News - January - 2012
14th Jan, 2012 06:23 AM
Namesco, a UK broadband and webhosting ISP, has been hit by hackers that stole some of their customers personal information and credit card details. To make matters worse the hosting giant then made its own security notice look like a fake phishing email.
13th Jan, 2012 08:53 AM
UK ISP Andrews & Arnold ( AAISP ) has revealed that trials of BT's latest 'up to' 80Mbps fttc technology have been able to deliver internet download speeds of between 57Mbps and 79.7Mbps to existing customers.
13th Jan, 2012 08:01 AM
The UK Labour Party's Shadow Minister for Media, Helen Goodman MP, has slammed the government's delay in getting its auction of superfast 4g (LTE) Mobile Broadband spectrum off the ground. Goodman believes that the delay could be costing up to GBP1 million a day in lost revenue.
13th Jan, 2012 07:29 AM
Caroline Lucas MP, leader of the UK Green Party, has called for the government to include Brighton in its plan to help fund faster broadband services in up to 10 "super-connected cities". At present the city falls just below the government's threshold of 150,000 dwellings.
13th Jan, 2012 06:25 AM
New statistics have revealed that the world is now home to a total of 581.3 Million broadband ISP subscriber lines, with superfast fibre optic broadband services seeing the strongest growth as they cannibalise customers from existing platforms.
12th Jan, 2012 09:25 AM
GiffGaff, a budget priced UK mobile operator, has begun threatening customers with disconnection after it discovered that 1% of "unlimited mobile internet" users were consuming over a third of its total Mobile Broadband capacity.
12th Jan, 2012 08:48 AM
The Bath & North East Somerset Council (BNESC) has finally approved a somewhat weak new plan to boost the UK regions broadband speeds after having initially rejected a proposal for using central government funds.
12th Jan, 2012 08:16 AM
A new European Action Plan has been released that aims to double e-Commerce by, among other things, fostering the development of "serious broadband bandwidth".
12th Jan, 2012 07:39 AM
The CBI, a lobby group for British businesses, has today called upon the UK government to compete on a global stage by expanding its broadband ambitions through a "longer-term aspiration" to become the best broadband economy in the world.
12th Jan, 2012 06:43 AM
Ofcom has today launched its final consultation on the auction of future superfast 4g Mobile Broadband spectrum in the 800MHz and 2.6GHz bands. The new consultation proposes to extend the UK coverage of related services from 95% to 98% of the country and puts forward several measures to prevent any one operator from holding too much spectrum.
11th Jan, 2012 11:38 AM
Business ISP Fluidata and Independent Fibre Networks Limited (IFNL) have today announced the "largest publicly available" deployment of a 1Gbps (Gigabits per second) capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband services to over 50,000 newly built commercial and residential properties at more than 20 sites across the UK.
11th Jan, 2012 08:58 AM
Cable (DOCSIS) operator Virgin Media has today moved to combat BT in the United Kingdom (UK) by doubling all of its broadband internet access speeds, with the maximum package now offering a download rate of 120Mbps (Megabits per second).
11th Jan, 2012 05:51 AM
BTOpenreach, which manages access to BT's UK telecoms network, has launched a new promotion that pays ISPs £50 for every 2nd telephone line they're able to activate at a home or business.
10th Jan, 2012 14:35 PM
UK ISP Sky Broadband (BSkyB) and telecommunications firm Alcatel-Lucent have today announced the country's first official deployment of a high-speed optical transmission network, which should deliver a major internet capacity boost to the provider's 3.5 Million customers.
10th Jan, 2012 13:56 PM
Ofcom has published three new research reports to help it identify the best way of creating a consistent and representative measurement system for gauging the level of illegal internet copyright infringement (piracy) in the UK. One study estimated that the country was home to 6.7 million "illegal downloaders".
10th Jan, 2012 11:51 AM
A survey of over 2,000 UK people conducted by Virgin Media and ICM has revealed that broadband offers the best value for money as an entertainment service and, when times are hard, is the service that people would least like to chop.
10th Jan, 2012 07:35 AM
Allpay Broadband, a Herefordshire UK focused wireless internet provider, has announced the further expansion and improvement of its service in 2012 to include yet more urban and rural parts of the county.
10th Jan, 2012 06:13 AM
The oppositions Shadow Minister for Regional Growth, Gordon Marsden MP, has accused the UK government of causing "delay and uncertainty" with its failure to allocate £1bn of EU funding that could potentially be spent on rural broadband improvement projects.
09th Jan, 2012 12:00 PM
3UK (Three), a UK based Mobile Broadband operator, has reported that New Year's Eve saw a 600% rise in Smartphone based mobile data consumption to total 80 TeraBytes (TB). That's a massive jump on last year's 14TBs.
09th Jan, 2012 08:43 AM
The "all-you-can-eat" Netflix internet TV and film video streaming service has officially gone live in the UK and for a cost of just £5.99 per month.
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