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posted on 17 July 2012
According to Worcestershire County Council's
(WCC) chairman, the BDUK office has "grossly
underestimated" the time it will require to kick off all the
country's broadband delivery plans.
According to the initial scheme, June should have been the month
that saw all the projects lift off.... [read more]
posted on 17 July 2012
You know it's getting brutal when broadband doesn't cost cheap
as chips anymore.
Because it's just got cheaper than chips.
Primus Saver has recently launched a brand new
deal via uSwitch which offers the usual services
for just £1.20 per month.
SimplifyDigital should add that line ... [read more]
posted on 17 July 2012
BT, could you please move your car-crash
cabinet, asked Ripley residents in a petition
which gathered as many as 60 signatures
already.
The Derbyshire-based town's residents claimed that the
positioning of BT's FTTC-capable cabinet was very off as it was
placed at the end street corner... [read more]
posted on 17 July 2012
You might have noticed that you couldn't make calls yesterday
evening.
That's because O2's network suffered a massive
outage - some customers reported having no voice or data
services which meant they couldn't call, receive calls, use mobile
broadband or write text messages.
Neverthe... [read more]
posted on 17 July 2012
Some of you might remember that 4G comes
packaged with a few problems, mainly for those who enjoy
DTT (digital terrestrial television), seeing as
the signals between the two might cause interference and
disruptions to the services.
What to do, what to do, Ofcom and the UK
Government po... [read more]
posted on 09 July 2012
Recent reports have suggested that one of the major factors why
boosting the broadband situation in the UK has been taking so long
is EU's fears that there isn't enough ISP competition in
the UK.
Organisations have already voiced their criticisms regarding the
situation, with CLA (Count... [read more]
posted on 09 July 2012
Customers should know when their services are being disrupted
because of cable theft, thought BTOpenreach. And
indeed, it kicked off a three month trial of a system where it
would inform customers and ISPs alike about any occurring outages
(also known as MSOs Major Service Outage) which
h... [read more]
posted on 09 July 2012
Four weeks ago Virgin Media rolled out its
wireless broadband service to more than 40 London Underground Tube
stations and over 10,000 passengers have used it ever since.
According to Virgin Media's calculator, busy commuters managed to
view and send 1m Tweets, Facebook posts, emails an... [read more]
posted on 09 July 2012
Game changing news in the sphere of satellite broadband as
Tooway has rolled out a brand new deal which
offers set up, hardware and installation for free as well as
broadband download speeds of up to 18Mbps (the
maximum).
Tooway uses Eutelsat's KA-SAT
spacecraft to deliver the service... [read more]
posted on 09 July 2012
According to Helen Goodman, the Shadow Minister
for Media, the UK Government and Ofcom should
hurry up to come up with solutions as to what should be done with
2m UK households which use Freeview (digital TV)
and the potential interference 4G mobile broadband services might
cause.
It h... [read more]
posted on 29 June 2012
Sky customers should be advised that the
provider is going through changes. Some of you might recall that
Sky froze its prices last year while other providers announced
increases.
In order to keep providing the best it can, Sky said that the time
has come it rethought its pricing.
... [read more]
posted on 28 June 2012
BT has announced that it decided to rename its
wireless broadband side of the business from
BTOpenzone to a slightly easier to remember title
- BT Wi-Fi.
In addition, those who use the BT Fon service
will notice that the product has merged with Openzone and will also
be marketed under ... [read more]
posted on 27 June 2012
Sky Broadband complained to the Advertising Standards
Authority (ASA) saying that Virgin Media
was misleading consumers with its online ads with sport star
Usain Bolt.
The campaign promised that all of Virgin Media customers' broadband
speeds would be boosted. ASA has upheld the complai... [read more]
posted on 26 June 2012
An interesting proposal is under consideration at the moment. As
pages such as Newzbin and The Pirate Bay have been blocked by
all major UK providers, the time has come for the industry to
consider what the websites are going to display when a user lands
on the homepage of these blocked UR... [read more]
posted on 25 June 2012
Google has announced the launch of its latest
product in the UK - Google TV, an IPTV
service.
As a quick reminder, the company wanted to launch the service in
early 2012, however there was rain on Google's parade in the form
of complaints from the US market due to the insufficient
vide... [read more]
posted on 25 June 2012
According to recent reports, the much anticipated YouView
service (broadband-based television) is going to suffer further
delays and is now likely to surface only in the third quarter of
this year - late July or early August.
The good news is that the product is going to be available on
... [read more]
posted on 25 June 2012
According to recent reports, Plusnet is to raise its line rental
charge for all customers who choose to go for the Line
Rental Saver option.
From next month onwards, the money-saving option will cost £1
per month more which means some of Plusnet's bundles are going to
get a tad more exp... [read more]
posted on 20 June 2012
As much as BT was trying to escape the
inevitable - it has become the latest and the biggest ISP to start
blocking access to allegedly illegal downloads facilitating website
- The Pirate Bay.
Many of you will remember that a whole array of broadband
providers started blocking the now no... [read more]
posted on 19 June 2012
Good news comes to BT customers who also happen
to be huge football fans. Next August (2013) the
provider will start screening 38 of the best live
games from the Premier League a year for
the next three years.
Some footie fans will know that the total number of matches in the
Premier ... [read more]
posted on 19 June 2012
You might remember that Three, O2 and Vodafone have all
changed their policies when it comes to roaming charges. So has
T-Mobile as of now.
The EU stated clearly - the roaming charges prior to these
changes have left consumers bill-shocked because
of their unreasonably high costs.
T-... [read more]