UK ISP BT Retail has introduced a cheap new 20Mbps broadband, free weekend phone calls and TV service bundle for just GBP20 per month.
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The UK government has finally held a meeting with UK ISPs to discuss the Valuation Office Agency's (VOA) Fibre Tax, which many smaller providers feel has stifled their development and favoured BT and Virgin Media (largest ISPs).
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The UK Home Phone and Broadband ISP TalkTalk has launched a trial of its forthcoming and often controversial new internet anti-malware Network Security system (Virus Alerts Service), which is designed to protect customers from bad websites but has also caused a storm among privacy campaigners for how it follows customers around the internet.
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Consumer ISP Be Broadband has appointed a new Managing Director (MD), Chris Stening, after the last one resigned for pastures new. Stening is the former MD of BSkyB owned SME ISP Easynet Connect UK and is expected to refocus the provider towards wholesale business services.
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Mobile operator T-Mobile UK has backed down from plans to impose a new Mobile Broadband fair usage cap of 500MB upon its existing customers. Instead only new subscribers will now be affected.
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BT has revealed the next batch of 41 UK telephone exchanges (market towns) that will be able to receive its next generation of superfast 40Mbps FTTC based broadband services by Spring 2012.
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MarkMonitor has revealed the "
illegal traffic levels" on 43 file-sharing sites and found that they generated more than 53bn visits each year. Rapidshare.com, Megavideo.com and Megaupload.com were the largest and have been branded "
Digital Piracy" heavens.
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A UK public sector controlled ISP, NYnet, has revealed that 150 residents and businesses in Farndale, Blakey, Bransdale, Rudland, Beadlam Rigg and East Moors (North Yorkshire) will soon benefit from a new next generation fibre optic and wireless based broadband connection.
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The boss of Fluidata, a UK based business ISP has today slammed BT for its huge delays in installing new telephone lines and broadband connections around the country, which appear to stem from staff shortages and the recent adverse weather conditions.
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The European Internet Services Providers Association (EuroISPA) has called upon the European Parliament to oppose internet website blocking (censorship) filters for tackling child abuse content. Instead the group believes that removing such data at its source is the only truly effective solution.
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Consumer ISP Vtesse Broadband has switched-on a new generation of ultra-fast fibre optic based Fibre-to-the-Home ( FTTH ) internet access services, which can deliver download speeds of up to 1Gbps (1000Mbps), in the rural UK village of Broughton (Cambridgeshire).
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Ericsson has announced that Mobile Broadband subscriptions reached 500 Million in 2010 (globally) and are predicted to top 1 Billion before the end of 2011, possibly even hitting 3.8 Billion come 2015.
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Mobile and internet provider Orange UK has launched a new Price Promise for its Home Broadband and Phone bundle customers today. The operator pledges to automatically lower its monthly subscription should it offer any plans at a lower price in the future.
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Mobile operator T-Mobile UK will, from 1st February 2011, cut its Mobile Broadband Fair Usage Policy (FUP) for Smartphone users to just 500MB (0.5 GigaByte's). Customers who go over that level will still be able to email and browse websites, although video viewing and downloads won't work.
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A new study has revealed that broadband ISP customers in the UK pay less for heating their homes (an average of GBP1,010 per year) via online packages than those who have no internet access at all and merely take a standard tariff (GBP1,239).
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The results from 491 respondents to ISPreview.co.uk's latest monthly survey has found that 45 Percent of UK consumers are unhappy with their current Internet Service Provider (ISP), with almost a third (31.3 Percent) seeking to change provider this year.
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The Managing Director of satellite operator Hughes Europe, Chris Britton, offers an exclusive opinion and personal insight into how Satellite technology can help rural areas of the UK benefit from faster broadband internet access.
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Internet and phone provider TalkTalk has teamed up with Technicolor to trial its new MediaNavi multi-screen content service, which will be integrated into the UK ISPs broadband TV platform for its mid-2011 launch.
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Londonderry (Derry, Northern Ireland) UK looks set to benefit from a new range of fibre optic based broadband ISP services after BT announced that it would spend £3m to help fast track the city into the modern superfast digital age.
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Mobile operator Vodafone UK has reduced the price of its 30 Day Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) Mobile Broadband deal from GBP25 to GBP19.99. The package includes a FREE USB Modem (Dongle) and a 3GB usage allowance.
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