05:19 pm - January 6th, 2009 by Sean
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.
TalkTalk initially told SamKnows it had not immediately passed on the reduction because it was working on increasing its £4
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12:10 pm - December 17th, 2008 by Sean
No sooner had the ink dried on the multiple column inches devoted to Virgin Media’s 50Mbps service launch, then Be announced results of a 48Mbps trial near Paddington, London.
Although the full results of the trial are not to be released until the start of next year, a statement from Be pointed out that managing director,
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06:28 pm - December 15th, 2008 by Sean
BT’s trial of the controversial targeted advertising platform, Phorm, has ended with both parties reporting success and a commitment to ‘move towards deployment’.
The trial began two and a half months ago to establish if the technology could be used on real life which, Phorm claims, it has shown it can.
“The trial achieved its primary objective
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12:12 am - November 14th, 2008 by Phil
Talk Talk have announced revisions to its broadband and phone bundles available from Tuesday November 18th.
Customers on exchanges with Talk Talk equipment will be able to “Boost” their speed above 8Mbits/s download by opting for an “up to 24M” option if their line is capable of a higher speed, for a monthly topup of £4/month
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08:49 pm - September 22nd, 2008 by Sean
Carphone Warehouse is reported to still be in talks to buy Tiscali. The Italian-owned ISP had been hoping to set up an auction between Vodafone and Carphone Warehouse this summer but Vodafone pulled out of the process, believing Tiscali had valued itself too highly.
Tiscali is believed to still be talking to Sky about a possible
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10:34 pm - September 2nd, 2008 by Sean
BBC engineers have used the lull after frenzied downloading and streaming of the Olympics to fix a bug with iPlayer that was causing BT Home Hubs and O2 and Be wireless routers to reset.
The annoying bug was believed to be a problem in the BBC’s encoding of the system that was affecting wireless routes using
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