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January 30, 2009
by David Allen
We are going to be able to treat broadband as a basic utility, like electricity and water, as everyone in the UK will have the right to have access to it.
This won't happen overnight though, as the government’s target has been set at 2012.
This right of people to have broadband access has come about from the changing of the universal service obligation (USO).
This has been around since ...
by David Allen
Now customers of internet service providers could have to pay a new internet piracy tax.
The figure being talked about it £20 per year, but it is believed that this is by no means set in stone, and could change by the time it comes in.
To collect and manage this new tax on the people the Communications Minister, Lord Carter, proposes to create a new agency, which ...
by David Allen
Following plans made in the UK and US, the European Union is planning to make a billion euro investment into providing rural areas with a broadband service.
This will serve two purposes; firstly rural areas could benefit from the introduction of high speed internet, and secondly the EU believes that this investment could create up to a million jobs throughout the European community and add value to the economy ...
by David Allen
Over seventy seven per cent of phone lines in Birmingham and the surrounding areas are now ready for the introduction of next generation broadband.
This gives the city the highest percentage of next gen exchanges in the UK.
BT has been installing new equipment in its exchanges in Birmingham, upgrading just under six hundred thousand phone lines as part of an investment plan into the broadband network.
The only problem is ...
by David Allen
The talk is currently all about the Digital Britain report, but one major group appears to have been left out of the plan and that is the British public.
Consumers have been left out of the consulting process, and yet the public is a great source of information, and as they are the end user it is important to find out what they want.
In most cases, a connection ...
by David Allen
Another tool has been released by Google, which can be used to check how well internet services are being delivered.
Google has called this tool the Measurement Lab (M Lab) and it can be used to check the performance of the internet and suggest why users may be having problems with their connection.
This could be an answer to many internet users’ prayers, after all the average computer user ...
by David Allen
The free alternative satellite service, Freesat, was only launched in May 2008, yet already it has sold systems to well over two hundred thousand households.
The joint venture between the BBC and ITV means that digital TV is available to many more people, especially those in areas where, even after the digital switchover takes place, they will not be able to receive Freeview services.
The introduction of free HD channels ...
by David Allen
BSkyB is looking to expand its online presence.
As well as beaming its service into people’s homes through satellite dishes, the company is looking to get in through their computers too, which is why they are interested in intelligent positioning.
To date Sky’s websites have been growing at a steady pace in both content production and traffic coming in, with Sky estimating that they get around seven and half ...
by David Allen
After an unexpected problem with its latest satellite, Eutelsat has decided to refuse to take over the craft, due to a serious error with the satellite's power system.
This satellite was supposed to have gone into service covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa, as W2M at 16 degrees east.
The satellite was launched just before Christmas but during the manoeuvring stages it developed a fault while it was being ...
January 29, 2009
by David Allen
Google has added value to its free email service Gmail by allowing users to access their emails even when they are offline.
This is a great bonus for people on the move, who are not always able to connect to a broadband service.
All a user has to do is go to setting and into the labs section.
Virtually all Google tools will become available offline.
In fact ...
by David Allen
Yesterday, buying a new Sky+ HD set top box would have cost £150, but today this same box is going to cost just £49, as BSkyB begins a huge marketing drive to attract more subscribers to Sky HD.
With around seven million homes already owning televisions that are capable of receiving HD TV and being used for HD gaming, it is an opportunity too good for Sky to miss. ...
by David Allen
It looks as if the roll out of the fibre network by BT will be taking place after all, despite apparent calls from shareholders to hold back until the financial crisis has eased off a bit.
BT were quick to clarify that the rollout of the fibre network, with its price tag of £1.5 billion, will only go ahead if favourable conditions are offered by regulator, Ofcom.
This means an ...
by David Allen
The mobile broadband network provided by T Mobile has been shown to be the fastest mobile broadband service in the UK for second quarter in a row.
These results come from independent tests carried out by P3 Solutions, that measured the connection speed at various spots around the UK.
The test were carried out in sixteen cities at peak times and O2 proved to be on average thirty five ...
by David Allen
In times like these there is often a need for us all to stick together, and it looks as if the broadband and fixed line phone services provider, TalkTalk, has come up with a good deal for those people who are finding it hard to cover the cost of their existing TalkTalk broadband and phone service.
It has been called the “Emergency Plan” and for some people, faced with ...
by David Allen
Some businesses do well in a recession and BSkyB are no exception to that rule.
First of all they announced that they increased their customer base by 171,000 subscribers in the last quarter and secondly they are about to embark on a massive marketing campaign to promote their HD services.
In another recession busting announcement BSkyB will be taking on an additional one thousand staff to deal with the ...
January 28, 2009
by David Allen
Those rural areas in Wales, where there is no broadband access at all, could soon be getting their wish for a reliable service.
It seems that broadband could be included in the Universal Service Obligation, which would mean that in the same way that a phone line has to be supplied to a property no matter where it is located, broadband would have to be provided too.
However, those ...
by David Allen
Speed and customer service appears to be the most common complaints, when it comes to broadband users.
It is interesting to find that different surveys often show up different results, and broadbandgenie's latest survey is not the exception to that rule.
The results of the survey undertaken by broadbandgenie are as follows:
Speed - 37 comments, 9 positive, 28 negative
Customer service - 37 comments, 7 positive, 30 negative
Reliability of connection ...
by David Allen
Some subscribers to internet service providers O2 and Be Broadband have reported that service at weekends and in the evenings is being affected by a severe slowdown, resulting in some users finding that they are unable to access their usual sites.
Be Broadband was bought by O2 back in 2006.
This was before they launched their own service on the same ADSL2+ network, and many subscribers are accusing the ...
by David Allen
In these worrying times, it seems there are certain businesses that are set to gain from the public tightening their purse strings.
One such business is Sky TV, which sees the recession as an opportunity, rather than a problem.
The satellite provider is predicting that because people are now tending to stay at home, rather than going out for their entertainment, they are looking for alternatives, and it seems ...
by David Allen
The introduction of a personal video recorder (PVR), that is compatible with the Freeview service throughout the UK, has been a serious boost to viewers taking up Freeview as their preferred digital TV provider.
Over nine hundred thousand PVRs have now been sold, with two of these boxes being bought every minute during the 2008 final quarter.
The addition of the Freeview Plus service added more power to the ...
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We are going to be able to treat broadband as a basic utility, like electricity and water, as everyone in the UK will have the right to have access to it.
This won't happen overnight though, as the government’s target has been set at 2012.
This right of people to have broadband access has come about from the changing of the universal service obligation (USO).
This has been around since ...
Google has added value to its free email service Gmail by allowing users to access their emails even when they are offline.
This is a great bonus for people on the move, who are not always able to connect to a broadband service.
All a user has to do is go to setting and into the labs section.
Virtually all Google tools will become available offline.
In fact ...
