Communications and Media regulator Ofcom UK has just published a new guide called ‘Keeping Consumers Connected‘ (PDF), which offers advice for consumers who suddenly get trapped when their broadband ISP or telephone operator goes bust. The information is very spares and ultimately amounts to little more than Ofcom telling people to switch ISP; though in [...]
OFCOM has published predicted coverage maps for each of the UK’s five 3G mobile operators. These are predictions based on propagation models and show areas where an outdoor 3G signal exceeds a minimum threshold signal strength for “50% of locations and 50% of the time”. OFCOM acknowledge that the network operators have more sophisticated models [...]
Ericsson, one of the world’s leading suppliers of mobile phones and related network solutions, has warned that it could be 2012 before the first true next generation Mobile Broadband networks gain a good foothold in the UK. The deployment of Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology (aka – 4G), which could deliver download speeds of 150 [...]
OUT-LAW.COM, an online legal information site, has warned that neither regulators nor law protect Net Neutrality (restriction free access to legal online content and services) in the UK, where ISPs are free to block content from those that do not pay them to deliver it.
OUT-LAW Radio investigated whether there was any legal barrier in the [...]
Ofcom is widely expected to approve BT’s £1.5 billion programme to rollout fibre-based (Fibre to the Premise/Cabinet), super-fast broadband to as many as 10 million homes by 2012 (Bt Reveals Major £1.5bn Next-Gen Fibre Broadband Plans) on Tuesday of this coming week. The move will outline a new set of regulations, effectively allowing BT to [...]
Ofcom have today released a report with some conclusions based on the first month of data collected from its research in October/November last year.
UK consumers get an average actual broadband speed of 3.56Mbit/s
Customers with an ‘up to 8Mbit/s’ package received, on average, a speed of 3.6Mbit/s
Consumers living in urban areas receive speeds which are on [...]
