The new Apple iPhone 4s could, warns the head of 'Virgin Media Business', cause "data hungry" users to push Mobile Broadband operator capacity "to the limit" (i.e. capacity crunch).
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Mobile operator O2 (Telefonica) has appointed Ben Mein to be its new Head of Commercial Delivery for their 'O2 Wifi' project, which is currently deploying a FREE public Wi-Fi Hotspot internet access service across the UK.
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Residents and businesses in the isolated rural UK villages of Luffenham (Rutland, East Midlands) can now get faster broadband internet access speeds thanks to ISP Rutland Telecom.
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BE Wholesale has today launched its new SDSL-M and SDSL-A broadband ISP products into the small business focused wholesale and reseller channel.
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New research has estimated that the recent 3-6 month delay to the United Kingdom's (UK) planned 4G/LTE Mobile Broadband radio spectrum auction process could have cost the country's economy up to GBP366 Million.
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British Telecom ( BT ) has announced the first commercial launch of its next generation 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based fibre optic broadband ISP services for 31st October 2011.
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The UK government has announced a £150m plan to boost the existing coverage of mobile voice and internet data networks from 95% of the population to 99%.
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TalkTalk has launched a new add-on upgrade that gives its existing UK based phone and broadband bundle customers the ability to call 100 international destinations with 500 included minutes.
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Cable giant Virgin Media and national telecoms operator BT have both come top in a September 2011 table of the UK fastest broadband ISPs. The country's national average download speed was also recorded as 7.998Mbps (Megabits per second).
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The European Commission (EC) has warned that "our children and grandchildren will pay the price" if member states fail to invest in the next generation of superfast broadband ISP services. To that end the EC has also launched two new public consultations into how the telecoms market is regulated and priced.
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Satellite operator Avanti UK has confirmed that its next HYLAS 2 Spacecraft, which will deliver faster broadband internet access to rural areas of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, is still on-target to launch in Q2-2012.
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UK ISP PlusNet has today revealed the extent to which internet video traffic now dominates most of its bandwidth. Apparently up to 50 Per Cent of all the providers data traffic is now video related, with YouTube being the dominant player.
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Broadband ISP PlusNet UK has launched 'PlusNet Assist', which is a free downloadable software tool that claims to fix a number of common computer problems.
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OnLive UK's cloud-based gaming service has run into problems with several broadband ISPs because of strict anti-P2P Traffic Management policies and the systems hungry desire for costly bandwidth.
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PC Pro UK magazine has today announced the winners of its 'Best Broadband ISP' and 'Best Mobile Broadband' operator awards, with Zen Internet and Be Broadband both coming top for the former.
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Broadband ISPs from around the UK have today given a mixed reaction, featuring both sharp criticism and praise, after the country's advertising watchdog moved to crack down on misleading internet speed and "unlimited" use claims.
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Fujitsu's Open Access Wholesale Network (OAWN) project in the UK, which could eventually bring fibre optic broadband ISP speeds of up to 1Gbps to 5 Million UK homes in rural areas by 2016, has connected up its first trial homes.
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Plans by two internet providers, O2 and Be Broadband UK, to launch a new generation of superfast fibre optic broadband ISP packages in 2011 have been dashed after the operator admitted that its goals were unlikely to be met.
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The UK advertising watchdog has today introduced a new set of rules that will prevent broadband ISPs from making misleading "unlimited" usage and top download speed claims about their internet access services.
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Commuters who travel on the Eurostar rail link between the UK and mainland Europe will, from 2013, also be able to benefit from a new and faster onboard wireless (Wi-Fi) connection to the internet.
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