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03rd Sep, 2011 06:45 AM
Hull UK telecoms operator KC has uploaded a new video to celebrate the connection of its first residential customers to their new superfast fibre optic broadband services.

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03rd Sep, 2011 06:00 AM
UK ISP BT Retail has been forced, by a district court, to pay back £190 to a rural pensioner after he was left without a broadband and phone service for over one month.

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02nd Sep, 2011 11:58 AM
The boss of controversial UK law firm ACS:Law, Andrew Crossley, will go before a substantive Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) hearing in January 2012 where he will have to answer charges of having "acted without integrity" while attempting to extort money from broadband ISP customers.

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02nd Sep, 2011 07:30 AM
Plans by Fujitsu, Virgin Media, Talk Talk and Cisco to launch a new rural fibre optic broadband platform to 5 Million UK homes by 2016 could stall after Virgin's CEO, Neil Berkett, warned that the needed public subsidy would probably end up in BT's hands.

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02nd Sep, 2011 06:56 AM
Residents and businesses in the popular UK district of Uttlesford, which is just above East London, can now access superfast internet speeds of up to 25Mbps thanks to a new broadband wireless service from FibreWiFi.

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02nd Sep, 2011 06:16 AM
Cable operator Virgin Media has once again been named the United Kingdom's (UK) fastest broadband ISP after recording an average download speed of 16.971Mbps (Megabits per second) during August 2011. By contrast the national average download speed was 8.056Mbps.

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01st Sep, 2011 23:22 PM
Orange UK has re-launched its fixed line Home Broadband ISP packages with lower prices, an unlimited public WiFi service and a shorter 12 month contract term.

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01st Sep, 2011 11:44 AM
Spotify is about to get some competition in the UK based market for internet music streaming services. An almost identical service called Deezer has announced plans to launch this month, complete with an ambition to partner alongside several major broadband ISPs.

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01st Sep, 2011 09:05 AM
Ofcom has announced that it will officially move forward with plans to launch White Space wireless broadband (IEEE 802.22) technology in the UK during 2013. This uses the spare radio spectrum that exists between digital terrestrial TV channels to deliver internet access.

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01st Sep, 2011 08:07 AM
Two similarly named broadband and internet advocacy groups in Wales UK, Wispa Limited and WISPA, have started a heated legal confrontation over their similar titles.

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01st Sep, 2011 07:40 AM
BSkyB has stopped offering a standalone broadband ISP service in the UK. Instead new customers will now be forced to take a bundle of Sky Broadband and Sky Line Rental.

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01st Sep, 2011 07:05 AM
Google and OpenDNS have teamed up to launch the Global Internet Speedup (GIS) group, which aims to make websites faster to load by using more intelligent routing of end-user requests.

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01st Sep, 2011 06:09 AM
A project that would have brought faster broadband internet access to several rural villages in Norfolk UK has been stalled over unsubstantiated Wi-Fi (wireless) radiation fears.

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31st Aug, 2011 11:16 AM
The CTO of Timico, Trefor Davies, claims that businesses in the UK are beginning to replace their old ADSL broadband connections with superior Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) products that can offer stable internet upload and download speeds of up to 10Mbps.

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31st Aug, 2011 07:27 AM
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reports that 77% of UK households (19 million) have an internet connection, which is up from 73% in 2010. However 8.73 million adults have never used the Internet. Mobile and Wi-Fi Hotspot services have also become much more important.

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31st Aug, 2011 05:58 AM
The Shetland Islands (Scotland, UK) are well on their way to deploying a new superfast broadband service after Shetland Telecom announced that it had started Phase 2 of its ambitious project to lay a new fibre optic cable across the island.

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30th Aug, 2011 12:26 PM
Community network operator NextGenUs has warned that many county councils' across the UK are misusing the government's recent funding allocation, which was designed to help 90% of people access a superfast broadband ISP service by 2015, to boost their own public networks and services.

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30th Aug, 2011 11:23 AM
PlusNet, a popular broadband ISP in the UK, has revealed that British people spend an average of roughly ten hours a day being connected to the internet and many now require wireless (Wi-Fi) connectivity almost everywhere they go.

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30th Aug, 2011 07:11 AM
T-Mobile has reduced the price of its Pay Per Day Mobile Broadband packages from £19.99 to £9.9 (doesn't include the extra £10 top-up).

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30th Aug, 2011 05:56 AM
Mobile operator Three (3) has announced that it is giving away free Mobile Broadband (3G) access and modems to 11 isolated rural communities in the UK.

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