Broadband News

January 2008

(31-01-08) - Businesses unhappy over yet another broadband minister - Baroness Shriti Vadera has been named as the UK’s new broadband minister after Stephen Timms moved on to the Department for Work and Pensions.

(30-01-08) - Covert Tiscali migrations - Former Pipex customers who have been experiencing connection problems in recent weeks have been covertly moved to Tiscali’s local loop unbundled network, it has been reported.

(29-01-08) - Speed is the biggest problem for broadband customers - A quarter of all UK broadband customers are unhappy with their internet service, with speed coming top of their list of gripes, according to new research.

(28-01-08) - Virgin Media announces speed upgrades - Cable provider Virgin Media has announced that customers on its 4Mb L broadband package are to be upgraded to speeds of up to 10Mb for free.

(25-01-08) - Council bid to ‘bridge digital divide’ - A Birmingham City Council cabinet member has appealed to broadband providers to reduce the cost of their services in order to make the internet more accessible to low-income households.

(24-01-08) - Best consumer ISP nominations revealed - The nominees for the final category at this year's Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) awards have been revealed at last.

(23-01-08) - Tiscali traffic troubles continue - Despite undoing the software upgrade that caused extreme traffic management during peak hours, Tiscali customers faced another evening of blockages and poor line speed yesterday.

(22-01-08) - 2008 ISPA awards finalists announced - The Internet Service Providers’ Association has announced the finalists for its 10th annual industry awards.

(21-01-08) - One pound in six spent online - Internet spending grew by more than 50 per cent last year, with consumers spending £46.6 billion, according to e-commerce industry body, the Interactive Media in Retail Group.

(18-01-08) - 2.6m customers for Carphone Warehouse - The Carphone Warehouse, owner of major ISPs AOL and TalkTalk has announced a total of 2.6 million broadband connections over the two providers.

(17-01-08) - BT Home IT service a HIT - More than a million minutes of help and advice have been clocked up by BT’s Home IT (HIT) squad since the service was launched a year and a half ago.

(16-01-08) - Broadband complaints soar - Consumer complaints about ISPs have shot up by 43 per cent in 2007 according to the Government advice service Consumer Direct.

(15-01-08) - Internet heroes and villains of 2007 - The Internet Service providers’ Association (ISPA) has announced its internet heroes and villains nominations for 2007.

(14-01-08) - Cable still ruling broadband - The speed test results for December are in and show that cable still tops ADSL when it comes to speed and reliability.

(11-01-08) - Broadband connections near 15 million - UK broadband connections have passed 14,961,000 according to the latest telecommunications market data tables for the third quarter of 2007, released by Ofcom.

(10-01-08) - 100Mb for Kent residents in 2008 - BT today announced that the first residential fibre-optic cable connections will be live in August this year, connecting up to 10,000 homes in Ebbsfleet Valley, Kent.

(09-01-08) - Three joins the free laptop giveaway - Three Mobile Broadband customers can now get a free laptop, continuing the giveaway trend started last year.

(07-01-08) - BT Vision joins forces with the Xbox 360 - Microsoft and BT Vision have announced that from mid-2008 Xbox 360 customers will be able to access the BT Vision television service through their games console.

(04-01-08) - Tiscali to become second ‘quad-play’ provider - Italian broadband provider Tiscali is planning on launching a mobile phone service later this year, making the company the second UK ISP to offer the “quad-play” of broadband, digital television, home phone and mobiles services.

(03-01-08) - Switching worries prevent people saving - While one in four broadband users are planning on switching their contract in 2008, new research shows that many people still can’t be bothered, despite potential savings of up to £141.60.

(02-01-08) - Broadband speeds will lead innovation - Improving the connection speeds and reliability of the UK’s broadband services will “drive innovation” according to the Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA).

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