The cloud based OnLive video streaming service, which allows you to play the latest console or computer game releases over a broadband ISP connection and without actually owning them, has announced a UK launch date of 22nd September 2011.
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The national UK telecoms operator, BT, has declared that a status of Matters Beyond Our Reasonable Control (MBORC) in all riot affected areas across the country. As a result essential repairs, upgrades and broadband or phone service provisioning could face serious delays.
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The riots and looting, which have spread across the UK this week, has also triggered a massive surge in office internet traffic as workers go online to check the latest news and view live broadband video streams.
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Broadband ISPs in the UK should concentrate on offering strong triple and quad play service bundles if they are to limit customer churn, claims a new Strategy Analytics study. The research predicts that multiplay bundles will grow 67% by 2016.
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Zen Internet, a UK Internet Service Provider (ISP), has claimed that 85% of its superfast fibre optic broadband customers get the speed they expected and are extremely satisfied with the service.
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A new Ofcom report has concluded that mobile operators in the United Kingdom (UK) provide "
reasonably accurate" consumer coverage information for their outdoor 2G (voice, text) and 3G (Mobile Broadband) services. It has also made a number of proposals to help raise awareness of mobile coverage.
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European satellite operator SES ASTRA has today signed a new deal with Newtec that should allow its UK and EU customers to gain faster broadband internet download speeds of up to 10Mbps in the very near future.
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Ofcom, a telecoms regulator for the United Kingdom (UK), could soon force BT to make its Dark Fibre broadband lines available to competitors when it moves to review the business connectivity market later this year.
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A shortage of specialist ADSL2+ routers has caused Be Broadband, a UK based internet provider, to suspend new orders of their 44Mbps Line Bonding service. Apparently the ISP has seen "overwhelming demand" for the product and couldn't keep pace.
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A UK internet provider, Entanet, has said that the national telecoms regulator, Ofcom, made the right decision last week when it ruled that the government's plan to force broadband ISPs into blocking piracy websites for Copyright owners would "not be effective".
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The UK City of York could soon benefit from a free city-wide wireless (Wi-Fi) internet access service, which is all thanks to its recently completed GBP13.7m fibre optic broadband network.
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The latest study of broadband ISP speeds in the United Kingdom (UK) by content delivery experts Pando Networks has discovered that the country's national average internet download speed is just 3.85Mbps (Megabits per second). Be Broadband ( O2 ) also came out as the fastest and most reliable ISP.
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Virgin Media, a cable operator for the UK, has announced a new one-off discount off customers' first bills for its broadband and phone (dual) or broadband, phone and TV (triple) bundles worth GBP30 and GBP60 respectively; this is in addition to their existing first 6 months half price and FREE install promos.
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Virgin Media, a UK cable operator, has announced that 2,000 of its broadband and tv customers in Westminster (London) are to be left without a service after it withdraws from the area next January 2012 because of a dispute with rival telecoms operator BT.
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Mobile operator Orange UK has re-launched its Mobile Broadband packages with unlimited Wi-Fi access from BT and introduced a new free weekly film download service for all of its customers called 'Film To Go'.
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The UK cable operator, Virgin Media, has announced that its broadband, tv and phone network will have been expanded to cover an additional 100,000 homes by the end of 2011.
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CityFibre Holdings, which recently restarted work to deploy a superfast fibre optic FTTH broadband ISP network in England's (UK) southern seaside city of Bournemouth, has confirmed that "almost all" of the original projects problems have finally been resolved.
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Bentley Walker, a UK based satellite operator, has released two new videos that explain how to install a KA-SAT dish for their latest Eutelsat based Tooway satellite broadband service.
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Two new studies have warned that internet providers (ISP) in the United States and other country's could be using a new method of hijacking their customers search engine traffic in order to earn a crafty profit from Affiliate networks.
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A UK business ISP, Internet Central, has been awarded the ISO 27001 certification for its ability to keep the data and confidential information of its customers secure.
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