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All Change as Comcast Win Bidding War with FOX for Sky UK

22nd September, 2018 - 7:48 pm (7 Comments)

After a long battle Comcast has today beaten off competition from Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox and emerged as the victor in their battle for control of Sky (Sky Broadband). The US cable giant raised their final bid to £30bn for the pan-European TV and broadband company (£17.28 per share), while Fox offered £15.67 per share.

Openreach Improve UK FTTP Ultrafast Broadband Provision Process

22nd September, 2018 - 7:07 am (11 Comments)

Openreach (BT) appears to be making some improvements to their provision process for new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based “ultrafast broadband” lines, which according to the ISPs we’ve spoken with should result in consumers receiving a more reliable activation date for their service.

Around a Quarter of Sky and Virgin Media Users Pay £100+ Monthly

21st September, 2018 - 9:13 am (53 Comments)

A new survey from Which? has questioned 3,400 UK people about their triple-play bundles (TV, phone and broadband) during July 2018 and suggested that consumers may not be “getting value” from their packages. Cheaper options exist but it’s not always about the price.

Shropshire Seek to Encourage Better Broadband for New Build Houses

21st September, 2018 - 8:18 am (7 Comments)

The Shropshire County Council is considering the introduction of an accreditation scheme for new build home developments, which would act like a checklist for planning officers and applicants in order to help “highlight the qualitative aspects of schemes that sometimes get missed,” such as the need for broadband.

Vodafone Expand 5G UK Mobile Trial and Make First Holographic Call

20th September, 2018 - 1:12 pm (10 Comments)

The hype train for the next generation of ultrafast 5G mobile technology, which will be able to deliver multi-Gigabit broadband speeds and faster latency to consumers, has kicked up another gear today after Vodafone confirmed they had conducted the UK’s first live holographic call using the technology.

UKWISPA Creates Quality Accreditation for Fixed Wireless ISPs

20th September, 2018 - 11:19 am (5 Comments)

The UK Wireless Internet Service Providers Association, which is the official trade body for Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) broadband providers, has today launched a new Quality Accreditation Programme that aims to help ensure that providers deliver the “very highest standards of service and reliability to their customers“.

Panasonic Adopts Inmarsat’s In-Flight Satellite Broadband Platform

20th September, 2018 - 10:59 am (0 Comments)

Panasonic (Panasonic Avionics Corporation) has today signed a new deal with UK satellite operator Inmarsat, which will see the company deploying the “high-speed broadband” GX Aviation (Global Xpress) platform to deliver faster in-flight WiFi connectivity to the airlines (passengers) they serve.

EE UK Launch 500GB Data Allowance on 4G Home Broadband Plans

20th September, 2018 - 10:30 am (35 Comments)

Mobile operator EE has quietly revamped their range of 4G based wireless 4GEE Home Broadband plans by introducing some of the biggest monthly data allowances we’ve ever seen, which go all the way up to 500GB (GigaBytes). Except you’ll need deep pockets to afford them.

Report Casts Doubt Over Scotland’s R100 Superfast Broadband Plan

20th September, 2018 - 8:58 am (13 Comments)

The Scottish Government’s future £600m R100 strategy has come under pressure after a new 2018 report from Audit Scotland, which works to ensure that public money in Scotland is spent correctly, warned that it “will be difficult” to deliver the stated ambition of 100% “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) coverage by 2021.

Cityfibre Start Laying Gigabit Fibre Optic Cable in West Sussex UK

20th September, 2018 - 12:01 am (7 Comments)

Within the next week Cityfibre will finally begin the deployment of a new 1Gbps+ fibre optic broadband and Ethernet network in West Sussex, which aims to connect 152 council sites in Bognor Regis, Burgess Hill, Chichester, Crawley, Haywards Heath, Horsham, Littlehampton, Shoreham and Worthing.

Herefordshire UK Expands 100Mbps Broadband via Fibre and Wireless

19th September, 2018 - 4:58 pm (0 Comments)

The state aid supported Fastershire project has announced that they’ve secured a further £5m of funding from the Government’s Rural Broadband Infrastructure Scheme (RBIS), which will be used to extend a new hybrid fixed wireless and fibre optic ultrafast broadband network to reach remote premises in 10 additional areas.

Business ISP Cloud M Faces Ofcom Slap for Number Portability Fail

19th September, 2018 - 12:41 pm (0 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, today reports that it has found “reasonable grounds for believing” that business phone and broadband ISP Cloud M may have broken a number of their rules, specifically those that are designed to protect number (phone) portability between providers.

Cityfibre Tells Commercial UK Property Developers to Support Fibre

19th September, 2018 - 11:39 am (1 Comment)

Fibre optic network builder Cityfibre has today called on commercial property developers in the UK to help spread gigabit broadband connectivity, which comes after a new survey suggested that 4 out of 5 IT decision makers wouldn’t even consider signing the dotted line on a new lease before checking out a premise’s connectivity.

Virgin Media Business – Take a Mobile and Get 6 Months Free 350Mbps

19th September, 2018 - 10:53 am (2 Comments)

Cable ISP Virgin Media Business UK has begun offering their “Voom Fibre” 350Mbps unlimited ultrafast business broadband service “free” for the first six months of service, but there’s a catch. You also have to take a selected Apple or Samsung handset alongside one of their pricey mobile plans.

Mobile Operators Criticised – Charging Extra for Phones You’ve Paid Off

19th September, 2018 - 10:12 am (4 Comments)

The Citizens Advice agency has accused EE, Vodafone and Three UK of “routinely charging customers extra” for their handsets after they have been paid off, which occurs when you bundle a handset with your mobile plan but continue to pay the same monthly fee even after your contract ends.

Sky TV UK Confirms Netflix and Ultimate On Demand for November

19th September, 2018 - 9:15 am (11 Comments)

Sky (Sky Broadband) has today revealed the first details of their new ‘Ultimate On Demand’ (UOD) service on the Sky Q platform, which for a single monthly fee of £10 will bring together hundreds of Sky TV’s on-demand Box Sets from their various channels and also adds the full Netflix service.

ISP Gigaclear and RSN Call on Ofcom to Consider Full Fibre in its USO

18th September, 2018 - 2:39 pm (20 Comments)

The Rural Services Network and UK ISP Gigaclear have today joined others by calling on Ofcom to ensure that their forthcoming 10Mbps Universal Service Obligation (USO) for broadband will reflect the national plan for “full fibre” (FTTP) coverage, which the government hopes could reach universal coverage by 2033.

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