7Digital Comes Up With Free Music For UK ISPs In Anti-Piracy Scheme

Virgin Media has hinted that it might move away from an 'unlimited download' model for its upcoming music service with Universal Music. During the Financial Times digital media conference, Virgin Media's head of music Richard...

In what some could qualify as a knee jerk reaction, the Digital Britain Minister, Stephen Timms, told MPs that it is the Government's obligation to provide all homes with broadband access.The successor to Lord Carter told...

A new nationwide broadband tax to fund Britain's effort to roll out next generation broadband across the country is set to be introduced by the beginning of next year, before the general election. The 50p monthly levy will be...

Virgin Media has joined forces with SamKnows to use the latter’s monitoring tool to help its users evaluate the performance of its 50Mbps fibre optic broadband network. SamKnows has managed to build to an impressive...

Virgin Media is beefing up its High Definition offering by adding FX, MTV and National Geographic to its lineup which consisted, for now, of the lonely BBC HD channel. The channels will be available for free to XL TV customers at...

After setting up plans for universal broadband in UK, Lord Stephen Carter has now called upon all European states to provide universal access to wired or wireless broadband in their territories by 2013, The Telegraph...

he Government believes it can reduce unlawful file-sharing by 70% to 80% by forcing internet service providers (ISPs) to tell users that their copyright infringement has been noted and making evidence of infringement available to...

It seems that increasingly more and more customers prefer mobile broadband over traditional forms of internet access with the sales of mobile broadband dongles registering a stellar increase of over 500 percent according to a...

The BBC could be called upon to play a more prominent role when it comes to investing in UK's next generation broadband network according to the communications minister Lord Carter.  It would not be the first time that a...

After resisting the effects of economic slowdown for months, UK broadband has finally been hit by the arrival of a real recession.   The number of new broadband lines added in the July to September quarter was a clear 20%...

Copyright laws and the way that media and telecoms services are regulated could be due for change under a review the Government will conduct into the UK's digital economy. Ex-chief executive of Ofcom Stephen Carter will conduct...

Dutch-born Erik Huggers has been selected as BBC’s new director of future media and technology, replacing Ashley Highfield. Huggers joined the BBC a year ago as chief controller of future media and technology, and...

Microsoft Corp and telecommunications giant BT announced they are bringing together the next-generation TV service BT Vision with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 games and entertainment system. All BT broadband customers will have the...

The number of broadband customers in the UK will continue growing steadily, but at a lower rate, to reach about 21 million by the end of 2012 (19 million consumer lines and 2 million business ones). The current downward trend in...

TalkTalk changed the broadband market forever with the launch of its “free broadband” service in April last year. The uptake was huge with 340,000 customers signing up in the first eight weeks, but TalkTalk failed to anticipate...