Australian telcos must block access to sites infringing content copyright and divert web users towards a web page created by movie studios, the Federal court has ruled. Pay-TV operator Foxtel welcomed the decision, calling it a “major step in directly combating piracy”. Sites such as The Pirate Bay, Torrentz, Torrent Hound, IsoHunt and SolarMovie are […]
Netflix has released November data from its ISP Speed Index, its monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime-time Netflix streaming experience. In the US, the average monthly speed for CenturyLink climbed to 2.55 Megabits per second (Mbps), up from 2.11 Mbps in October. In South Korea, D’LIVE rose three places […]
Data from Juniper Research has found that the number of connected IoT (Internet of Things) devices, sensors and actuators will reach over 46 billion in 2021. This 200 per cent increase, from 2016, will be driven in large part by a reduction in the unit costs of hardware. Juniper forecasts that it will average close to […]
Parks Associates research shows 10-15 per cent of broadband households in the UK, France, Germany, and Spain would trust their broadband service provider for smart home products or services, roughly the same levels who would trust other channels such as retailers or security dealers. The IoT research firm notes that with this level playing field […]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released the results of its ongoing nationwide performance study of consumers’ fixed broadband Internet access service in its sixth Measuring Broadband America report. The report furthers the Commission’s efforts to provide greater transparency about network performance to help consumers make more informed choices about their Internet Service Provider. This […]
Spanish pay-TV operator, Telefónica, is launching an aggressive Christmas campaign with discounts of up to 50 per cent when subscribing to its convergent package Fusión Contigo. From now and until January 10th 2017, new subscribers to this package (with TV, optic fibre and 2 phone lines) will only pay €25 a month instead of the […]
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority published independent research into consumers’ understanding of broadband speed claims made in ads. It commissioned the research to test whether regulatory standards, set by the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP) and enforced by the ASA, are effective in protecting the public from misleading claims. The standards permit headline speed claims that […]
The UK’s smaller broadband providers are ahead of BT, Sky, Virgin Media and TalkTalk when it comes to customer service, a study has found. Cable.co.uk’s customer satisfaction study found that customers of SSE, which only entered the broadband market in 2014, were the happiest with their provider’s customer service. SSE, best known as one of […]
The latest figures from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech on the home services market – covering broadband, fixed landline and paid television – reveals a slowing decline for TalkTalk following its cyber security failings a year ago, despite a loss of 14 per cent of its customers over the year. Ossian Robertson, consumer insight director at Kantar […]
A third ultrafast network for the UK to compete with BT Openreach and Virgin Media, is “highly unlikely”, says a report commissioned by BT for the regulator Ofcom “A good long-term outcome would be to achieve fully competition between three or more networks for around 40 per cent of premises, with competition from two providers […]