Good news for residents of Hull and East Riding as KC has announced the launch of a new service which is to help Smart TV owners to connect their televisions to the internet by sending out a specialist engineer.
According to recent reports, people were reluctant to connect their TVs…
Edita Lozovska - 18 May 2012 | comments. Read more
According to Ed Vaizey, the UK Communications Minister, 4G will be majorly interfering with Digital Terrestrial Television signals. This means that nearly 2m UK homes may have problems with their DTT services – before it was suggested that only 760,000 premises will be affected.
This is why the Government has…
Edita Lozovska - 17 May 2012 | comments. Read more
The ASA has been kept busy these last few days. This time the authority has upheld a complaint submitted by a TalkTalk customer saying that the provider’s speed checker (can be found on the supplier’s website) was giving misleading speed estimates.
The complainant also said that the website did not…
Edita Lozovska - 16 May 2012 | comments. Read more
According to recent reports, ICUK has also decided to hop on the even faster fibre broadband bandwagon as it started to offer fibre-to-the-cabinet services with speeds reaching 80Mbps.
These will be available to both home and business broadband customers. To get connected to true fibre, ICUK also started to offer…
Geoff Slaughter - 15 May 2012 | comments. Read more
You might remember Apple claiming that its newest iPad was 4G-enabled – which means it can catch fourth generation mobile broadband signals (considered to be much quicker).
This caused a fair amount of confusion as Ofcom is yet to auction the spectrum necessary for mobile operators to roll out 4G…
Edita Lozovska - 14 May 2012 | comments. Read more
Spectrum Interactive has revealed that it will rollout free wireless broadband services in London which will be available to everyone who decides to opt in for some free promos from the Wi-Fi provider’s partners.
Those who do sign up for free promotions will be able to enjoy free street wireless…
Geoff Slaughter - 11 May 2012 | comments. Read more
Recent reports have suggested that all occupants of 3 sheltered housing locations under the Herefordshire Housing management will be able to benefit from free wireless broadband access for the next five years.
The slightly controversial move will see the local broadband provider, Allpay Broadband, supplying the free service to the…
Edita Lozovska - 10 May 2012 | comments. Read more
BT’s new fibre optic broadband network is at risk of being empty unless it can find a way to encourage its rivals to use it.
Companies like TalkTalk and BSkyB are being charged almost double the price of using BT’s copper wiring, just to use the giant’s fibre optic network.
As…
Anna Sheldrick - 9 May 2012 | comments. Read more
Some of you might agree that putting cookies in a place where it’s more difficult for children to reach simply results in them trying harder to get them. We all probably recall grabbing that tasty bite one way or the other when we were kids.
This is exactly what Smoothwall,…
Edita Lozovska - 8 May 2012 | comments. Read more
Good news comes to 27 of the UK’s slightly smaller cities as the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has revealed a shortlist of locations which will have the opportunity to bid for funding from the Government’s Urban Broadband treasure chest worth £50m.
Some of you might be familiar…
Edita Lozovska - 4 May 2012 | comments. Read more