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Pipex stick to limits
Pipex has announced new broadband packages today and are scrapping the old 'unlimited' tag in favour of clear and transparent download limits. The ISP is looking to be “honest and straight forward to customers" by giving customers fixed download limits rather than applying a Fair Usage Policy, which to most users is a grey area as these limits are not usually published. As before the packages come in Mini, Midi, Max and Pro and have the same up to 8Mbps download speeds, with download limits at 2GB, 10GB, 30GB and 100GB respectively. Prices range from £9.99 a month for the mini, which Pipex claim is suitable for 70 per cent of its customers to £39.99 for the Pro. Mini and Midi customers receive a free modem but can upgrade to the wireless router that Max and Pro customers get for an additional £30.
Net user base shrinks as Indians go mobile
NEW DELHI: The year 2007 belongs to broadband, but for the first time in recent memory, the number of internet connections in the country has fallen. The total internet connections in the country declined to 9.22 million in April-June from 9.27 million in the previous quarter, according to telecom regulator TRAI's performance indicator report for the quarter. India is possibly the only country in the world where internet connections are falling.
Analysts said the fall in internet connections was on account of the country's largest internet service provider (ISP), BSNL, witnessing a 2.93 per cent decline in its subscriber base to 2.42 million. Its sister PSU, MTNL, which is the second-largest ISP, also registered a 0.5 per cent decrease in its subscriber base during this quarter.
Wi-Fi piggybackers 'fess up
More than half (54 percent) of computer users admit to using someone else's Wi-Fi without permission, research reveals. Many internet-enabled homes fail to secure their wireless connection properly with passwords and encryption, allowing others to steal internet access rather than pay an ISP, according to IT security company Sophos, which carried out the 560-strong survey. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, said borrowing Wi-Fi internet access may feel like a victimless crime, but it deprives ISPs of revenue. And if you hop onto your next door neighbour's wireless broadband connection to download movies and music from the net, chances are you are also slowing down their internet access and impacting on their download limit, Cluley added.
ISPs fail on LLU migrations
BroadbandChoices.co.uk have called on industry regulator Ofcom needs to take action to ensure ISPs give customers correct information when inquiring about changing providers. But 46 per cent of call centre operators which were called by the comparison site gave incorrect advice when questioned about obtaining a migration authorised code (MAC) concerning moving to a local loop unbundled (LLU) provider. There are more than three million unbundled telephone lines in the UK and rapidly growing. The process of LLU involves communications providers, such as TalkTalk or Sky, installing their own equipment in telephone exchanges, meaning that they do not have to rely on BT's existing infrastructure. .
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