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BT Signs £27m BDUK Deal for Superfast Broadband in Staffordshire UK

23rd May, 2013 - 12:21 pm (3 Comments)

The Staffordshire County Council (SCC) has today signed a new state aid supported £27.3 million deal with BT to help 97% of local homes and businesses gain access to a fibre optic (FTTC/P) based broadband connection by Spring 2016 (95% will get superfast speeds of 25Mbps+).

UPDATE Big UK ISPs Start Blocking the Movie2k and Download4All Sites

20th May, 2013 - 1:36 pm (6 Comments)

Internet providers BT, Sky Broadband and Virgin Media have confirmed that their broadband customers will shortly find themselves unable to access the Download4All and Movie2k websites after a court order issued in late April 2013 forced both to be censored over copyright infringement (piracy). More ISPs are set to follow.

Europe Clears £51m Superfast Broadband BDUK Rollout in Cumbria UK

20th May, 2013 - 8:09 am (2 Comments)

The European Commission’s (EC) competition authority has officially granted Major Projects Approval to the £50.8m state aid supported Connecting Cumbria project in North West England, which aims to roll-out BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) services to over 93% of the county by the end of 2015. Oh and the speed target is now 240Mbps? Oops.

BT Adjusts PIA to Meet Latest BDUK and EU State Aid Broadband Rules

17th May, 2013 - 1:58 pm (14 Comments)

BTOpenreach has launched a new “Plus” variant of its Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA) product, which allows rival ISPs access to use BT’s underground cable ducts and telegraph poles. The updated solution has been designed to meet the latest EU rules governing the use of state aid to improve UK broadband infrastructure.

UPD West Sussex UK Sign £20.1m BDUK Contract for BT Superfast Broadband

15th May, 2013 - 8:40 am (5 Comments)

The West Sussex County Council (WSCC) in southern England has today signed a new £20.1 million state aid supported contract with BT that will aim to make superfast broadband (25Mbps+) ISP connections available to 98% of local premises by the “start” of Spring 2016 (the rest will get at least 2Mbps).

BT Wi-Fi Bring Public Wireless Internet to 5 Million UK and Ireland Hotspots

14th May, 2013 - 10:33 am (0 Comments)

BT WiFi has announced that it’s now home to a network of 5 Million public Wi-Fi hotspots in the United Kingdom and Ireland. But most of those come from customers of BT’s Total Broadband packages and its FON supporting routers that automatically turn home connections into public wifi access points.

Big UK ISPs Should Make Critical Support Contacts Easier to Find

13th May, 2013 - 2:20 am (4 Comments)

At some point nearly all of us, for good or ill, will need to contact our broadband ISP or phone provider but how hard is it to find the correct details and what sort of support services are on offer? ISPreview.co.uk took a long look at ten of the UK’s best known providers to see how they compared.

ISP BT Tops 6.7 Million UK Broadband Subscribers as 1.3m Users Take FTTC

10th May, 2013 - 8:06 am (26 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT has today posted their latest financial results to 31st March 2013 (Q1-2013), which revealed that the operators retail ISP division had increased its fixed line broadband subscribers by +136,000 in the quarter to total 6,704,000 (up from the +122k added in Q4-2012 and +88k in Q3-2012).

UPD3 BT Confirm Cheaper UK Fibre Broadband and FREE TV Sport Service

9th May, 2013 - 12:40 pm (18 Comments)

BT Retail has today confirmed that customers of its various home broadband packages will now be able to get its new BTSport TV service for free, which includes live weekly matches from the Barclays Premier League (Football). On top of that the price of its superfast broadband (BTInfinity) service has been cut to just £15 a month.

UPDATE BT Refute TalkTalk Commissioned Study of its FTTC ISP Prices

8th May, 2013 - 2:37 am (11 Comments)

National UK telecoms operator BT has said that they ”completely refute the basis” of a controversial new TalkTalk commissioned study into its superfast broadband charges as bearing “little resemblance to the actual costs incurred“.

Survey Work Starts on New Isles of Scilly Fibre Optic Broadband Cable

7th May, 2013 - 2:40 pm (3 Comments)

BTOpenreach has this week dispatched one of its survey teams to begin preliminary work on their previously announced £3.7m project to divert two unused submarine fibre optic cables to the Isles of Scilly (here), which will support the rollout of superfast broadband (FTTC and FTTP) ISP products on the islands.

UPDATE2 UK ISP BT Reveal New Smarter Hub 4 Broadband Wireless Router

7th May, 2013 - 12:48 pm (12 Comments)

BT Retail has today unveiled a new Hub 4 wireless broadband router, which will be rolled out to replace its existing HomeHub3 kit from 10th May 2013. Key highlights of the new device are its concurrent dual band wi-fi wireless (2.4GHz and 5GHz) and upgraded Smart Wireless technology, which should improve performance.

UK Superfast Broadband Take-Up Expected to Skyrocket by 2020

7th May, 2013 - 9:52 am (20 Comments)

A leaked TalkTalk commissioned report from German analyst Wik Consult has predicted that take-up of superfast broadband (FTTC / P) services on BT’s (Openreach) platform will reach a “maximum” of 65% of addressable customers by 2019 and Virgin Media will hit 100% in 2017. But are BT’s prices anti-competitive?

Prospect Union Slams Ofcom UK Probe of BT Superfast Broadband Prices

3rd May, 2013 - 1:53 pm (21 Comments)

Prospect, which claims to be an independent union for professionals like engineers, scientists and managers, has warned that Ofcom’s new TalkTalk supported investigation into BT’s “alleged margin squeeze in superfast broadband pricing” could damage investment in the UK telecoms network.