SamKnows - Broadband News, Analysis and Profiles

Sky broadband growth slowing, losses narrowing and LLU complete

28 Jan 2010 | 13.51 Europe/London

Sky’s half yearly results show that although the ISP is outperforming arch rival TalkTalk on net new broadband additions, its rate of acceleration is showing signs of slowing.

Meek: wrong time to fix Digital Britain mobile broadband quandry

27 Jan 2010 | 22.55 Europe/London

The Government's moves towards bringing about a Digital Britain have come at "wrong point in the electoral cycle.

Broadband fibre war of words heats up as Virgin slams BT Infinity launch claims

25 Jan 2010 | 11.29 Europe/London

Virgin Media has hit back at claims from BT that its newly-announced Infinity fibre service is better than the alternative from Virgin Media, particularly on price and upload speeds.

Mobile broadband cost and poor experience putting off mass market

22 Jan 2010 | 14.20 Europe/London

Research published this week suggests that mobile internet browsing is being shunned by three in four mobile users because of concerns over cost and poor service.

BT Infinity: Fibre battles Virgin on price and upload speeds

21 Jan 2010 | 18.26 Europe/London

BT has Virgin Media firmly in its sites today as it launched its highly-antipicated fibre product, BT Infinity.

Broadband boost for TalkTalk from the X-Factor

21 Jan 2010 | 11.09 Europe/London

The X-Factor may have missed out on a Christmas number one this year, but TalkTalk believes the hit show it sponsored played a star role in it more than trebling analysts expectations for net new broadband customers in the last three months of 2009.

Government Outlines inner workings of Digital Britain copyright code

21 Jan 2010 | 08.11 Europe/London

The Government's just published the snappily-titled '

BPI: policing pirates could cost us all 24p in Digital Britain, not £24 -- UPDATED

20 Jan 2010 | 18.59 Europe/London

The British Phonographic Institute's commissioned some research into just how expensive the Digital Economy Bill's copyright measures could be for both Internet Service Providers and end users.

"Critical moment" as IP address exhaustion threatens web as we know it

19 Jan 2010 | 23.43 Europe/London

We're being warned that less than ten per cent of IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) addresses remain - and if action's not taken soon it could have "grave consequences" for the future of the Internet.

OiNK founder escapes pen(alty) in UK piracy trial first

17 Jan 2010 | 23.13 Europe/London

The man in the dock in Britain's first prosecution over alleged illegal file-sharing has been found not guilty of Conspiracy to Defraud.

Profile: Easynet’s MD, Chris Stening, on 100Mb fibre broadband launch

15 Jan 2010 | 14.18 Europe/London

The increasing need for bandwidth as companies of all sizes conduct more business through cloud computing lies behind Easynet Connect’s launch this week of a £15k per year uncontended 100Mbps fibre service, according to its Managing Director, Chris Stening.

100Mbit/s fibre-optic broadband in Manchester super information Corridor

14 Jan 2010 | 23.52 Europe/London

Residents and businesses in part of Manchester are a step closer to having a "true open access network which will revolutionise ways of working and using digital communications.

Be to launch 'bonded' 40Mb next month

13 Jan 2010 | 14.22 Europe/London

Be broadband is to launch an up to 40Mb ‘bonded’ ADSL2+ service next month.

The ISP is claiming that uploads speeds should increase to up to 5Mb but is warning that February’s unveiling of the new service will be a soft launch.

We're officially a quarter of the way to Digital Britain

12 Jan 2010 | 22.42 Europe/London

According to the Government, one in four of the recommendations set out in the Digital Britain white paper have been achieved.

299 proposed amendments Lorded over Digital Economy Bill - and counting

10 Jan 2010 | 19.53 Europe/London

The Digital Economy Bill is currently going through the House of Lords in what is the committee stage; this week it had its first "line by line examination.

Billion pound question: Govt wants your views on fibre

08 Jan 2010 | 16.28 Europe/London

The Department for Business Innovation and Skills has opened up a three month

ISP moves to officially TalkTalk up Tiscali

07 Jan 2010 | 21.02 Europe/London

You won't be seeing any more of the Tiscali logo as the brand is officially decommissioned.

When two become one

It's seemed inevitable since at least back midway through last year that name "Tiscali" would be consigned to the dustbin of history, with Carphone Warehouse moving to acquire the ISP last May.