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ITSPA Unveil the 2018 Best UK Internet VoIP Provider Award Winners

24th May, 2018 - 5:19 pm (0 Comments)

The Internet Telephony Services Providers Association, which represents the United Kingdom’s Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) industry, has today announced the winners of this year’s 2018 ITSPA Awards event, which among other things saw the ‘Best Consumer / SOHO‘ win go to Voipfone.

Protecting Access to Emergency Services in a Broadband VoIP World

24th May, 2018 - 2:11 pm (11 Comments)

Operators like KCOM and BT are preparing to move away from traditional analogue telephone networks (PSTN) and replace them with broadband based all IP solutions. As part of that Ofcom are consulting on maintaining access to UK emergency services (police etc.), which could be more exposed to power cuts etc.

Q1 2018 BDUK Extend Superfast Broadband to 4.85 Million Premises

24th May, 2018 - 10:44 am (2 Comments)

The £1.6bn+ state aid supported Broadband Delivery UK programme has published its final progress update for Q1 2018, which confirms that it has so far helped 4,852,808 extra premises across the United Kingdom to be put within reach of a fixed “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) network.

Gigaclear Spend £6.2m to Extend 1Gbps FTTP Broadband in Kent

24th May, 2018 - 9:24 am (5 Comments)

Rural fibre optic UK ISP Gigaclear has announced that they’ve invested a further £6.2 million (£8m total so far) to expand their existing Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP/H) broadband network to reach more than 4,500 additional homes and businesses in West Kent (England) by the end of 2020.

TalkTalk Top 4.1M Broadband Subs, Update on FTTH and Sell B2B

24th May, 2018 - 7:59 am (5 Comments)

UK ISP TalkTalk has today published their latest half year results to 31st March (FY 2018), which saw them add +109K new on-net broadband subscribers in the final quarter to total 4,139,000. We also got an update on their “full fibre” FTTH/P plans and they’re selling their direct B2B business to Daisy for £175m.

BPI Calls for Quick and Easy Blocking of Piracy Websites by UK ISPs

23rd May, 2018 - 1:51 pm (13 Comments)

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), which represents the recorded music sector, has called for the Government’s forthcoming ‘Internet Safety Strategy‘ to add new measures that would make it easier for copyright holders to get websites that facilitate internet piracy blocked or completely removed.

ISP BT Launches New Converged Plus Fibre Broadband and 4G Plans

23rd May, 2018 - 11:47 am (14 Comments)

As expected BT’s consumer UK ISP division has today launched their new range of “Plus” FTTC, FTTP and G.fast based “fibre broadband“, phone and 4G bundles, which among other things means that if your fixed line goes down then the mobile data takes over and adopts “unlimited” usage.

4 Year Old WPS Security Flaw Still Affecting TalkTalk UK ISP Router UPDATE

23rd May, 2018 - 7:49 am (3 Comments)

One of the older D-Link based ADSL2+ broadband routers from UK ISP TalkTalk has been found to still be vulnerable to a security exploit, which was first notified to the provider all the way back in 2014. This enables a hacker to gain access to your wireless (WiFi) network by sniffing out the WPS password.

Challenges as UK ISPs Start Advertising Average Broadband Speeds

23rd May, 2018 - 12:01 am (10 Comments)

Starting today all broadband offering Internet Service Providers (ISP) in the United Kingdom will be expected to change how they advertise service speeds, primarily by only promoting “average” speeds (a median measured at peak time) for their headline packages instead of an “up to” (fastest 10%) figure.

Chancellor Targets Full Fibre for Majority of UK Premises by 2025 UPDATE3

22nd May, 2018 - 8:07 pm (24 Comments)

The Government’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond MP, has this afternoon surprised and confused in equal measure by announcing that he wants to see the “majority” of UK homes and businesses being reached by Gigabit capable “full fibre” (FTTP/H) broadband ISP networks by the end of 2025.

Ofcom UK Finds Fault with Virgin Media Contract Termination Charges

22nd May, 2018 - 11:30 am (24 Comments)

An investigation conducted by market regulator Ofcom claims to have found “reasonable grounds for believing” that cable broadband ISP and TV operator Virgin Media may have broken its consumer protection rules by failing to play fair with their Early Termination Charges (ETC).

EU Warns Mobile and Broadband ISP Websites May Shirk the Rules

22nd May, 2018 - 9:49 am (2 Comments)

The European Commission’s national consumer protection authorities have screened 207 EU websites (including some from the UK) for fixed/mobile phone, internet, audio and video streaming services, which revealed that 163 of them could be infringing consumer law by adopting “misleading practices“.

1Gbps FTTP Service Surfaces on BT Wholesale Availability Checker

21st May, 2018 - 7:11 pm (43 Comments)

The official BT Wholesale Broadband Checker has received a small but interesting update and is now showing the operator’s top 1000Mbps download (220Mbps upload) tier for their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which Openreach are busy rolling out to 3 million UK premises.

BT Enterprise Launch 4G Mobile Broadband Back-up for UK SMEs UPDATE

21st May, 2018 - 12:25 pm (11 Comments)

BT’s Enterprise division has today launch a new “business-grade broadband product” called 4G Assure, which switches automatically to a 4G mobile data connection to help small and medium sized UK businesses stay connected if they experience an interruption to their fixed line ISP connection.

DNS Vulnerability Strikes Popular DrayTek Broadband ISP Routers

21st May, 2018 - 7:45 am (11 Comments)

Taiwan-based telecoms kit manufacturer DrayTek has announced that a large number of their popular wireless routers are vulnerable to a new security exploit, which enables an attacker to remotely change the device’s DNS and DHCP settings in order to hijack your internet traffic or steal personal data.

New and Faster WiFi Router Spotted at Broadband ISP TalkTalk UPDATE3

21st May, 2018 - 12:02 am (21 Comments)

New customers of budget ISP TalkTalk look set to start receiving a faster and much more capable broadband router with their orders, which comes after ISPreview.co.uk discovered the existence of a new Wi-Fi Hub. At this stage we don’t have a lot of detail to share but we do know the core specifications.

Openreach Begin FTTP Rollout in Edinburgh and Train New Engineers

21st May, 2018 - 12:01 am (15 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has today confirmed that they’ve begun the rollout of Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology in Scotland’s capital city of Edinburgh. As part of that they’ve also invested £400,000 in a new “fibre training school” for the region that is based in Livingston.

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