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Revealed: What counts as normal broadband in Britain?
News However, ISPA pointed out that the survey did not cover small UK ISPs, and said the research "does not reflect the breadth of the industry". The Communications Consumer Panel, meanwhile, argued for ISPs... [28 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.07.09
Round-Up ISPs? Phishing has become a constant nuisance for the good denizens of Planet Interweb. Rarely a day goes by when you don't get a badly worded email from a bank you aren't a customer of asking you to give up your... [24 Jul 2009]
Cheat Sheet: BT's £1.5bn fibre plans
Cheat Sheet Will BT be reselling fibre access to other ISPs like it does with copper? Apparently so - when it named the second round of exchanges to get fibre-enabled, it promised to resell fibre access on a wholesale basis to... [14 Jul 2009]
£24m: The cost of tracking your emails and phone calls
News Home Office policing and security minister, David Hanson, told Parliament last week that millions are now being spent to fund ISPs', telcos' and mobile operators' retention of communications data under the European Data... [13 Jul 2009]
BT shelves Phorm rollout plans
News We want to park Phorm, to give us an opportunity to see how it gets on with other ISPs. Phorm said it was pursuing options with other ISPs in a statement on Monday. As regards to our UK deployment,... [06 Jul 2009]
BT kicks off London fibre pilot
News Service providers participating in the pilot include BT's retail arm and other ISPs such as TalkTalk, Sky and O2. BT began a fibre broadband pilot on Monday in the north London suburb of Muswell Hill and the Cardiff... [06 Jul 2009]
How realistic is Digital Britain's broadband plan?
News It will ask whether the 2Mbps universal baseline broadband speed is ambitious enough, and will also investigate whether ISPs are providing the speeds they promise to consumers. A parliamentary select committee is to... [01 Jul 2009]
Thwarting E-mail Spam Laundering
White Paper The facility of breaking spam laundering and deterring spamming activities close to their sources, which would greatly benefit not only e-mail users but also victim ISPs, is in great demand but still missing. [30 Jun 2009]
Protect Your Ability to Deliver Valued Services
White Paper The rising tide of spam and malware challenges service providers of every type: Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Managed Service Providers (MSPs), mobile operators, Application Service Providers (ASPs), and others. [30 Jun 2009]
'Don't let European telecoms law get axed', says Ofcom
News Instead, other methods - ranging from letter writing to the blocking or throttling of certain types of traffic - will have to be used by ISPs to discourage their users from breaking intellectual property laws. [26 Jun 2009]
Cheat sheet: Project Canvas
Cheat Sheet While it's seen as a vital step in the evolution of on-demand TV by the organisations involved, other companies - such as device makers, ISPs and broadcasters - have also been invited to participate in the project... [23 Jun 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.06.09
Round-Up Digital Britain also put the mockers on illegal file-sharers, with tougher sanctions and ISPs having to fork out to monitor and police all their activities. Under plans unveiled in the report, ISPs and... [19 Jun 2009]
Web snooping plans unworkable, say critics
News The government has proposed that ISPs use deep packet inspection, in which every data packet is opened and examined, to derive a picture of who is communicating with whom at any one time. A government plan to allow the... [18 Jun 2009]
Critics slam Digital Britain over file-sharers and tax plans
News The report outlines a process where ISPs will send warning letters to copyright infringers. He added that the report keeps up the pressure on ISPs to police their users, which then places them in a "bad... [18 Jun 2009]
£6 broadband tax to fund fibre for all
News In addition, it recommends ISPs should be armed with "a suite of technical measures" to combat repeat P2P offenders - such as bandwidth throttling. The government has announced plans for a 50p per month levy on all fixed... [16 Jun 2009]
