Jeremy Purvis, MSP for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale has been promoting his action plan for the area entitled “A digital strategy for the Borders”, which aims to make the region one of the best connected parts of the entire country, boasting to make it the …

Rory Cellan-Jones has reported that two of the biggest internet providers in the country have warned net regulator Ofcom that they expect to issue “hundreds of thousands” of letters warning users about their copyright infringements online every single month. These letters will be sent out …

Virgin is currently the only cable provider in the UK, and also the only provider to be able to offer a huge 50 Mbps to residential customers. Its 50 Mbps service has so far existed at a fair price and without any usage caps at …

100 Mbps broadband might be commonplace in mainland Europe, but in the UK, outside of privately funded networks and university and work, there?s very little chance to get a connection that fast. Even the current rollout of next generation services from BT will only offer …

Anyone who has ever had a problem with their broadband will know that it?s often one of the most difficult services to sort out quickly. As broadband consumers we often have to deal with charges for technical support lines, quality and language problems with foreign …

This week sees several new reports published by UK telecoms regulator Ofcom detailing the different ways the UK is deploying next generation fibre optic broadband services and how each different method could change the marketplace. Featureed largely in the reports are BT, IFPNL and i3 …

The Northern Island Executive have announced a similar Universal Service Obligation to the one announced by the UK government in 2012. Well, it?s similar in that the timeframe is the same and objectives are similar, but Northern Island are promising 10 Mbps for urban areas, …

We talked about the use of CView last week but now the technology appears to have a found a partner: Virgin Media.
The technology developed by firm Detica will use Deep Packet Inspection in order to determine the level of piracy on a network. This form …

We’re a little late on this one but we’d like to remind all our readers and users of the comparison site that this week is Get Safe Online Week, part of the Get Safe Online campaign.
The campaign is aimed at helping people make sure that …

BBC’s consumer affairs program Watchdog covered the security of broadband hotspots last night and found that three of the most used hotspots in the country: BT Openzone , The Cloud and T-mobile are all vulnerable to hacking attacks, with a security firm stating that there …