BT has announced that consumers connected to two dozen specially selected telephone exchanges in the UK will soon be able to benefit from a free connection to their new superfast 40Mbps FTTC broadband ISP services.
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The latest ISPreview.co.uk survey has discovered that many UK broadband subscribers (39%) are concerned about the forthcoming exhaustion of IPv4 internet addresses and do not know whether or not their ISP or connectivity hardware supports its replacement, IPv6.
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Business ISP Internet Central has today warned UK consumers to be aware of a new fake/phishing email that tries to steal your personal and financial data. The message claims to be from BT even though it isn't.
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Cumbria (England, UK) has secured £16.8 Million in funding from the government to help rollout superfast broadband internet access services around the county by 2015.
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The UK telecoms regulator has proposed using FM Radio spectrum to support a new generation of "white space" based wireless broadband technology. But many consumers remain unhappy with the idea of losing FM radio, which can be found in just about everything these days.
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A UK specialist in building community owned superfast fibre optic broadband ISP networks, Fibrestream (NextGenUs), has revealed plans to deploy a new county-wide FTTH and wireless network in Cumbria (England).
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The UK Internet Service Providers Association ( ISPA ) has today revealed the winners of last night's 2011 internet industry awards, which saw Be Broadband being crowned Best Consumer Fixed Broadband ISP and Three (3) walking away with Best Mobile Broadband operator.. among many more awards.
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Consultancy firm Envisional reports that UK internet film piracy has grown by 30% over the past five years, with TV shows seeing a similar problem.
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Andrew Crossley, the boss of a notoriously defunct UK solicitors firm (ACS:Law) that aggressively pursued broadband ISP customers whom it often mistakenly accused of being involved with internet piracy, looks set to escape paying a fine to the ICO for last year's massive personal data breach.
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A Fujitsu led project to build a new fibre optic broadband network in the UK, which would reach 5 million homes and businesses in rural areas, has confirmed that it is participating in the government's new GBP2bn tender for a new national broadband framework agreement.
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TalkTalk has announced the launch of two new UK SIM-only mobile phone packages, which can be bundled with its existing broadband, phone and mobile minute boost services.
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Griffin Internet, a UK based business ISP, has announced a new zero connection fee promotions on its new Ethernet services.
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New data released by Point Topic has revealed that the world is now home to a total of over 540 Million broadband ISP subscribers and a new generation of fibre optic (FTTx) internet access services is slowly eating into existing market shares.
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Europe has proposed new measures that will make it both significantly cheaper and easier to use your mobile phone to surf the internet and download files (data roaming) while abroad within the EU.
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Cable operator Virgin Media UK has announced the official launch of its new Spotify-based and multi-platform music streaming and sharing service for new and existing broadband ISP customers. But does it really offer anything new?
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The Northern Ireland Executive government has set aside an additional £500k to help fund the rollout of superfast broadband internet access services around the country.
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Ofcom has today released a new UK geographic map of fixed line broadband ISP availability, adoption and performance. This reveals that over 14% of homes are receiving internet download speeds of less than 2Mbps, though the average national download speed is a respectable 7.5Mbps (based on modem sync speed and not real-world performance).
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Business ISP Eclipse Internet UK has been praised for its customer service at this year's South West Contact Centre Forum Awards, which was held last week.
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The UK governments Communications Minister, Ed Vaizey, has slammed two of the country's largest broadband providers (BT and TalkTalk) for their repeated and failed attempts to oppose its new anti-piracy internet laws.
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BE Broadband, a popular internet access provider and sibling of O2 UK (Telefonica), has launched a pre-registration programme for its new and forthcoming range of superfast broadband services.
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