News - September - 2010
28th Sep, 2010 00:00 AM
The UK Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) has asked opponents of the controversial Digital Economy Act 2010 (DEA) to give the new laws time to work.
27th Sep, 2010 09:53 AM
Controversial solicitors firm ACS:Law UK (Andrew Crossley), which last week had all of its dirty email communication laundry leaked across the internet (here), is now facing more problems after Privacy International (PI) announced that it would take legal action against the firms breach of sensitive personal details.
27th Sep, 2010 08:06 AM
UK ISP TalkTalk has attacked Ofcom's proposal to allow KC ( Karoo ), the incumbent telecoms operator and ISP for Hull and East Riding in Yorkshire, to bundle its services. The ISP called Ofcom's plan an "admission of defeat", with similar concerns being expressed by other providers, including Fibrestream and Nexus Telecommunications.
27th Sep, 2010 07:45 AM
The Managing Director (MD) of Be Broadband UK, Tom Williams, has announced his intention to leave the ISP for pastures new. Sadly Williams has not revealed when the event would occur or whom his successor might be.
27th Sep, 2010 06:46 AM
A new video that surfaced after the recent Rural Broadband Conference (18th September 2010) in Penrith (Cumbria), which depicts a group of local farmers digging their own super-fast 100Mb Fibre-to-the-Home ( FTTH ) fibre optic broadband ISP connection(s), has even caught the eye of the European Commission's (EC) Vice-President for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes.
27th Sep, 2010 06:29 AM
The notorious solicitors firm ACS:Law (Andrew Crossley), which makes its living by harassing UK broadband ISPs and their "suspected" copyright file sharing (p2p) customers, has been hit by a serious Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack that left masses of confidential email communications exposed to the public.
25th Sep, 2010 00:26 AM
Website host StratoGen UK has warned Internet Service Providers that the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses and slow adoption of its replacement, IPv6, is a "disaster waiting to happen".
24th Sep, 2010 11:48 AM
The Communities Partnership Executive of North Dorset (CPEND) has won £10,000 to help investigate ways of delivering faster broadband and "super-fast" fibre optic internet services to the area.
24th Sep, 2010 07:49 AM
Phone and broadband services in Winterton (Scunthorpe, UK) suffered a major outage on Monday after BT confirmed that criminals had dug up over 300 metres of its precious copper cable.
24th Sep, 2010 07:16 AM
The European Commission has attacked the high price of roaming Mobile Broadband internet data use within Europe, calling it an "exorbitant cost" and "outdated concept". The comments start a process that the EC hopes will eventually lead to cheaper data / internet roaming within the EU.
24th Sep, 2010 06:20 AM
Business ISP AAISP UK has announced that it will launch its own mobile data ( Mobile Broadband ) service in October 2010, although this is still subject to final confirmation with the carrier. The product will consist of 3G data SIM cards that allow full IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity using AAISP IP address space and routing.
24th Sep, 2010 00:04 AM
Business ISP Easynet Connect has revealed that more than 1,000 UK businesses have signed up to its SureStream broadband service, which offers symmetrical un-contended (1:1) upload and download speeds of 'up to' 8Mbps, within the first nine months of its launch.
23rd Sep, 2010 13:10 PM
Rory Stewart, the governments Conservative MP for Penrith (Cumbria), has revealed that the UK Treasury and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) are still debating how best to tackle the taxes on new Next Generation Access (NGA) fibre optic based broadband networks.
23rd Sep, 2010 11:45 AM
The NPD Group's latest PC Games Digital Downloads report has revealed that legal downloads of full computer games hit 11.2 Million during the first half of 2010, exceeding that of traditional physical retail purchases (8.2 Million) for the first time and putting added bandwidth pressure on broadband ISPs.
23rd Sep, 2010 08:55 AM
Mobile provider Three (3) has come top in the 2010 Mobile-Broadband Awards, which rated the operator as the Best Overall Provider after it supposedly excelled for speed, coverage and customer satisfaction combined with having some very low prices.
23rd Sep, 2010 07:34 AM
Several UK broadband internet providers, including PlusNet , BT , O2 ( Be Broadband ) and Sky Broadband , were in court (London) at 2:30pm on Monday as part of attempts to combat an "illegal" copyright file sharing (P2P / BitTorrent) related Norwich Pharmacal Order (NPO), which had been brought by media lawyers Gallant Macmillan on behalf of the Ministry of Sound ('Ministry of Sound Recordings Ltd v Plusnet Plc'). Surprisingly they had some success.
23rd Sep, 2010 06:29 AM
Huawei has utilised SuperMIMO tech and four phone lines bonded together to boost the maximum broadband download speed of DSL technology to a staggering 700Mbps (Megabits per second) over 400 meters (175Mbps for each line)! That's quite a jump above BT's current UK best of 40Mbps via FTTC, which uses VDSL2 tech over a single phone line.
22nd Sep, 2010 12:34 PM
UK ISP Vispa Internet has refreshed its site and become the latest provider to launch its own range of four 'up to' 40Mb fibre optic ( FTTC ) based HOME broadband packages, which cost from just £24.59 inc. VAT per month (25GB peak and "unlimited" overnight usage).
22nd Sep, 2010 11:16 AM
The controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which seeks to establish international standards on intellectual property rights (copyright) enforcement (i.e. such as on the internet or through ISPs), has come under new pressure today after the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) revealed that neither UK government MPs nor the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee had seen it.
22nd Sep, 2010 07:47 AM
Earlier this week it was revealed that the total number of worldwide broadband internet access subscriber lines had officially passed the 500 Million mark (here). However Point Topic has also produced an interesting Q2 2010 Map of World Broadband Penetration, which we've published below purely for interests sake.
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