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 Biting the hand that feeds IT Copyright: Copyright 2008, Situation Publishing Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:54:11 +0100 Seat on exec salary committee questionedNominet chairman Bob Gilbert sits on a committee to determine the salaries and bonuses of senior executives, but not his own. Critics say this contravenes the not-for-profit domain registry's corporate governance rules, but Nominet denies any such breach.… Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:15:39 +0100 Rented tubes should still be clear tubesCanada's telecom regulators gave Bell Canada the OK to throttle peer-to-peer Internet traffic on pipes it leases to third-party ISPs.… Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:30:16 +0100 Down banhammerBT has banned all future discussion of Phorm and its "WebWise" targeted advertising product on its customer forums, and deleted all past threads about the controversy dating back to February.… Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:18:59 +0100 Piling pressure on OfcomCash-strapped BT has identified a vogueish fillip in its lobbying campaign for a looser regime to regulate access to forthcoming next-generation fibre deployments: the recession.… Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:04:50 +0100 And deny calling in MandelsonThe executives in charge of Nominet, the not-for-profit company responsible for the .uk web address registry, have rejected calls from elected directors to resign and face a vote of confidence from members.… Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:08:57 +0100 Free two-month trial for 200 puntersVirgin Media has invited 200 customers in Warrington in Cheshire to be the first to try its forthcoming 50Mb/s broadband package at no extra cost for two months.… Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:04:12 +0100 In the dark over true costsBritish punters are getting short-changed by telecoms companies because they struggle to get enough information to properly decide which tariff or deal to accept.… Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:31:13 +0100 Players square up in battle for .ukOne of Nominet's four non-executive directors has resigned amid accusation and counter accusation of wrongdoing at the not-for-profit company that runs the .uk registry.… Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:37:53 +0100 More woe for American PhormFifteen American netizens have sued behavioral ad targeter NebuAd and several of its data pimping ISP partners, alleging wiretapping, packet forgery, and browser hijacking.… Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:19:37 +0100 Waves goodbye (but not yet) to 2,200 staffVirgin Media, the UK cable giant, is cutting 2,200 jobs - about 15 per cent of the workforce.… Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:31:28 +0100 Twitter ye notTelco 2.0 STL Partners' twice-yearly Telco 2.0 conference is held under Chatham House rules, which means the press can't attribute quotes to speakers without their permission. It's all about telcos finding new revenue opportunities, and it returned this week. One session starred a Well Known Web Advertising Intermediary very well known to Register readers. For the sake of brevity, we'll call them WKWAI.… Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:02:03 +0100 Trial sizedEU Commissioner Viviane Reding has been mapping out how the new super-regulator will look, and the answer is rather less super than originally envisioned.… Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:02:20 +0100 OopsA PlusNet subscriber was surprised this morning to be invited to join Phorm's latest "WebWise" targeted advertising trial, despite assurances that only BT's own customers would be asked for permission to intercept their web browsing.… Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:34:45 +0100 .uk in disarrayA bitter boardroom battle at Nominet, the not-for-profit company in charge of the .uk domain registry, has escalated, with non-executive director Jim Davies calling for the resignation of its Chairman and CEO.… Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:53:36 +0100 20,000 hotspots at home, 80,000 worldwideAT&T has bought up Wi-Fi hotspot provider Wayport for $275m, hugely increasing the number of places that subscribers with an iPhone or Blackberry Bold can get free access.… Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:19:51 +0100 'Hands off!'The public sector should take a minor role investing in high bandwidth broadband capacity, according to a senior Ofcom official.… Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:29:37 +0100 Tuned outWhat if you launched an IPTV service, and nobody cared? That's the question that has apparently led Orange execs to ditch plans to offer broadband customers pay TV down their phone lines.… Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:40:18 +0100 'Bandwidth hogs' and all thatFollowing in the footsteps of Time Warner Cable, AT&T is exposing a small collection of American guinea pigs to the metered internet.… Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:49:53 +0100 The neverending auctionUpdated We're indebted to The Sunday Times for a reminder that Tiscali is still for sale.… Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:59:31 +0100 Auction is on while O2 digs heels inOfcom has issued another update on progress towards flogging off spectrum in the 2GHz band, this time stating that all the legal action should be finished off by February next year, allowing the regulator to put up the For Sale signs in March.… Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:16:48 +0100 Profit warning sparks boardroom coupBT issued a surprise profit warning this morning and saw its share price tumble by almost a fifth as a result.… Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:30:47 +0100 Another blow for data pimpingUpdated Orange, the UK's sixth largest broadband provider, is not going to use Phorm's data-snooping technology.… Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:54:47 +0100 Customers cut off by settings changeSome Pipex customers have been without email access for several days due to an platform upgrade that meant their settings were wrong.… Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:24:08 +0100 Ex-NTL lines draw the slow strawUpdated Virgin Media is facing charges from customers connected to certain parts of its network that it is misleading them about the speed of their broadband connections.… Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:15:46 +0200 Wireless Groundhog DayTo the surprise of no one, engineers representing America's incumbent wireless carriers and broadband internet providers have attacked the FCC's plan to grace the country with a free "third pipe."… Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:42:25 +0200 O2, Be Broadband network slowedWorkmen in London's Docklands sliced through a major fibre optic trunk yesterday, forcing businesses and ISPs nationwide to reroute internet traffic.… Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:46:19 +0200 Backup failsPower problems in Knowsley near Liverpool downed Virgin Media's cable network in the north and midlands today, leaving customers without broadband or TV for several hours.… Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:05:58 +0200 Militant gunmen still battery removal challengedThe Taliban has now ordered mobile operators to shutdown daytime access to their networks in the Afghan province of Ghazni. The hard-line Islamic militia says it's annoyed that wireless signals are being used to locate its insurgent gunmen.… Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:08:21 +0200 090-GOOD-BYEGeorge Kidd, boss of the premium rate regulator PhonepayPlus, has resigned.… Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:11:08 +0200 Reminds US citizens to turn up on polling dayVint Cerf has declared for Obama in the US Presidential race, after carefully considering the issues – you know, war, global and domestic poverty – and deciding that what the world needs now is network neutrality.… Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:28:32 +0200 Interested? Call this number...We're sure that UK councils' equal opps policies do a great deal to ensure that absolutely everyone gets a fair crack of the whip when it comes to applying for jobs or tendering for those juicy service contracts, but there are surely occasions when it is entirely justifiable to discriminate against those who do not have the benefit of an internet connection:… Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:07:34 +0200 With love from BrusselsThe regulator's rule book for deciding what is permissible on today's roads is very thick indeed. The content, behaviour and performance of "stuff on roads" is massive, and grows by the day. Try hot-rodding your lawnmower – or deciding that on Thursdays, you will only make left turns, and see how far you get.… Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:07:12 +0200 'We have stepped out for a little...'Controversial behavioural advertising firm Adzilla has reportedly quit the US market. The move follows the resignation of chief exec Toby Gabriner.… Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:26:25 +0200 Opponents call for public interest trialThe Crown Prosecution Service will examine evidence that BT and Phorm's stealth advertising targeting trials broke wiretapping laws, despite a recent police refusal to pass the case to prosecutors.… Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:31:55 +0200 BT pushes 40Mbit/sThe residents of Muswell Hill in London and Whitchurch in South Glamorgan will be among the first in the UK to be offered faster broadband via a fibre optic upgrade to the aged national telecoms network.… Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:18:52 +0200 'We're just too quick for you'Virgin Media believes it is being shafted by comparison sites offering ISP speed checks, and has called on them to improve their techniques ahead of the launch of its 50Mbit/s upgrade.… Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:02:04 +0200 'Let's try that once more shall we?'The European Commission has again written to the government for an explanation of UK authorities' response to BT's allegedly illegal secret trials of Phorm's ISP adware system.… Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:02:47 +0200 Judge: 'Pull the other one'Like dozens of other communities across America, the tiny town of Monticello, Minnesota wants to build a fiber-optic broadband network. In September of last year, its citizens approved the project via referendum, with 74 per cent of voters giving the nod. But thirteen months later, its fiberlicious dream is still on hold, thanks to a lawsuit from the incumbent phone company.… Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:28:37 +0200 500 soon booted to Alcatel-LucentBT will outsource 500 staff from its Design and Operate units to Alcatel-Lucent in a seven-year global deal.… Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:01:19 +0200 Engineers could face open exitExclusive BT is secretly considering outsourcing the operation of its heavily regulated and unionised network access division Openreach, sources have told The Register.… Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:47:05 +0200 'Daddy needs to tell you about an exciting new service called WebWise'BT subscribers who are invited to take part in its new trial of Phorm's internet monitoring and advertising system will be responsible for telling anyone who uses their computer that they could be being tracked online - whether they opt in or not.… Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:56:31 +0200 Proper freephone calls'n'allUK regulator Ofcom is pondering how to best allocate the new vexation - as opposed to emergency - numbers mandated by the EU, to be standardised across Europe as freephone numbers starting 116.… Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:38:01 +0200 Remind me what happened to that again...Top brass at Thus are celebrating their merger with Cable and Wireless by modestly telling staff through the medium of leaving large cardboard junk around offices that "a new era of telecoms" has begun.… Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:18:51 +0200 Filter-tipped technologyBT has blamed Brits' poor broadband speeds on tellies, lights and electrical wiring and the interference they all cause.… Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:46:14 +0200 Drafts naughty listAnyone who has abused premium-rate telephone numbers in the past will be barred from using the numbers again, telecoms regulator Ofcom has said.… Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:18:58 +0200 Cookie monsterUpdated BT will invite thousands of its broadband subscribers to voluntarily participate in a third trial of Phorm's advertising targeting system starting tomorrow, the two firms said this morning.… Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:57:48 +0200 When ad targeters attack their ownFront Porch – a Silicon Valley startup offering a Phorm-like online ad system – has sued several companies for patent infringement, including NebuAd, Hitwise, and Microsoft.… Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:30:05 +0200 Opt in, save a starving AfricanPhorm is considering tugging on ISP subscribers' heartstrings by offering to donate to charities if they opt to let it profile their internet use for advertisers.… Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:10:56 +0200 Nine 21CN network cards down East End broadbandThieves bagged new networking gear worth tens of thousands of pounds in the early hours of this morning in a raid on BT's Stepney Green exchange - just two weeks after its Mayfair facility was burgled.… Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:36:10 +0200 No unbundled cheapness for country folkTalkTalk's latest TV ad has fallen foul of advertising regulators, who received complaints from would-be customers who contacted the firm only to be told they had to pay extra because they lived outside its unbundled network.… |
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