News - November - 2010
15th Nov, 2010 12:13 PM
A UK mobile phone operator , Three (3) , are offering new Mobile Broadband customers 3 Months Free access to thetimes.co.uk and thesundaytimes.co.uk newspaper websites, which are currently stuck behind a 'pay wall'.
15th Nov, 2010 07:42 AM
The Commission for Rural Communities (CRC) has released a new report to highlight the impact of poor mobile phone and Mobile Broadband coverage on rural communities in the UK.
15th Nov, 2010 06:27 AM
Customers of Virgin Media UK's woeful Virgin National (Virgin.net ADSL) broadband service have been told that the current lag (latency) problems being experienced by fans of World of Warcraft (a hugely popular online multiplayer game) should be resolved by the end of this month.
13th Nov, 2010 07:02 AM
BT, which is rolling out "super-fast" up to 40Mbps - 100Mbps broadband services to reach 66% of UK homes and business by 2015 (40% by 2012), has said that it could get to 90% by 2017 if only the government would hand over its entire broadband spend of £830m.
13th Nov, 2010 06:03 AM
The controversial Digital Economy Act 2010 (DEA), which threatens to identify and punish those "suspected" of unlawful ("illegal") copyright P2P File Sharing (even if they didn't commit the offence itself), suffered another blow last night when the High Court judge - Mr Justice Wyn Williams - ruled in favour of broadband ISPs BT and TalkTalk on the 'fourth ground' (proportionality) of their Judicial Review case.
13th Nov, 2010 00:10 AM
Cable giant Virgin Media UK has launched its £50 online credit offer, which will now be available on all Triple Bundles (broadband, phone and tv) until the 22nd November 2010. This is on top of the existing FREE Install and 6 Months Half Price offers.
13th Nov, 2010 00:05 AM
The UK Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) has lambasted a recent High Court decision to grant a 'Judicial Review' of the controversial Digital Economy Act on behalf of two broadband ISPs, TalkTalk and BT .
12th Nov, 2010 11:44 AM
The Welsh MP for Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Elfyn Llwyd, has retaliated after the UK coalition government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) rubbished one of the Welsh Assembly Government's (WAG) proposals for a "super-fast" broadband pilot in the country last week.
12th Nov, 2010 09:32 AM
UK ISP Be Broadband has today launched, again, its new BE Line Bonding service, which merges two 24Mbps capable broadband lines together and claims to offer a maximum download speed of up to 44Mbps (5Mbps upload).
12th Nov, 2010 08:45 AM
Google's vice-president, Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf, has launched a new UK website (6UK) to help raise awareness of the fact that existing Internet Protocol ( IPv4 ) addresses will run out next year and could lead to a slew of problems if broadband ISPs and websites fail to adapt.
12th Nov, 2010 08:18 AM
The UK community network specialist, Fibrestream (NextGenUs), has uploaded a new video today to highlight what happens when a rural village like 'Ashby de la Launde' (Lincolnshire) goes from receiving sub-1Mbps internet speeds to getting 72Mbps via a fibre optic broadband connection.
12th Nov, 2010 07:38 AM
The European Commission (EC), fresh from finding a "near consensus" on the importance of "preserving an open internet" (Net Neutrality) earlier in the week, has informed consumers that the best way to make sure that internet providers continue to treat all traffic fairly is for them to change ISP when a service or website is blocked.
12th Nov, 2010 06:24 AM
UK Online (UKO), which was snapped up as part of Sky's original Easynet acquisition in 2005, has finally bitten the bullet by announcing its intention to close on 14th January 2011. The move will not come as much of a surprise, especially after they stopped accepting new residential customers in 2009.
11th Nov, 2010 12:24 PM
BT Retail's broadband based IPTV service (BT Vision), which combines terrestrial UK Freeview TV channels with Video-on-Demand (VoD) content delivered via its ISP, will soon be able to show content directly from the full BBC iPlayer video streaming service.
11th Nov, 2010 11:55 AM
The National Audit Office (NAO) has issued a new report into Ofcom's performance and found that the UK communications regulator does many positive things but must still work to improve broadband ISP migrations and speeds.
11th Nov, 2010 07:29 AM
UK ISP O2 ( Be Broadband ) has released its latest Q3-2010 results, which saw their total fixed line broadband subscriber base climb from 650,000 in Q2 to 663,800 (+13,800) at the end of September 2010.
11th Nov, 2010 06:34 AM
Telecoms operator BT has released its latest financial results for the third quarter (Q3) of 2010, which reveals that its retail broadband ISP subscriber base managed to increase by +114,000 quarterly net additions (up from +96,000 in Q2-2010) to hit a total of 5,341,000.
11th Nov, 2010 00:02 AM
Sony has release a new update for its popular PlayStation 3 (PS3) video games console that allows UK broadband ISP users access to LOVEFiLM's movie rental streaming service.
10th Nov, 2010 13:19 PM
Broadband ISPs BT Retail and TalkTalk UK, which combined account for nearly 10 Million broadband subscribers, have been GRANTED a Judicial Review of the controversial Digital Economy Act 2010 (DEA).
10th Nov, 2010 12:59 PM
Broadband ISPs in the UK that attempt to abuse their customers personal online privacy, such as by monitoring what websites (URL's) you visit, could find it harder to introduce related systems in the future due to several newly proposed amendments to the government's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA).
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