The UK is trailing behind rivals in the race for high-speed broadband despite the major role that the internet plays in the British economy, according to a new report.
Its average download speed is the 16th slowest in Europe and experts warn that the country could be “frozen out” as a result.
Three-quarters of consumers want 4G access as soon as possible, a new survey has found.
The vast majority of Brits want to see super-fast 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) mobile broadband technology rolled out in the UK as soon as possible, according to Everything Everywhere (EE).
Three continues to be the most complained about by customers to Ofcom, despite the network claiming improvements and reduction in complaints
Three UK has continued to be the most complained about mobile operator after Ofcom released its latest complaints data for major telecoms providers during Q3.
BT is to launch a fibre optic service that will deliver speeds of up to 300Mbps (megabits per second) to some UK homes by spring next year.
The service is only likely to be made available to a minority of people with others promised speed boosts of up to 80Mbps.
The UK government welcomed the news.
TalkTalk and its Tiscali UK subsidiary have been fined £3m for incorrectly billing more than 65,000 customers for services they had not received.
The largest fine regulator Ofcom has given to a telecoms firm, it follows an investigation into the two businesses that started in July 2010 as a result of more than 1,000 complaints. Ofcom said the fine reflected “the seriousness” of their actions. [Read more...]
Cybercrooks have launched a “Google AdWords” phishing campaign in an attempt to trick marks into handing over sensitive login credentials to a bogus, newly registered, website.
Spam messages promoting the ruse falsely claim that a recipient’s campaign has been stopped and they need to login to their “Adwords account” in order to reactivate it. The widely distributed spam messages link to a realistic replica of the Google AdWords page, net security firm Sophos warns. [Read more...]
Virgin Media is
asking its broadband customers to be patient while the company attempts to fix what it has described as an “intermittent routing issue” on its network.
The telco has had problems with its service since yesterday, according to various readers who have contacted their forums.
However, Virgin Media has not been able to confirm when the “non-geographical” issue will be fixed, it was also unable to nail down how many customers are currently affected by the problem. [Read more...]
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