News - August - 2010
11th Aug, 2010 15:50 PM
Concern is mounting tonight after it was revealed that the UK governments Minister for Communications, Culture and the Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey, had scrapped promised plans to review the notoriously unfair tax on fibre optic broadband lines (i.e. the Fibre Tax).
11th Aug, 2010 13:37 PM
BT Wholesale has confirmed a further 199 exchanges that will be upgraded to deliver its 21st Century Network ( 21CN ) based Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC) service to reach more than 18 million UK homes and businesses by Spring 2011.
11th Aug, 2010 13:13 PM
The title of this news might conjure up an image of a burly character running, in slow motion, from a huge explosion triggered by a wireless network but the reality is sadly somewhat more mundane. New figures from BT Openzone, BT's wireless Hotspot ISP, have recorded a rise in "glamping" (glamorous camping :laugh:) that is being driven by an explosion in Wi-Fi usage at UK holiday and leisure parks.
11th Aug, 2010 12:56 PM
A cross-country comparison of mobile data pricing by ABI Research has revealed that the United Kingdom (UK), France and Indonesia have some the lowest prices for Mobile Broadband packages in the world. It also found that mobile operators in developed markets like ours were still struggling to cope with the growing data demands being placed upon their networks.
11th Aug, 2010 11:58 AM
The UK Governments Minister for Communication, Culture and the Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey, has officially switched on a new "super-fast" Vtesse Broadband internet service in the leafy rural village of Birch Green (Hertfordshire). Residents and businesses can now benefit from broadband ( FTTC ) ISP speeds of up to 40Mbps (Megabits per second).
11th Aug, 2010 07:29 AM
The boss of internet search and advertising giant Google, Eric Schmidt, has told the Techonomy Conference in Lake Tahoe on the border between California and Nevada (states) in the USA that "in a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you".
11th Aug, 2010 06:19 AM
The previous governments £300m UK Home Access scheme has now officially been canned. The Assistive Technology service sought to issue grants worth approximately £500 to state educated children from 270,000 low income families (earning less than £16,040 per year), which could then be used to select an "approved" computer that included a FREE 12 month broadband Internet access (ISP) subscription.
10th Aug, 2010 12:53 PM
The latest data from Hitwise (Experian) has revealed which websites UK broadband ISP customers tend to frequent the most. Google's internet search engine still dominates the pack for "Visited Websites" with a 9.59% market share in July, although Facebook comes top for "Page Views" (i.e. amount of pages viewed/activity on the site).
10th Aug, 2010 11:22 AM
Broadband and phone provider TalkTalk UK is facing fresh criticism today after revealing that its monthly line rental fee will change from £11.49 to £12.04 (+55pence) per month from 1st October 2010. The move is controversial because, according to TalkTalk's own figures, such a rise could cause "over 100,000 mostly low income homes" to give up their broadband lines.
10th Aug, 2010 06:11 AM
The incumbent telecoms operator and ISP for Hull and East Riding in Yorkshire, KC ( Karoo ), has yet again criticised the country's broadband infrastructure after new data from Akamai (here) revealed that the average UK internet download speed during Q1-2010 was just 3.8Mbps. KC claims that rival ISPs are also to blame for "not making adequate investments in their networks".
09th Aug, 2010 05:57 AM
The results from 511 respondents (polled in July 2010) to our latest monthly survey have revealed that UK broadband customers are growing more knowledgeable about their ISP speeds. Some 90.8% claimed to know the "advertised" rate of their internet connection and 86.4% even knew the real-world (speedtest estimate) performance too; but what they receive does not make them happy.
09th Aug, 2010 00:17 AM
Inmarsat, a UK Satellite broadband ISP and communications operator, has announced the signing of a major new contract with Boeing for the delivery of three state-of-the-art Ka-Band (702HP) satellites. The new additions are capable of offering live television and "super-fast" internet download speeds of up to 50Mbps (Megabits per second) to both ships at sea and airliners.
07th Aug, 2010 06:21 AM
The first consultation covering Ofcom's Initial Draft Code of Practice for tackling internet copyright infringement / unlawful file sharing (p2p) by UK broadband ISP customers (original news), a requirement of the Digital Economy Act 2010 (DEA), finished on 30th July. Since then Ofcom has slowly been publishing its mass of responses and we've linked a small selection of the most interesting ones below.
06th Aug, 2010 12:29 PM
ISP Orange UK (Everything Everywhere) has introduced a new promotion that gives customers the chance to take their fixed line / up to 20Mbps ("unlimited" usage - FUP) Home Max broadband service free for the first 3 MONTHS. The package also bundles line rental with free evening and weekend UK calls for an extra £10.50 per month.
06th Aug, 2010 12:02 PM
Mobile operator and ISP O2 UK ( Be Broadband ) has released its latest second quarter results to the end of June 2010, which saw their total fixed line broadband subscriber base climb from 632,400 in Q1-2010 to reach the milestone of 700,000 at the end of Q2 (+42.3% year-on-year growth).
06th Aug, 2010 06:29 AM
The Managing Director of business ISP Fluidata, Piers Daniell, has criticised this week's launch of Annex M ADSL2+ technology by BT (Annex M offers faster broadband upload speeds by trading off some downstream performance) for being both late and delivering a service that fails to work properly with Cisco hardware.
05th Aug, 2010 12:00 PM
Popular ISP Be Broadband UK has today revealed the first proper package and pricing details for their forthcoming home phone (line rental and voice calls) service - BE Landline, which will launch this September 2010.
05th Aug, 2010 09:38 AM
The incumbent telecoms operator and broadband ISP for Hull and East Riding in Yorkshire (UK), KC ( Karoo ), could soon benefit after Ofcom today proposed to remove restrictions on service bundling. In theory the move could result in residents and businesses of Hull being able to benefit from cheaper broadband and phone bundles.
05th Aug, 2010 07:56 AM
One of the markets more reliable ISPs, Zen Internet UK, has today expanded its range of internet service options with the launch of a new phone calls and line rental product - Home Talk and Business Talk. Home broadband customers can now add basic telephone line rental, on one bill, to their package from £10.99 inc. VAT per month.
05th Aug, 2010 07:34 AM
Mobile operator Three (3) has deployed a new Mobile Broadband Bus as part of its Race Online 2012 commitment to help get more than 100,000 people in the UK online. The Race Online 2012 project hopes to get "100% of the UK population online by the time of the London Olympics [2012]", which could be rather hard to achieve.
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