Hampshire County Council, which recently successfully connected a few rural communities to high speed broadband via the local fibre Public Service Network (PSN), has come forward saying that the aforementioned method might be the key to connecting isolated areas where no fixed-line providers were prepared to go just yet.
Hampshire is considered to be the first county to connect all of its schools to fibre, a strategy is then applied to some of its rural villages.
Glyn Paton, the Manager of Hampshire County Council’s rural broadband project, said in a statement:
“As…
Edita Lozovska - 30 April 2012 | comments. Read more
According to recent reports, the Post Office rethought its unlimited broadband strategy on its Broadband Extra deal and decided to introduce a monthly usage cap as of June the 1st, 2012.
Fear not, dear consumer, as the allowance is rather generous and reaches to 100GB a month, which means there will be a lot of breathing space when using the services.
However, according to the new set of rules, customers who constantly cross the cap will see their speeds lowered (by how much is yet to be announced).
As a quick reminder,…
Geoff Slaughter - 27 April 2012 | comments. Read more
Good news comes to Sky customers as the provider has started offering faster FTTC speeds – those reach to 76Mbps as opposed to the standard FTTC service which gives customers access to speeds of up to 40Mbps (unlimited allowance).
The service also comes with upload speeds reaching 19Mbps and costs a tenner more than the standard Sky Broadband Unlimited Fibre package which comes at £20 per month.
Sky Broadband Unlimited Fibre Pro is going to be available to customers who take up phone services from the provider as well. Having said…
Geoff Slaughter - 26 April 2012 | comments. Read more
Websites that do not do have adequate internet security are to be named and shamed on the internet to try and help boost internet security.
Trustworthy Internet Movement, a non-profit organisation, will be testing websites for internet security after a survey they conducted found that 52 per cent of websites used security protocols that are known to be compromised. Lists of websites that are found to have good internet security will also be published alongside those with poorer internet security.
The group was set up by entrepreneurs and security experts in…
Anna Sheldrick - 25 April 2012 | comments. Read more
In a recent announcement, business broadband ISP, Fluidata, has announced the exact way it was planning to deal with the extra traffic that the sporting event everyone is talking about will bring (i.e. mass video streaming).
It also mentioned that its network is due for a £2.4m upgrade which will enable the ISP to manage the traffic by boosting capacity.
In a published somewhat technical “prepping for the games” statement, Fluidata said:
“Our customers typically also have demand for high bandwidth as well as uptime, so capacity is carefully engineered with low…
Geoff Slaughter - 24 April 2012 | comments. Read more
According to recent reports, TalkTalk took a difficult decision which can potentially cost 390 employees their jobs in favour to set up another 450 vacancies, elsewhere.
The ISP hopes that the move to relocate the call centre should make operating the business more straight-forward and simplified.
TalkTalk also took the opportunity to underline that it saw its customer services lines phone far less clogged up with complaints and queries, however, according to Ofcom’s calculations, the ISP was still at the bottom of its list getting roughly 0.61 complaints per 1000 customers…
Edita Lozovska - 24 April 2012 | comments. Read more
You might remember that last February Broadbandwatcher reported on the fact that Vodafone had its eyes on Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW), intending to purchase it.
According to recent news, Vodafone reached a “reasonable” deal and got the green light to acquire the firm. This deal included a £1.044bn payout, which is much more than it was initially estimated (£700m).
By buying CWW, Vodafone will gain access to the provider’s LLU system as well as help Vodafone cope with the growing consumer demand for more generous mobile…
Geoff Slaughter - 23 April 2012 | comments. Read more
According to recent reports, T-Mobile and Orange (Everything Everywhere or EE) with a little help from YouGov surveyed 2,033 Brits to find out that the vast majority (74 per cent) could not wait for 4G mobile broadband services to be rolled out.
The giant is very interested in Ofcom giving it the green light to utilise the 1800MHz band by Q4 of this year in order to provide 4G services and the results of this study seem to feed the cause.
Commenting on the news, CEO or EE, Olaf Swantee, stated…
Edita Lozovska - 23 April 2012 | comments. Read more
Good news for those who are keen on getting a brand new broadband and calls deal as Sky announced its new promotion to offer 6 months free unlimited broadband and anytime calls to all of its new and existing Sky TV subscribers. The package will cost £15 a month thereafter.
The promotion will run on a 12 month contract basis and customers are required to pay for a Sky line rental which will set them back by £12.25 a month.
Those who are considering the deal should be warned that it…
Geoff Slaughter - 20 April 2012 | comments. Read more
According to TalkTalk’s calculations, one in three new customers is actively choosing to turn on the provider’s very popular albeit sometimes controversial product, HomeSafe.
Some of you might recall that grand market leading ISPs have agreed to do their best to protect children online. This means that Virgin Media, TalkTalk, BT and Sky will be asking customers at the point of purchase whether or not they preferred to have the parental filter installed by default.
It also may be worth mentioning that TalkTalk has been very keen on protecting children online…
Edita Lozovska - 19 April 2012 | comments. Read more
