BT’s decision this week to open its fibre ducts to competitors has been given a cautious welcome by rivals.
However, the overriding concern is that there are no firm details from BT about how access will be given and under what terms. With the growing politicisation of fibre, for its ability to bring ‘next generation’ broadband [...]

BT is to open its fibre ducts to allow third parties to roll out their own fibre networks.
In a move its Chief Executive described as ‘unlikely to be the silver bullet that will get fibre in to every home’, the broadband giant has arguable pre-empted future legislation that would have forced it to open its [...]

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.
Ironically, television seemed to dominate both ISPs’ results for the last half and last quarter of 2009. While TalkTalk publicly acknowledged its sponsorship of the X-Factor of nearly [...]

The BT Group is waging a war on two fronts: versus the Government on one side, battling TalkTalk and Sky on the other.

The BBC Trust has given a conditional green light to the IPTV venture.

The BBC has released figures detailing the anticipated cost of developing Canvas, an open platform standard for combining IPTV and Freeview it hopes to roll out commercially towards the end of next year.
The corporation estimates that the total cost of development up to launch, and for its first four years, will be just under £100m (£98.6m). [...]

Lord Mandelson confirmed today in Cabinet that the controversial ‘three strikes and out’ policy to tackle internet piracy is to go ahead with the new revelations that ISPs and rights holders will share the cost of enforcement.
TalkTalk has been so incensed by the announcement that it has commissioned a ‘bright dancing’ video featuring a pair [...]

The industry body representing the UK’s record companies has just announced this is already the “biggest ever year” for sales of singles in Britain. Meanwhile, figures from the Motion Picture Association of America show that movie takings are, on the whole, rising. With Lord Peter Mandelson expected to outline the Government’s plans for dealing with illegal downloading tomorrow, what price piracy?

Getting a deal to put Sky Player on its IP Vision’s Fetch TV set top box is a coup which its Business and Marketing Director, Peter Cox, believes will show it is doing what Canvas is talking about, only right here and now. In essence, he jokes, it is like having a canvas, only theirs [...]

In a second submission to the BBC Trust Sky has again accused the publicly funded broadcaster of “riding a coach and horses” through the embryonic market for online television.
In another  stinging attack on Project Canvas, published this evening, the satellite broadcaster and ISP accuses the BBC of misspending licence fee money to “stifle innovation” in [...]

Sky appointed Ruth Barnett as the UK’s Twitter correspondent in April to mixed reactions. While many fans of the micro blogging site saw the move as a masterstroke there were some voices which suggested the move might have been a token stunt.
However, Barnett is insistent that the channel is a vital means to build up [...]

Sky has broken ranks with leading rival ISPs BT and TalkTalk by revealing it thinks disconnection should not be excluded as a possible answer to piracy.
On the day the Government’s consultation on illegal file sharing closed, Sky supported the general direction the Government is taking and emphasised that it, unlike rivals, has an ability to [...]

Ofcom’s just announced its proposals for regulating the UK’s infamously “nascent” video-on-demand marketplace. In line with revisions to European law, content could be regulated as soon as December this year.

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.

The Ashes approaching and then reaching a dramatic climax at the same time as the Premier League season got underway has given Sky a record number of new customers for its Sky Sports and News mobile television package as well as its 24-7 football goals and highlights service.
The surge in interest is bound to put [...]

Now that the Edinburgh Festival proper’s over, it’s the city’s Television Festival that’s hitting the headlines – and, for the BBC at least, it’s no laughing matter. One day James Murdoch, the chair and chief executive of News Corporation in Europe declared the Beeb’s “flooding the market” with its online offerings; the next Five’s chief executive is leading calls for its presence on the Internet to be dramatically stripped back. The gallant Robert Peston’s stepped in to try and save the day, but will anyone else stand up for the BBC?

Chris Stening believes success in the business ISP market is different from the consumer sector, relying far more on quality and service than price alone.
While he claims Easynet Connect, where he is Managing Director, will always be competitive in price, he is adamant that value is only one of the three success factors for a [...]

Sky is reducing the monthly bandwidth allowance on the “mid” product to 10GB from 40GB.

Sky has launched a scathing attack on the BBC and the BBC Trust over the proposed Project Canvas which would see BBC, ITV and BT collaboration on a set top box which would bring online video content to the living room – essentially a Freeview box but with iPlayer-style functionality.
Sky’s response to the BBC Trust [...]

First they were, then they weren’t, then everyone thought they might be again but they weren’t but now, finally, Carphone Warehouse is being reported to have made an informal offer of £275m for Tiscali’s UK assets.
This is believed to be way below the price Tiscali had been seeking – it turned down an offer for [...]