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ISP News Archives for February 2013

UK ISP Vispa Boosts City Wireless Broadband Capacity in Warrington

14th Feb 2013 (1 Comment)

Cheshire-based ISP Vispa claims to be “working hard to fix the problems” that have recently impacted customers on its new up to 60Mbps (Megabits per second) capable City Wireless broadband network in Burtonwood, Winwick and Chapelford (Warrington, England).

UK Researchers Working to End Internet Video Buffering on ISP Connections

14th Feb 2013 (1 Comment)

Researchers at the University of Aberdeen (UA) in Scotland, supported by BT and Alcatel-Lucent, are seeking to “increase the speed of the Internet” by re-writing the way computers and network devices (e.g. routers) talk to each other so as to improve latency times (ping) and potentially make multiplayer games and video streaming smoother.

Isle of Wight Cable Operator Slams Councils Biased BT Broadband Plan

13th Feb 2013 (2 Comments)

The Isle of Wight’s (England, UK) only provider of commercial and residential cable based TV, phone and broadband products, WightFibre (formerly WightCable), has accused the councils delayed roll-out plan for superfast broadband ISP services of being “biased in favour of BT” and of having shunned alternatives.

Telefonica and Infinera Demo 10Tbps Super Channel Fibre Optic Network

13th Feb 2013 (0 Comments)

Network operator Telefónica and Infinera claim to have demonstrated the “first” super-channel fibre optic network running at a speed of 10Tbps (Terabits per second) via ten 1Tbps channels and a whole heap of both old and new modulation methods combined.

UK ISP Sky Broadband Migrates Google Email Platform to Yahoo Alternative

13th Feb 2013 (7 Comments)

Customers of Sky Broadband (BSkyB), specifically those that use the ISPs existing Sky Email service, have been advised that they will shortly be migrated to a new Yahoo! based webmail platform (Sky Yahoo! Mail) because “Google is no longer able to provide Sky with an email platform that caters for our requirements“.

Calix Help Rural UK Overbury Estate Homes Get 1Gbps Fibre Broadband

12th Feb 2013 (1 Comment)

Communications equipment provider Calix has helped two small farming villages in the heart of rural England, Overbury and Conderton (Cotswolds), gain access to “ultra-fast” fibre optic broadband (FTTP) services by deploying its E7-2 Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP).

RootMetrics Tests EE 4G Mobile Broadband Speeds in 3 UK Cities

12th Feb 2013 (11 Comments)

RootMetrics has posted the results from 95,672 separate speedtests of EE’s new 4G (LTE 1800MHz) based Mobile Broadband network in the UK cities of Liverpool, Cardiff and Sheffield. The study found that EE was broadly living up to its promise of delivering internet speeds that range from 8-12Mbps (Megabits per second).

UK Police Jail Two People for Stealing BT Copper Broadband Cable

12th Feb 2013 (17 Comments)

The Metropolitan Police have jailed two adult men for stealing a “large quantity” of BT’s copper telephone cable while they posed as local workmen, which resulted in a total loss of fixed line broadband ISP and phone services to hundreds of premises in Teddington and Sussex (England) during May 2012.

BT Confirm the Final 99 UK Locations for its Superfast Broadband Rollout

12th Feb 2013 (63 Comments)

National UK telecoms operator BT has today announced a final list of 99 telephone exchanges that will soon be able to receive its latest 80Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) or “ultra-fast” 330Mbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based superfast broadband ISP products through their commercial roll-out.

UK Police Warn of Fake Doorstep Broadband ISP Sales Representatives

12th Feb 2013 (0 Comments)

The Royal Wootton Bassett & Cricklade Police force in Wiltshire (England) has warned people to be on the lookout for bogus door-to-door sales representatives that attempt to sell broadband packages without giving any form of ID or saying which ISP you’d be connected to.

New at800.tv Website to Help UK Freeview TV and 4G Interference Woes

11th Feb 2013 (13 Comments)

The Digital Mobile Spectrum Limited (DMSL) group, which was created to help some of the 2 million+ UK homes that could suffer a loss of Digital Terrestrial TV (Freeview) when the new 4G based Mobile Broadband services go live via the 800MHz band, has setup a new website to help inform and advise those affected.

Superfast Cornwall Expands BT Fibre Broadband to Half of all Premises

11th Feb 2013 (4 Comments)

The £132m Superfast Cornwall scheme, which aims to roll-out fibre optic based broadband (FTTC etc.) ISP services to “at least” 80% of homes and businesses in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly by the end of 2014, has achieved a “major milestone” after it became available to around 125,000 Cornish premises (i.e. 50% coverage).

Santander Name Top 74 UK Towns and Cities for Broadband Connectivity

11th Feb 2013 (3 Comments)

Banking giant Santander has released its annual ranking of the top 74 UK towns and cities by the competitiveness of their respective business environments. One of the key categories is Connectivity, which revealed that Edinburgh (Scotland) is one of the best places for broadband speed and uptake. Meanwhile Milton Keynes is one of the worst.

Online Guide to Help UK Communities Build FTTH Broadband Networks

11th Feb 2013 (4 Comments)

Sweden-based Rala, which helps to build fibre optic networks around Europe, will next week launch “the world’s first” online guide to help communities in the United Kingdom with the planning and delivery of Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) based ultra-fast broadband ISP networks.

Online Video to Push Mobile Broadband Traffic to 134 Exabytes by 2017

11th Feb 2013 (0 Comments)

Cisco’s latest forecast has predicted that online video services will represent 66% of global Mobile Broadband traffic by 2017 (up from 51% in 2012), which will help to push total mobile data use from 0.9 Exabytes per month (i.e. 885 Petabytes) now to 11.2 EB in just five years’ time and outpace global fixed data traffic.

ISPreview Talks to Westminster City Council about its FREE O2 WiFi Service

11th Feb 2013 (0 Comments)

Last year O2 UK signed a new deal to provide visitors and residents of Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea (i.e. Central London) with access to one of the largest free wireless internet (wifi) access zones in Europe. Today ISPreview.co.uk interviews both O2 and Westminster City Council (WCC) about what this means and how it’s been funded.

UPDATE3 Funding for EU Digital Agenda Broadband Projects Gets Wiped Out

9th Feb 2013 (9 Comments)

Last night’s decision to cut the European Union’s seven-year 2014 to 2020 budget by 3% to around £768bn has taken a significant casualty. The European Commission’s (EC) plan to boost funding for future superfast broadband projects through its €9.2bn (£7.78bn) Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) has effectively been wiped out.