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Sky offers 'secret', faster broadband to new customers

New customers who call Sky's hotline can buy a fibre broadband package with a topline speed of 76Mbps, faster than the publicly announced 40Mbps available to existing subscribers, who cannot get the new bundle Read more

26 April, 2012 by Ben Woods

The Pirate Bay infringes copyright, High Court decides

...the UK, stating that rights holders can go to court to make ISPs block access to copyright–infringing sites that are hosted overseas. After the... Read more

21 February, 2012 by David Meyer
BT passes fibre milestone as profits rise

BT passes fibre milestone as profits rise

...which offers speeds of up to 80Mbps, and more than 60 smaller ISPs are reselling the service that underpins that retail product. BT is expected... Read more

10 May, 2012 by David Meyer

Tougher interception laws to reach Twitter

...released by the Home Office alongside the Queen's speech. In February, ISPs complained that government had not officially involved them in drawing up its... Read more

9 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

27 cities to compete for 'ultra-fast' broadband funding

...of those in Northern Ireland. They also had to be places that ISPs such as BT were not already targeting in their private-sector rollouts... Read more

8 May, 2012 by David Meyer

Ofcom set to lay out anti-piracy rules for ISPs

...ISPs should learn within weeks what they will be required to do to... Read more

16 May, 2012 by Ben Woods
How IPv6 will work as IPv4 wanes

How IPv6 will work as IPv4 wanes

...t going to stop working overnight. A lot of addresses allocated to ISPs and end sites remain as yet unused, so there's still breathing... Read more

2 February, 2011 by Tim Chown
DEA anti-piracy measures delayed until 2014

DEA anti-piracy measures delayed until 2014

...been delayed until 2014 at the earliest, following court cases brought by ISPs unhappy with the costs they would have to bear and with other... Read more

26 April, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins

SOCA: Police can monitor file download histories

...copyright enforcement laws allow rights holders to get a court order forcing ISPs to block access to copyright-infringing sites hosted overseas, as was the... Read more

16 February, 2012 by David Meyer

Court rules Swedish ISPs can hand over customer data

...move could pave the way for Sweden's highest court to force ISPs to hand over user data upon request whenever a person is suspected... Read more

20 April, 2012 by Don Reisinger

ISPs drag feet over broadband ad change

...advertising rules that told them to offer realistic broadband headline speeds. Some ISPs, such as Virgin Media, have not changed their headline advertised speeds after... Read more

3 April, 2012 by Ben Woods

ISPs kept in dark about UK's plans to intercept Twitter

...player games. The monitoring and storage are expected to be handled by ISPs, but the government's plans have not been officially shared with these... Read more

20 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

MPs urge ISPs to take down terrorist material

...ISPs should commit themselves to taking down terrorist material from websites, an influential... Read more

6 February, 2012 by David Meyer

Ofcom: ISPs must reveal more about traffic throttling

...ISPs must be clearer with broadband customers about how they restrict traffic, Ofcom... Read more

24 November, 2011 by Ben Woods

Gap between broadband you get vs broadband ISPs promise set to shrink

ISPs sign up to new Ofcom code of practice for broadband advertising... The... Read more

28 July, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

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@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

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Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

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@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

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