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  • Obama inauguration to test tech infrastructure to the limit

    Obama inauguration to test tech infrastructure to the limit

    Emergency cell operations in US as UK expects web traffic to surge 20 January 2009 15:58 GMT

    Technological infrastructures both here and in the US look to be pushed to be limit as America's first "digital" president is about to be sworn into office.

    In the States mobile phone operators are boosting network capacity and have been forced to issue special...

  • Facebook busy on Christmas Day

    Facebook busy on Christmas Day

    Second most popular site for Plusnet customers 30 December 2008 15:30 GMT

    Plusnet has revealed that Facebook was the second most popular website among its customers Christmas Day with activity on the social networking site starting to rise between 2pm and 3pm.

    By 4pm to 5pm it had increased by 25% as Britons contacted friends and...

  • Workers turn to web for Olympic coverage. Software, Media streaming, BBC, PlusNet 0

    Workers turn to web for Olympic coverage

    500% increase in streaming traffic. 8 August 2008 17:43 GMT

    Office workers tune in, in there thousands to watch the Olympics online according to one ISP who has been monitoring the traffic levels in the UK on Friday.

    According to Plusnet, the Sheffield-based company saw a 500% increase in streaming traffic compared to...

  • 92% of Brits to keep broadband despite squeeze. Software, Biz, Statistics, Broadband, PlusNet 0

    92% of Brits to keep broadband despite squeeze

    Magazines first to go 4 August 2008 12:43 GMT

    92% of Brits want to keep their internet connection despite the financial squeeze because it is so vital to their lives, a poll for ISP Plusnet has revealed.

    30% of UK residents with broadband would rather give up their magazine subscriptions, cigarettes and...

  • Top 10 ISPs ranked. Software, Online, Broadband, PlusNet, ISPs, Tesco, Tiscali, Virgin Media, AOL, BT, Orange, Pipex, Statistics 0

    Top 10 ISPs ranked

    Does yours come out on top? 6 March 2008 10:18 GMT

    An independent survey of 4000 UK households has ranked the top ten UK ISPs.

    Broadband Choices asked customers to rate their internet service provider for quality and reliability, download time, clarity of billing and pricing, after sales support, value for...

  • ISPs counting costs of iPlayer. Home Cinema, BBC, iPlayer, Statistics, Biz, ISPs, PlusNet, Online, Video on demand 0

    ISPs counting costs of iPlayer

    £1 million loss to the industry in January? 22 February 2008 15:51 GMT

    A warning we've heard before - ISPs are facing a sharp increase in bandwidth costs as internet TV services such as the BBC's iPlayer continue to grow in popularity.

    Following the news from the BBC that during January, more than 2.2 million people watched a programme...

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