BT, the UK telecoms giant, has been accused by one of its biggest rivals (TalkTalk) of attempting to rebuild its national monopoly by retaining tight control over their new generation of superfast FTTC broadband services.
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A Satellite ISP, Avanti Communications, has revealed that it could use a new dual-feed antenna (LNB) to combine High Definition TV (HDTV), VoIP and broadband data signal services to consumers in the UK.
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A survey of 564 people in the United Kingdom by ISPreview.co.uk has discovered that most of the major broadband ISPs fail to clearly publicise their upload speeds, which is despite 50% of consumers rating upload performance as being "Very Important" when picking a new provider.
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A new CBI / KPMG study of almost 500 UK businesses has found that 58% would rate the country's infrastructure as being worse than other European states, yet 73% claimed to have seen an improvement in digital broadband ISP networks and services.
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People in the Medway (South East England, UK) can now access superfast broadband speeds of up to 40Mbps thanks to a new local wireless ( Wi-Fi ) internet access provider called Medwave.
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Satellite operator Iridium has launched a new service that can turn its devices into extremely slow Wi-Fi hotspots for sharing internet access.
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Netadmin Systems has revealed more details about its partnership with Fluidata and Magdalene, which jointly seek to fix the United Kingdom's (UK) broken rural broadband ISP market by aggregating open access wholesale networks for all to use.
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Broadband ISP Zen Internet UK has added a 1571 Answer Phone and Call Barring options to its Home Talk (line rental and cheaper calls) service.
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Be Broadband, a popular UK internet provider, has suspended the sale of its "16 Static IPs" option from their top end BE Pro package, which caters for heavy users and professionals.
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TalkTalk has scrapped 575 jobs at its Waterford call centre in Ireland because more of its broadband ISP customers in the UK are now using their online support services instead. The move will also reduce its exposure to Euro exchange rate fluctuations.
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Two UK counties, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire, have decided to merge their broadband improvement plans and procurement processes into a single team that will boost their efforts and help to save money.
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TalkTalk has today appointed Agama Technologies to help monitor the service quality of its forthcoming broadband television product, which is called 'TalkTalk TV'. The UK IPTV service is expected to begin trials soon ahead of a launch next year.
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Ofcom's latest Telecommunications Market Data Tables has revealed that the UK is now home to 19,920,000 fixed line broadband ISP connections and 5 million dedicated Mobile Broadband users.
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The cost of deploying more flexible and faster broadband services into rural parts of the UK appears to have increased, at least in some aspects, after BT raised the cost of full Sub-Loop Unbundling (SLU) service to rival ISPs.
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Internet access delivered via public wireless (Wi-Fi) Hotspot services will, according to the latest In-Stat study, see "phenomenal growth" over the next few years and hit 120 Billion connections by 2015.
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A UK communications provider, Entanet, has launched a new range of business and domestic superfast broadband (40Mbps FTTC) packages for its partner ISPs.
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Several UK mobiles operators including Three (3) , Orange and T-Mobile look set to benefit from a major Mobile Broadband capacity boost thanks to a new £100m Ethernet based mobile backhaul deal with
Virgin Media Business (VMB).
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UK ISP Vispa Internet have extended their first 3 months half price broadband and phone calls promotion on bundled HomeSaver packages.
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The new boss of UK mobile operator Three (3) has warned that one or more of its rivals, which would most likely include O2 and Vodafone, will attempt to delay the auction of superfast Mobile Broadband friendly spectrum (800MHz and 2.6GHz) "for as long as possible" because they are "incentivised differently to defer [it]".
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ISPreview.co.uk has written a helpful new guide that aims to explain the process of choosing a new internet provider (ISP) by enhancing your knowledge of the market, its different solutions and any potential pitfalls that you might encounter.
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