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

The UK’s biggest residential ISP has just posted it’s first trading statement since it acquired its former rival Tiscali. And despite its newest brand losing over sixty thousand customers in period in question, the TalkTalk Group has declared a “stronger than expected quarter for customer growth.” However, its forecast for mobile broadband isn’t so positive.

Millions of broadband users don’t know their download limits and, according to new research, the number is increasing. According to the study, compiled by YouGov, around 6.7 million people could be violating so-called “Fair Usage Policies” by unknowingly exceeding bandwidth allowances on Internet packages that have been marketed as providing “unlimited” downloads.

AOL is relaunching its home page as the only place where UK surfers can check their mail and log on to multiple social networks automatically from one location.
Curiously, the new homepage is not yet available to all visitors, despite today’s announcement. It is instead being rolled out so that within a couple of weeks all [...]

While the talk of flat markets was hardly surprising, the biggest news to come out of Carphone Warehouse’s Q4 trading update, released this morning, was confirmation the group will split its retail and telecoms operations.
Analysts and investors have long called on the group to realise there was never much logic behind having a retailer and [...]

We all thought we’d left pay-as-you-go Internet behind back when we said goodbye to dial-up connections. But over in the States, if Time Warner Cable (TWC) has its way, what it’s now calling “consumption-based billing” could be making a comeback. But there’s a problem: people just don’t want it.
TWC is having difficulty finding volunteers in [...]

After news yesterday that Phorm could be getting the U.K. Government in trouble with the European courts, Amazon UK has announced it’s not going to let the behaviour-advertising system scan its web pages. The controversial technology  – which is marketed under the name Webwise – works by scanning for keywords in the pages an Internet [...]

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 [...]

BT have caused a bit of a stir this week by mailing a personalised letter to current or former Tiscali group broadband customers (these include Pipex, Freedom2Surf and Nildram). A photograph of one of the letters is available here, having been discussed in various forums earlier this week.
The letter points out the attempts by Tiscali [...]

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.
As [...]

Orange have today introduced a new broadband pricing structure that sees them differentiate pricing according to coverage of their LLU (Local Loop Unbundling) network. Like other LLU operators including TalkTalk and Sky, Orange provide broadband services over their own LLU network where they have coverage and fall back to BT’s IPStream network where they do [...]

It seems that at the beginning of each year someone somewhere heralds the coming year as being the “year of broadband”. 2007 was no different, with many predicting that LLU would truly take off. In many ways this has held true – there are now in excess of 3 million unbundled lines in the UK, [...]

Two changes have been made to the availability checker today. Firstly, AOL LLU data has now been fully incorporated in to the checker (and the rest of the site). The checker will now report whether or not AOL has unbundled your exchange. Similarly, you can view this information on your exchange page as well.
Sadly, the [...]

AOL UK have today launched new pricing for their broadband services. The new pricing raises the cost of AOL broadband on non-LLU exchanges, and keeps the cost the same for AOL unbundled exchanges. It is believed that AOL have currently unbundled around 390 exchanges, and plans to increase this number significantly over the next year. [...]

Carphone’s targeted rollout of 1,000 exchanges just over a year ago has already been surpassed. No less than 1,134 exchanges have been unbundled now. What’s potentially even more interesting is that they are targetting a further 500 exchanges by March 2008 (see page 36 of CPW’s annual strategy day PDF). Also of interest in the [...]

A much needed update of the Availability Checker has finally been completed. This adds support for ADSL Max, Be, Wanadoo, Zen, Edge and also improved data for Now wireless services. There are also a few other additions that will be completed over the coming weeks.
The updated checker builds directly on top of a new Availability [...]

Easynet are to offer LLUStream via their network of LLU exchanges – list here
Pricing is unclear as yet but in the press release from Easynet they are making noises about being significantly cheaper.
2005 should be a interesting year for LLU developments.
Wanadoo looking at rolling out LLU services
AOL has also mentioned that LLU rollout is a [...]