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ISPs criticised for overstating broadband speeds
News One of the main advisers to Ofcom has written to the country's largest ISPs asking them to change their broadband selling practices. It asked the ISPs to: The Ofcom Consumer Panel has no powers to compel ISPs to adhere to its requests.
[October 10, 2007, 14:57]
ISPs buckle under copyright cases
News Internet service providers (ISPs) are reporting rapidly increasing incidences of take-down notices for copyright infringement material, in contrast to a diminishing number of requests to remove defamatory material from sites they host.
[December 10, 2002, 10:37]
ISPs wary of BT's network upgrade plans
News A body representing many of the UK's ISPs has warned that BT should be prevented from monopolising the UK's telecoms market through its forthcoming 21st Century Network (21CN) . ISPs] have made significant investments based on the current access...
[April 13, 2005, 18:20]
ISPs, telcos and police voice fears over data retention cost
Talkback I was very interested to see your article on compliance: ‘ISPs, telcos and police voice fears over data retention cost'. ISPs should not be wary of these proposals, but rather should be welcoming them.
[January 13, 2006, 15:17]
ISPs unfazed by Prestel's 'fastest' claims
News Prestel's claim was made on the back of an independent study by BDO Stoy Hayward, measuring the access speeds of six big-name ISPs. Users of other ISPs are still surfing on outmoded copper," a spokesman said.
[July 30, 1996, 18:05]
ISPs fear greater Net regulation
News UK ISPs are worried that communications regulator Ofcom may be given powers over the delivery of television programmes over the Internet. Speaking at ISPA's parliamentary advisory forum, ISPA secretary general Nicholas Lansman argued that it would...
[January 27, 2005, 15:35]
US Report: ISPs may offer free PCs
News Seeing a chance to get customers on board, other ISPs are clamouring to do deals with PC makers. Think cell phones. Providers of wireless phone service give away phones that once cost hundreds of dollars in order to sign up subscribers.
[October 30, 1998, 10:24]
ISPs not immune to tech gloom
News Just as mobile firms, chip makers and other high-tech companies are all feeling the pinch, so ISPs will not be exempt from the hard times the tech sector is experiencing. Even during the height of investor confidence and dot-com supremacy last...
[April 4, 2001, 13:28]
ISPs, rights groups react to gov't P2P proposals
News ISPs, experts and digital rights groups reacted swiftly on Tuesday to government proposals that would see illegal file-sharers disconnected from their internet service. The ISP Association (ISPA), an industry group, said in a statement that it was...
[August 25, 2009, 15:18]
ISPs revolt against data retention law
News UK ISPs are poised to ignore a Home Office voluntary code of practice addressing retention of Internet data unless big changes are made to the wording. The code of practice lays out the obligations of ISPs under the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and...
[October 23, 2002, 17:08]
ISPs given deadline for file-sharing crackdown
News Whitehall has told ISPs they have until April next year to crack down on file-sharing of copyrighted material. The Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) said on Friday that while the emphasis was on ISPs and industry...
[February 22, 2008, 12:57]
ISPs, telcos and police voice fears over data retention cost
News The data retention directive that the UK, Ireland and Sweden pushed into EU law last month would make it a requirement for telecommunications companies and ISPs to save information about customers' phone calls and electronic communications for up...
[January 13, 2006, 8:50]
Pricing in the Shadow of Firm Turnover: ISPs During the 1990s
White Papers This paper examines the relationship between changes in price levels and the evolution of the market for dial-up ISPs in the United States from November 1993 to January 1999. The paper also finds a survivor bias in pricing: ISPs who survive tend to...
[October 19, 2007, 1:00]
ISPs face renewed threat of file-sharing laws
News The government has renewed its threat to introduce laws to force ISPs to control online illegal downloading and file-sharing of music and films. Malcolm Wicks, business, enterprise and regulatory reform minister, told Parliament government had to...
[June 19, 2008, 8:55]
ISPs told to help eradicate Sober
Talkback If ISPs do not act voluntarily they will have the legislators after them. Of course they would lose money whilst cutting off their customers but what about the rest of the Internet users who could be cloberred.
[January 10, 2006, 11:41]
Five years ago: ISPs unfazed by Prestel's 'fastest' claims
News Prestel's claim was made on the back of an independent study by BDO Stoy Hayward, measuring the access speeds of six big-name ISPs. Users of other ISPs are still surfing on outmoded copper," a spokesman said.
[July 30, 2001, 7:30]
ISPs could be forced to remove paedophile content
News British ISPs could be compelled to follow Thus' example and remove known child pornography newsgroups from their servers if the Internet Watch foundation is granted greater legal clout in April. While it is impossible for ISPs to stop all illegal...
[February 21, 2001, 15:05]
ISPs caught up in Internet babies furore
News ISPs have become the latest victims of the Internet adoption row, with the government telling providers they must get rid of illegal adoption adverts. In a precedent-setting libel action between Demon Internet and Dr Laurence Godfrey, Judge...
[January 22, 2001, 14:51]
ISPs raise the stakes on DDoS attacks
News Why should ISPs do something? We get put into this position that ISPs should do more to promote anti-spam and antivirus," said Starnes. Earlier this month Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity advisor to the White House, called for ISPs to do...
[November 30, 2004, 11:45]
ISPs spell out true cost of data retention
News ISPs say the true cost of storing individuals' communications data as required by the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act (ATCS) that was rushed through parliament in 2001, will cost far in excess of the £20m estimated by the Government.
[December 12, 2002, 9:00]
