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The £45 million Connecting Cambridgeshire (England) scheme, which is currently rolling out BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) services to 90% of local premises by the end of 2015, has won an extra £1.173m from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to help get businesses connected.
The UK communications regulator has today published a new GFK study into the performance of their Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) consumer complaint handler schemes, which found that only 25% of fixed broadband ISP customers that were considered eligible to use an ADR were actually aware of it.
BT has today signed another state aid supported £27 million scheme with Derbyshire County Council (DCC), which aims to help expand the coverage of their fibre optic (FTTC/P) based broadband network to reach 95% of local premises by the end of 2016.
The state aid supported £25 million Better Broadband for Oxfordshire programme, which was signed last week (here) and aims to bring superfast internet access (25Mbps+) to 90% of Oxfordshire by the end of 2015, has published a map of the expected rollout locations.
New customers looking to add the Sky Talk Anytime calls option to their broadband and phone service will, effective from Tuesday next week, no longer be able to benefit from unlimited calls to geographic landlines in 22 international destinations. But the price stays the same.
Ofcom’s proposal to introduce a new harmonised Gaining Provider Led (GPL) solution for swapping broadband and phone provider has been given a warm welcome by most ISPs. But some providers’ fear that they could be left to chase vanishing customers for payments or that the system may soon end up being out of date.
Hidden deep within the text of the government’s new Draft Deregulation Bill 2013, which proposes to abolish UK regulation that’s “no longer of practical use” or is a threat to the economy, can be found a small line that would finally repeal the controversial Digital Economy Act 2010’s powers for enforcing mandatory website blocking upon ISPs.