KC offers allowance boost with engineer visit to connect a Smart TV (05/17/2012)
KC has launched a KC Connect service, which for a monthly fee doubles the ADSL2+ package usage allowance, and provides an engineer visit to connect a device via Ethernet, or a self install option using Devolo HomePlug units to get your broadband around the home.

Fluidata offers 200 Mbps service in areas with FTTC (05/17/2012)
Businesses have been bonding DSL lines to get better upstream speeds, and Fluidata is now offering to bond three VDSL2 lines to give a maximum of 200 Mbps download and 60 Mbps upload.

TalkTalk gains LLU customers, but loses off-net customers (05/17/2012)
The trend continues at TalkTalk for it is off-net customer base to shrink, in the last year this has shrunk from 600,000 to around 300,000 customers.

Rutland County Council signs broadband contract with BT (05/16/2012)
It was well known that Rutland council was signing with BT, but now the contract has been signed, details of the roll-out have been released.

Openreach fibre to the premises 80 Meg service special offer (05/16/2012)
Not everyone wants the ultrafast speeds of 330 Mbps that FTTP from Openreach has as its highest speed, and an offer for the 80 Meg service is also available.

Ofcom mystery shoppers report providers could do better (05/16/2012)
Ofcom has published results from its latest mystery shopping exercise, and intends to have a gentle word with some providers over their performance in terms of informing customers about speed.

63% of UK households have access to superfast broadband (05/16/2012)
Buried away in mystery shopper research is a statistic that reveals that some 63% of UK households have access to superfast broadband. We look at how this figure may actually be possible.

Orange broadband customer numbers finally spotted (05/16/2012)
The quarterly results from providers provide a handy way of tracking the ups and downs of the broadband industry, the latest Orange figures almost slipped away quietly.

ASA rules on TalkTalk website speed checker (05/16/2012)
The ASA has waded into the broadband speeds area, appearing to call now for speed checkers to reflect throughput speeds, rather than access speeds that Ofcom want.

Pricing for Openreach 330 Mbps service announced (05/15/2012)
While the Openreach FTTP product does not have a very large footprint at this time, it is available and is probably the largest full fibre network in the UK.

Telefonica reports continuing decline at O2/Be (05/14/2012)
The first quarter results for 2012 have been published by the Spanish Telefonica group.

Review: Devolo dLAN 500 AVTriple+ HomePlug starter kit (05/14/2012)
As the speed of internet access continues, wireless speeds in the home may be the biggest speed bottleneck. Step in the 500 Mbps (250 Mbps max in any one direction) HomePlug devices.

Dutch court orders Pirate Party to stop talking about block circumvention (05/11/2012)
The UK has been awash with people pointing out how pointless the court ordered blocking of The Pirate Bay is. In the Netherlands they are now trying to stifle that discussion.

Attorney General says new laws not needed to handle social media abuse (05/11/2012)
With the recent jailing of a twitter user who mocked footballer Fabrice Muamba the Governments top legal adviser has spoken out, saying that existing laws are sufficient to police social media.

Fujitsu may still be in the running for Suffolk BDUK project (05/11/2012)
While there is lots of criticism of what the BDUK projects aim to achieve, the projects are progressing as fast as local authority projects always do.

BT Wholesale to stop taking IPStream Connect orders in some 21CN areas (05/11/2012)
BT Wholesale is starting the process of retiring its IPStream Connect service by 2014, with it stopping to take orders for new services on 425 exchanges that currently provide a 20CN and 21CN broadband service later this year.

EU votes in new roaming charges and worldwide charge cap (05/11/2012)
From 1st July the cost of data roaming and calls when travelling outside the UK in the EU will be a little cheaper. Though not as cheap we thought it might be.

Music streaming comes of age as it gets an Official Streaming Chart (05/10/2012)
The first UK Official Streaming Chart is due to be unveiled on Monday 14th May at 1pm.

Virgin Media looking for 120 apprentice engineers (05/10/2012)
It is not just Openreach that is expanding its workforce, Virgin Media is looking for 120 people to join its apprenticeship scheme this year.

Nokia leaves London WiFi trial, new sponsors appear (05/10/2012)
The free WiFi trial in London at 28 hotspots has seen around 25,000 unique users per month since the start of the trial, and Nokia has decided to leave the scheme, but sponsors for the ad-based system will see it continue.