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ISP News Archives for 2012

UK Top 8 Fastest Broadband ISPs by Download Speed for November 2012

4th Dec 2012 (3 Comments)

The latest monthly summary of anecdotal consumer broadband ISP speed testing data, which covers the November 2012 period, reveals that the average download speed in the United Kingdom has fallen from 18.038Mbps (Megabits per second) last month to 17.054Mbps now. Meanwhile the average upload speed has remained largely unchanged at 2.13Mbps.

Virgin Media Seek to Avoid Legal Clash Over UK City Broadband Funding

3rd Dec 2012 (1 Comment)

Cable operator Virgin Media has written to the UK government’s culture secretary, Maria Miller, with a series of recommendations for changing the £150m+ Urban Broadband Fund. The UBF aims to support the roll-out of “ultrafast” broadband services and fast public wifi, although Virgin and BT have already threatened it with legal action.

UPD2 BT Broadband Services Struck by Major Outage in Southern England

3rd Dec 2012 (2 Comments)

BTOpenreach engineers have been dispatched after BT declared that a Major Service Outage (MSO) had this morning struck its 21CN based broadband ISP services across the south of England, London and Birmingham areas, which has caused customers of multiple providers to lose connectivity.

UPD O2 UK and BE ISP Users Warned to Expect GoldenEye Piracy Letters

3rd Dec 2012 (7 Comments)

ISP O2 UK and its sibling, BE Broadband, have now officially started sending out warning letters to around 2,800 customers, specifically those whom are suspected by Golden Eye International of having unlawfully shared copyright content online that belongs to the Ben Dover porn brand.

ASK4 COO Says Yorkshire Digital Region Network Needs Credible BT Alternative

3rd Dec 2012 (2 Comments)

The Chief Operating Officer of Sheffield-based UK ISP ASK4, Ross Bray, has told ISPreview.co.uk that the new owner of Yorkshire’s financially damaged Digital Region broadband network must turn it into a “credible” and “competitive .. alternative to the standard BT product set” if it is to survive. BT is one of those bidding on the tender for control.

ISP LittleBigOne Sees Strong Superfast Broadband Growth in South Yorkshire

3rd Dec 2012 (0 Comments)

ISP LittleBigOne, which runs over the financially traumatised Digital Region broadband network in South Yorkshire (England, UK), has reported that demand for its superfast internet service “soared” over the summer with the number of new subscribers growing by 81% during Q2-2012.

UPDATE UK ISPs Celebrate Movember with Charitable Moustache Growing

1st Dec 2012 (3 Comments)

Congratulations to all the many broadband providers around the United Kingdom, such as Zen Internet, Entanet, Daisy Group and everybody else who got involved, for taking part in Movember last month by encouraging some of their employees to set aside a smidgen of personal dignity in order to grow a grand Moustache for charity.

UPDATE BT Openreach Engineer Woes Return as Bad Weather Hits UK

30th Nov 2012 (19 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which manages access to and maintains BT’s national UK phone and broadband network, looks set to suffer worsening delays to the provision of new services after the recent spate of “extremely high rainfall and some flooding” forced the group to re-focus its telecoms engineers on repair work.

UPDATE AAISP UK Officially Launch New Home Broadband ISP Package

30th Nov 2012 (6 Comments)

Business ISP Andrews and Arnold (AAISP) has today officially announced the introduction of a simplified new broadband package for home users (Home::1), which forgoes the providers complicated “units based” charging model in favour of a simple usage allowance quota. But is it too expensive?

UPD Digital Region Boost FTTC Superfast Broadband Speeds in South Yorkshire

30th Nov 2012 (5 Comments)

Customers of the financially scarred Digital Region superfast broadband ISP network, which serves 80% of premises across South Yorkshire (England, UK), look set to see even faster internet speeds from next month after it was revealed that the alternative telecoms operator has a “phased network upgrade” planned.

Virgin Media Reveals FREE City Wireless Broadband for Leeds and Bradford

30th Nov 2012 (1 Comment)

Cable ISP Virgin Media Business has this morning announced the win of a vital concession agreement that will allow it to begin rolling out a free city wireless internet (wifi) network to cover over 1.2 million citizens of Leeds and Bradford in England (United Kingdom).

BT BET Technology Brings 2Mbps Broadband to Glen Tanar in Scotland

30th Nov 2012 (1 Comment)

Broadband Enabling Technology (BET), which can deliver fixed line broadband ISP speeds of 2Mbps (Megabits per second) to UK rural premises that reside up to 10-12km away from their telephone exchange, has been used to help connect the digitally isolated highlands community of Glen Tanar in the Scottish Highlands.

BPI Calls on The Pirate Party UK to Close its Pirate Bay Internet Proxy

30th Nov 2012 (6 Comments)

The British Phonographic Industry, a trade body for the UK music industry, has demanded that the Pirate Party close its website proxy server because of the way it allows any broadband ISP customers to easily circumvent the court ordered censorship measures against The Pirate Bay website, which was banned for copyright infringement.

BT Details its Superfast Broadband ISP Roll Out Plan for Cumbria UK

29th Nov 2012 (4 Comments)

The joint BT and Cumbria (England) project, which is seeking to ensure that more than 93% of local people can access a superfast broadband service by the end of 2015 (the last 7% have been promised speeds of at least 2Mbps), has today released more details about their £50.8m plan and targets.

BT to Secure Contract for the UK Borders Broadband Project

29th Nov 2012 (0 Comments)

The Borders Broadband project, a partnership between Herefordshire and Gloucestershire County Councils that aims to boost the coverage of superfast broadband (25Mbps+) services in related area(s) to reach 90% of local people, has effectively handed the contract to BT by granting the operator “preferred bidder” status.

ISPs Could Use Behavioural Economics to Help Get Elderly People Online

29th Nov 2012 (3 Comments)

A report from the International Longevity Centre – UK (ILC-UK) has proposed new ways in which broadband ISPs could use behavioural economics to get more elderly and disadvantaged people online, such as by offering “discounted installation” deals or “guaranteeing” that they can return to a “paper service” if the online experience doesn’t work out.

UK ISP MLL Telecom Win Wireless Broadband Contract for Gateshead Council

28th Nov 2012 (0 Comments)

Business ISP MLL Telecom has won a contract worth £800,000 to extend the on-going supply, installation and support of ultra-fast wireless broadband services around the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (GMBC) area for up to a further four years.