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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]
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 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]
MP: ISPs must come clean on paedophilia
News Parliament will debate on Wednesday whether ISPs should be forced to declare whether they block customers from accessing known child pornography sites. Margaret Moran, the Labour MP for Luton South, is introducing a Ten Minute Rule bill in an...
[October 26, 2005, 12:25]
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 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, 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 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]
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]
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]
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 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]
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 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 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]
EU consumer groups, ISPs plead for net neutrality
News European consumer groups and ISPs are pressing EU politicians to pass legislation to guarantee users cannot be thrown off the internet. The amendment would make it impossible for governments to force ISPs to disconnect people from the internet for...
[October 20, 2009, 14:16]
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 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 'must do more' to combat cybercrime
News Yu claimed that although its own service provider Cable & Wireless had been very effective, there is a lot more that ISPs could be prevent DDoS attacks and help security agencies track down the culprits.
[November 26, 2004, 15:15]
ISPs left in the dark over ADSL crash
News BT has been criticised for not keeping ISPs informed about the technical problem that crashed ADSL and narrowband unmetered connections across the UK on Tuesday. This situation was made worse by the fact that Internet service providers (ISPs) were...
[November 21, 2001, 11:14]
