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255ft High Wind Turbine Threatens Wireless Broadband to Devon UK Village

28th Nov 2012 (2 Comments)

Residents of Northlew village in Devon (England) have complained that new plans to build a 255ft tall wind turbine in nearby Inwardleigh could disrupt the wifi signal of their wireless community broadband service, which serves approximately 150 local homes (500 people).

Europe Blasts UK Government for False Broadband Funding Delay Jibes

28th Nov 2012 (6 Comments)

Europe’s competition commissioner, Joaquín Almunia, has publicly criticised the UK government’s Culture Secretary, Maria Miller MP, after she blamed the European Commission for holding up the release of State Aid funding and thus delaying the country’s national roll-out of superfast broadband (25Mbps+) services.

ISP Zen Internet Says Businesses Wrong to Demand Fibre Optic Broadband

27th Nov 2012 (20 Comments)

ISP Zen Internet has warned that businesses in the United Kingdom should “stop focusing” on the perceived need for true fibre optic (FTTP/H) broadband services, which take the fibre direct to their doorstep, because their needs can already be met by the existing but slower Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) solutions.

BT Shuns Phone Privacy Bug that Exposes UK Customers to Abuse

27th Nov 2012 (2 Comments)

BT has been accused of negligence after one of its customers discovered that the national telecoms operator had made it easy for anybody to gain access to personal customer account names and add unwanted services to another user’s phone line without their permission.

EE UK Boosts Mobile Broadband Usage Allowances at No Extra Cost

27th Nov 2012 (2 Comments)

New mobile operator EE (4GEE) has quietly boosted the usage allowances of its dedicated 4G (1800MHz) based Mobile Broadband packages by adding up to an extra 3GB (GigaBytes) of data to their plans.

UK Train Operator Greater Anglia to Launch Free WiFi at 100 Stations

27th Nov 2012 (0 Comments)

The Greater Anglia train operator has announced that it’s working with WiFi Hotspot operator The Cloud (BSkyB) to introduce a free wireless internet service at 100 of its stations across the region (e.g. Cambridge, Norwich and Stansted Airport).

VIDEO Demo of BT’s HyperFast 10Gbps UK Fibre Optic Broadband ISP Trial

27th Nov 2012 (4 Comments)

The Superfast Cornwall project, which is working with BT to make superfast broadband solutions available to at least 80% of premises in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly by the end of 2014, has uploaded a video demo from its recent trial of a 10Gbps (Gigabits per second) capable “hyper-fast” fibre optic service using the latest XGPON (10G-PON) standard.

ISP KC Expands Fibre Optic Broadband to 45,000 Hull UK Premises by 2015

27th Nov 2012 (0 Comments)

KC, the incumbent internet and phone provider for Hull and East Yorkshire (England), has successfully completed the initial roll-out of their “super-fast” 350Mbps capable and fibre optic based Lightstream broadband service to pass 15,000 local premises. It now plans to reach an extra 30,000 homes and businesses by March 2015.

Total Ltd Sues UK YouView Broadband IPTV Service Over Brand Dispute

26th Nov 2012 (2 Comments)

The subscription-free YouView broadband ISP based TV (IPTV) service, which recently lost a High Court battle with online billing firm YourView (Total Ltd.) over the rights to retain its name, is now officially being sued for trade mark infringement by Total Ltd.

AAISP UK Offers Special Christmas Broadband Usage Allowances

26th Nov 2012 (0 Comments)

Customers of broadband ISP Andrews and Arnold (AAISP) look set to benefit from additional internet data usage flexibility after the provider announced a number of special changes and rates for the forthcoming Christmas holiday period.

Should Broadband ISPs Improve their Signup Process? Our survey says..

26th Nov 2012 (3 Comments)

The results from 552 respondents to ISPreview.co.uk’s latest reader poll found that over a third (39.8%) would like to see their broadband ISP improve its registration system, which is despite the fact that 78.4% claimed the sign-up process itself was “Easy“.

3 Mobile UK Brings FREE Mobile Broadband to Scottish Highland Communities

26th Nov 2012 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has announced that it is giving away 20 free Mobile Broadband modems (dongles) to community hubs in the isolated Highlands and Islands villages of Melvich and Durness in Scotland. The port town of Invergordon further south will also get similar treatment.

UPD Botched BT Telegraph Pole Install Cuts Fibre Broadband for Lancashire

24th Nov 2012 (16 Comments)

Several Lancashire based broadband ISPs, including LonsdaleNET, B4RN, TalkTalk and others, suffered a serious loss of internet connectivity that lasted for over 10 hours between Tuesday and Wednesday after BTOpenreach engineers accidentally cut through a vital GEO fibre optic cable.

Ofcom Says UK ISPs Must Decide Who is a Subscriber for its Piracy Code

24th Nov 2012 (0 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has told a Westminster Media Forum event that it will be the responsibility of each broadband ISP to decide which of their customers are officially defined as “subscribers” and thus susceptible to the new copyright infringement rules, which are designed to clampdown on “illegal” internet piracy.

UK Business ISP Claranet Gobbles Managed Provider Star for GBP55m

23rd Nov 2012 (0 Comments)

Business internet and telecoms provider Claranet UK has acquired STH Limited and its managed technology services subsidiary, Star (Star Technology Services), for the sizeable sum of £55 million.

ISP JT Launch YouView Broadband TV Service to the Channel Islands

23rd Nov 2012 (0 Comments)

JT Global has this afternoon become the fourth ISP to launch a subscription-free broadband TV service based off the YouView (IPTV) platform, which is available to its customers on the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey.

Hull ISP KC Launches YouView Based Broadband TV Services

23rd Nov 2012 (8 Comments)

The incumbent telecoms operator for Hull and East Riding in Yorkshire (England), KC, has this week become the third UK ISP after BT and TalkTalk to launch its own broadband TV service based off the YouView (IPTV) platform called KCTV.