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Digital Scotland Delivers 900,000 Superfast Broadband Premises

14th August, 2018 - 4:17 pm (7 Comments)

The £428 million Digital Scotland (DSSB) project with BT (Openreach) has announced that their roll-out of FTTC and FTTP based “superfast broadband” ISP technology has managed to reach an additional 900,000 homes and businesses across Scotland since it began.

Big Broadband ISPs Must Improve UK Support for Deaf Users

14th August, 2018 - 11:57 am (3 Comments)

Living with a hearing problem is no fun and there can be different forms of such disabilities, which means a solution that works for one group may be unusable for others. Suffice to say that we expect the largest broadband ISPs to cater for such scenarios but a new investigation by Cable.co.uk suggests some are falling short.

CALA Agrees FTTP Partnership with Hyperoptic in West Scotland

14th August, 2018 - 9:42 am (5 Comments)

Property developer CALA Homes has today signed a new partnership agreement with “full fibre” (FTTP/B) UK ISP Hyperoptic, which will result in residents of CALA’s new build home developments in West Scotland being offered “day one access to gigabit broadband speeds“.

Intel Coughs to Puma CPU Flaw that Hit Virgin Media Hub 3 Router

14th August, 2018 - 9:17 am (8 Comments)

After nearly two years Intel has finally published an advisory and formal CVE entry for a flaw in their Puma 5, 6 and 7 chipsets that resulted in various broadband ISP routers, such as Virgin Media UK’s Hub 3.0 (ARRIS TG2492S/CE), suffering from a mix of latency spikes and a DDoS security vulnerability.

RootMetrics H1 2018 Study Name EE and Three UK Best for Mobile

14th August, 2018 - 12:01 am (9 Comments)

The latest “scientific” H1 2018 examination of 4G and 3G mobile network operator performance across the United Kingdom, which was conducted by RootMetrics and IHS Markit, has today seen EE and Three UK come top with a quality score of 96 and 93 out of 100 (respectively).

Virgin Media Extend to 7000 Sunderland Premises and Upgrade TV App

13th August, 2018 - 12:04 pm (7 Comments)

The city of Sunderland in Tyne and Wear is the next to benefit from Virgin Media’s rollout of their cable ultrafast broadband and TV network, which currently covers half of the city and will now be extended to a further 7,000 premises. Separately VM has also updated their Virgin TV Go app with a download feature.

Vaioni Aim to Become One of the UK’s Largest Ethernet Networks

13th August, 2018 - 11:40 am (0 Comments)

Manchester-based ISP Vaioni Wholesale has announced a new “multi-million-pound” investment in its Ethernet Network (V.E.N), which they hope will enable them to build one of the “most powerful Software Defined Networks” in the United Kingdom. No sums were mentioned for the investment.

TVWS Tech Brings 30Mb Broadband to 400 Monmouthshire Homes UPDATE

13th August, 2018 - 11:09 am (13 Comments)

Some 400 homes residing within 6 kilometres of Llantilio Crossenny in Monmouthshire (Wales, UK) will be the next to benefit from fixed wireless superfast broadband via Broadway Partners, which will use the new long range TV White Space (TVWS) technology to deliver their internet connectivity.

ISP Freeola Add FTTP Option to UK Ultrafast Broadband Packages

13th August, 2018 - 9:11 am (18 Comments)

Internet and hosting provider Freeola has followed the recent launch of their G.fast plans by adding a new range of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based home “ultrafast broadband” packages to their line-up, which offer average peak time download speeds of either 140Mbps or 290Mbps.

Deal Brings UKTV Channels Back to Virgin Media’s UK Cable Network

11th August, 2018 - 11:03 am (34 Comments)

Cable broadband ISP and TV operator Virgin Media has this morning announced the signing of a new long term deal, which will restore all of UKTV’s channels to their platform “as quickly as possible” (this has already begun). The agreement includes five times more on-demand programming than before and there’s more.

Virgin Media UK Not Planning to Speed Up Cable Network Expansion

10th August, 2018 - 11:58 am (21 Comments)

The overall boss of cable broadband ISP Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has told investors that their £3bn Project Lightning network expansion, which at the current pace will struggle to complete the target of 4 million UK premises passed by the end of 2019, won’t be ramped up. Meanwhile they do plan to target more MDUs.

BT Hire 1000 New UK Customer Service Staff to Improve Support

10th August, 2018 - 8:42 am (7 Comments)

Broadband ISP, phone, mobile and TV provider BT has announced that they’re hiring more than 1,000 permanent customer service staff, which will support their aspiration to answer 100% of customer calls in UK & Ireland based call centres by 2020 and to “provide the best customer service in the UK.”

Openreach to Scale Back G.fast Broadband Rollout – Focus on FTTP

9th August, 2018 - 3:12 pm (77 Comments)

Industry sources have informed ISPreview.co.uk that Openreach (BT) are to revise down their UK rollout plan for 330Mbps capable hybrid fibre G.fast broadband ISP technology from 10 million to nearly 6 million premises. The aim is to refocus on their new Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) deployment.

ISP MLL Telecom Secure South Ayrshire Wide Area Network Contract

9th August, 2018 - 10:39 am (0 Comments)

UK ISP MLL Telecom has won the contract to upgrade internet connectivity infrastructure for South Ayrshire Council in Scotland with a new Wide Area Network (WAN). The aim is to completely replace the authority’s legacy wireless network infrastructure with a new a fully managed service.

Virgin Media Cover 118K More Premises as Broadband Users Top 5.16m

9th August, 2018 - 7:24 am (7 Comments)

The latest quarterly update (calendar Q2 2018) from cable ISP Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has revealed that the operator’s UK network has now reached another 118,000 premises (up from 111K added in Q1), while their broadband subscriber base totals 5,166,500 (up by 30K in Q2, which is flat from 31.2K in Q1).

Does Having Fast UK Broadband Mean You Lose More Sleep? Hmm

8th August, 2018 - 2:34 pm (7 Comments)

A recently published study from researchers at the University of Pittsburgh (USA) and Bocconi University (Italy) attempts to “identify the causal impacts” of “high-speed internet” on sleep duration and sleep satisfaction. The results, they claim, suggest that those with good broadband tend to sleep 25 minutes less than those without.

Inmarsat UK Survey Finds InFlight Wi-Fi Access is Becoming Crucial

8th August, 2018 - 7:39 am (10 Comments)

A new survey of 9,300 Airline passengers from 32 countries, which was conducted by Populus for Satellite operator Inmarsat, has found that 55% now view inflight WiFi connectivity as “crucial“. Likewise 67% would consider rebooking to a different airline if it offered good wireless broadband.

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