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BT Add 150 Engineers in Scotland to Help Superfast Broadband Rollout 27 Aug 2013 | 05:13 pm
The company that works to maintain and upgrade BT’s national UK telecoms network, Openreach, has today announced the addition of another 150 new engineers to help deploy its latest superfast broadband...
Study Finds 36% of WiFi Hotspots in London are Completely Unsecured 27 Aug 2013 | 03:22 pm
A live experiment conducted at six locations around central London (UK) has revealed that 36% (322) of the wifi hotspots identified were “completely unsecure” and potentially a ripe playground for hac...
End of an Era as ISP BT Finally Scraps UK Dialup Internet Service 27 Aug 2013 | 11:46 am
BT’s consumer division has confirmed that thousands of customers will be affected when the ISP officially closes their old dialup (narrowband) internet access platform (both the £17.25 per month anyti...
UK ISP Etico Solutions Escapes Ofcom Fine for Broadband Migration Woes 24 Aug 2013 | 11:22 am
The little known Internet provider Etico Solutions, which is based at the same address as long defunct ISPs EurISP and Aspire Internet (related news here and here), has escaped punishment from Ofcom a...
UK Map Suggests Superfast Broadband Coverage Still on Target for 2015 22 Aug 2013 | 06:31 pm
Telecoms analyst Point Topic has today published a new report on broadband coverage across the United Kingdom, which predicts that superfast (30Mbps+) availability could hit 90.8% by the end of 2015. ...
Worcestershire UK Allow BT to Overlap Existing Superfast Broadband Network 22 Aug 2013 | 05:27 pm
The Worcestershire County Council (WCC), which recently signed a state aid supported £20.75m deal with BT to make “high-speed fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) available to 90% of local premises by mid-2016 (...
UK ISP Sky Broadband Says No Need to Fear SessionCam Snooping 22 Aug 2013 | 11:09 am
Sky Broadband has moved to reassure people after some of their customers noticed that the third-party SessionCam service appeared to be monitoring private activity upon sensitive parts of the ISPs onl...
Satellite ISP Uses Crowd Funding to Solve Broadband Notspots in Scotland 21 Aug 2013 | 05:11 pm
Ayrshire-based ISP Internet Anywhere, which claims to be Scotland’s largest reseller of Eutelsat’s up to 20Mbps capable Tooway based satellite broadband services, has become one of the first businesse...
UPD Virgin Media is Official UK Broadband ISP Partner for Sonys PS4 Launch 21 Aug 2013 | 11:41 am
Sony has announced that its forthcoming PlayStation 4 (PS4) video games console, which is officially confirmed to arrive in the United Kingdom on 29th November 2013, has chosen broadband provider Virg...
UPDATE Virgin Media UK Warns of 1st October 2013 Broadband Price Hike 20 Aug 2013 | 05:57 pm
Customers of Virgin Media’s superfast 30Mbps and legacy 20Mbps cable broadband packages have been advised that the monthly price they pay will, effective from 1st October 2013, rise by an extra £2.50 ...
