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The Changing Role of the ISP – Guest Editorial by Piers Daniell MD of Fluidata
I recently had a discussion with a prospect about the role and the value of the ISP in today’s telecoms industry. We discussed whether the opinion amongst some that see ISPs as “resellers; pointless middlemen; and a barely necessary layer between source and supply” had any validity and whether it’s, perhaps, more a case that [...]
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Ofcom UK Fines Axis Telecom GBP30k for Making it Hard to Change ISP
The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has fined broadband and phone provider Axis Telecom (Axis) £30,000 for abusing the ‘Cancel Other‘ mechanism, which is designed to protect consumers from being switched to another ISP without their consent (slamming), and for “attempting to induce consumers to terminate their contract” with the new ISP. The regulator claims that Axis, [...]
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ISP ICUK Launch Superfast 80Mbps FTTC and 100Mbps FTTP Broadband
Internet provider ICUK has today become the latest ISP to launch a new range of up to 80Mbps (FTTC) superfast broadband packages for home and business users. On top of that the UK provider has also introduced a truly fibre optic 100Mbps service, which makes use of the latest Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology. As usual the [...]
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ISP brands UK internet spying plans 'pointless'
UK wholesale ISP Entanet has branded the government's internet data retention plans as "pointless" and criticised the...
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ISP kills off country-ban dodge after just 48 hours
Kiwi FYX wobbles on geo-block evasion for punters A new ISP has withdrawn its "global mode" that allowed punters to evade country-based blocking of web content - just 48 hours after switching on the service.…
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ISP TalkTalk UK Offers GBP25 Tesco Voucher with Half Price Broadband
Home phone and internet provider TalkTalk UK has today moved to make its current 12 months half price broadband and calls bundle promotion even more attractive by including a £25 Tescos Gift Card voucher into the deal for new subscribers to its ‘Essentials‘ and ‘Plus‘ packages. On top of that new subscribers can also benefit [...]
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ISP BT Top 6.28M Broadband Customers as FTTC Passes 10M UK Homes
National UK telecoms giant BT has released its latest results to 31st March (Q1-2012), which saw their retail broadband ISP subscriber base add +136,000 customers (down from +146k in Q4-2011) to hit a total of 6,280,000. Elsewhere its FTTC superfast broadband service has now passed 10 million homes and businesses (almost 40% of the country), [...]
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Kiwi ISP offers geo-block workaround
No more “second-grade-third-world-digital-boat-people people” A newly-launched New Zealand ISP, FYX , promises to try and avoid geo-blocking regimes that restrict access to certain content to residents of a select group of nations.…
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ISP O2 UK and BE See Slower Decline to 617800 Broadband Subscribers
Mobile operator and ISP O2 UK (Telefonica) has today released its latest quarterly results to the end of March (Q1-2012), which revealed that their fixed line broadband subscriber base (includes BE Broadband customers) had continued to decline by -2,500 (net) between Q4-2011 and Q1-2012 to reach a new total of 617,800. The change represents another [...]
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UK ISP Entanet Calls Governments Revived Internet Snooping Law Pointless
Communications and networking provider Entanet has described the UK governments move to resuscitate and expand controversial internet snooping laws (data retention), which threaten to log a much bigger slice of your online activity (e.g. Skype and Facebook access etc.), as “pointless” and warned that the “true criminals will simply circumnavigate such surveillance“. The £2bn project, [...]
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