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ISP News Archives for December 2012

BT Sign £56.6m UK Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Broadband Contract

17th Dec 2012 (11 Comments)

BT has today officially signed and detailed the joint £56.6 million Borders Broadband project, which uses public money to help make superfast broadband (24 to 30Mbps+) services reach 90% of homes and businesses in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire by the end of 2016 and 100% by 2018.

Fresh Delay and Funding Concerns Hit Plan to Extend UK 4G Mobile Coverage

17th Dec 2012 (0 Comments)

The fate of the government’s £150m Mobile Infrastructure Project (MIP), which aims to help “at least” 98% of UK people gain access to a Mobile Broadband (3G or 4G) service by the end of 2017, is still hanging in the balance after the deadline for agreement passed last month.

UPD PlusNet to Introduce Cheaper Unlimited Broadband Packages in the UK

15th Dec 2012 (57 Comments)

Budget internet and phone provider PlusNet looks set to launch an affordable new range of broadband and superfast fibre (FTTC) packages from Wednesday next week (19th December 2012) that will offer an unlimited usage allowance instead of their usual data caps. The cheapest deal is expected to cost from just £4.99 a month.

Government Sets Out Plan for Soft UK ISP Blocking of Adult Websites

14th Dec 2012 (6 Comments)

The Department for Education (DfE) has published its response to the recent consultation on improving Parental Internet Controls. The report found only minimal support for the enforced approach that would require ISPs to block access to adult websites by default, although the UK government still intends to toughen the existing Active Choice system.

Sky UK Offers 3 Months HALF PRICE Superfast Fibre Broadband and Calls

14th Dec 2012 (0 Comments)

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has today launched a new promotion that offers to bundle its superfast broadband (Sky Fibre Unlimited) with free weekend calls at half price for the first 3 months of service (i.e. £10 per month instead of £20). The offer can also be combined with a new or existing Sky TV service.

UK and USA Kill Feared Proposals for New ITU Internet Tax and Censorship

14th Dec 2012 (0 Comments)

Proposals for a controversial change to the current International Telecommunications Regulations (ITR), which some country’s fear could have potentially opened the door to a new Net Neutrality busting internet tax or wider online censorship, has been fragmented after the UK, USA and Canada refused to sign the new treaty.

Thistle Hotels to Deploy FREE BT WiFi Wireless Internet Across the UK

14th Dec 2012 (0 Comments)

Guests of the Thistle hotel chain, which are part of the wider Guoman Hotel Management (UK) Limited group, will be pleased to learn that all ten of their establishments in London can now benefit from a free wireless internet (wifi) service thanks to a new BT Wifi network.

First UK Publicly Funded BT Superfast Broadband FTTC Cabinet Goes Live

14th Dec 2012 (1 Comment)

The North Yorkshire (England) village of Ainderby Steeple has become the first UK community to deploy a new superfast broadband ISP service by using public funds from the government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) office. The money helped to upgrade one of BT’s local street cabinets with the latest up to 80Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) technology.

Direct Save Telecom Slams Big ISPs for Downplaying Contract Escape Clauses

13th Dec 2012 (2 Comments)

Internet and phone provider Direct Save Telecom has accused some of the UK markets biggest broadband ISPs of “purposely downplaying the contract escape clause” so as not to risk losing customers while simultaneously enforcing “substantial” price rises.

EE UK Details 4G Mobile Broadband City Expansion Plans for 2013

13th Dec 2012 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (4GEE) has this morning announced that its new 4G (LTE at 1800MHz) based superfast Mobile Broadband network will be expanded to cover a further 17 new cities in the United Kingdom by March 2013.

UPD6 Thousands Hit by BT Broadband ISP Outage in Scotland and England

13th Dec 2012 (3 Comments)

Thousands of internet users have been knocked offline this morning after BT’s 20CN and 21CN broadband network in Scotland, Northern Ireland and some of North West England was hit by an unspecified fault at one of the operators “metro nodes” in Scotland. Multiple UK ISPs are being affected.

ISP TalkTalk UK Offers 3 Months FREE Unlimited Broadband and Calls

13th Dec 2012 (1 Comment)

Budget ISP TalkTalk has today announced that their Essentials bundle, which combines “unlimited” broadband with free evening and weekend calls to UK landlines and a £25 Love2shop voucher, will be free for the first 3 months of service (saves £19.50) to new customers. A free connection is also included.

International Ofcom Study Finds UK Strong for Broadband Availability and Price

13th Dec 2012 (0 Comments)

Ofcom has released its annual 2012 International Communications Market Report (ICMR), which looks at the adoption, coverage and the uptake of broadband, phone, mobile, TV and radio services across 17 major countries. The report found that the UK was one of the cheapest markets and our superfast broadband (30Mbps+) availability compares favourably.

AAISP UK Doubles the Usage Allowance of its Home Broadband Package

12th Dec 2012 (6 Comments)

UK ISP Andrews and Arnold (AAISP) appears to have quietly doubled the default data usage allowance of its recently launched Home Broadband (Home::1) package from 25GB to 50GB (GigaBytes), which costs from £25 inc. VAT per month and includes a free wireless router with IPv6 support (plus one IPv4 address). But that’s not all.

BPI Take Legal Action Over Pirate Party’s Internet Proxy for the Pirate Bay

11th Dec 2012 (12 Comments)

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), a trade body for the UK music industry, has ordered its solicitors to use legal pressure in order to force the minor political Pirate Party to shut an internet proxy server that allows access to the banned Pirate Bay website.

UPDATE Ofcom Open UK Superfast 4G Mobile Broadband Spectrum Auction

11th Dec 2012 (2 Comments)

The UK communications regulator has today begun the long awaited and much delayed auction of 4G (LTE) superfast Mobile Broadband radio spectrum (800MHz and 2.6GHz) by opening the process up to the first official applications from Mobile Network Operators (MNO) and related firms.

Virgin Media WiFi Enables 20 More UK London Underground Train Stations

11th Dec 2012 (1 Comment)

Cable operator Virgin Media has this morning confirmed that its FREE public wireless internet (wifi) service is now available from a further 20 London underground tube stations, which brings the total coverage to 92 stations and an additional 28 stations are due to come online in early 2013.