News - November - 2010
19th Nov, 2010 07:22 AM
Broadband ISP Eclipse Internet UK has submitted a list of 5 telephone exchanges that have been nominated by its customers for a fast-tracked 40-110Mbps "fibre optic based" broadband upgrade. This is an almost identical survey to the one being carried out by BT Retail (Race to Infinity), which is due to end in December.
19th Nov, 2010 06:57 AM
The Labour MP for West Bromwich East, Tom Watson, has submitted an Early Day Motion (EDM) that seeks to force the UK government into reversing its course of support for a two tier internet that would shun Net Neutrality (principal of treating all internet traffic as equal).
18th Nov, 2010 12:30 PM
The BBC has announced its intention to warn any users of its popular iPlayer broadband TV video streaming system when their ISP is restricting traffic and degrading the service.
18th Nov, 2010 12:01 PM
Customers of Sky's ( Sky Broadband ) UK satellite TV service can now benefit from a huge reduction in the ISPs phone line (line rental) installation charge, which has been cut from £39 to just £10 until 22nd December 2010.
18th Nov, 2010 07:51 AM
Cable broadband ISP Virgin Media UK has today launched a new campaign against rival DSL providers, specifically those that continue to advertise misleading internet service speeds.
18th Nov, 2010 06:15 AM
Award winning broadband ISP PlusNet UK has announced plans to move all of its Customer Support Centre operations back from South Africa to their hometown of Sheffield in England (UK).
17th Nov, 2010 12:27 PM
The UK Minister for Communications, Ed Vaizey, has supported proposals by Ofcom and Europe that would shun Net Neutrality (principal of treating all internet traffic as equal) and allow big broadband ISPs the power to favour some online content over others.
17th Nov, 2010 12:22 PM
Customers on the Easynet broadband platform, which appears to have included at least some Sky Broadband UK (BSkyB) users (albeit only for a few minutes), suffered a serious nationwide outage earlier this morning.
17th Nov, 2010 10:22 AM
A study conducted by the new wholesale division of UK ISP Be Broadband (BE Wholesale) has found that two thirds of businesses believe poor internet connectivity is stifling new working practices. Existing broadband speeds, which are often far too slow, were also found to be impeding growth of the UK economy.
17th Nov, 2010 08:33 AM
Satellite operator Avanti Communications UK has announced that the first of its next generation broadband satellites (HYLAS 1) has been fully fuelled and will be integrated with the Ariane 5 rocket tomorrow ahead of its Friday 26th November 2010 launch.
17th Nov, 2010 08:00 AM
The UK government has finally set a date for when it will meet with ISPs to discuss the Valuation Office Agency's (VOA) controversial fibre optic broadband tax (Fibre Tax). This taxes the rateable value of the infrastructure and unfairly charges smaller providers significantly more than larger ones (BT).
17th Nov, 2010 06:34 AM
Ofcom has given an interesting speech to the FT World Telecoms Conference, where it confirmed that the UK process of releasing super-fast (100Mbps+) LTE friendly next generation (4G) Mobile Broadband spectrum (800MHz and 2.6GHz) would not complete until "the end of 2013" (2014 for the first services).
17th Nov, 2010 01:03 AM
Internet security firm Symantec reports that SPAM accounted for 86.61% of all email messages in October 2010, compared with 89.40% in September 2010.
17th Nov, 2010 00:00 AM
A new study has warned that the UK could have to wait until 2015 before mobile operators start upgrading their Mobile Broadband networks with faster LTE technologies because, according to the latest research from Informa Telecoms & Media (ITM), it wouldn't be economically viable for them to do it sooner.
16th Nov, 2010 13:30 PM
The UK village of Farningham (Kent) has come top in a new study of the country's slowest locations for broadband internet access, where average download speeds hover at around just 1.30Mbps (Megabits Per Second).
16th Nov, 2010 12:53 PM
BT has issued an update on its nationwide 'Race to Infinity' survey, which seeks to gauge how much demand exists for its "super-fast" broadband services. The telephone exchange areas that receive the most responses (must be over 1000 votes) will benefit from a super-fast service upgrade by 2012.
16th Nov, 2010 11:58 AM
Internet and phone provider TalkTalk ( AOL UK , Tiscali , Opal ) has revealed its half year (H1-2010) results to 30th September 2010, which saw their broadband ISP subscriber base grow from 4,231,000 in Q1-2010 to 4,249,000 (+18,000) in Q2. This represents yet another significant reduction in growth for TalkTalk, which added +42,000 in Q4-2009 and +34,000 in Q1-2010.
16th Nov, 2010 09:10 AM
The Northern Ireland (Belfast) based UK ISP UTV Internet has launched a new range of "Fibre Optic Broadband" and phone bundle packages, which offers internet download speeds of up to 40Mbps using Fibre-to-the-Cabinet technology.
16th Nov, 2010 08:10 AM
It's been announced that a final version of 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 broadband ISPs), will be published shortly has today been published.
16th Nov, 2010 07:23 AM
The European Parliament has warned that plans to force EU broadband ISPs into blocking or deleting websites that contain child abuse content, much like the Internet Watch Foundation ( IWF ) already does in the UK, may not be effective.
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