<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:rssdatehelper="urn:rssdatehelper"><channel><title>Simplifydigital News</title><link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk</link><generator>umbraco</generator><description>Broadband, digital TV and home phone news made simple</description><language>en</language><sy:updatePeriod xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/">hourly</sy:updatePeriod><sy:updateFrequency xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/">1</sy:updateFrequency><item><title>No news is good news for Orange</title><link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/no-news-is-good-news-for-orange/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/no-news-is-good-news-for-orange/</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
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 custom...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Report reveals list of unfair content blocks</title><link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/report-reveals-list-of-unfair-content-blocks/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:55:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/report-reveals-list-of-unfair-content-blocks/</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
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 ...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>O2 to slice its roaming charges</title><link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/o2-to-slice-its-roaming-charges/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:37:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/o2-to-slice-its-roaming-charges/</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
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 ...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>O2 reveals latest quarterly results</title><link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/o2-reveals-latest-quarterly-results/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 11:17:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/o2-reveals-latest-quarterly-results/</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
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 o...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>BT Infinity reaches 10m UK premises</title><link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/bt-infinity-reaches-10m-uk-premises/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:26:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/bt-infinity-reaches-10m-uk-premises/</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
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 ...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ASA bans Virgin Medias UKs fastest ads</title><link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/asa-bans-virgin-medias-uks-fastest-ads/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 04:10:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/asa-bans-virgin-medias-uks-fastest-ads/</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
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 mislead...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>O2 to provide Wi-Fi across all Costa coffee shops</title><link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/o2-to-provide-wi-fi-across-all-costa-coffee-shops/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 11:24:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/o2-to-provide-wi-fi-across-all-costa-coffee-shops/</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
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 espresso...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Will ISPs be forced to block adult content by default</title><link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/will-isps-be-forced-to-block-adult-content-by-default/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 04:17:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/will-isps-be-forced-to-block-adult-content-by-default/</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
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 mea...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Internet users pay to download illegally study finds</title><link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/internet-users-pay-to-download-illegally-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 12:37:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/internet-users-pay-to-download-illegally-study-finds/</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
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
4...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Sky sees triple play growth in Q1</title><link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/sky-sees-triple-play-growth-in-q1/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 12:56:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/sky-sees-triple-play-growth-in-q1/</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
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).
...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Second tier cities to get ultra fast fibre broadband</title><link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/second-tier-cities-to-get-ultra-fast-fibre-broadband/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 12:02:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/second-tier-cities-to-get-ultra-fast-fibre-broadband/</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
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 100Mb...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>05</title><link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 12:01:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/05/</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Everything Everywhere notspots could get 4G instead of fixed-line broadband</title><link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/04/everything-everywhere-notspots-could-get-4g-instead-of-fixed-line-broadband/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:36:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/04/everything-everywhere-notspots-could-get-4g-instead-of-fixed-line-broadband/</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
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 is...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Rural North Yorkshire communities get superfast fibre broadband</title><link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/04/rural-north-yorkshire-communities-get-superfast-fibre-broadband/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 05:39:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/04/rural-north-yorkshire-communities-get-superfast-fibre-broadband/</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
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 ...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Little London gets superfast speeds after dealing with broadband woes</title><link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/04/little-london-gets-superfast-speeds-after-dealing-with-broadband-woes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:27:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/04/little-london-gets-superfast-speeds-after-dealing-with-broadband-woes/</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
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 ha...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Virgin Media sees steady growth in Q1</title><link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/04/virgin-media-sees-steady-growth-in-q1/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:25:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/04/virgin-media-sees-steady-growth-in-q1/</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
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 cust...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>BE still affected by routing issues</title><link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/04/be-still-affected-by-routing-issues/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:44:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/04/be-still-affected-by-routing-issues/</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
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 issue...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>O2 revealed the results of its 4G trial</title><link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/04/o2-revealed-the-results-of-its-4g-trial/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:18:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/04/o2-revealed-the-results-of-its-4g-trial/</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
Good news comes from O2 as the mobile giant and
broadband provider has today announced the results of its
4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology based
portable broadband.

According to 1,000 users who took part in the 2.6GHz
trial, speeds averaged between the
20-50MBps mark, meanwhile t...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ASA bans BT Infinity ads for misleading speed claims</title><link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/04/asa-bans-bt-infinity-ads-for-misleading-speed-claims/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:21:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/04/asa-bans-bt-infinity-ads-for-misleading-speed-claims/</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
According to recent reports, a BT broadband
advert has been banned after misleading customers
about the speed of its Infinity broadband
service.

 The ad from BT, featured on TV, press and internet ads, promised
customers broadband speeds "unbeatable" speeds only to be
challenged by comp...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>6 months free broadband and calls from Plusnet</title><link>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/04/6-months-free-broadband-and-calls-from-plusnet/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:34:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/news/articles/2012/04/6-months-free-broadband-and-calls-from-plusnet/</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
Good news comes to those who are in the market to find a new
broadband and home phone bundle as Plusnet has
started offering its Value and
Extra packages for free for 6
months.

As a quick reminder, Value gives customers access to speeds of
up to 16Mbps as well as a 10GB monthly
usage o...]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>

