News - August - 2010
18th Aug, 2010 12:33 PM
The Financial Times (FT) newspaper, which these days sits behind a subscriber-only wall, has spoken to BT Retail's UK Chief Executive, Gavin Patterson, and discovered some juicy hints about what customers can expect from future updates to its slow-growing BT Vision broadband IPTV platform. New HD content is also anticipated.
18th Aug, 2010 11:45 AM
Internet access and home phone provider TalkTalk UK has announced a new SIX MONTHS FREE BROADBAND promotion on its cheapest 24Mbps Essentials bundle, with prices returning to just £6.99 (plus £11.49 line rental) per month thereafter. We note that the free connection offer has ended and thus a one-off £29.99 cost will apply.
18th Aug, 2010 11:09 AM
Business ISP Viatel has announced that it will be taking part in BT Wholesale’s UK Real Time Quality of Service (RT QoS) over shared broadband trial. This reportedly entails trialling, with customers, a priority class of service via 21CN Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC /WBMC) networks that support Business VOIP and other time sensitive applications.
18th Aug, 2010 08:35 AM
The Managing Director (MD) of UK business ISP Fluidata, Piers Daniell, has questioned the legality and "apparent lack of education" concerning how some internet providers - BT and Virgin Media in particular - appear to misleadingly advertise "fibre optic" broadband when in fact the service itself might not actually be delivering that at all.
17th Aug, 2010 12:07 PM
It's impossible to imagine but IMS Research has claimed that by the end of August 2010 the world will be home to 5 BILLION Internet connected devices. This includes personal computers, phones, ebook readers, bank atm machines, smart fridges and iPad's; just a small selection of the devices that go online each day from various locations around the globe.
17th Aug, 2010 07:39 AM
Consumer magazine Which? has released the results from its latest broadband survey and found that some of the UK's largest ISPs, AOL UK , Orange UK and Opal Telecom, also had the least satisfied customers. All achieved an overall satisfaction score of less than 40% and were awarded just one star out of five for customer service. Both AOL and Opal are part of the TalkTalk Group.
17th Aug, 2010 07:07 AM
ISP Eclipse Internet has today warned about the impact that Yahoo's recent acquisition of the rights to stream UK Barclays Premier League Football highlights could have. The service, which offers approximately 5 minutes worth of video clips for every game played, could cause some internet users to exceed their monthly usage allowances and thus incur significant extra costs.
17th Aug, 2010 06:14 AM
Cable giant Virgin Media UK has launched the Malware Defence Campaign that, among other things, will write warning letters to broadband internet access customers whom it believes could have had their computers infected by malicious software (malware - viruses, spyware and trojans etc.).
17th Aug, 2010 00:49 AM
Mobile operator Vodafone UK has finally launched its own portable battery powered Wi-Fi Mobile Broadband USB Modem router (Vodafone Mobile Wi-Fi R201), which others prefer to call MiFi. The device will allow up to five people to simultaneously connect to the internet over the Vodafone network. Three (3) mobile offers something similar.
16th Aug, 2010 11:02 AM
A new survey of 2,000 online British adults, conducted by credit rating experts at Experian, has revealed that over half admitted to making their passwords available on the internet. It also found that three of the most frequently used passwords were town of birth (18%), name of your past school (24%) and date of birth(27%); data that most people also tend to publish on public social networking website profiles.
16th Aug, 2010 07:25 AM
Computerlinks, a distributor of IT security and Internet technology solutions, has signed a new 3 year contract worth £4.5 million with broadband Satellite ISP Avanti Communications. The deal will see Computerlinks become a major distributor for Avanti's Business Continuity products.
16th Aug, 2010 06:07 AM
A new study from Reform Scotland, an independent, non-party think tank with its funding coming from individuals, charitable trusts or companies which share its aims, has warned that the UK and Scotland could fall even further behind other countries if a more ambitious plan and investment isn't put into our national broadband ISP infrastructure.
16th Aug, 2010 00:10 AM
Broadband ISP TalkTalk UK has kindly responded to a number of the concerns we raised about its forthcoming security service. The controversial system shot into the headlines last month after several of the internet providers customers noticed that their website browsing activity was being monitored ("stalked") without consent.
14th Aug, 2010 06:22 AM
Fibrestream (NextGenUs), a community network specialist in UK Next Generation Access (NGA) internet services, has finally commenced the rollout of its privately funded and community owned "super-fast" 100Mbps fibre optic ( FTTH ) broadband network in the rural village of Ashby de la Launde (Lincolnshire).
13th Aug, 2010 14:28 PM
The UK Internet Service Providers Association ( ISPA ) has slammed the governments "complete lack of understanding" after its Minister for Communications, Culture and the Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey, scrapped an earlier pledge to review the controversial tax (here) on new fibre optic lines (Fibre Tax) and introduced new guidance instead.
13th Aug, 2010 11:11 AM
Mobile device and technology manufacturer Ericsson has found that mobile internet data services, such as those offered by O2 , Three (3) , Vodafone , Orange and T-Mobile in the UK , grew 10 times faster than voice. It also revealed that actual global mobile data network traffic had nearly tripled in the last year.
13th Aug, 2010 09:12 AM
The i3 Group ( Fibrecity ) has accused Wessex Water in the South West of England (UK) of delaying its fibre optic rollout and being "short sighted" by putting commercial demands above the benefits that an affordable "super-fast" 100Mbps broadband ISP network can bring to residents of Bournemouth.
13th Aug, 2010 07:59 AM
The Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) has confirmed that they are still investigating the controversial solicitors firm ACS:Law UK and have yet to reach a conclusion. The law firm has been accused of using bad practices for the way in which it sent threatening demands for money (settlement) to those "suspected" of using their broadband ISP connection to share (P2P) unlawful copyright files with others.
13th Aug, 2010 06:27 AM
The i3 Group has reportedly been forced to scrap Fibrecity plans for using the underground sewage system in Bournemouth to spread its "super-fast" 100Mbps Fibre-to-the-Home ( FTTH ) fibre optic broadband ISP network around the city. It's understood that Wessex Water, which is responsible for the sewers, at some point over the past few months simply decided not to go ahead with the plan on both technical and business-related grounds.
12th Aug, 2010 06:00 AM
Friends Reunited, the social networking site that helps old school friends stay in contact with each other, appears to be winning its war against UK internet providers and their strict anti-SPAM (junk email) filters. At one point ISPs were blocking one in four (27%) of the 30 million emails sent by the site in May 2010 and 5.7% were getting through but still ending up in spam folders.
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