In the same week that BBC Radio One and the Guardian put out an appeal to hear from UK web users who had received a letter from Virgin Media warning of illegal file downloading on their account (with tips on how to avoid it), the American courts took a far more draconian stance on privacy.
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We’ve received an awful lot of emails over the past few days from people keen to find out when Be Unlimited and O2 will be offering services in their area. The sudden upsurge in this email traffic is of course because the June 30th RFS (Ready For Service) date for around 150 exchanges has passed.
Yesterday the Guardian had a pull-out “Optical Fibre” supplement whilst Ofcom’s Chief Executive was talking to a conference in London about “super-fast broadband”.
The back page of the Guardian supplement was occupied by an advert from Virgin media, who have faced some controversy following advertising their services as “fibre optic” when the final stretch of cable
There’s a lot of talk of WiMax currently, largely originating from company PR departments hoping to recover their development costs or sell lots of WiMax chips and devices. But what does it offer to the average broadband user ?
To be honest, not a lot right now. You may have heard that WiMax has a range
The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint from BT that Virgin Media’s recent Hate to Wait campaign was misleading.
The advert listed typical download times for a song and television show for its M (up to 2Mb), L (up to 4Mb) and XL (up to 20Mb) packages. The advert was designed to show that whilst
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently announced plans for a free broadband service to cover the country. The service will be based upon what are now known as “advanced wireless services” which can include a range of technologies from 3G to the latest broadband delivery system. As has become very common in
South Derbyshire District Council have for some time now being raising questions about the standard of broadband provision in their district and challenging BT to address the problem.
Using our exchange checker we can see that three of the exchanges in the area (Swadlincote, Peartree and Mickleover) have a full set of LLU services so there