Monthly Archives: January 2010

A report released today about the UK broadband sector would seem to indicate that many broadband users are actually on the wrong broadband package with regards to download limits. Much has been made off unlimited download within various broadband packages but it would appear that 75% of users on such agreements only download 20 GB [...]

The UK government has been forced to delay the sale of mobile broadband spectrum with the original auction deadline of 2007 now a distant memory. The auction of the 2.6 GHz spectrum has now been delayed until 2011 with the proposed merger of T Mobile UK and Orange UK the latest in a long line [...]

The Conservative Party has today hit back at the government, ridiculing its promise of a minimum 2 Mb per second broadband speed across the UK by 2012. The Conservative Party would appear to have taken the lead in broadband discussions promising delivery of a superfast broadband network by 2017 which would be capable of delivering [...]

While it may have taken some time, it now looks as though the vast majority of broadband users in the UK are now well aware of maximum broadband speeds and actual broadband speeds. It is no secret that the regulators have clamped down upon the advertising of superfast broadband speed packages, now ensuring that each [...]

Keith Ramsdale, the vice president of Electronic Arts in Northern Europe, has today criticised the UK government’s plans to introduce a minimum 2 Mb per second broadband speed across the UK. There is a growing feeling within the gaming industry that UK aspirations in this particular field fall short of what is required and are [...]

As wireless routers become more and more commonplace across the UK there are concerns that many people are not securing their links allowing others in the vicinity to “piggyback” their Internet connection. As a number of people have found in the past, if strangers are able to connect to the Internet via your wireless route [...]

Carphone Warehouse, the parent company of UK broadband outfit TalkTalk, has issued a statement confirming that trading is ahead of expectations and the company is expecting an improvement on recent profit forecasts. The company also revealed an increase in its broadband subscriber base from 4.119 million in the second quarter of 2009 to 4.155 million [...]

Despite the fact that the headlines in the UK are dominated by the ongoing creation of a UK wide fibre-optic broadband network, there are few applications at the moment which demand the type of speeds we will see in the future. However, it is believed that media companies across the world are working flat out [...]

Apple is rumoured to be on the lookout and in talks with UK mobile phone networks regarding the forthcoming launch of its new tablet computer iSlate which is causing as much excitement as the iPhone did. While details of the product, and indeed the name has not officially been announced, are shrouded in secrecy it [...]

O2, which was formerly part of the British Telecom empire but is now owned by Telefonica, has revealed plans to attack the UK fixed line telephone market. This would place the former BT operation at loggerheads with the former state run giant and could highlight a significant weakness in BT’s mobile broadband and mobile telephone [...]