Orange will relaunch its home broadband service online on Monday with an offer of free broadband for all its pay monthly mobile customers. Previously the offer had been limited to pay monthly customers on a tariff of £30 or more. The offer is currently available in-store and on telesales but will be promoted online from
A flaw in the way web addresses are served to computers, which allows criminals to redirect traffic to scam sites, is just starting to be used to trap international bank customers in to parting with account details. However, problems are unlikely to spread to the UK where it appears the flaw has been patched by
The marketeers efforts to capture the 40% of households that don’t have broadband continue, using the lure of a "free" (ie inclusive) laptop tied in with a very long contract term on 3G mobile broadband (or in some cases fixed line broadband). This is fairly clever in that someone without a
The gaming industry is coming after illegal downloaders and the bad news for ISPs is it appears the sector is not trying the educational route taken by the music industry.
Lawyers working for American developer, Topware Interactive, creators of Dream Pinball, have not only successfully prosecuted a UK woman for £16,000 worth of damages for illegal
The BBC is changing a number of aspects of their iPlayer TV and Radio service. Originally conceived as a download “catch up” service using P2P services it is now largely used in streaming mode, no doubt reflecting the technical ability and attention span of the viewing population.
The changes include a new “high quality” option which
OFCOM have published the results of research into how fast data can be transmitted over a copper local loop.
This is a very theoretical study that asks what might be possible some day, while noting that the standards to achieve that level of performance have not been defined and equipment is certainly not available.
It also looks
BT Wholesale’s recently launched WBC (Wholesale Broadband Connect) service has suffered a setback this week as 440 exchange activation dates have been delayed and a further 320 have been removed from the schedule all together.
The new wholesale service from BT offers ADSL2+ end user connections and will eventually be available nationwide. Despite being launched in
Broadband is continuing to be the lead growth area for Virgin Media according to its second quarter figures which were released this morning with a reminder that the brand is gearing up to launch 50mb broadband later in the year.
The company added 54,600 net new broadband customers in the quarter, up from 45,800 for the
BT is still due to press ahead with its ‘technical trial’ of Phorm, despite a letter from the European Commission to the government asking for reassurance, before the end of the month, that the system does not contravene EU data laws.
Despite the caution in Brussels, the broadband provider will “soon” be inviting 10,000 of its
I am pleased to announce that our first Performance Monitoring report is ready (finally!).
The report is available in PDF format using the link below. Apologies for the relatively large file size - many of the images are at a higher resolution, so you can zoom in for a better look. A one page “executive summary”
OFCOM has given consent for BT to offer free / discounted phone services to up to 300 homes on the Ebbsfleet development. These will be provided using optical fibre to the home (FTTH) and the consumer will have an adaptor to connect normal telephones to the IP based fibre connection.
This permission is a technicality to
After conceding to SamKnows that the property slump was having an impact on its broadband sales Carphone Warehouse has now roughly halved the number of new customers it expects to connect this year, from 400,000 to between 200,000 to 250,000.
However the latest figures from the group also revealed what it is admitting as ‘disruption’ causing
O2 has kicked off a mobile broadband promotions war which will dominate broadband deals this summer and early autumn.
Until the end of October customers taking out its mobile broadband product for £20 per month will now get free home broadband for a year as long as they live with the O2 Home Broadband Network, which