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O2′s first quarter profits fall by 33 percent
Things aren't so hot for O2, as the network has reported a dramatic 33% drop in their sales for the first quarter. The service provider's revenues have fallen 6% year on year to €1.719bn within the three months leading up to the end of March. The firm explains the drop as being ...
Survey: UK broadband speeds are 42% slower than advertised
Last September, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) introduced more stringent rules in broadband advertising to promote honesty among providers. Many of these ads featured unproven claims and speeds that actual users can't reach on their broadband connections. Unfortunately, it seems that these new guidelines aren't enough. This was what Ofcom commented ...
Virgin Media blocks The Pirate Bay, other ISPS to follow
The Pirate Bay is one of the largest torrent indexing sites on the web. A number of media companies have been trying to shut the site down on grounds of copyright infringement and piracy to no avail. So what they're trying to do instead is get Internet service providers to ...
South Gloucestershire has a ‘solid case’ for faster broadband
With people becoming more and more dependent on the Internet for their communications and businesses, it's only natural for faster broadband to be more in demand. This is a desire that users in South Gloucestershire are clearly making, from the responses obtained from a recently-conducted survey. The South Gloucestershire Council announced ...
Akamai: UK users experience drop in average download speed
Akamai brings some bad news in its newest State of the Internet quarterly report: users in the UK reported experiencing slower download speeds in the last three months of 2011, from recorded speeds of 5.1Mbps from the quarter before that to 4.9Mbps. In the report, Akamai states: The global average connection ...
Parliament praises Farmers Weekly rural broadband campaign
The poor state of rural broadband in the UK has been a longtime issue that the government has yet to sufficiently address. Just last week, Welsh MPs commented on the state of rural mobile phone coverage as being "ludicrous." However, campaigners in these areas have not yet given up and are ...
Vodafone buys C&W Worldwide for £1.04 billion
UK mobile phone operator Vodafone has agreed to buy telecoms group Cable & Wireless Worldwide (C&WW) for £1.04 billion. Vodafone was the only firm left vying to buy C&WW after India's Tata Communications lost interest in the deal last week. According to the deal, Vodafone will buy each C&WW share for ...
Thousands register for better broadband in Suffolk
Earlier this year, Suffolk launched a campaign to bring better broadband in their county. It was a campaign that's perhaps long overdue, as a study conducted last year named Suffolk road as having the slowest broadband in the country. The Better Broadband for Suffolk campaign has grown impressively over the past few ...
Ofcom announces probe on Sky News email hacking
Hacking constitutes a major breach of privacy and it's actually something that many people and government authorities are fighting against. So it may come as a surprise when earlier this month, Sky News admitted that it had hacked into the private email accounts of three people: "canoe man" John Darwin ...
MPs: Better porn filters needed to protect children
Internet service providers have heeded the call of David Cameron by providing tools and filters to parents to prevent their children from accessing porn. Some of them need to be configured on the users' local machines, while some, like TalkTalk's HomeSafe, operated on a network level. A cross-parliamentary inquiry was recently ...
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