News - October - 2010
21st Oct, 2010 06:45 AM
Akamai has revealed its latest State of the Internet Q2 2010 report and reported that the average UK broadband internet connection speed has increased from 3.8Mbps in Q1 (previous report) to 3.9Mbps in Q2 (Ofcom's May 2010 data recorded 5.2Mbps). The global average connection speed also grew from 1.7Mbps to 1.8Mbps over the same period, with South Korea topping the scales on 17Mbps.
20th Oct, 2010 12:57 PM
George Osborne, Chancellor of the coalition UK government, confirmed today that his Spending Review would ultimately use a total of £530m over the next four years (until 2015) to help bring faster broadband internet access to rural areas. A significant amount of that will also come from the BBC.
20th Oct, 2010 12:29 PM
Dorset business ISP C4L UK has confirmed that it plans to expand the coverage of its wireless broadband service to include new locations across the county over the coming months.
20th Oct, 2010 11:33 AM
Ofcom has opened a new review into the performance of its official Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) schemes, which are provided to consumers by Otelo and CISAS. ADR's are exist to help UK customers of broadband ISPs and or phone providers get their complaints resolved.
20th Oct, 2010 08:31 AM
Broadband internet and phone provider TalkTalk UK has teamed up with Binatone, a corded and cordless home phone developer, to launch its own range of six differently styled branded landline phone handsets. The phones, which are now on sale in Argos stores (soon to be followed by Tesco, Dixon's and Comet), cost from £17.99 to £69.99.
20th Oct, 2010 07:36 AM
Internet search engine and advertising giant Google is in hot water once again after an official investigation by Canada's Privacy Commissioner condemned the firm for "inappropriately [collecting] personal information from unsecured wireless networks" (e.g. e-mails, usernames, passwords, phone numbers and addresses). Earlier this year Google admitted to unknowingly using their StreetView cars to map peoples home Wi-Fi wireless networks in multiple countries, including the UK.
20th Oct, 2010 06:55 AM
The United Nations (UN) reports that the total number of world Internet users has doubled since 2005 and will hit 2 Billion by the end of 2010. Home users been the main driving force, pushing the figure up from 1.3bn in 2009 to 1.6bn by the end of 2010.
20th Oct, 2010 01:06 AM
Communications and networking provider Entanet has waded into last week's ruling by Ireland's High Court (here), where copyright holders tried and failed to force a local broadband ISP (UPC) into adopting a "Three Strikes" system of warning and disconnection for customers suspected of involvement with "illegal" P2P file sharing.
20th Oct, 2010 00:37 AM
Customers who pick any one of three Mobile Broadband packages from Orange UK can now have the 515m USB Modem (Dongle), which includes a high-performance antenna to optimise your connection signal, for just GBP10 instead of the usual GBP20 cost.
19th Oct, 2010 12:27 PM
The South Yorkshire focused 'Digital Region' project, which hopes to bring guaranteed fibre optic (FTTC) based broadband internet speeds of 25Mbps+ to 97 Per Cent of businesses and homes in the region, has today been joined by Barnsley Council.
19th Oct, 2010 11:55 AM
Cable giant Virgin Media UK has begun offering new 'broadband and phone' (dual play) or 'broadband, phone and television' (triple play) bundle package customers a £50 credit on their first bill. This is also on top of the existing FREE Installation promotion, which already saves at least £40.
19th Oct, 2010 07:50 AM
Business ISP Star UK, a provider of on-demand computing and communication services to businesses, has conducted some analysis of what we can expect to see from average download and upload speeds on new fibre optic broadband connections. Apparently 21Mbps (Megabits per second) will be about average for downloading and 9Mbps for uploads.
19th Oct, 2010 06:37 AM
Ofcom UK has officially dropped Sky Broadband and Virgin Media UK's competition complaints against YouView (Project Canvas) and confirmed that it will not open an investigation under the Competition Act due to a lack of evidence.
19th Oct, 2010 00:12 AM
UK operator BT has begun a new autumn promotion that offers its budget 'Broadband and Evening & Weekend Calls' bundle FREE FOR 3 MONTHS, after which the price will return to £13.99 per month.
18th Oct, 2010 12:43 PM
The commercial UK deployment of 100Mbps (Megabits per second) Fibre-to-the-Premises ( FTTH / P ) based fibre optic broadband services from BT hasn't even started and today the telecoms operator has announced a new 110Mbps service.
18th Oct, 2010 12:08 PM
It's officially the first day of UK Get Online Week, which represents a national campaign that aims to encourage at least some of the estimated 10 million Britons who have never used the internet to give it a try.
18th Oct, 2010 07:34 AM
Cisco Systems third study of world fixed-line and Mobile Broadband Internet leadership, which is based on research conducted by the Saïd Business School at Oxford University, has placed the UK in 18th position and outside of those countries deemed to be prepared for the internet "applications of tomorrow".
18th Oct, 2010 07:14 AM
Satellite ISP Avanti has revealed that the first of its new generation broadband satellites, HYLAS 1, which will offer download speeds of up to 8Mbps to everybody in the country from around £25 per month, will officially launch in to Earth orbit (space) on 25th November 2010.
18th Oct, 2010 07:10 AM
The UK Goverments Chancellor, George Osborne, confirmed on Sunday that the 20th October's spending cuts announcement will not affect its commitment to bring a minimum broadband speed of 2Mbps (Megabits per second) to every household in the country by 2015.
18th Oct, 2010 00:31 AM
UK ISP Vaioni has slashed the price of its fully symmetrical, un-contended, 10Mb Ethernet leased line service to just £250 +vat per a month.
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