connected up via ultrafast fibre optic (FTTH) broadband lines "within 10-15 years".
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The music and film industry has issued a demand to UK broadband ISP BT that requests it to impose a voluntary block of The Pirate Bay (BitTorrent P2P Index) website.
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Commuters who travel on any of CrossCountry's national fleet of long distance and high-speed UK trains will soon benefit from a new onboard wireless internet access (Wi-Fi) service.
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Broadband ISP Zen Internet has chosen to support the Boomerang charity for the next year, which helps to care for disabled children in the Bury area of North West England (UK).
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Cable operator Virgin Media UK is offering new customers an additional discount of up to £60 off their broadband, phone and or TV service bundles.
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A new government report has piled additional pressure on UK mobile phone operators to stop "infighting" and instead start working together on the rollout and auction of 4G superfast Mobile Broadband services (LTE).
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National UK telecoms operator BT has finally begun blocking a notorious internet piracy website, yet doubts remain over how effective it will be.
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CityFibre Holdings UK has announced a new plan and £500m investment to rollout high capacity fibre optic broadband networks to local authorities, 50000 businesses and one million homes in the United Kingdom (UK).
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The latest anecdotal UK home broadband ISP internet speed testing statistics have discovered that Virgin Media is still the fastest provider in the country, with Eclipse Internet following as a distant 2nd. By contrast almost everybody else saw their performance decline.
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Cable operator Virgin Media has revealed that its new ultrafast 100Mbps (Megabits per second) broadband service is now within reach of 20 million people in the United Kingdom (UK).
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Telecoms operator BT has managed to connect 6 Million customers to its retail broadband internet access (ISP) service in the United Kingdom (UK) and has also seen significant growth with its new fibre optic based (FTTC) superfast broadband products.
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The government of Northern Ireland UK has awarded over GBP215,000 to help a number of isolated rural areas can faster wireless (Wi-Fi) broadband internet access by March 2012.
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A UK home phone and internet provider , PlusNet , has launched a new promotion that bundles 9 months half price broadband with free phone calls. A series of future price rises has also been revealed.
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Mobile operator Vodafone UK has announced a new trial of Open Femto technology, which could help to extend its 3G Mobile Broadband and voice services into rural towns and villages.
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Mobile operator Three (3) UK has revealed that 97% of all the traffic that now travels through their network is data (Mobile Broadband) based. In addition the operator has announced the launch of its new 'Mobile Broadband Wi-Fi Hub', which converts an existing USB Dongle (Modem) into a shared Wi-Fi Hotspot.
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Several UK based civil society groups and online privacy "experts" have issued a new open letter that calls upon the government to "reject censorship and surveillance" of the internet.
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A UK telecoms analyst has estimated that the UK will be home to almost 11 million superfast broadband ISP lines by the end of 2016, with most offering download speeds of 30Mbps or more.
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Shoppers in central London UK, especially those in the West End, look set to benefit after Nokia announced the launch of a new free Wi-Fi wireless internet service.
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Ofcom has today released new maps of Mobile Broadband (3G), Freeview (Digital Terrestrial) TV and Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) coverage in the United Kingdom (UK). The data shows that many areas still cannot receive a good 3G service.
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The EU-funded TRILOGY team behind the new Multi-Path Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP), which was completed in March 2011 and has been designed to help solve the problem of internet traffic congestion, has won a Future Internet Award for their work.
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