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15th Jun, 2011 11:50 AM
Internet based voice calling services ( VoIP ) grew by almost 13% in 2010 to reach a total of 120 million subscribers, which doesn't include Skype's 663 million registered users.

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15th Jun, 2011 08:38 AM
A UK telecoms supplier, O-bit Telecom, has announced that it will continue to trade under its own brand and business values. The firm was acquired by the Daisy Group earlier this year, although some of their channel customers promptly expressed "strong concerns" over the impact of this and a potential for eroded choice.

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15th Jun, 2011 08:30 AM
U.K. Broadband, a subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based PCCW, has revealed its plans to build a superfast Mobile Broadband network in the UK by using 4g LTE technology in the 3.5GHz and 3.6GHz wireless radio spectrum bands.

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15th Jun, 2011 08:24 AM
Europe could benefit from even faster Mobile Broadband services if it harmonised frequencies in the 1.4GHz radio spectrum band. According to a UK consultancy firm, Plum Consulting, the continent could also rake in an extra GBP47.5bn from such a move.

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14th Jun, 2011 23:19 PM
Neul, a UK start-up, has proposed its new Smart-Meter and white-space based NeulNET technology as a solution to make broadband wireless internet download speeds of up to 16Mbps available to 99% of the country's population.

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14th Jun, 2011 12:21 PM
The Information Society Alliance (EURIM) has proposed that the UK adopt a broad principal of infrastructure sharing, which could allow superfast 100Mbps fibre optic broadband ISP services to reach everybody in the country and without incurring extra costs.

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14th Jun, 2011 11:29 AM
FibreSpeed, Netserve Consultants and Opal IT Services have worked together to deploy a wireless broadband link into the isolated rural Wales (UK) village of Rhiwlas in the Snowdonia foothills.

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14th Jun, 2011 09:05 AM
BT has announced the next batch of 66 UK telephone exchange upgrades to support its new superfast broadband ISP technologies, most of which will take place towards the end of 2011 and into 2012. The operator has also revealed a new trial of "white space" / Ultra High Frequency (UHF) based wireless internet access technology on the Isle of Bute.

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14th Jun, 2011 06:30 AM
BT has today announced the first UK pricing for its latest 110Mbps fibre optic broadband ISP product, which makes use of Fibre-to-the-Premises technology. The service is expected to launch before the end of 2011.

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14th Jun, 2011 05:50 AM
BT has upgraded an additional 5 telephone exchanges in the UK to support its expensive Broadband Enabling Technology (BET) solution. BET can deliver internet speeds of 2Mbps (Megabits per second) to remote rural homes and businesses that reside up to 12km away from their local telephone exchange.

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13th Jun, 2011 11:43 AM
Media giant BSkyB ( Sky Broadband ) has announced the launch of its new Sky Go service in the UK, which will combine its online broadband TV Sky Player service with their Sky Mobile TV platform. Existing customers will be given free access to the service, which will work on both PC's and mobile devices.

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13th Jun, 2011 06:18 AM
A new ISPreview.co.uk survey of 685 internet users in the United Kingdom (UK) has revealed that 93.5 Percent would be "Angry" if their broadband provider began limiting access to popular online content or services (e.g. Skype, YouTube etc.) and most of those would switch ISP in order to avoid it.

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10th Jun, 2011 23:49 PM
A new infographic from ISP MLL Telecom UK claim that Ethernet First Mile (EFM) technology, which uses old style local loop unbundling ( LLU ) via copper lines, is both faster and cheaper than an equivalent fibre optic broadband connection.

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10th Jun, 2011 13:15 PM
CityFibre Holdings, the UK group that is now in charge of the Fibrecity project, has today started to repair the unfinished 1Gbps superfast fibre optic broadband network in Bournemouth.

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10th Jun, 2011 12:47 PM
Scotland has finally launched a procurement (tender) process to find the best suppliers for its superfast broadband project in the Highlands and Islands.

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10th Jun, 2011 11:47 AM
A UK mobile phone operator, O2, has described plans to auction off the 800MHz and 2.6GHz radio spectrum bands as "illegal" under EU law because their ability to bid would be hindered by unfair "spectrum floors".

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10th Jun, 2011 09:04 AM
ISP Virgin Media has announced that its new cable (DOCSIS3) based 100Mbps broadband internet access service is now available to four million UK homes and climbing.

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10th Jun, 2011 08:47 AM
The total number of fibre optic FTTH broadband internet access subcribers around the world will boom from 61 million at the end of 2010 to 227 million by 2015, according to IDATE.

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10th Jun, 2011 07:50 AM
The UK Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Broadband Borders project has finally, after 8 long months of waiting, been put out to tender. The move should result in everybody having access to a superfast broadband ISP service by 2018.

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10th Jun, 2011 06:35 AM
Two Davenport Lyons (London, UK) solicitors could face a fine or even disbarment after the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) upheld serious complaints of misconduct for the way in which they hounded innocent broadband ISP customers by using flimsy evidence to accuse them of internet piracy.

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