News - January - 2010
15th Jan, 2010 12:10 PM
The Suffolk County Council, Choose Suffolk, BT, local businesses and tourism groups have all ganged up to launch a new 'Suffolk Broadband' campaign. Unsurprisingly it seeks to promote Suffolk as a good place for building next generation broadband networks. The partnership hopes to do that by trying to secure £5m of funding from the East of England Development Agency (EEDA).
15th Jan, 2010 08:50 AM
Mobile operator O2 UK has today announced its intention to offer Home Phone (voice) services to new and existing Home Broadband customers. The new products and bundles, which will be made available from March this year, include a mix of free calls and line rental.
15th Jan, 2010 03:26 AM
The government has published an update to its E-Commerce Directive, which will protect broadband Internet Service Providers (ISP) from liability for religious or sexuality-related hate speech material that they neither create nor monitor.
14th Jan, 2010 11:42 AM
The Policy Exchange, which describes itself as an independent non-partisan centre-right educational charity, has proposed that the UK government drop its plans for a 50p +vat per month tax on all fixed phone lines. Instead it suggests funding both the rollout of next generation broadband and the pledge to make a minimum speed of 2Mbps available for everybody by using general taxation.
14th Jan, 2010 09:29 AM
Broadband provider TalkTalk UK has revealed that over one-third of the population (34%) admit to spending time working and accessing work-related emails remotely over the holiday period (Dec 24th 2009 to 1st Jan 2010); the equivalent of nearly 16m people. However the average amount of time spent online during this period was just 3 hours and 18 minutes, though one in ten did use over 10 hours.
14th Jan, 2010 08:47 AM
The latest quarterly global 'State of the Internet (Q3-2009)' report from Akamai has revealed that the UK places a lowly 26th in the world for broadband ISP download speed with a national average of just 3483Kbps (3.5Mbps); this compares with Ofcom's April 2009 estimate of 4.1Mbps. By contrast the global average increased by 13% during 2009 to reach a measly 1.7Mbps, largely because 103 countries had average connection speeds below 1Mbps.
14th Jan, 2010 08:23 AM
The Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA) have appointed Geo, a firm that builds bespoke dedicated fibre optic broadband solutions, to deploy a next generation network in the Oxford Road area of Manchester city (i.e. Manchester Corridor). The service will offer a true open access network that can be used by both residents and businesses.
14th Jan, 2010 07:54 AM
Good news if you live in the City of York, H2O Networks ( i3 Group ) has begun building a dark fibre network around the city that will offer superfast broadband speeds of up to 10Gbps. The new platform is part of an 8 year £13.7 million contract signed between the City of York Council, Pinacl Solutions and H2O.
14th Jan, 2010 07:06 AM
Mobile operator Vodafone UK has launched a new range of monthly and pay as you go (payg) Mobile Broadband prices and packages, which include some of the features that you'd normally expect to find alongside a fully fledged fixed line ISP. However, much to our disappointment, they have also scrubbed their no-expiry pre-pay usage top-ups.
13th Jan, 2010 12:25 PM
The GSM Association (GSMA) has predicted that total Mobile Broadband subscribers in key European markets will rise from about 22 million at the end of 2009 to over 43 million in 2011. The organisation has also appeared to throw its weight behind Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology for use in next generation Mobile Broadband networks.
13th Jan, 2010 11:41 AM
Broadband ADSL based customers of Virgin Media UK's non-cable division, Virgin National (Virgin.net), faced serious connection problems today after one of the operators authentication servers ran into difficulties.
13th Jan, 2010 09:48 AM
ISP Easynet Connect (BSkyB) has launched a new un-contended leased-line style Easynet Connect Fibre service for businesses within the M25 area. It offers speeds of 100Mbps backed by a 99.9% availability and guaranteed fix time through their 24/7 UK based customer support.
13th Jan, 2010 07:14 AM
The UK Home Office has missed a crucial European Commission (EC) deadline, which required a government response to several critical legal and Internet / ISP privacy concerns. These were originally raised by its inability to act against the controversial Phorm behavioural advertising system.
12th Jan, 2010 12:45 PM
Residents, businesses and politicians living in Norfolk have yet again raised angry voices after BT's latest list of 63 local telephone exchange locations (here), where its new superfast (up to 100Mbps) fibre optic based broadband services will soon become available from, failed to include any in the county.
12th Jan, 2010 11:49 AM
The European Audiovisual Social Dialogue Committee (EASDC), a pan-European group of media firms and rights holders, has called for governments across the continent (EU) to take a tougher stance against "illegal" (it’s actually a civil offence) file sharing (especially P2P) by customers of broadband Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
12th Jan, 2010 10:05 AM
ISP Be Broadband has confirmed much of what we reported last Tuesday (here) by officially unveiling their new Line Bonding service (two ADSL2+ broadband connections / lines acting as a single faster connection), which will offer download speeds of up to 40Mbps (5Mbps upload) but for a pricey sum of £50 to £55 per month (£85 setup). Ouch.
12th Jan, 2010 08:50 AM
Congestion problems at both the London Internet Exchange (LINX) and from within BT's 21CN and 20CN networks are causing speed and latency problems for customers of broadband ISPs in the UK. The situation with LINX in particular is known to have impacted a number of ISPs during Sunday and Monday after a congestion issue between Telehouse East and Telehouse North cropped up.
12th Jan, 2010 07:47 AM
Mobile operator O2 is currently offering its 3GB Mobile Broadband usage allowance package on a 24 month contract for £10 per month with a free USB Modem (Dongle) and unlimited Wi-Fi for the first 4 months (£15 thereafter).
12th Jan, 2010 07:05 AM
UK Phorm , which controversially works worked with UK broadband ISPs (e.g. BT WebWise) to monitor what websites you visit for use in targeted advertising campaigns, has lost another member of its team as non-executive Director Stefan Allesch-Taylor steps down from their Board of Directors with immediate effect.
11th Jan, 2010 07:55 AM
A New Year rarely means new announcements and that's exactly what we're seeing with today's big news - the 2nd re-announcement of that £300m 'Broadband for All' scheme since September 2008 (original news). The project will give a grant of £500 to children from 270,000 low income families (less than £16,040 per year), allowing them to select an approved computer. This will also include a free 12 month broadband Internet access subscription.
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