Broadband News

Stephen Carter’s interim Digital Britain report was published today as more of a conversation starter than a list of proposed policies some may have wished for.

TalkTalk is launching an 'Emergency Plan' today which gives existing customers six months internet connection and access to their TalkTalk home phone plan for free, leaving them to pay just the line rental each month.

Sky unveiled quarterly figures which it suggests makes it the country’s fastest growing broadband provider and warned rivals that it feels there is still much growth yet to come through converting more of its 9.

BA is due to launch what it claims will be the first transatlantic mobile internet service from a UK airline when it launches its new London City to JFK business class only route this Autumn.

There are many people eagerly anticipating Stephen Carter’s Digital Britain report this week but long-time ‘notspot’ campaigner and author, Lindsey Annison, is fearing the report’s recommendations will not go far enough in bringing broadband to rural communities and those on the wrong side of the existing digital divide.

Sylvain Thevenot can understand why many people believe his appointment last autumn as TalkTalk’s senior director of products and strategy means the ISP is aiming to launch a mobile broadband service.

The National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (Nesta) is calling on the Government to think more creatively about how it could encourage fibre to be rolled out by rewarding companies with digital radio spectrum for Wi-Max use.

Virgin Media is launching Setanta Replay today which gives its top tier customers free video on demand replays of sporting action for up to a week after it is first broadcast.

Be customers are being promised a multi million pound network improvement scheme which should start easing congestion within a month to six weeks.

Sky customers are the least likely to switch their ISP, independent research from Strategy Analytics reveals.

Privacy campaigners have ushered in the new year with warnings that new EU rules compelling ISPs to keep a record of email communications for a year are an infringement of civil liberties.

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• UK consumers on average receive a maximum speed of 4.3Mbit/s
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• Customers with an ‘up to 8Mbit/s’ package received, on average, a speed of 3.

The Vat reduction was passed on by most major ISPs at the end of last year with the notable exceptions of TalkTalk and Sky, and it looks likely to stay that way for the time being.