News - August - 2010
24th Aug, 2010 11:41 AM
The Project Canvas joint venture, which is developing an "open standard" for putting UK broadband television services directly into homes via ISPs and IPTV set-top-boxes (STB), has regained the support of Channel Five.
24th Aug, 2010 08:01 AM
The UK Broadband Group (UKBG), which operates a little known fixed wireless ISP called 'NOW Wireless' and also supplies B2B services over its array of licenses for the wireless spectrum, has said that WiMAX is not dead. Indeed it claims that the tech might soon be used to help the government achieve its 2015 target to bring a minimum broadband speed of at least 2Mbps to everybody in the country.
24th Aug, 2010 07:48 AM
According to new reports the BSkyB owned ISP UK Online, which came included as part of Sky's original Easynet acquisition in 2005, is facing closure with customers potentially being merged into the customer base of Sky Broadband .
24th Aug, 2010 06:55 AM
The boss (Guy Jarvis) of a community network specialist for Next Generation Access (NGA) services, Fibrestream UK (NextGenUs), has warned that confusion over how "super-fast" NGA broadband services are defined has reached ridiculous levels after Devon County Council decided to define "NGA compliant" as just 5Mbps (Megabits per second)! That's actually slower than Ofcom's recently reported existing national average of 5.2Mbps (here).
24th Aug, 2010 06:05 AM
The UK Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) has officially referred the controversial solicitors firm ACS:Law (Andrew Crossley) to a disciplinary tribunal after it sent "bullying" letters to those accused of having abused their broadband ISP connection for "illegal" copyright file sharing (p2p) activity.
23rd Aug, 2010 13:37 PM
Market regulator Ofcom has launched a new consultation on proposals to set the 2.6GHz band (radio spectrum 2500-2690MHz) aside for use by wireless camera applications during the London 2012 Olympic Games (between 27th July and 9th September 2012), as opposed to using it for future Mobile Broadband services, such as WiMAX and Long Term Evolution ( LTE ) technologies.
23rd Aug, 2010 11:47 AM
BT Retail has today given rival UK ISPs cause for concern after the operator launched a cut price broadband and phone bundle based off its new "super-fast" (up to 40Mbps download and 2Mbps upload speed) fibre optic ( FTTC ) internet service, better known as BT Infinity. The deal gives new subscribers a reduced price of just £7.49 per month for the first 3 months (£17.99 a month thereafter, plus £25 activation fee and line rental from £9.49).
23rd Aug, 2010 10:14 AM
Broadband ISP TalkTalk UK has issued a new update today that offers more detail on how its controversial future security system, which follows customers around the internet and makes an anonymous record of the website addresses (URLs) they visit, will work. Sadly TalkTalk still does not appear to recognise that URL addresses themselves can also hold private personal data, many of which would not ordinarily be visible to the public or search engines like Google.
23rd Aug, 2010 00:50 AM
The manager of popular music band U2, Paul McGuinness, has slammed broadband ISPs in the UK and around the world for "decimating the music industry" by profiting off the availability of FREE unlawful copyright file sharing (P2P) downloads. Some of the remarks almost mirror those made by U2's front man, Bono, last year (here) and show an equal lack of technical understanding.
21st Aug, 2010 00:00 AM
Home and business ISP Demon Internet UK (THUS Group, Cable and Wireless) has announced the introduction of its new multiplayer online gaming product, Demon Game Pro. The package, which offers broadband download speeds of up to 20Mbps (1Mbps uploads), aims to deliver lower network latency, improved ping times and internet traffic prioritization.
20th Aug, 2010 11:27 AM
Market regulator Ofcom has today opened a short re-consultation on the UK market definition element of its Wholesale Broadband Access (WBA) review. The move could potentially have repercussions for the price that broadband ISP customers pay for their service, depending on where you live in the country.
20th Aug, 2010 07:31 AM
Arqiva's largely free UK broadband internet TV and video-on-demand website, SeeSaw, has signed a major new multi-year licensing agreement with NBC Universal that will bring popular USA programmes (e.g. "Heroes", "House", "Battlestar Galactica", "The Office" and "30 Rock") to the service. Existing partners include the BBC, Channel 4, Channel FIVE, MTV and Disney.
20th Aug, 2010 06:42 AM
Customers of Orange UK's Mobile Broadband services have reportedly been suffering from serious connectivity problems since the middle of this week, with many being forced to fall back from 3G connections to use the older and significantly slower 2G GPRS data/internet access instead. In some cases even that hasn't worked.
20th Aug, 2010 06:07 AM
Mobile Broadband operator FREEDOM4 WiFi UK, which was called "loss-making" during June and shortly thereafter became the subject of an existing management buyout from parent ISP The Daisy Group for a nominal amount of money, has today rebranded itself under the new name of Thrive Telecom (www.thrivetele.com).
19th Aug, 2010 10:04 AM
ISP Vtesse Broadband (Vtesse Networks), which specialises in delivering "super-fast" internet connections into otherwise niche rural UK communities, has now made its broadband service available to all residents of two Cornish communities - Hatt and Higher Pill.
19th Aug, 2010 09:43 AM
Business ISP C4L UK has used its recently launched broadband Wireless Leased Line service to provide attendees and organisers of this year's Bournemouth air show (The Bournemouth Air Festival) with FREE Internet access, from the beach, using a symmetric (same speed upload and download) 40Mbps connection.
19th Aug, 2010 09:16 AM
Mobile operator Orange UK (Everything Everywhere) has today joined rivals O2 and Three (3) in becoming the latest provider to drop promotions of "unlimited" Mobile Broadband data allowances, albeit only for its Apple iPhone 4 tariffs.
19th Aug, 2010 08:14 AM
MessageLabs (Symantec Hosted Services), a well known internet security firm, has taken flak after customers of the BT Business broadband ISP service found that they were unable to send emails between Monday and Tuesday because a crucial server IP address had been blacklisted due to SPAM (junk email). A post on BT's Customer Forum by one of the operators moderators has since revealed more information.
19th Aug, 2010 06:20 AM
Ofcom has just released its fifth annual Communications Market Report 2010, a mammoth research document providing insight into the trends of the UK's TV, radio, telecoms, internet industries and their users. It reveals that total UK broadband take-up has now reached 71% (68% in 2009), with 2% of households still using narrowband dialup to go online.
19th Aug, 2010 00:01 AM
Computing magazine PC Pro has announced the finalists for its 2010 'Reliability and Service Awards', which shortlist Be Broadband , Eclipse Internet , Freedom2surf , O2 , PlusNet , Post Office Broadband , Sky Broadband , Virgin Media and Zen Internet for 'Best Broadband ISP'.
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