News - February - 2012
20th Feb, 2012 06:03 AM
The UK government has confirmed that its controversial and long-held plans to snoop on internet users (e.g. retain access logs for all your emails, website visits, Facebook messages, Twitter etc.) could be revived as soon as May 2012 in the Queen's Speech.
18th Feb, 2012 06:36 AM
A new ComScore report has revealed that people in the UK spent an average of 35.6 hours online during December 2011, which is something that no other European country could match.
17th Feb, 2012 12:40 PM
KC's Director of Consumer Services in Hull (Yorkshire, UK), Nick Thompson, has warned that Virgin Media's offer to open its doors to rural areas probably won't "result in positive action" or better broadband for remote communities.
17th Feb, 2012 11:54 AM
Fibre optic broadband ISP Hyperoptic has announced the forthcoming expansion of its UK service via 200 to 300 more residential projects. A new business-only product is also due to launch in the coming months.
17th Feb, 2012 07:33 AM
Which?, a popular UK consumer affairs magazine, has rated PlusNet to be the country's best superfast broadband ISP with a customer satisfaction rating of 84%.
17th Feb, 2012 06:14 AM
The Ftth Council Europe has released its latest annual global ranking of FTTH deployments, which includes countries where at least 1% of homes have an ultrafast FTTH/B broadband internet access connection. South Korea continues to lead with market penetration reaching 58%, although Japan comes top for subscribers on 22.2 Million. Sadly the United Kingdom is nowhere to be seen.
16th Feb, 2012 10:55 AM
The UK music industry reports that sales of digital music grew by 24.7% to reach £281.6 Million during 2011. That's despite the tough economic climate and fears that piracy by broadband ISP customers risked falling investment and lost jobs.
16th Feb, 2012 07:01 AM
The European Parliament has officially adopted the five-year Radio Spectrum Policy Programme (RSPP), which will bring a new generation of superfast Mobile Broadband (4G/LTE) services to countries around Europe by 2015 or earlier.
16th Feb, 2012 06:20 AM
A new report from the Broadband Forum, which uses statistics from Point Topic UK, has confirmed that European broadband ISPs are increasingly turning to superfast fibre optic internet access solutions to meet the needs of the well-connected home and IPTV services.
16th Feb, 2012 01:09 AM
Cable giant Virgin Media UK are offering 3 months of free broadband service with free installation to new customers that order online.
16th Feb, 2012 00:10 AM
New BT customers can now expect to receive a £50 Sainsbury's Gift Card when they signup online to any of the ISPs broadband internet access bundles, many of which are currently being promoted at half price.
15th Feb, 2012 13:32 PM
Mobile operator Orange UK has been accused of imposing an unfair and unjust block on the website for a France-based civil society group La Quadrature du Net (LQDN).
15th Feb, 2012 12:07 PM
The WiSpire project, which deploys faster rural broadband connections by installing wireless (Wi-Fi) transmitters on top of local church spires, has won critical public support from the Broadland District Council (BDC) in Norfolk for an expanded rollout.
15th Feb, 2012 10:59 AM
The Lord's Select Committee on Communications has launched an official inquiry into the UK government's superfast broadband strategy, which will examine the projects current progress and whether or not their targets go far enough.
15th Feb, 2012 08:43 AM
The government's latest Q4-2011 statistics have revealed that 41.99 Million UK adults have now used the internet (83.5% of the population), which represents a steady rise from 41.62 Million during Q3.
15th Feb, 2012 07:52 AM
The latest data from IDATE's DigiWorld Institute has revealed that the world will be home to 81.77 Million fully fibre optic broadband ISP subscribers (FTTH/B/P) by the end of 2011 and this will jump to 198.27 Million by the end of 2015.
15th Feb, 2012 07:06 AM
The Northern Ireland Executive has announced that Orange , T-Mobile and Three (3) have agreed to work together on a new £25m project that will boost Northern Ireland's weak Mobile Broadband (3G) coverage all the way up to 94% by the end of this year.
15th Feb, 2012 06:12 AM
TalkTalk UK has this week become the latest broadband ISP to implement a court ordered injunction against the Newzbin (Newzbin2) piracy website. This prevents TalkTalk's internet access customers from accessing the site. At least it would if you couldn't easily circumvent such restrictions.
15th Feb, 2012 01:27 AM
Virgin Media, the UK's largest cable operator, has said today that its "doors have always been open" to finding a solution for poor broadband internet connectivity in rural areas. The comments follow recent criticisms from several rural organisations, which accused the ISP of focusing too much on urban areas.
14th Feb, 2012 13:24 PM
Faster wireless broadband internet access looks set to reach a number of previously isolated rural communities in the Upper Wharfedale and Littondale areas of North Yorkshire (England, UK), which is thanks to the Connecting North Yorkshire (CNY) initiative.
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