Broadband News: July 2007

Irish small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly using wireless broadband services, according to new statistics. Continue reading…

Worldwide broadband subscriptions are set to exceed 536 million by 2011, it has been predicted. Continue reading…

O2 has announced the launch of its broadband service is to be delayed, following lower than expected uptake for its mobile phone services. Continue reading…

The older generation are increasingly opting for broadband, according to a new survey. Continue reading…

A higher proportion of internet users have opted for asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) broadband in the Scilly Isles than anywhere else in the UK, it has been revealed. Continue reading…

Following BT and Sky with their second quarter results the Carphone Warehouse announced an increase of 126,000 customers over the last three months.
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UK pay-TV company Sky posted their latest figures today which revealed a 10 per cent increase in full year revenues, partly due to their phenomenal success of their broadband package.
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Following Tiscali’s procurement of Pipex, the Sardinian based telecommunications and broadband provider could double the number of its customer base.
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BT confirmed this morning that they have met their targets and achieved a 3 per cent increase in first quarter core earnings and revenue, pushing them further ahead in the highly competitive broadband market.
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A new type of optical fibre has been developed which is able to bend around tight corners with no leaking of light, which will be able to offer broadband at much higher speeds.
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‘Silver surfers’ (elderly internet users over 55 years of age) are joining the craze for going online at a faster rate than the average European user, according to a recent survey.
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A number of UK broadband providers have been caught up in the flood problems that have swept Southern England this week.
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Pipex who recently sold their voice and broadband operation to Tiscali, have publicly stated that they do not expect to see much more growth in the home broadband market due to increased competition between broadband providers and the UK’s declining broadband adoption rate.
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A new survey has revealed that the internet has become so popular now that more people are choosing to socialise online rather than in person. This new research has shed more light on the continued rise of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and MSN Messenger by claiming that 780,000 individuals in the UK spend 24 days a year in total on social networking sites.
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Be Broadband, one of the only ADSL2+ ISPs in the country (i.e. can prove speeds of up to 24 Mb/s) has announced that their coverage has increased further and are on target to expand more.
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BT announced today that they are considering the case for an ultra-fast broadband network capable of achieving speeds of up to 50 Megabits per second (Mb/s).
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Pipex have announced today a new deal set to shake up the market, by offering broadband and off-peak calls for £8.95 for 3 months, and £14.99 after.
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The UK has been placed in the bottom third of a chart showing the world’s most developed countries in terms of broadband costs and speeds. The report by OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) shows Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland as the top three countries respectively.
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BT has once again been placed at the top of Epitiro’s Consumer ADSL Internet Performance Indicator Report for an astonishing fifth time in a row. The report examines a number of different aspects from a consumer ISP’s service including connection reliability, connection speed, download speed and ping rate (measures response rates to information requests). A fast ping time is generally desirable for online gamers.
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It seems as though more people are turning to the internet as a method of relaxation as opposed to going down the local public house according to a new survey undertaken by BT’s broadband division.
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Sheffield based ISP, PlusNet have wasted no time after hearing of the sale of Pipex to Tiscali by offering a specialised offer for those wishing to migrate from the newly acquired ISP.
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Pipex, Britain’s fifth largest  broadband ISP, is close to selling its broadband and voice assets to Tiscali in a deal worth £210 million.
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A 75 year old woman from Sweden has been supplied with the world’s fastest home internet connection. Sigbritt Löthberg’s connection is an astonishing 40 gigabits per second and is the first time a home user has such a high bandwidth to use.
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The Internet Service Provider Association (ISPA) have reiterated that ISPs should not be responsible for any illegal file-sharing that takes place over their networks, especially via peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic. A Spokesman for ISPA maintained that ISPs should not be “set up to play judge and jury” over alleged copyright infringement.
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Home dial-up users are becoming few and far between with an astonishing 1.4 million UK home users abandoning their primitive internet connections for broadband in the last 6 months. Research by Point Topic suggests there are only 2.2 million homes left in the UK with dial up as their only form of internet access.
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The internet seems to have established itself as one of the most used forms of media for British consumers. According to Forrester, British people are spending more of their time online as opposed to watching television.
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Broadcaster BSkyB have added 259,000 new customers to their broadband service in the last quarter of the fiscal year, far exceeding their own expectations.
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Cable & Wireless (C & W) announced yesterday a ground breaking wholesale deal with Inuk networks to offer a national IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) service via broadband.
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A deal has been brokered between the football league and Virgin Media to offer match action over customer’s mobiles and broadband connections.
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BT has announced today that they have agreed to acquire Madasafish with the purchase of the Brightview Group Limited which runs the ISP, Brightview plc have preliminarily accepted an offer from BT of £15.8 million.
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PlusNet has launched a unique 90-day satisfaction guarantee for UK consumers who want to switch from their current broadband provider. Continue reading…

Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) is the regulatory process of allowing regular BT lines to be used by other telecommunications operators (i.e. TalkTalk) to make use of connections from the telephone exchange’s central office to a customer’s home. The process of a physical connection between the company and the customer is know as ‘Local Loop’, with AOL currently having more local loop connections unbundled than any other ISP. Continue reading…

A recent survey of 2,400 UK broadband users revealed that only a few are downloading full length films on demand. Continue reading…

One in four of the 14,000,000 broadband users in the UK are unhappy with the service they are being offered, according to a recent poll by YouGov. This comes despite the fact that most ISP’s have increased their speed in the last year. YouGov state that a further 10% of irate customers are reported compared to March last year.
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Another month has flown by at the Top 10 Broadband office, with yet another manic month of adventures in the broadband underworld.
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Possibly inspired by the hugely successful black Apple iPod, BT have today announced the launch of their limited-edition ‘black Home Hub’ free with Option 2 and Option 3 on BT Total Broadband packages (£30 extra on Option 1).
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The price war on British broadband seems to be escalating to new levels after TalkTalk announced yesterday, a whole new inclusive package costing just £5.89 per month.
Customers will have to pay £10.50 line rental (the same as BT) which does make the whole package cost £16.39 per month and customers do need to sign an 18 month contract.
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As reported on the 22nd May in the TTBB news story “Virgin Media about to be bought for £7.5 billion?” Virgin Media looks likely to be bought by a private equity firm.
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