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ISP News Archives for 2012

Business ISP C4L Expands Wireless Broadband to Isle of Wight Rural Areas

15th Mar 2012 (2 Comments)

Business ISP C4L, which is based around Poole and Bournemouth on the south coast of England UK, has announced that its existing superfast wireless broadband service is being extended to rural homes and businesses on the Isle of Wight.

PlusNet Study Finds Majority of UK Mums Get Parental Advice Online

15th Mar 2012 (4 Comments)

A new study from budget broadband ISP PlusNet, which surveyed 3,360 UK mums between mid February and March 2012, has discovered that the vast majority (82%) rely on the internet for parental advice, 41% do their weekly shop online to save time and for some reason more than half (51%) even researched their children’s homework online.

UK CLA Calls for 2Mbps Broadband to be a Universal Service Obligation

15th Mar 2012 (4 Comments)

The Country Land and Business Association (CLA), a lobby group for land owners across England and Wales, has told the UK governments House of Lords Select Committee on Communications, which recently launched an inquiry into the country’s superfast broadband strategy (here), that it must provide a Universal Service Obligation (USO) for broadband of at least 2Mbps (Megabits per second) in rural areas.

Lack of Good Rural Broadband in Wales Could Cost Homes GBP3769 Per Year

15th Mar 2012 (6 Comments)

Wispa Limited, an outspoken group of consultants who believe homes and businesses in Wales (UK) deserve better broadband, claims to have estimated the “true cost of a lack of rural broadband” to the Welsh economy and population. Apparently a poorly served household in Wales could be paying £3769.20 extra per year due to a lack of adequate internet connectivity.

IDC Predicts Global Broadband Internet Traffic to Grow 50% Each Year

15th Mar 2012 (0 Comments)

The International Data Corporation (IDC), a global telecoms analyst firm, has predicted that “power users” who consume a “disproportionate amount of bandwidth” will drive internet generated broadband traffic to grow by approximately 50% year over year on fixed line ISP networks and double on mobile platforms.

Virgin Media Deploy FREE Wireless WiFi Internet to London UK Tube Stations

15th Mar 2012 (0 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media has won the contract to provide free public wireless internet access (WiFi) at up to 120 tube station platforms in London for “zero cost to the fare or taxpayer“. The “unlimited” service will also deliver live TfL travel information.

Internet Central Brings 40Mbps Wireless Broadband to Cheshire and Staffordshire

14th Mar 2012 (1 Comment)

UK ISP Internet Central (IC) has launched a new superfast wireless (WiFi) broadband service called IC-air, which offers download speeds of up to 40Mbps (Megabits per second) to homes and businesses in the North Staffordshire and South Cheshire areas.

UPD Marks and Spencer UK Stores Trial FREE Wireless WiFi Internet Access

14th Mar 2012 (0 Comments)

The Cloud (BSkyB), a public UK WiFi Hotspot operator, has announced that the popular Marks and Spencer (M&S) high street retail chain has begun trials of a free wireless internet service across 10 of its stores.

MetroNet UK Expands Fibre and Wireless Broadband Network into Crewe

14th Mar 2012 (0 Comments)

ISP Metronet UK has announced that its next generation fibre optic and wireless broadband network has been expanded to cover businesses in Crewe (Cheshire) and the surrounding area.

UK ISP Ask4 Expands 50Mbps Broadband Service to Leeds Apartment Block

14th Mar 2012 (0 Comments)

Sheffield-based ISP Ask4 has once again expanded its uncapped 50Mbps (Megabits per second) broadband service, this time to 20:20 House in Leeds, which claims to be a prestigious development of 242 high-specification apartments, micropads and also includes commercial office space.

UK Government Admits Broadband Availability Maps Exclude Wireless Services

14th Mar 2012 (5 Comments)

The governments Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) office, which wants 90% of people to be within reach of a superfast broadband (24Mbps+) service by 2015, has confirmed that its maps of national broadband availability (example) could be seriously flawed because they often exclude wireless networks (WiFi, WiMAX etc.) and instead focus on fixed line ISP connectivity.

UPD NextGenUs UK CIC Runs Out of Money for Rural Broadband Initiative

14th Mar 2012 (4 Comments)

NextGenUs UK CIC, a community focused broadband developer that hoped to bring superfast internet services to rural areas via a mix of fibre optic and wireless (WiFi) connections, has issued a general notice to creditors and customers informing them that the group has effectively run out of money. NextGenUs claims to have “exhausted all serious discussions with potential investors” and are “unable to secure any other viable sources of finance“.

BE Wholesale UK Renames to O2 Wholesale and Launches Ethernet Products

14th Mar 2012 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP supplier BE Wholesale, the wholesale business division of home internet provider BE Broadband, has officially joined the brand of its parent company O2 UK (Telefonica) by renaming to O2 Wholesale. Consumer ISP BE Broadband has been quick to clarify that the change “doesn’t affect us or our members at all“.

UPD Ofcom Back T-Mobile and Orange Rollout of 4G Mobile Broadband in 2012

13th Mar 2012 (0 Comments)

The communications regulator, Ofcom, has today “provisionally” proposed to allow mobile operators T-Mobile and Orange UK (Everything Everywhere) to deploy a new generation of 4G (Long Term Evolution / LTE or WiMAX) superfast Mobile Broadband services over their existing 1800MHz radio spectrum. The group first put in a request to re-purpose the spectrum for 4G use during January 2012 (here).

EU Telecoms Regulators Find ISP Blocking of P2P and VoIP is Common

13th Mar 2012 (2 Comments)

The Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications (BEREC), which is composed of the heads from 27 national regulators (e.g. Ofcom in the UK), has published its preliminary findings on internet Traffic Management practices by broadband ISPs and mobile operators in Europe. The practices were found to “vary widely” between countries and providers with some exceptions, the blocking of VoIP (e.g. Skype) and P2P (BitTorrent – File Sharing) traffic is common.

UK ISP TalkTalk Offers 80Mbps Fibre Broadband Boost Upgrade for £15

12th Mar 2012 (1 Comment)

Internet and phone provider TalkTalk UK has become the first consumer ISP to announce the launch of its optional ‘up to’ 80Mbps Fibre Broadband Boost (20Mbps uploads) upgrade, which uses BT’s FTTC technology and is available for +£15 extra per month to the providers existing broadband subscribers (i.e. ‘Essentials’ and ‘Plus’ package customers).

UPD2 BT Confirm UK Launch Date for 80Mbps Superfast FTTC Broadband Upgrade

12th Mar 2012 (53 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which is responsible for providing UK ISPs with equal access to BT’s local and national telecoms and internet infrastructure, has confirmed that its new ‘up to’ 80Mbps (Megabits per second – download speed) superfast Fibre-to-the-Cabinet ( FTTC ) broadband speed upgrade will officially be introduced from “early” April 2012. The maximum upload speeds will also rise to 20Mbps.