News - April - 2010
26th Apr, 2010 07:32 AM
Thousands of BT based telephone and broadband lines in Kent have been cut-off after criminals cut and stole six crucial copper cables on Wednesday last week. It is the second time that such a theft has occurred in the area, a similar incident took place during September last year.
26th Apr, 2010 02:01 AM
Broadband ISP Andrews and Arnold ( AAISP ) has discovered a potential loophole in the controversial Digital Economy Act 2010 (DEA) that could actually encourage consumers to setup an open / public Wi-Fi (wireless) internet hotspot; as opposed to discouraging it as many people fear.
26th Apr, 2010 01:01 AM
Broadband supplier Entanet UK, which delivers services to several vISPs around the country, has announced its active involvement in trials of both the BT fibre optic 100Mbps Fibre-to-the-Premises ( FTTP ) and existing copper line ADSL2+ Annex M (faster 2.5Mbps upload speed) based internet access services.
26th Apr, 2010 00:02 AM
Skype, a popular internet voice service, has retaliated over calls by some "very large telecom companies" to charge bandwidth-intensive services for the privilege of running data over their Mobile Broadband networks. The move, which goes against net neutrality, could result in other sites and services like Spotify, YouTube or possibly even Facebook falling into the same trap.
25th Apr, 2010 00:33 AM
Sunday guest letter written by ISP Easynet ( Easynet Connect ) UK. Doing business in the 21st century will be about much more than location, location, location, argues Adrian Thirkill, global customer operations director for Easynet Global Services.
24th Apr, 2010 07:10 AM
Alexander Lehmann has created an incredibly clever and subtly comical video that seeks to illustrate the dangers of new European wide internet filtering / website blocking plans, which are currently being proposed by EU Commissionar Cecilia Malmström.
24th Apr, 2010 00:15 AM
Internet Search Engine and advertising giant Google is in hot water, again, this time for using their Street View cars to map peoples home Wi-Fi wireless networks. The controversial practice was discovered by Germany's "horrified" Federal Data Protection Commissioner, Peter Schaar.
24th Apr, 2010 00:00 AM
BSkyB ( Sky Broadband , Sky TV ) has revealed a significant shifted in their line-up of broadband ISP services that will see all unbundled ( LLU ) packages given up to 20Mbps download speeds, the removal of their 10Mbps Everyday option and a price cut on the popular Unlimited package to £7.50 per month.
23rd Apr, 2010 12:46 PM
The 2010 uSwitch broadband customer satisfaction report has rated O2 the overall winner after it came top in 10 out of 11 categories, with 92% of its customers being satisfied! Rival broadband ISPs PlusNet and Sky Broadband were runners-up in 2nd (87%) and 3rd (86%) place respectively.
23rd Apr, 2010 11:17 AM
Internet access and home phone provider TalkTalk has now combined its existing FREE Installation (saves £29.99) promotion with a new 3 MONTHS FREE broadband (saves £20.97, usually £6.99 per month) offer on its popular Essentials package; line rental will still be charged at £11.49 per month.
23rd Apr, 2010 09:46 AM
Broadcaster and ISP BSkyB UK ( Sky Broadband ) has launched a new promotion offering 6 MONTHS FREE on their 'up to' 20Mbps Unlimited Broadband package (saving £60) for new customers joining Sky TV and taking Sky Talk Line Rental (£11 per month) and Calls (either Sky Talk Freetime (£0) or Sky Talk Unlimited (£5)).
23rd Apr, 2010 07:03 AM
The European Internet Service Providers Association (EuroISPA), which represents over 1700 EU ISPs including the UK ISPA, has warned that the recently published Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) would introduce measures that will leave ISPs with "no alternative other than to monitor the internet traffic of consumers" for unlawful copyright file sharing.
23rd Apr, 2010 06:16 AM
Cable giant Virgin Media UK has announced the deployment of TOA Technologies' Software-as-a Service (SaaS) mobile workforce management solution to over 1000 field engineers responsible for home repairs. The new system will offer better visibility and more accurate scheduling, thus hopefully cutting down the time it takes for engineers to arrive and fix any problems.
22nd Apr, 2010 11:42 AM
Broadband ISP Fast.co.uk has joined BT (Infinity), AAISP and Eclipse Internet in becoming the latest provider to offer its own range of Fibre-to-the-Cabinet ( FTTC ) based up to 40Mbps fibre optic broadband packages from £21.99 per month.
22nd Apr, 2010 11:30 AM
Mobile operator T-Mobile has come top in a test of roaming UK Mobile Broadband performance and also managed to achieve an average download speed of 1.9Mbps. The Broadband Genie 2010 Road Trip saw USB Modems (Dongles) from six mobile providers ( O2 , Orange , Three (3) , T-Mobile , Virgin Media and Vodafone UK) taken out of their safety zone and simultaneously tested throughout a two-day 350 mile rail trip.
22nd Apr, 2010 07:50 AM
A somewhat unique new Mobile Broadband (3G) provider - Tibboh - has launched today that aims to protect your family with cinema style ratings for the internet developed with the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). The package itself costs £19.99 per month and comes with a 10GB data usage allowance.
22nd Apr, 2010 07:14 AM
Alcatel-Lucent's research arm, Bell Labs, has achieved a broadband DSL download speed of 300Mbps at distances of up to 400 meters (or 100Mbps at 1km) over existing copper line infrastructure. Most of BT's telephone and broadband ISP network in the UK is still copper line based, where at present the best speeds available only go up to 40Mbps ( FTTC / VDSL2 ).
22nd Apr, 2010 06:07 AM
The Smith Media Group has today announced a 24Mbps BT based business broadband package that includes a 100GB usage allowance coupled with a FREE domain and FREE hosting (100MB webspace) for £29.99 per month. Smith Media added that they will assist any small business in creating a website if required when the package has been ordered.
22nd Apr, 2010 00:00 AM
Akamai has released its latest global 'State of the Internet (Q4-2009)' report to the fourth quarter of last year. It reveals that the UK continues to do poorly in the global league table of fixed line broadband ISP download speeds with a national average of just 3706Kbps (3.7Mbps). At least that's an increase from 3.5Mbps in Q3-2009 and puts us just a few places below the USA.
21st Apr, 2010 11:38 AM
After two years of campaigning the European Commission (EC) has finally released a draft of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The treaty seeks to establish international standards on intellectual property rights enforcement, which would also make it easier to tackle those suspected of unlawfully downloading copyright files through their broadband internet service providers (ISP).
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