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19th May, 2011 06:01 AM
TalkTalk, a major UK based internet and phone provider, has lost 25000 of its ISP customers in the quarter; mostly after suffering a multitude of service and support problems. However, it still has a total broadband subscriber base of 4,199,000.

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18th May, 2011 23:03 PM
A UK government minister, David Davis, has suggested that BT will get all or nearly the entire GBP830m budget for rolling out superfast broadband internet access services to rural parts of the country.

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18th May, 2011 12:14 PM
New statistics have revealed that 107 million junk emails (SPAM) reach UK homes each day and nearly a quarter of broadband ISP customers don't have a filter to help prevent it.

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18th May, 2011 11:56 AM
A UK based mobile operator, T-Mobile UK, has been named as one of the two cheapest providers of Mobile Broadband internet access services in the world.

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18th May, 2011 08:38 AM
Sandvine has released its latest Spring 2011 global internet traffic report and discovered that BitTorrent (P2P File Sharing), on-demand (video etc.) services and web browsing still dominate most broadband ISP traffic at peak times.

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18th May, 2011 07:40 AM
CityFibre Holdings has confirmed that it plans to restart deployment of its 100Mbps fibre optic broadband network in Bournemouth (England, UK) and to cover an additional 20,000 homes by the end of this year.

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18th May, 2011 00:04 AM
The UK advertising authority has said that it is close to publishing new guidance on promotions of headline broadband ISP speeds and "unlimited" style usage allowances. The move hopes to prevent internet providers from making misleading service promotions.

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17th May, 2011 23:03 PM
The UK Kent County Council has officially opened a GBP42m tender process for its ambitious project to blanket the county in superfast broadband internet access services.

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17th May, 2011 12:30 PM
The Chief Analyst at Point Topic, Tim Johnson, has heavily criticised the UK for falling "a long way behind" in its plans to deploy a new generation of superfast broadband internet access services around the country by 2015.

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17th May, 2011 12:13 PM
An organised theft and vandalism at one of O2 UK's operations sites in East London has triggered a massive outage of voice and mobile internet services right across East London, North London, Kent and Sussex.

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17th May, 2011 09:53 AM
Surrey has confirmed a GBP10m project that will see 400 local Schools being given access to faster broadband internet services of up to 50Mbps by September 2011.

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17th May, 2011 09:34 AM
The UK West Sussex County Council has discovered that only 10 Percent of local firms would rate their broadband internet access service (ISP) as being fast enough to meet future demands.

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17th May, 2011 08:51 AM
A UK cable operator, Virgin Media, has moved to undercut BT's plan for fast tracking superfast broadband internet access services into the Northern Ireland city of Derry (Londonderry) by deploying its own 100Mbps connectivity several months earlier.

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17th May, 2011 07:57 AM
France has been forced to suspend its controversial internet copyright infringement (Hadopi) law after the company responsible for monitoring piracy on P2P file sharing networks suffered a major data leak of related ISP details.

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17th May, 2011 07:27 AM
An interesting new map of the United Kingdom (UK) has been produced that uses data from a survey of almost 12,000 internet users to visualise the geographic satisfaction with broadband ISP speeds across the country.

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17th May, 2011 06:03 AM
The UK government has launched a review of its Communications Act (2003), which aims to improve competition by deregulating more of the telecoms market and reducing barriers to private investment in superfast broadband ISP networks. New rules will also be brought in to help govern IPTV services.

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16th May, 2011 11:39 AM
The UK Internet Service Providers Association has asked the public to help them pick this year's Internet Hero and Internet Villain award finalists (i.e. individuals or organisations that have done the most and least to help the wider ISP industry).

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16th May, 2011 11:24 AM
A Council of Europe committee has controversially proposed that devices which emit very low frequency electromagnetic fields (e.g. wi-fi, mobile phones, microwave ovens) should be banned from schools because they are "potentially harmful" to human health.

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16th May, 2011 07:44 AM
A UK broadband provider, ADSL24, has discontinued and replaced its old entry-level internet access package with a cheaper and more flexible up to 24Mbps deal for new customers that don't download much or want a lengthy service contract.

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16th May, 2011 07:04 AM
The MP for Penrith (Cumbria, UK), Rory Stewart, has won an important debate in the House of Commons this week that could lead to "significantly extended" rural mobile and broadband internet access coverage.

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