News - February - 2010
10th Feb, 2010 12:21 PM
Broadband provider PlusNet has lit almost a full 622Mbps central pipe for customers still on its 'up to' 8Mbps ADSLMAX based BT 20CN network. The move means that those who are not yet with PlusNet's faster 'up to' 24Mbps ADSL2+ based BT 21CN network should benefit from more capacity and thus improved performance.
10th Feb, 2010 11:54 AM
It's reported that over 300 Orange UK subscribers have had their personal email addresses exposed after the operator sent a mass customer survey message via the CC field. Obviously they should have used the BCC field, which encrypts addresses, but failed to do that.
10th Feb, 2010 00:31 AM
The Conservative MP for Maidenhead and Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Shadow Minister for Women, Theresa May, has blasted BT for excluding Twyford residents in its trial of 'up to' 2Mbps Broadband Enabling Technology (BET). BET was re-introduced last September 2009 (here) and improves rural broadband coverage because it can reach distances approaching 12km on a fixed phone line.
09th Feb, 2010 11:51 AM
Popular Internet access provider Be Broadband ( O2 ) has for the first time hinted that it might build its own fibre optic broadband network. The move comes as a direct response to yesterdays report, which confirmed that BT was seeking to open up its fibre ducts for use by rival providers (here).
09th Feb, 2010 08:36 AM
BT has reached its goal of building a million-strong Wi-Fi Hotspot network, making it the largest network of its kind in the UK and Ireland. BT Wi-Fi users are also on track to spend more than a billion minutes online this year, thanks in no small part to the growth of iPhone users.
09th Feb, 2010 08:15 AM
Hull based ISP Karoo (KCOM, Kingston Communications), which predominantly covers the region of East Yorkshire, has announced a big revamp of its existing broadband packages and the introduction of several new ones from Monday 22nd February. Customers can expect to receive a significant boost to their usage allowances without any price hikes.
09th Feb, 2010 07:52 AM
The Digital Dale project, a partnership of local businesses, residents and government agencies, has selected Networks by Wireless to build a superfast 20Mbps WiMAX wireless broadband network for Teesdale by late 2011. Currently only 12.3% of people in the district have broadband; the lowest take-up rate in the whole country.
09th Feb, 2010 07:23 AM
Comparison site Broadband Genie has revealed the results of its latest survey into UK Mobile Broadband speeds. It used data from 6,000 speedtests carried out during 2009 to conclude that the average speed is just over 1Mbps. Real performance increased by a meagre +0.2Mbps during last year, despite many advertised USB Modem (Dongle) speeds being ramped 'up to' 7.2Mbps.
08th Feb, 2010 08:58 AM
It's reported that BT and Ofcom are in discussions that could result in rival ISPs being given access to the UK operator’s fibre optic broadband ducts (underground tubes where fibre optic cable can be run). This would allow BT's competitors to deploy their own fibre optic cable infrastructure without having to dig up any roads, assuming that the costs and regulations were fair.
08th Feb, 2010 07:07 AM
BT Wholesale has confirmed that its 21st Century Network (21CN) based Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC) product, which can deliver download speeds of up to 24Mbps via ADSL2+ technology, is now available from over 730 exchanges around the UK. 24Mbps products are thus available to half of the country's homes and businesses.
08th Feb, 2010 01:26 AM
BT Openreach, which is responsible for ensuring that all rival operators have equality of access to BT's local network, has apologised after one of its engineers mistakenly refused to install a new 'up to' 40Mbps FTTC fibre optic broadband connection because the customer wasn't a BT Retail or TalkTalk user and didn't have a HomeHub router.
07th Feb, 2010 07:58 AM
Online security firm Websense has revealed the findings from its latest bi-annual research report, which looked at the state of Internet security for the last half of 2009. It found that 71% of websites with malicious code are legitimate sites that have been compromised and 85.8% of all emails were spam (junk).
06th Feb, 2010 08:37 AM
The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), which is appointed by the House of Lords and the House of Commons to consider matters relating to human rights in the United Kingdom, has expressed serious concern over the governments Digital Economy Bill and its proposal to disconnect broadband ISP customers from the Internet.
05th Feb, 2010 11:31 AM
The British Hospitality Association (BHA), which has been representing the hotel, restaurant and catering industry for 100 years, warns that the Digital Economy Bill "will have serious consequences" for UK hotels offering broadband Internet access to their customers.
05th Feb, 2010 09:49 AM
Matt Roburgh, a Security Expert working for broadband ISP TalkTalk UK, has exposed the dangers of weak wireless (Wi-Fi) network security to Channel 4 News (TV). As you'd expect from TalkTalk the interview is focused on how Wi-Fi hacking can lead to network owners being unfairly "suspected" of illegal file sharing (P2P) downloads.
05th Feb, 2010 08:56 AM
UK Avanti Communications has revealed that its next generation broadband Satellite - HYLAS 1 - is now undergoing final testing in Bangalore prior to being shipped on to its launch site in French Guyana. Testing is on target to be completed in Q2 2010 and will be followed by the launch.
05th Feb, 2010 07:12 AM
Project Canvas, an open standard that aims to deliver UK broadband TV services directly into homes via ISPs and special IPTV set-top-boxes, now faces a new set of problems after the Digital TV Group (DTG) suddenly expressed "widespread concern" at the last moment.
04th Feb, 2010 13:32 PM
The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has warned that a proposed merger between two of the country's largest Mobile Broadband operators, T-Mobile and Orange UK, "threatens significantly to affect competition in mobile telecommunications." Rivals Three (3) , O2 and Vodafone have all called for an investigation.
04th Feb, 2010 12:55 PM
The UK Home Office, which last month missed a crucial European Commission (EC) deadline that required responses to several legal Internet and ISP privacy policy concerns, has finally written back to the EC. The government had originally been asked to respond by the end of December 2009 or face the prospect of further action.
04th Feb, 2010 11:53 AM
A group of 34 movie production companies, including Universal Pictures, Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox, have lost their court case of Copyright Infringement against Australian ISP iiNet. The provider was accused of being directly responsible for the actions of its customers, some of which were abusing BitTorrent (P2P) file sharing services to download illegal films.
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