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ISP News Archives for August 2015

UK People Could Spend GBP14K More on Homes with 100Mb Broadband

28th Aug 2015 (26 Comments)

A new survey of 3,000 Brits commissioned by Hyperoptic, which is deploying “hyperfast” (1000Mbps) Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP/H) broadband services around a number of UK cities, has claimed that people would spend 8% (+£14,000) more on a new home if it came with a 100Mbps+ connection.

UPDATE ISP PlusNet Restores UK Website and Services After “Problems”

28th Aug 2015 (0 Comments)

Customers of PlusNet can finally regain access to the ISPs website, webmail and members centre services again after they were restored this morning following an unspecified failure that began yesterday afternoon.

UK ISP TalkTalk Follows BT to Hike Broadband and Phone Prices

27th Aug 2015 (7 Comments)

It’s not been long since TalkTalk announced their last batch of price rises in April 2015 (here) and the bad news is that they’ve today hit customers with a second hike, which will take the standard price of their entry-level broadband package from £5 to £7.50 a month and push line rental from £16.70 to £17.70.

Gigaclear Confirms First Cotswolds Homes for 1Gbps FTTP Broadband

26th Aug 2015 (10 Comments)

UK ISP Gigaclear, which recently won the contract to ensure that 6,495 additional rural premises in Gloucestershire (England) are able to receive “ultra fast” Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband by the end of 2017, has announced that Seven Springs in Cockleford will be the first to benefit.

Three UK and Vodafone Grab 1.4GHz Band to Boost 4G Speeds

26th Aug 2015 (0 Comments)

Mobile operators Three UK and Vodafone have each secured a 20MHz slice of the 1.4GHz radio spectrum band (L-Band 1452-1492MHz) from Qualcomm, which the operators say could be used to help deliver 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband speeds that are “up to three times faster” than today’s.

30 Days of Free Movies from Sky’s Video Streaming NOW TV Service

26th Aug 2015 (8 Comments)

Sky’s popular broadband-based NOW TV service, which among other things offers live streaming access and catch-up content for some of the media giants top TV channels (e.g. Sky Atlantic, Sky 1, Discovery etc.), is now offering a 30 day free trial of its Sky Movies pass content (£9.99 a month thereafter).

Map of Cityfibre’s Gigabit FTTP Fibre Optic Network in Hull UK

26th Aug 2015 (1 Comment)

A new map has been revealed that for the first time depicts exactly where Cityfibre’s new ultrafast 62km long fibre optic (FTTP) network is being deployed in the East Yorkshire (England) city of Hull.

Small UK Business Managers Puzzled by Broadband and Internet Services

26th Aug 2015 (4 Comments)

A new survey of 1,141 small and medium sized business bosses, which was conducted by the Daisy Group, has found that a staggering 92% have virtually no understanding of data centres, while 75% have no clue about VoIP and 44% are puzzled by “fibre broadband” (ISPs sometimes get that one wrong too).

UK and N.Ireland ISP Rainbow Comms Signs BT Wholesale Supply Deal

26th Aug 2015 (0 Comments)

Belfast-based Rainbow Communications, which last year gobbled 10,000 of UTV Connect’s residential and business Internet access subscribers for an undisclosed sum (here), has recently signed a new multi-million pound deal with BTWholesale for the supply of managed broadband and phone services.

The Full Q2 – 2015 BDUK and BT UK “Fibre Broadband” Take-up Figures

25th Aug 2015 (10 Comments)

The state aid supported Broadband Delivery UK project, which is primarily working with BT to deploy superfast “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) services across the United Kingdom, has now published its latest take-up figures to the end of June 2015 and more councils have now passed the crucial 20% threshold.

Three UK Launches New Big Data 40GB Mobile Broadband Plan

25th Aug 2015 (5 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has added a new option to their Mobile Broadband plans, which gives you 40GB (GigaBytes) of data to use for the not insignificant price of £45 per month, although this is still double the previous top allowance of 20GB (from £21-23 per month).

First Customers Live on BT 500Mbps G.fast Broadband Trial in Huntingdon

25th Aug 2015 (41 Comments)

As expected BT has confirmed that their first large-scale (2,000 premises) live customer trial of future G.fast broadband technology (ITU G.9701), which will initially offer Internet speeds of up to 330Mbps (rising to 500Mbps in the future), have begun in the market town of Huntingdon (Cambridgeshire).

BT Openreach Launch New 10Gbps Ethernet Access Direct for ISPs

24th Aug 2015 (6 Comments)

BTOpenreach has announced that the new 10Gbps (Gigabits per second) variant of their point-to-point Ethernet Access Direct (EAD) data connectivity product for ISPs is now exiting the pilot phase and will soon be available to order from 21st September 2015.

Fastershire Details Rollout Coverage for 1Gbps FTTP in Gloucestershire

24th Aug 2015 (6 Comments)

The Fastershire project has today published a raw roll-out plan for the recently signed £10m deal with fibre optic ISP Gigaclear, which will ensure that 6,495 additional rural premises in Gloucestershire are able to receive “ultra fast” Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband connectivity.

Scotland Touts GBP9m Grant Scheme to Help Boost Rural Broadband

24th Aug 2015 (4 Comments)

The Scottish Government has today opened a new £9m Scottish Rural Development Programme (SRDP) to applications, which will offer grants to help support community-led broadband projects in hard-to-reach areas.

UK Labour Party Joins Calls for Ofcom to Split BT from Openreach

24th Aug 2015 (1 Comment)

The Labour Party’s Shadow Culture Secretary, Chris Bryant MP, has joined the debate over Ofcom’s strategic review of the United Kingdom’s digital communications market and come down on the side of those who want to see the regulator split BT from their network access division, Openreach.

BT Sport TV Grabs Ashes Cricket from Sky and Related Tournaments

24th Aug 2015 (6 Comments)

The battle over who controls the rights to premium live TV sports content in the United Kingdom has continued today after BT announced that they had outbid Sky (Sky Broadband) to secure the exclusive broadcast rights for the Ashes series in Australia from 2016 to 2021.