Fibre connectivity has been in the news a lot lately and if H2O Networks have their way, we will be seeing consumers with Fibre To The Home (FTTH) a lot sooner than BT's 2012 date. Full Story... comments?
Virgin Media is racking up the PR battle in response to the FTTC/FTTH news from the BT Group. The Chief Technology Office Howard Watson has been talking to Reuters and revealed plans to be offering 200Mbps connections by 2012. Full Story... comments?
A key part of the news of a memorandum of understanding between the BPI and the six largest UK broadband providers is that it covers such a large swathe of the UK broadband public. Full Story... comments?
Carphone Warehouse has signed the recently announced Memorandum of Understanding with the The Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform. Interestingly though Talk Talk has issued a press statement that it will strive to protect customers' rights to freedom of use of the Internet. Full Story... comments?
Apparently it has taken the government to broker a deal between the BPI and six major broadband providers (BT Retail, Virgin Media, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse). Full Story... comments?
There is a sense that for the Advertising Standards Authority to start making rulings against adverts that sell broadband as unlimited but have hidden caps, it should make those campaigning for honest selling of broadband celebrate. Full Story... comments?
Tiscali has kicked off legal proceedings against BT, after the telecoms giant sent letters to the Italian-owned ISP’s customers earlier this month. Full Story... comments?
Sky is launching a new music retail company in partnership with the world's biggest record company, Universal. Full Story... comments?
ISPReview.co.uk has published a copy of some marketing material that BT Retail has been sending out to people who use Tiscali Broadband or one of its subsidaries such as Pipex and Nildram. Full Story... comments?
Time for people looking for mobile broadband solutions to get the calculators out to decide whether the next round of free laptop deals that are on the way from 3 are worth taking. Full Story... comments?
The partnership between Sony and Sky to bring films and TV content to the Sony PSP games console has come to fruition. The site where people can register and subscribe to the package of their choice is www.goview.tv. Full Story... comments?
Karoo looks set to upgrade all of its customers from ADSL based connections to ADSL2+ over the next two months according to the broadband providers service status page. Full Story... comments?
A total of 21 people complained about a recent BT Total Broadband TV advert which followed the BT family soap opera and a teenage tantrum over what the daughter is allowed to do online. Full Story... comments?
If advertising complaints were judged on the number of complaints received then this latest adjudication against Orange would never have seen the light of day, as the only complainant was BT. Full Story... comments?
A new BT Home Hub has been launched which claims to have wireless connectivity that is up to twice the range of the existing Home Hub. Full Story... comments?
The reaction across wide swathes of the UK press is not unexpected given the large amount of interest people have in getting faster broadband connections these days. The reaction of the various broadband providers and competitors to BT will be interesting and may influence the view Ofcom takes on things. Full Story... comments?
An investment of some £1.5bn in the UK telecoms market that may bring better broadband services to some 40% of UK households was bound to get the attention of the industry regulator. Ed Richards, Chief Executive of Ofcom has released Full Story... comments?
BT has this morning surprised many by announcing a £1.5bn fibre rollout programme which is expected to give up to 10 million homes access to fibre by 2012. Full Story... comments?
Entanet have announced Tuesday 15th July as the launch date of their new 21CN based ADSL2+ broadband services. Full Story... comments?
Ofcom have today released a consultation on the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and Complaints Handling Procedures to evaluate inadequate or inappropriate procedures that could cause detriment to consumers. Full Story... comments?
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