Category: Broadband

BT Vision, the Freeview/On demand Television service from BT is to show Barclays premier league football to subscribers in the coming season.

The music industry has announced record declines in sales recently but may benefit from a Belgian court ruling requiring their third largest ISP to filter copyright infringing material that passes over its network. If this case sets a precedent for Europe or further afield, the music industry may be in for a fighting chance against piracy.

Telefonica, Spain's largest telephone company and owners of O2 and broadband subsidiary Be in the UK, is to be fined up to €150 million for charging broadband access wholesale rates that are too close to retail prices.

The Internet Services Providers' Association (ISPA UK) has today launched the 10th Annual UK Internet Industry Awards for 2008, commonly known as The ISPAs.

BT is to close the trial network it set up for its 21CN (21st Century Network) linking exchanges in central London, Woolwich and Cambridge, following the transfer of customers in South Wales to the live 21CN network.

The launch date for the BBC iPlayer, a service giving users free access to TV and radio programmes that have been aired by the BBC over the last 7 days, has been confirmed as July 27

The BT Business Club, an online resource for SMEs, has launched a guide to understand Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)

Research from Point Topic shows that broadband subscribers worldwide has reached 300m

Ofcom has launched an industry wide review into additional charges, such as early termination fees, charged by communications providers following consumer complaints

Point Topic has published details of the top 20 UK local authorities in terms of households with a broadband connection.