News - December - 2010
07th Dec, 2010 11:31 AM
Sky ( Sky Broadband ) is to close its legal music downloading service, Sky Songs, due to a lack of customer interest. The product had originally been designed to help dissuade Sky's ISP customers from becoming involved in alternative "illegal" (unlawful) copyright file sharing (P2P) activity.
07th Dec, 2010 09:30 AM
The government recently its aim to deliver a Digital Hub for superfast broadband to almost every community in the country, but just what do they mean by that? ISPreview.co.uk investigated.
07th Dec, 2010 07:12 AM
The UK government's new plan to bring faster broadband internet access to almost every community in the country by 2015 has been well received by the majority of ISPs, albeit not without some extremely harsh criticism of its approach to fibre optic line taxation.
07th Dec, 2010 01:27 AM
New figures from KC show that UK internet traffic levels soared by 40% over the last week as employees stranded at home by the snowy weather conditions embraced remote working.
07th Dec, 2010 00:02 AM
Broadband ISP PlusNet UK has slipped a number of costly service withdrawals and price discount adjustments under the guise of their VAT tax rise announcement.
06th Dec, 2010 11:56 AM
The OECD has updated has its broadband statistics with data covering the period to June 2010. The OECD is now home to 294m fixed broadband subscriptions, with the UK ranking 5th on a total of 18,827,700.
06th Dec, 2010 11:04 AM
UK ISP BT Retail has today issued an update for its nationwide Race to Infinity survey, which seeks to gauge how much demand exists for its new "super-fast" broadband services. The top 5 telephone exchanges will benefit from a service upgrade by 2012.
06th Dec, 2010 09:10 AM
The UK government has today released an official outline of the governments national broadband strategy - 'Britain's Superfast Broadband Future'. The plan includes mention of bringing a fibre optic 'Digital Hub' to every community in the country by 2015.
06th Dec, 2010 00:01 AM
Fibrestream, a UK community Next Gen broadband specialist, has warned that the governments attempt to help rural areas get online with "super-fast" internet connectivity could be directly distorting the market.
04th Dec, 2010 00:03 AM
UK ISP Andrews & Arnold ( AAISP ) has plans to gift customers with free unmetered broadband use over the Christmas and New Year holiday week.
03rd Dec, 2010 13:30 PM
Ofcom has published its final Wholesale Broadband Access (WBA) market review conclusions, which found effective competition in almost 80% of the country's broadband market. However it has proposed new price controls for areas where this is not the case, which could push some UK ISP prices up.
03rd Dec, 2010 12:20 PM
UK ISP BT has announced new plans to trial a new 1Gbps fibre optic FTTP broadband service in Kesgrave (Suffolk, UK). BT also pledged to extend their "super-fast" 40Mbps FTTC service to 40 new rural market towns and have pledged to go further in the future.
03rd Dec, 2010 05:46 AM
Internet search giant Google has caved in to pressure from Rights Holders and announced new measures to help curb piracy content, words and links on its site.
03rd Dec, 2010 00:11 AM
The telecoms operator for Hull and East Riding in Yorkshire (UK), KC ( Karoo ), has announced that customers will all receive FREE unlimited broadband usage and cheaper voice calls during the Christmas holiday.
02nd Dec, 2010 12:45 PM
Europe has called on the Council of Telecoms Ministers "not to shy away from difficult decisions" and to instead boost Mobile Broadband access around the EU by approving plans to make more radio spectrum available for wireless broadband access by 2013.
02nd Dec, 2010 12:10 PM
A group of nineteen internet content providers, including eBay, Skype, and Yahoo!, have written an open letter that calls on the UK government to prevent broadband ISPs from being able to use "discriminatory business practices" against their businesses.
02nd Dec, 2010 07:23 AM
Ofcom's seventh annual Communications Market Report 2010 has revealeds that the total broadband UK uptake (mobile and fixed line) has risen by just +3% from 68% in 2009 to 71% in 2010, which compares with a growth of +10% between 2008 and 2009.
02nd Dec, 2010 07:06 AM
UK ISP KC ( Karoo ), the incumbent telecoms operator Hull and East Riding in Yorkshire, has boosted its internet performance to Walkington by installing their own version of FTTC technology to deliver average broadband speeds of around 15Mbps.
02nd Dec, 2010 05:50 AM
The latest anecdotal UK monthly broadband ISP consumer internet speed testing results for the past month of November 2010 has seen the average download rate rocket to 5.555Mbps (5.043Mbps in October 2010). Virgin Media is the fastest provider.
01st Dec, 2010 11:32 AM
Cable giant Virgin Media UK has launched its new broadband internet based Video-on-Demand (VoD) service, which uses technology from TiVo and has its own dedicated broadband link.
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