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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]
ISPs Reveal Broadband Price Cut Details
News Internet service providers (ISPs) have hailed the significant price cuts that BT will make to its range of wholesale broadband products, and many have already guaranteed to pass the savings on to their customers.
[February 26, 2002, 17:35]
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 Hail 'common-sense' Approach To Regulation
News British ISPs are breathing a sigh of relief following Demon Internet's successful challenge of the High Court injunction banning the publication of the new names and whereabouts of the James Bulger killers.
[July 11, 2001, 16:35]
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 Letting UK Online Firms Down
News ISPs are letting UK online businesses down with over half failing to meet the service levels they guarantee in contracts, according to a report from Internet services company iowatch. Iowatch says the majority of ISPs promise their clients will...
[December 4, 2000, 15:23]
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 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 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 Debate Offshore Email To Evade RIPA
News Several British ISPs are considering providing offshore email services in an effort to evade the government's controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act which gives the authorities unprecedented surveillance powers.
[September 1, 2000, 10:38]
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 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 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 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 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 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 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]
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 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]
