News - October - 2010
26th Oct, 2010 10:25 AM
Continental Telecom (CT), a phone and broadband operator, has been told that it could be fined up to £50,000 or face court action if, by 25th November 2010, they have failed to comply with an earlier demand to stop breaking consumer protection rules.
26th Oct, 2010 08:22 AM
O-bit Telecom, which provides a range of broadband solutions to UK internet providers via its Surfwise platform, has been recognised - along with several other ISPs - as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the UK by achieving a place in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50.
26th Oct, 2010 07:43 AM
According to the latest Arbor Networks statistics, search engine and advertising giant Google now represents an average 6.4% of all Internet traffic around the world. If Google were a broadband ISP, as of this month it would rank as the second largest carrier on the planet.
26th Oct, 2010 06:09 AM
The UK Government has revealed its National Infrastructure Plan 2010 and reaffirmed a commitment to spend £530m on "providing [the country with] the best superfast broadband in Europe by 2015". In addition it confirmed that a National Broadband Strategy (NBS) plan will also be published in December 2010, a month later than expected.
25th Oct, 2010 12:06 PM
Eclipse Internet has more than doubled the usage allowances of its business focused 40Mbps fibre optic broadband options, which are based off BT's new Fibre-to-the-Cabinet ( FTTC ) technology.
25th Oct, 2010 11:19 AM
The UK governments Prime Minster (PM), David Cameron, has stolen the thunder from cable giant Virgin Media by revealing the ISPs plan to launch their new 100Mbps superfast broadband service this week.
25th Oct, 2010 07:48 AM
Norton Internet Security left customers of UK ISP Be Broadband feeling somewhat despondent over the weekend after it restricted access to the providers entire website domain (bethere.co.uk) by incorrectly identify it as being fraudulent or containing dangerous scripts.
25th Oct, 2010 07:34 AM
An inability to define something so common place as broadband could have serious repercussions for future generations of "super-fast" Next Generation Access (NGA) services. After all, just what is "super-fast"? ISPreview.co.uk has spent the past couple of months talking to industry groups and ISPs in the hopes of finding out, here's what we uncovered.
25th Oct, 2010 06:13 AM
Southwest One, a Joint Venture (JV) partnership formed in 2007 between Somerset County Council, Taunton Deane Borough Council, Avon and Somerset Police and computer giant IBM, has announced the development of a new "super-fast" fibre optic broadband network to connect up the County's 269 schools and educational establishments.
23rd Oct, 2010 07:52 AM
The European Commission (EC) has released the results of its latest Consumer Markets Scoreboard. The study found that internet access was the third worst ranking market, receiving the most problems and highest number of consumer complaints.
23rd Oct, 2010 06:21 AM
The government has announced some new information about its recently revealed superfast broadband pilots in the Highlands and Islands (Scotland), Cumbria, North Yorkshire and the Golden Valley, Herefordshire (England). The projects were officially revealed on Wednesday as part of the Chancellor's Spending Review.
23rd Oct, 2010 01:30 AM
Internet and phone provider TalkTalk UK has warned the government not to spend part of its £530m broadband fund on helping rural areas get superfast internet access. The often outspoken ISP claimed that preventing the Digital Divide from getting worse would be the "wrong focus".
23rd Oct, 2010 00:13 AM
UK ISP TalkTalk has re-introduced their classic FREE Broadband Installation promotion, which saves new customers having to pay the £29.99 setup fee when they subscribe online.
22nd Oct, 2010 12:34 PM
A new Ofcom study has estimated that, over the past two years, up to 2 Million UK consumers have switched (migrated) away from their broadband internet or phone provider without realising that they could have claimed cash back for money paid in advance. A total of at least £10 Million has been left unclaimed.
22nd Oct, 2010 12:11 PM
Scotland's Highland Council has given a warm welcome to news that the UK governments Chancellor, George Osborne, has committed to supporting the development of a new super-fast broadband pilot in the Highlands and Islands region.
22nd Oct, 2010 09:11 AM
Media giant BSkyB ( Sky Broadband ) has released its latest set of quarterly results to 30th September 2010 and revealed that they are now home to 2,802,000 broadband ISP subscribers. That's an impressive increase of +178,000 net additions above Q2-2010's +119,000 and Q1's +101,000.
22nd Oct, 2010 07:35 AM
The Birmingham Science Park in Aston (BSPA) has been chosen as the first location for Birmingham City Council (BCC) to trial its new 'Digital Districts' 4G ( WiMAX ) based broadband wireless internet access service to visitors.
22nd Oct, 2010 06:21 AM
Cable giant Virgin Media UK has decided that the best way to promote its superfast broadband internet access is by working with an acclaimed food artist, Prudence Staite, to create the world's first billboard made entirely of.. CHEESE. The new advertising campaign also features Speedy Gonzales, a fast running cartoon character that many will remember as being "The Fastest Mouse in all Mexico".
21st Oct, 2010 11:27 AM
The UK Internet and phone provider , TalkTalk , has teamed up with Alcatel-Lucent in a 3 year deal to build, install and manage a new broadband Content Delivery Network (CDN) to support the launch of its future TV ( IPTV ) service, which will use the YouView platform (Project Canvas).
21st Oct, 2010 07:49 AM
The controversial Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP), which will see all YOUR email accesses and website visits tracked and stored for a period of 12 months, was revived in yesterdays 2010 Spending Review after the previous Labour administration put it on hold prior to the General Election.
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