Some of you will have been following the progress of the Scarlet/Sabam case that is currently being dealt with by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Scarlet, a Belgian ISP (now owned by Belgacom but a small independent at the time the case was started in 2007) was ordered by a national court to implement […]
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I attended the DEAct workshop at the House of Commons on Tuesday afternoon. Held in the Jubilee room off the Great Hall of Westminster, this put together once more rights holders and everyone else in a session that had been organised by Eric Joyce MP in order to be able to put together a summary […]
The protection of children whilst using the internet is a highly emotive subject. There can be few who think it a bad idea. I have 4 kids who are heavy internet users. I don’t want them to come to any harm. New MP for Devizes, Claire Perry, last week called for a change in regulations […]
I met with the Police Central eCrime Unit last year as part on an ISPA group that wanted to understand the issues that police have in fighting internet related crime and to see whether there is anything that we could do to help. The police’s biggest problem is the speed that things can happen at […]
Last night I participated in a meeting at the British Library chaired by Eric Joyce MP discussing the effect of the Digital Economy Act on Public Intermediaries, ie libraries, educational establishments, local authorities etc. The initial rollout of the DEAct is as we know targeted at the 5 ISPs with over 400,000 subscribers. There is […]
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A week is a long time in politics but politicians seem happy to take most of the summer off. I have just had a 2 week break where I avoided anything to do with work and even kept away from blogging. The latter involved a huge effort because there is so much going on internet-wise. […]
The government published the final coalition agreement this week. The government proposes to: End the storage of internet and email records without good reason; This is good. The cost to industry was going to be enormous to do this. This might well also affect the government’s thinking in respect of the Intercept Modernisation Programme (IMP). […]
As part of our process of continuous improvement the Timico Network Operations team has adopted BS6008 as an internal standard. In the absence of 100% accurate measurement tools we are currently having to use best efforts (ie a teaspoon) which does prevent us from gaining official certification. However I am looking at the business case for investing […]
Doing the rounds today is news of the removal of the RSLOG.net site. The italicised text is from their temporary holding page. “RLSLOG.net was suspended by its German hosting company after removal request from law firm representing Universal Music, although we never hosted any files or copyrighted data on our server. Our site is strictly informative. […]
This video is doing the rounds. It helps you understand why the web filtering aspect of the Digital Economy Act is a very bad thing. http://www.cleanternet.org/
Readers who are somewhat unclear on FTTC broadband soon won’t be. Read on. FTTC broadband exchange rollout posts have attracted a huge amount of interest on this blog. More so in fact than any other subject I have posted on. There is clearly a demand out there for the faster speeds. There isn’t that much info out there […]
The ISP industry is up in arms today as the House of Lords yesterday rushed through ill considered amendment 120A to the Digital Economy Bill proposing to allow rights holders to serve notice on ISPs to block access to sites considered by them (rightsholders) to have illegal content – music, movies, software etc. This is […]
The Digital Economy Debate has generated a flurry of responses today – no doubt people getting messages out of the way before the rugby this weekend! Firstly the UK hotel industry, via its mouthpiece the British Hospitality Association, has issued a press release expressing grave concern that their members could have their internet access cut […]
I try and keep the content of this blog varied. One of the nice things about my job is that I am able to do this. One of the recurring themes though relates to regulation. As a board member of the ISP Association I get a lot of visibility of things going on here. In fact a huge […]
I understand that the Government is likely to drop plans to force ISPs to support the Internet Watch Foundation’s child abuse website filter. This is something that most consumer ISPs support our of their own choice. It is reckoned that 99% of all consumer broadband connections are prevented from accessing sites that promote child abuse/pornography. Someone had decided […]
You may have noted the spam theme of my posts this week. This is because we are in the process of upgrading our anti spam capabilities. The management of spam is a hugely complex process and involves many factors contributing to a scorecard against which an email is rated. There is a general set […]
I don’t know about you but I have started getting spam through Facebook. So far it isn’t the classical type of spam selling viagra etc. I have however been getting friend requests from attractive young ladies with exotic names. I also seem to be inundated with notifications of rubbish that I have no interest in checking […]
There’s been a lot in the news over the weekend regarding IWF blocking access to an article Wikipedia. I recently covered the IWF in this blog. Now it has hit the heights of the news this morning on BBC Radio 4. The IWF provides blacklists to ISPs of www links that they consider to have child […]
These are the risks as seen by Timico engineers in their travels around our customer base together with a few of my own real world observations. This list is not authoritative but it should be insightful and if you are the owner or IT manager of a small or medium sized business then you could […]
The outsourcing of support functions is traditionally done by businesses because it is cheaper to do so than have the skills in house. For a small business with only a few persons it usually doesn’t make sense to have an IT department and in any case a single IT person is unlikely to have the […]
Junk email filters are great. I don’t get much if any SPAM because of the Timico anti SPAM/virus service but I do get a lot of emails from genuine businesses trying to sell me tickets to conferences (usually not in the same country as I live) and from headhunters trying to place candidates. Whilst everyone has […]
One of the problems facing the VoIP industry is of course SPIT. SPIT is the SPAM of the Internet Telephony industry. Robot diallers are a huge problem in North America and I have a friend who always listens to who is leaving an answer phone message before picking up the call. A high proportion of […]