isps in comment and analysis
Leader: BBC iPlayer broadband row - who's really to blame
Leader Claims by ISPs that the BBC should fund the extra bandwidth needed by users that want to download content from its online TV service iPlayer seems a little out of touch. As one silicon.com reader pointed out - ISPs wouldn't even exist if it wasn't... [16 Aug 2007]
Do people really want free Net access?
Comment Oftel's recent decision to allow subscription-free ISPs to continue using the Number Translation Services (NTS) - the formula which allows for the carve-up of call revenues - was welcomed by ISPs. But what came as bonus was the move to give ISPs... [17 Mar 1999]
Communications - a world where size is everything?
Comment CIX is one of the UK's oldest ISPs and the kind of company that makes some internet enthusiasts go misty-eyed for the ancient world of, say, five years ago. One argument has it that there are few sizeable telcos or ISPs likely to survive this shake... [03 Nov 2000]
Libel on the Net: have the legal floodgates opened?
Comment ISPs are still reeling this week after Demon Internet settled its case with Dr Laurence Godfrey out of court. But David Barrett, partner with UK law firm Arnold and Porter, said ISPs are simply being held liable under the same laws as distributors... [05 Apr 2000]
Spam: Enough is enough
Comment After years of tolerating the annoyance of spam, companies and ISPs are starting to take the problem of unsolicited email seriously. ISPs have been urged to act in their own interests to cut out junk mail, with anti-spam firm Brightmail producing... [24 Oct 2002]
Wireless operators start to see through the MISP
Comment Too many free ISPs? All this comes against a backdrop of seemingly endless ranks of free ISPs, where the difference between them can be hard to spot. Don Pearce, principal consultant at Netcom Consultants, said: "A lot of the operators will have to... [08 Oct 1999]
Leader: Telewest rolls out suburban security
Leader Whoever first coined the phrase 'you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink' may have had some insight into the conundrum facing ISPs charged by all and sundry with the task of cleaning up the internet. [22 Aug 2005]
Demonology: The trials and tribulations of an ISP
Comment Organisations such as the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA), and cyber-liberties groups Internet Freedom and Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties UK, have called a recent pre-trial ruling a disaster for ISPs and Net users (see http://www... [14 Jul 1999]
Thus exorcises its Demon: winning the net monitoring argument?
Comment Demon, once the most vocal campaigner against ISPs policing content, announcing it will monitor its servers? Godfrey questioned whether Demon has been wrong in arguing for the past six years against ISPs taking responsibility for content. [26 Feb 2001]
The best of 'Reader Comments': Viruses, viruses, viruses
Comment This week, ISPs walked into a storm of controversy by refusing to play a bigger part in the war on viruses (http://www.silicon.com/a47493 ). It was viruses, viruses and more viruses - particularly Nimda, the current concern of the infection fearing... [20 Sep 2001]
US hotspots outwit file-sharing purge
Comment Traditional ISPs give each subscriber a unique, if temporary, identification number while they're online. This type of note is becoming increasingly common as record companies and Hollywood studios subpoena ISPs for information about subscribers in... [16 Jul 2003]
Leader: Time for tougher spam laws
Leader There are so many things not to like about it - the burden on ISPs to transmit the junk messages, the drain on IT departments' resources to store them and of course the annoyance to users who lose significant time each day pressing that delete key... [19 Jul 2006]
Legal Eye: File-sharers under fire
Comment As ISPs control access to the internet, they are under increasing political pressure to assist in policing internet activity on their networks. Meanwhile Italy's deputy prosecutor Giancarlo Mancusi has ordered the country's ISPs to block access to... [03 Sep 2008]
Dear silicon.com...Illegal file-sharing, biometrics flying high, ID fines…
Comment Why should the ISPs have to fund what is inadequate copyright protection by the media companies? ¦ The Naked CIO: Identity crisis ¦ Revealed: The full cost of a corporate data breach ¦ Open source gains business credibility ¦ Legal... [28 Feb 2008]
The end of an internet era
Comment He not only held co-operation way above competition, but he set up the London Internet Exchange (Linx) so that all ISPs could work together. He's going to sell services to ISPs for profit, rather than act as club manager. [27 Sep 2000]
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