OFCOM have today announced the conclusion of their review and consultation(s) on the price regulation framework applied to BT Openreach. This increases the price ceiling applied to the rental of copper loops by providers of local loop unbundled (LLU) services.

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” [...]

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 [...]

The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint from BT that Virgin Media’s recent Hate to Wait campaign was misleading.
The advert listed typical download times for a song and television show for its M (up to 2Mb), L (up to 4Mb) and XL (up to 20Mb) packages. The advert was designed to show that whilst [...]

YouTube is synonymous with amateur shaky footage of high school pranks and skateboarding dogs but that might be about to change, at least partially; and that could cause a headache for ISPs.
The famous video site has recently given its content partners, the companies which launch a channel on YouTube, the green light to exceed its [...]

Despite hopes being raised at the recent London Calling event where ISPs met representatives from the music industry, the two sides would seem as diametrically opposed as ever on how to deal with unauthorised file sharing, particularly on who should pay to combat the problem.
Although former pop star Feargal Sharkey, now head of the BMR [...]

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 [...]

Be Unlimited have this morning announced plans to expand their network by nearly 400 exchanges within the next four months. This represents a 50% increase in their exchange footprint and will give them the second largest LLU network in the UK. Their 1245 unbundled exchanges will be trumped only by TalkTalk’s 1645. Be’s network of [...]

Hot on the heels of last week’s news that Bulldog were cutting off all of their SDSL clients, it now seems that Bulldog is accepting no new customers at all.
Whilst the Bulldog website still speaks of its products on various pages, anyone attempting to buy any products or perform an availability check is redirected to [...]

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, [...]

I’ve added a couple of new LLU providers to the listings today – Lumison (a business ISP based operating in Scotland) and WB Internet. I’ve also updated the Carphone Warehouse / TalkTalk data en-mass, thanks to an update provided by the company themselves. In an effort to help out users of the site who are [...]

It has been advertised for a couple of weeks now and common knowledge for even longer, but today it’s official – Wanadoo are to rebrand to Orange as of tomorrow.
In conjunction with this announcement, they have also launched their ‘free’ broadband service as well. As expected, this requires you to have a £30+ per month [...]