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ISPs stand firm after P2P ruling
News The Internet Service Providers' Association has repeated its assertion that ISPs should not be responsible for any illegal file sharing that takes place over their networks. Speaking on Wednesday in the wake of a controversial ruling in a Belgian...
[July 11, 2007, 12:13]
ISPs told to help eradicate Sober
News ISPs were urged on Monday to check their user traffic patterns to locate and shut down machines infected with the mass-mailing Sober worm. Although Sober is no longer trying to replicate, antivirus company F-Secure believes ISPs must warn infected...
[January 9, 2006, 13:40]
ISPs walk the filesharing wire
Blog First you get a Belgian court ruling that ISPs are responsible for the illegal filesharing taking place on their networks - a decision that, inevitably, is now being challenged - and then you get the European Court of Justice standing by you...
[July 23, 2007, 16:32]
ISPs, lawmakers debate ad-privacy regulations
News The ISPs urged committee members to forgo passing new laws to regulate the use of targeted online advertising, instead advocating for a self-regulation of the industry to keep consumers' web-surfing habits secure and private.
[September 26, 2008, 10:14]
ISPs to meet Ofcom over BT broadband price hikes
News Particular ISPs have expressed vociferous views," explained an ISPA spokesman. Some ISPs have already indicated that they will not pass BT's price rises onto end users. This has led to concerns that some smaller ISPs may not be able to follow suit...
[August 18, 2004, 17:55]
ISPs told to step up child porn crackdown
News Commenting yesterday on the first annual report of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a Government sponsored watchdog, Minister for Industry Barbara Roche said that measures taken so far by ISPs are having an impact.
[March 5, 1998, 12:05]
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 shunned by Web safety drive
News However, a spokesman for the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) said this isn't the fault of the ISPs, claiming Get Safe Online has actually shunned any interest from the service providers so far.
[October 26, 2005, 17:55]
ISPs angered by BSkyB deal
News The telecoms watchdog, Oftel, has no plans to intervene unless ISPs direct their complaints at the watchdog. In the UK, it's developing fast but if larger companies bundle services it could potentially force smaller ISPs out of business," he said.
[May 6, 1999, 17:22]
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 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 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 face data interception deadline
News ISPs across the UK will have to start intercepting and storing electronic communications including emails, faxes and Web surfing data from 1 August, but there still appear to be glaring loopholes in the legislation.
[July 10, 2002, 16:03]
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]
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 demand radio spectrum
News Ofcom must make radio spectrum available for ISPs when it publishes its review into spectrum management in July, industry association ISPA said on Tuesday. The growth in wireless broadband means that many ISPs now use the radio spectrum to provide...
[April 26, 2005, 17:35]
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 told 'Free' must mean free
News ISPs have been warned that "Free" must mean free by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) and that promotional material must be clear about the availability of services. The advertising watchdog criticises ISPs for misleading consumers with...
[September 13, 2000, 7:48]
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]
MP: ISPs must come clean on paedophilia
Talkback Once the government has forced ISPs to block particular content - and how will they do it anyway, websites come and go faster than ISPs will ever be able to track - then it will be an easy matter for ISPs to be forced to block other content...
[October 27, 2005, 11:30]
