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ISP News Archives for March 2013

BT Start BDUK Rollout of Fibre Broadband in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire

20th Mar 2013 (6 Comments)

The Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) has announced the first areas to benefit from its state aid supported project with neighbouring Herefordshire, which aims to make superfast broadband (25Mbps+) services available 90% of homes and businesses in both English (UK) counties by the end of 2016 and 100% by 2018.

Denwa Expand Fibre to the Mast Wireless Broadband to Lancashire UK

19th Mar 2013 (3 Comments)

Barrowford-based ISP Denwa UK has announced the expansion of its Fibre to the Mast (FTTM) technology, which offers internet download speeds of up to 100Mbps (10Mbps upload) to local businesses from only £49 +vat per month, to reach more locations in Lancashire (England).

BT Starts Delayed Deployment of Superfast Broadband in Lancashire UK

19th Mar 2013 (1 Comment)

The Lancashire County Council (LCC) has confirmed that its state aid supported project with BT, which aims to roll-out superfast broadband (30Mbps+) ISP services to 97% of local homes and businesses, has finally got underway with the first areas being announced. Sadly the end date has also been put back by around one year.

Virgin Media Tells UK Government to Put City Broadband Cash Toward Skills

19th Mar 2013 (3 Comments)

The CEO of cable operator Virgin Media, Neil Berkett, has written an open letter to the Chancellor of the UK government, George Osborne. The letter calls on Osborne to ensure that a minimum of 50% of the £150m destined for improving broadband connectivity in cities is instead used to boost business training and digital capability.

Belkin Completes Acquisition of Linksys as Cisco Quits the Home Market

19th Mar 2013 (2 Comments)

Belkin, a global manufacturer of home networking and entertainment devices (e.g. broadband routers), has confirmed the completion of its acquisition of Linksys after Cisco decided to give up on the home networking business.

Binfield Heath UK Locals Raise £60k to Help BT Install FTTC Broadband

18th Mar 2013 (31 Comments)

Residents of the isolated Binfield Heath village in Oxfordshire (England) have clubbed together to raise £60,000 in order to help cover some of BT’s costs for rolling out superfast broadband (FTTC) technology in the area, which currently suffers from internet download speeds of just 1Mbps or less.

UPD Northamptonshire and BT Sign GBP16.26m Superfast Broadband Contract

18th Mar 2013 (0 Comments)

The Northamptonshire County Council (NCC) has today signed a new £16.26 million contract with BT that will provide “world class fibre broadband speeds” to 53,000 local homes and businesses. Sadly the final time-scales, speeds and targets seem to be unclear.

Kent and Medway UK Award GBP40m Superfast Broadband Contract to BT

18th Mar 2013 (0 Comments)

The Kent County Council (KCC) in England has this morning awarded a £39.47 million contract, which will ensure that 91% of local homes and businesses gain access to superfast broadband ISP speeds of 25Mbps+ by the end of 2015, to BT.

Ofcom UK 4G Mobile Broadband Auction Could Have Raised GBP5.2bn

18th Mar 2013 (2 Comments)

Ofcom’s publication of a final set of information about the recent 4G (LTE) spectrum auction (800MHz and 2.6GHz) at the end of last week has revealed that Mobile Networks Operators (MNO) made total “theoretical” bids of roughly £5.2 billion or around £3bn more than the actual total of £2.368bn.

ITU Secretary General Wants World to Get 20Mbps Broadband by 2020

18th Mar 2013 (0 Comments)

The Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union, Dr Hamadoun Touré, has told the 7th Meeting of the Broadband Commission in Mexico City that he’d like to “dream big” and set a new goal to ensure that everybody in the world can access broadband internet speeds of 20Mbps for $20 a month (£13.25) by 2020.

UPD2 Fujitsu Withdraw from all Remaining Broadband Delivery UK Procurements

15th Mar 2013 (32 Comments)

Japanese technology firm Fujitsu UK has, according to the FT, now completely withdrawn from the government’s £530m national broadband scheme (Broadband Delivery UK) and thus left BT as the only remaining bidder in the process. So much for the “competitive tender“.

Providers of the Top 20 Most SPAM Spreading Internet Networks

15th Mar 2013 (1 Comment)

A new report from researchers at the University of Twente in the Netherlands has revealed that just 20 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) out of over 42,000 are responsible for nearly half of all the internet addresses that send SPAM (e.g. junk marketing email) and similar malicious content (viruses, phishing etc.).

UPD UK Black Country Towns Help Test Terrestrial TV for 4G Mobile Interference

15th Mar 2013 (4 Comments)

Digital Mobile Spectrum Limited (DMSL), which was setup by mobile operators and the government to tackle any Digital Terrestrial TV (Freeview) related reception problems caused by interference from the new 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband services in the 800MHz band, have announced a pilot project to assess the issue in two towns.

UPD Average Fixed Broadband ISP Speeds in the UK Top 12Mbps Says Ofcom

14th Mar 2013 (2 Comments)

The national telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today revealed that the average fixed line broadband internet download speed in the United Kingdom have reached 12Mbps (Megabits per second), which represents a rise of 34% from the 9Mbps reported in their previous August 2012 study and just 3.6Mbps in November 2008.

UK ISP TalkTalk Offers 3 Months FREE Unlimited Broadband and Calls

14th Mar 2013 (0 Comments)

Budget ISP TalkTalk has begun offering their entry-level Essentials bundle, which includes “unlimited” broadband with included evening and weekend calls to UK landlines, for free during the first three months of service (normally £6.50 a month). A free connection (saves £30) and £25 Love2shop voucher has also been thrown in.

London UK Councils Fear Pedestrian Harm from Broadband Infrastructure Bill

14th Mar 2013 (16 Comments)

London’s 33 local authorities have today warned that the UK government’s new Growth and Infrastructure Bill, which is designed boost the roll-out of faster broadband ISP services by cutting red tape in the planning system, could pass additional costs onto city boroughs and “endanger road users” by obstructing pedestrian walkways and reducing sightlines.

ISP AB Internet Expands 50Mbps Wireless Internet to Rural Lincolnshire UK

14th Mar 2013 (4 Comments)

Lincoln-based Fixed Wireless ISP AB Internet has won £300,000 of public funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to help it roll-out a 50Mbps capable broadband service to two rural areas (encompassing several villages) on the east coast of Lincolnshire (England, UK).