A judge has approved the text of a letter that is to be sent to O2 customers suspected of illegally sharing adult films made by Ben Dover Productions. In March, the film company won a court order forcing O2 to identify the users of more ...
Tags: O2, illegally sharing, adult films, Golden Eye, piracy
O2 is the latest UK internet service provider(ISP)to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay in line with a High Court order issued at the beginning of May. The move means customers of Be Broadband,a subsidiary of O2,will also be ...
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Dido Harding, the CEO of TalkTalk, has called for regulatory intervention into the superfast broadband market in order to encourage greater competition. Speaking at the Huawei Broadband Forum, Harding said 95% of the fibre broadband ...
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Ofcom today announced new rules for telecoms providers meaning they will have to pay for each phone number allocated to them as of next year. Currently the likes of BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk can request blocks of 1,000 numbers from ...
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Orange has become the most complained about internet service provider (ISP) in the UK, according to new research. Ofcom's quarterly complaints report for July to September 2012 showed the broadband provider racked up the most grievances ...
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Broadband is no toy for early adopters.More citizens in the UK have access to the internet than ever before and those in the industry have had to move at a rate of knots to keep up with demand for better coverage,faster speeds and necessary ...
Tags: Broadband, UK, Virgin Media, BT, EU
Ofcom has published a draft code today to tackle illegal file-sharers by passing their information onto copyright owners. The regulator was required to put together the code as part of the Digital Economy Act voted through in 2010. ...
Tags: Ofcom, copyright, file share, ISPs
YouView, the broadband digital TV box service that launched two years later than planned in July this year, has lost a High Court appeal to keep using its name. Following a legal dispute that began in 2010 between the company and billing ...
Tags: broadband, digital TV box, Channel 4 CIO, Microsoft
Three has announced a new partnership with Huawei, giving the Chinese firm the responsibility of managing its network. Huawei will take responsibility of service management and operations surrounding Three’s core network, and will ...
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BT will cut the wholesale cost of its "ultra-fast" 330Mbit/s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) by over a third. From June 2013, the service aimed at small to medium-sized businesses will drop from £60 a month to £38 a month. That ...
A parliamentary select committee has confirmed it is looking into Huawei's operations in the UK following controversy around the safety of using the firm's technology. The intelligence and security committee would not go into detail about ...
Tags: Huawei, firm's technology, US congress, data networks
Broadband,phone and mobile company TalkTalk has selected business intelligence software provider QlikView's Business Discovery platform ahead of Tableau's rival offering because QlikView was"cheaper and easier to deploy". Further reading ...
Tags: TalkTalk, QlikView, cheaper and easier to deploy, Cullen
Regulator Ofcom says ISP TalkTalk and mobile operator 3 received more complaints than any of their rivals in the first quarter of 2012. In the latest quarterly report from Ofcom–which names and shames the worst customer offenders in ...
Tags: Ofcom, ISP TalkTalk, broadband, BT
The Wireless Broadband Alliance(WBA)has announced the list of operators set to take part in its next-generation hotspot(NGH)trials later this year. BT,Sky(which owns The Cloud Wi-Fi network)and TalkTalk have signed up as the ...
Google and Amazon pay for faster connections Lack of transparency over traffic management EC could force net neutrality issue Consumers need to know about net management The questions of how to handle the growing amount of traffic on ...
Tags: Google and Amazon, transparency, EC, net neutrality issue