News Archive
posted on 22 May 2012
Ever wondered what the missing links of broadband networks were?
According to the Federation of Small Businesses
(FSB) it's the 63 per cent of
rural areas which voiced their concerns about being forced to put
up with meagre internet speeds.
This is why the FSB decided to address the
government... [read more]
posted on 21 May 2012
According to a myriad of sources, the Metropolitan
Police plans to access and download criminal
suspects' mobile data.
This means that if you are suspected of any wrong-doing, your
Angry Birds scores, along with other perhaps more important data
may potentially be accessed by the Met, providin... [read more]
posted on 18 May 2012
Business ISP, Fluidata, had announced the
launch of its new line bonding service. The time has come to bond
fibre.
The PureFluid PULSE service is to bond two or three
FTTC-based lines capable of up to 80Mbps which
would deliver downloads of up to 200Mbps along
with 60Mbps uploads.
If the ne... [read more]
posted on 17 May 2012
TalkTalk has today revealed its quarterly results for Q1 (ending
last March) and apparently things are looking up
for the provider and its child firm, AOL.
You might recall that the ISP was losing out on subscribers
while Ofcom's customer satisfaction surveys constantly ranked the
firm at the ... [read more]
posted on 16 May 2012
No news is good news for Orange as the mobile
operator and fixed-line broadband provider confirmed that
it did not gain any new customers nor it lost any
for the second quarter in a row.
It is worth underlining that before the aforementioned two
static quarters, the ISP was losing out on custo... [read more]
posted on 15 May 2012
Recent reports have revealed a very interesting fact -
adult content filters used by mobile operators
have started a process called "over-blocking". This means
that legitimate sites are being blocked by filters.
The Open Rights Group (ORG) and the LSE
Media Policy Project both thought this was... [read more]
posted on 14 May 2012
Many of you might be familiar with (or have been victims of)
high roaming charges especially when it comes to
using mobile broadband abroad. According to recent reports,
O2 plans to be the first mobile operator to tackle
the problem and apply the new EU regulations.
The old O2 PAYG (pay as you... [read more]
posted on 11 May 2012
Mobile giant O2 (owned by
Telephonica) has just released its latest
quarterly results.
According to the company's calculations, the fixed line
broadband side of the business continued to see a subscriber base
decline - losing 2,500 customers
(BE's number is also included).
This means that as ... [read more]
posted on 10 May 2012
According to BT's freshly published Q1 2012
results, its FTTC (fibre-to-the-cabinet) broadband
service now reaches a whopping 10m firms and
households, which equals to 40 per cent of the country. This means
that the provider is solidly ahead of its original schedule.
The company has managed to... [read more]
posted on 09 May 2012
According to recent reports, the ASA heard
BT's complaints regarding Virgin Media's adverts
in a tech mag, thought that the concerns made sense and thus
decided to ban the promos.
In the ad Virgin Media claimed that it was
supplying "UK's fastest broadband", a statement which
BT saw as mislea... [read more]
posted on 08 May 2012
It seems that Wi-Fi hungry coffee lovers have
officially become spoilt for choice.
Simplifydigital would like to remind you that customers can get
wireless broadband from the Cloud with their lattes at
Nero, BT Openzone's Wi-Fi at
Starbucks and now O2's services
when sipping an espress... [read more]
posted on 04 May 2012
According to recent reports, the Prime Minister, David
Cameron, has called on ISPs to automatically start
blocking pornographic websites as a part of a wider strategy to
keep children safe online.
It has been said that the Ministers aim to launch a new
consultation which is to look into the me... [read more]
posted on 03 May 2012
According to a fresh study, young people are becoming
increasingly cryptic about what they are doing
online, a recent study suggested.
The research conducted by the Lund University
in Sweden, found that the trend to keep online activity secret
among 15 to 25-year-olds has increased by
... [read more]
posted on 02 May 2012
According to Sky's quarterly results, bundling
has become very popular as more than 3.2m homes
decided to subscribe the provider's "triple play"
services.
As a quick reminder, triple play means taking three products
from a single supplier (for example broadband, calls and digital
TV).
... [read more]
posted on 01 May 2012
More good fibre broadband news as CityFibre
Holdings recently announced that it joined forces with
Fujitsu to deploy superfast internet to what the firms referred to
as "the UK's second tier cities".
This means that the two companies are planning to make download
speeds of at least 100M... [read more]
posted on 30 April 2012
According to Everything Everywhere (the parent
company of T-Mobile and Orange), 10m people who
don't have access to fixed-line broadband at the
moment (and are unlikely to get it by 2020) will be able to make
use of 4G mobile broadband as an alternative way of staying
connected.
This i... [read more]
posted on 27 April 2012
Good news comes to a few rural communities in North
Yorkshire as a collaboration between
ILoveBroadband, Connecting North
Yorkshire (CNY) as well as LN
Communications resulted in the deployment and launch of a
brand new broadband wireless network at the local Darley Memorial
Hall.
The... [read more]
posted on 26 April 2012
Good news comes to the residents of a rural village also known
as Little London (based in Hampshire). It has been
confirmed that they now have access to speeds of up to
40Mbps.
It's worth mentioning that previously the community had to deal
with woeful downloads which reached merely a h... [read more]
posted on 25 April 2012
Moments ago Virgin Media, cable titan and
broadband provider, has announced its latest quarterly results.
According to the company's calculations, its broadband subscriber
base jumped up by 30.5k scoring a rather handsome
4,381,600.
While the fibre platform continues to grow, giving cus... [read more]
posted on 20 April 2012
No, you are not suffering from an acute case of déjà vu, dear
reader. This time O2's sister company,
BE, is affected by a routing issue. It means that
some of the ISP's customers might find it difficult or, at times,
impossible to access certain webpages.
As previously hinted, this issu... [read more]