UK Internet service providers have rejected calls for them to police the net and cut off users who repeatedly file-share material unlawfully. The group that represents ISPs said disconnecting users would be a “disproportionate response”. A coalition of UK creative industries wants the online connections of repeat offenders to be slowed or stopped. (See Daily […]

Carphone Warehouse is set to become Britain's second largest broadband provider after it agreed to pay £236 million (E264m) for the UK assets of Tiscali. Carphone said it would be funded by its existing debt facilities and would raise its earnings in the current financial year to March 2010. The move will also see Carphone […]

The number of broadband enabled airplanes will increase from 25 in 2008 to 800 in 2009, reports In-Stat. As a result, broadband hungry airline passengers will generate over $47 million worldwide in 2009. The in-flight broadband market is still emerging and will grow well beyond $1 billion annually by 2012. ….

The Canadian cable TV and telecom company said that, in the two months ended April 30th, it added 74,833 new digital customers as well as 7,053 basic cable subscribers. It also racked up 19,006 Internet customers. “Cable subscriber results exceed the two-month customer figures from a year ago and it is clear that despite challenging […]

According to the 'Beijing Economic and Informatization Commission,' Beijing will soon implement information infrastructure upgrade plans that will see the government invest an estimated RMB 100 billion (E11bn) between 2009 and 2012. The funds will be used primarily for improving high-speed network capacity, upgrading broadband Internet access standards, and promoting Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) services. By 2012, […]

Pangea Media, a media platform for youth media and marketing professionals, has released the results of a jointly developed survey which tracked television consumption and viewing preferences of almost 2,000 of Pangea Media’s tween/teen users. The survey found that tweens/teens watch an average of five to 10 hours of TV content a week and prefer […]

The European Commission's proposed telecoms reforms, which include the three strikes proposals for abusive downloaders, will now have to go into the conciliation process after the European Parliament again refused to discard an amendment that would force governments to get court permission before disconnecting illegal downloaders of copyright material. MEPs in September put forward an […]

Looking to expand the parameters of its Socialthing social networking news feed service, AOL announced plans to integrate the platform across the sites of Warner Bros. Television Group another unit of Time Warner. The service, acquired by AOL last summer, is designed to help users trace the Internet activity of friends. WBTVG will use the […]

Sales slightly down and losses increasing on Q1 to £123m (E138m) from £109m last time were the bad news while increased ARPU (£42.29 v £41.95) and a record low churn of 1.1% were the good news. Revenue for the quarter was £935.7m against £947.3m last time. But the underlying fall in broadband sign-ons – down […]

Comcast reported improving subscriber losses and nearly doubling its free cash flow for the quarter. Comcast said it lost 78,000 subscribers in the period – slightly worse than the 57,000 lost in the first quarter of 2008 but better than analyst consensus estimates of a 171,000 subscriber loss. Revenue rose 5.3% to $8.8 billion and […]