News - July - 2010
08th Jul, 2010 10:42 AM
Business ISP Andrews & Arnold ( AAISP ) reports that BT has responded positively to the providers recent criticism of its 21CN infrastructure, when they openly claimed that the operators network "simply [could not] cope with demand at present" (here). Since last week BT has now resolved many of the issues that AAISP had.
08th Jul, 2010 10:20 AM
Residents of Iwade, a rural village in Kent (UK), can now benefit from up to 40Mbps "super-fast" FTTC fibre optic based broadband internet access thanks to a new partnership between BT and the local Parish Council. By Autumn 2010, all 1,350 premises in Iwade will have access to BT's fibre broadband service.
08th Jul, 2010 07:39 AM
David Palmer, the Senior Product Manager for Networks and Connectivity at Star, a business ISP for managed services, has hit out at the UK governments Universal Service Commitment (USC) to deliver a minimum broadband speed of 2Mbps to everybody in the country by 2012. Palmer feels that 2Mbps is, even by today’s standard, already too slow and believes that alternatives must be explored lest we lapse into an even bigger digital divide between urban and rural areas.
08th Jul, 2010 06:14 AM
Two of the country's largest internet access providers (ISP), BT Retail and TalkTalk UK, which combined account for a staggering 9.3 Million broadband subscribers, have called on the High Court to mount a Judicial Review of the controversial 2010 Digital Economy Act (DEA).
07th Jul, 2010 12:34 PM
A crucial Seacom fibre optic cable, which links UK and European broadband internet users with Africa and India, was struck by a serious fault on Monday that will take a minimum of 6-8 days to fix.
07th Jul, 2010 11:22 AM
A new customer fairness survey of 2,193 British adults aged 18+ by Brandspeak has unearthed an increase in consumer confidence with UK mobile operators and broadband ISPs. Some 80% felt that O2 was committed to the fair treatment of its customers, while Microsoft and Orange scored 77% and 73% respectively. Just 63% of Three (3) UK's customers felt that the operator was acting in their best interests.
07th Jul, 2010 05:50 AM
Unlawful copyright broadband ISP file sharers (P2P - BitTorrent etc.) in the UK and around the world, fearful of new government laws and the crackdown by Rights Holders, are shifting in their hundreds of thousands to using FREE and PAID encrypted Virtual Private Networks (VPN) to help protect their identity online (i.e. they are going underground).
06th Jul, 2010 12:08 PM
Israel-based ECI Telecom, a global provider of networking infrastructure equipment, especially GPON, GbE (Gigabit Ethernet) and other fibre optic broadband internet access solutions, has won a crucial superfast broadband ISP infrastructure building contract with BT Openreach worth £528m ($800m USD).
06th Jul, 2010 08:34 AM
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has been forced to cancel the notice for their industrial action ballot against BT after the UK telecoms operator threatened legal action over technical breaches, which could potentially have invalidated the ballot.
06th Jul, 2010 07:34 AM
The Chief Technology Officer for business ISP Timico UK, Trefor Davies, has attacked several well known failings within BT Openreach's broadband and telephone line migration system. The problems, which Davies calls "anti-competitive", can lead to higher consumer costs and delays of roughly two weeks when switching to a new provider.
06th Jul, 2010 06:47 AM
The UK government has given its strongest hint yet that it would oppose secret moves by the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) to criminalise people who are "suspected" of involvement with unlawful copyright P2P file sharing via their broadband ISP.
06th Jul, 2010 06:02 AM
Mobile Broadband operator FREEDOM4 WiFi UK, which only two weeks ago was branded "loss-making" and became the subject of an existing management buyout from parent ISP Daisy Group for a nominal amount of money, has now launched a wholesale Wi-Fi service for small and medium sized service providers today.
05th Jul, 2010 13:13 PM
Business ISP Easynet Connect has announced that all its customers with an SDSL (symmetric - same speed both ways) broadband internet connection running on its network will now be guaranteed a fully un-contended (1:1) line, at no extra cost.
05th Jul, 2010 11:26 AM
The Welsh Assembly Government has announced a new support scheme worth £2 Million for internet have-nots. The money would be made available to residents and businesses who live in parts of Wales where even basic broadband connection speeds (0.5Mbps (512Kbps)) remain unavailable; otherwise known as "not-spots".
05th Jul, 2010 07:44 AM
The coalition government's Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg (LibDem), has launched a new Your Freedom website where members of the public can put forward their own ideas for changing UK law. It's no surprise to find that one of the TOP 5 most active subjects on the website calls for an unconditional repeal of the controversial Digital Economy Act (DEA). This threatens to impose unworkable and potentially unfair restrictions upon broadband ISP's and their customers.
05th Jul, 2010 05:49 AM
Internet search engine and advertising giant, Google, has predicted that UK broadband access will continue to grow rapidly despite the saturation among existing fixed line ISPs. Instead Google's head of technology, Matt Brittin, claims that the next "big shift" will be to Mobile Broadband access on Smartphone devices. We thought that already happened.
03rd Jul, 2010 07:30 AM
Communications provider Redstone Managed Solutions UK has launched a new range of "next-generation" business broadband packages for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The service offers download speeds of up to 20Mbps and includes an unlimited usage allowance (Fair Usage Policy) with all of its packages.
03rd Jul, 2010 07:10 AM
It has not been the easiest of weeks for BT Openreach in the UK, with several installations of the operators new 40Mbps fibre optic ( FTTC ) based broadband ISP services suffering setbacks. Firstly BT contractors cut through a critical power cable in Middlewich while installing one of the new cabinets, which cut power to 400 homes and businesses for several hours.
02nd Jul, 2010 12:00 PM
Comparison site Broadband.co.uk has released its latest anecdotal monthly broadband speed testing results for June 2010. The average download speed for the largest UK ISPs has remained virtually unchanged since May 2010 at 4.957Mbps.
02nd Jul, 2010 09:21 AM
Earlier this year ISP Vtesse Networks UK, a national provider of fibre optic networking services, identified several Hertfordshire communities that they could reach with superfast broadband internet services (here). The new network has now been delivered to the leafy villages of Birch Green and Hertingfordbury.
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