isps internet exchange in news
Broadband speed: ISPs accept 'code of practice'
News Telecoms watchdog Ofcom has published a voluntary Code of Practice that sets out guidelines for ISPs to ensure they give customers a realistic estimate of the speed they are likely to achieve from their broadband service. [05 Jun 2008]
Broadband pace lagging in the countryside
News Fat pipe speeds rarely live up to the theoretical maximums advertised by ISPs so the fastest UK region in the thinkbroadband survey - London - achieves an average download rate of 4.5Mbps. Posting a recent reader comment... [04 Jun 2008]
Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods
News It is the ISPs who are intercepting the traffic and giving it to Phorm - it is that that is illegal. Phorm - whose Webwise and Open Internet Exchange (OIX) technologies were used by BT... [11 Apr 2008]
Amnesty: ISPs must safeguard free speech
News The human rights group Amnesty International has called on ISPs to do more to protect free speech online. He added: "Some governments fear the spread of information, the free exchange of ideas and... [20 Feb 2007]
Skype sued for patent violation
News Net2Phone's lawsuit comes as the voice over IP industry has seen a flood of new entrants from small start-ups to large, established ISPs. The patent calls for the exchange of IP addresses between... [05 Jun 2006]
Are you a normal broadband user?
News With the advent of local loop unbundling - where ISPs can effectively take over a telephone exchange by putting in their own equipment - speeds are expected to rise. According to XTN Data, the reason why... [15 Mar 2006]
LINX cuts prices - is cheaper broadband next?
News Vanessa Evans, LINX sales and marketing manager, said: "[L]ower pricing comes at a time when many ISPs are seeking to attract new customers through lower prices for broadband services. Growing levels of... [29 Jun 2005]
BT trials 8Mbps broadband service
News PlusNet surprised some rival ISPs last month when it announced that it was moving to a usage-based charging model in response to BT's trials. Even then, many people will live too far from their local... [09 Mar 2005]
Spamming tool forced to look for new home
News Before that Spamhaus forced four Chinese ISPs to expel the Send-Safe website. We're happy for all these things, but we're not getting rid of the site - we'll have to keep kicking it off other ISPs for... [01 Mar 2005]
MCI accused of hosting spam tools
News This means that billions of spam emails now flood the Internet coming from the main mail servers of large ISPs," warned Spamhaus in a recent report. ISPs depend on voluntary mutual... [14 Feb 2005]
Digital rights management 'could threaten privacy'
News Music pirates have found their identities shared with record industry watchdogs as a result of information gathered by their ISPs. This information is then combined with users' data as detained by ISPs;... [08 Feb 2005]
London the busiest internet hub
News Linx was founded 10 years ago by five UK ISPs. A statement from the London Internet Exchange (Linx) this week says that the facility in London's Docklands now handles 55 gigabits of... [29 Sep 2004]
Spamvertisers get the chop from UK ISPS
News At an extraordinary general meeting of the London Internet Exchange (LINX), which handles more than 90 per cent of the UK's internet traffic, 150 member ISPs agreed on a... [19 Aug 2004]
Electricity blackouts highlight internet weaknesses
News We route a lot of traffic from ISPs in the U.S.so if the traffic had affected them, we would see it," she said. This is backed up by the London Internet Exchange (LINX), the largest... [26 Nov 2003]
AOL switches off Microsoft security hole
News Pete Lindstrom, research director at consulting company Spire Security, said: "I'm definitely for ISPs doing more to protect their piece of the network. AOL has turned off Microsoft's flawed Windows Messenger service - a... [27 Oct 2003]
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