UK Broadband Reviews

Many UK broadband internet providers and other digital freedom activitists joined together to attack the government's new proposals to disconnect the broadband services of suspected illegal internet downloaders. In a open letter to The Times, the heads of leading UK ISP s including Charles Dunstone of Carphone Warehouse, Ian Livingston of BT, Tom Alexander of Orange have criticised the the new anti-piracy policy of the government, drawn by the Business secretary, Lord Mendelson. The letter warned that disconnection is against freedom of internet users and this harsh measure failed in other countries due to protests from broadband users. The broadband ISP s have given a few suggestions on how to stop illegal file sharing over internet: "We must avoid an extra-judicial ‘kangaroo court’ process where evidence is not properly tested and accused broadband users are denied the right to defend themselves against false accusations. Without these protections innocent customers will s...

UK broadband provider , Orange has released a broadband survey that predicts greater population changes in UK cities and regions by 2015 due to increased broadband services and universal broadband access in UK, making the employees to move to their preferred locations. Digital Britain aims to provide minimum 2Mbps broadband service to everyone in UK by 2012. If UK successfully completes this project, there could be change in UK population map as people would move to lesser populated areas with broadband access, the study reports According to the findings, some major cities and regions will see their population become less dense. For instance, cities in East and West Midlands and parts of North like Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester which have high-speed internet access facilities will be less populated as 80 percent of residents could move to other regions like mountains or coasts. These regions would provide broadband access in five years from now. Broadband infrastructure will contin...