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ISP TalkTalk Propose Full Fibre Broadband for 3 Million UK Premises

8th February, 2018 (51 Comments)

Budget ISP TalkTalk has confirmed that they are in “discussions” with Infracapital over a plan to jointly create an independent company, with a total investment of around £1.5bn, that could provide 1Gbps ultrafast “full fibre” (FTTH/P) broadband to over 3 million premises in mid-sized UK towns and cities.

Ookla 2018 Study Awards the UK Fastest Mobile and Broadband ISPs

31st January, 2018 (3 Comments)

Ookla, which runs the popular Speedtest.net service, has today published their annual ‘Speedtest Market Report‘ for the United Kingdom. Overall the country ranked 29th in the world for average fixed line broadband ISP speeds (Virgin Media is the fastest) and just 46th for mobile (EE is the fastest).

BT in UK Court Battle Over Website Blocking for Trade Mark Abuse

30th January, 2018 (3 Comments)

Two broadband providers, BT and sibling EE, have today gone to the Supreme Court in London to appeal two key aspects of an earlier ruling, which forced major UK ISPs to start blocking websites that were found to sell counterfeit goods (i.e. abuse of Trade Mark).

Sky Say Goodbye to NOW TV Combo and Hello NOW Broadband

25th January, 2018 (8 Comments)

Sky’s sibling NOW TV video streaming platform has announced that UK customers will soon be able to take their contract-free broadband ISP and phone service, albeit without needing to bundle it alongside TV as part of a “Combo“. A new NOW TV Smart Stick (Roku) is also being introduced.

Sky Reports UK Growth in Mobile and Broadband for H1 2018

25th January, 2018 (8 Comments)

Sky (Sky Broadband) has today published their latest results to the end of December 2017 (financial H1 2018), which reveals that Fibre (FTTC) penetration increased to 33% (up from 21% last year) of their UK broadband base but there’s still no sign of their Sky TV without a satellite dish (IPTV) service.

CMA Stall 21st Century Fox Takeover of Sky as NOT in the Public Interest

23rd January, 2018 (2 Comments)

The UK Competition and Markets Authority has today “provisionally” ruled that 21st Century Fox’s £11.7bn bid to takeover Sky (Sky Broadband) by acquiring a 61% stake in the company (Fox already owns 39%) is “not in the public interest,” due to concerns over media plurality.

Bad News for TalkTalk and Post Office in Ofcom Complaints Study Q3 2017

19th January, 2018 (3 Comments)

The UK telecom regulator’s latest Q3 2017 consumer complaints report has named and shamed TalkTalk for attracting the most gripes in the fixed ISP broadband sector, while the Post Office suffered the same for landline phone services and Vodafone took the most heat for Mobile.

ISP Sky Broadband Cuts UK Prices and Adds Samsung Galaxy Tablet

19th January, 2018 (8 Comments)

Sky Broadband has today moved to discount the monthly prices of their broadband and phone bundles for new customers. On top of that they’re also offering the option of either taking those packages with a £50 Prepaid MasterCard or a Samsung Galaxy Tab E (sells for around £130 at retail) computer.

ISP Sky Broadband Sees UK Data Traffic Climb to 8 Terabits per second

18th January, 2018 (10 Comments)

Customers on Sky Broadband’s UK network (around 6 million of them) are today generating a colossal level of internet data traffic that has already reached a total of around 8Tbps (Terabits per second). Meanwhile IPv6 adoption among the ISP’s subscriber base is at 90%+.

ISP Review’s 2018 Choice of the Best UK Home Broadband Providers

8th January, 2018 (25 Comments)

Picking a new broadband provider (ISP) for your home is far from easy. Consumers face a bombardment of confusing choices, each advertising different speeds, features, prices and network availability. On this front our aim is to simplify the options and make the process a little easier.

The 2017 vs 2016 Top Fastest UK Home Broadband and Mobile Providers

28th December, 2017 (5 Comments)

We take a look back to see how much faster the national fixed line broadband ISPs and mobile (3G / 4G) network operators have become for download and upload speed over the past 12 months, which reveals that Virgin Media, Hyperoptic and EE continue to come top in the speed stakes.

Netflix UK – 2017 vs 2016 Video Streaming Broadband ISP Speed Index

27th December, 2017 (9 Comments)

Internet Movie and TV video streaming giant Netflix UK has recently published the most recent edition of their broadband ISP speed index, which reveals that cable operator Virgin Media continues to be the fastest provider for their service in 2017. But being the fastest isn’t all that important.

BT and Sky UK Reach Agreement to Supply Premium TV Channels

15th December, 2017 (11 Comments)

After years of disagreement it has this morning been announced that BT and Sky have finally settled their long-running dispute over access to premium TV channels, which means that customers of both operators in the UK will soon gain access to a much wider array of content. But not until “early” 2019.

NOW TV Add SyFy Channel to UK Broadband Video Streaming Service

5th December, 2017 (3 Comments)

The Sky-owned broadband ISP and UK video streaming provider, NOW TV, has today finally added the popular SyFy TV channel to their platform. The new channel is available to those who include an ‘Entertainment Pass‘ for £7.99 per month into their monthly subscription.

Openreach’s FTTP Rollout May Add £7 Per Month to UK Broadband Prices

4th December, 2017 (76 Comments)

The CEO of Ofcom, Sharon White, has claimed that Openreach’s (BT) aspiration to conduct a “large-scale” rollout of 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband to 10 million UK homes and businesses by around 2025 is “dependent on up to £7 a month being added to broadband bills.”

ISP TalkTalk See Growth in Broadband Users to 3.99 Million and FTTH Plan

15th November, 2017 (1 Comment)

UK Internet provider TalkTalk has today published their interim results for the 6 months to 30th September 2017 (H1 2018), which reveals that they added +46,000 new on-net broadband subscribers in the period to total 3,993,000 (29% of those use their FTTC/H “fibre broadband” network).

UK ISP Sky Broadband in Sharp Price Cut of Fibre and Phone Prices

14th November, 2017 (15 Comments)

The so-called “Black Friday” bonanza of discounting is beginning to get under way. Sky Broadband have been one of the first to jump by significantly cutting the monthly prices and setups fee of their unlimited broadband and superfast “fibre” (FTTC) bundles for new customers.