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ISP News Archives for August 2013

UPDATE UK Fixed Line Home Broadband ISP Speeds Hit 14.7Mbps Says Ofcom

7th Aug 2013 (44 Comments)

Ofcom has published its latest biannual report into the real-world performance of fixed line broadband ISP speeds in the United Kingdom, which found that the average internet download rate had climbed to 14.7Mbps (Megabits per second) and that’s up from 12Mbps six months earlier (+22%). But rural areas continue to suffer from slow speeds.

The Best UK Student Broadband and Phone Solutions for a New Term

7th Aug 2013 (3 Comments)

It’s that time of year again. No sooner than you’ve finished school, returned from college or come home from University then you’ll have to start thinking about a new broadband and phone service for the next term. Naturally BT and Virgin Media have begun promoting their own solutions with 9 month contract terms but there are other options.

300Mbps UK Fibre Optic BT Infinity 4 Broadband ISP Product Surfaces

6th Aug 2013 (16 Comments)

The new 300Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP/H) based and £50 a month fibre optic broadband product from BT Retail, which is called BTInfinity 4, now has a page on the ISP’s website but don’t all rush at once because you probably don’t live in an area where the service is available.

Do New UK Consumer Rules Clash with ISP Internet Censorship Proposals

6th Aug 2013 (4 Comments)

The government has today proposed new amendments to the Consumer Protection Regulations (Unfair Trading) that, among other things, would “ban pre-ticked tick boxes for extras that the consumer may not want or need“. But that’s precisely what big broadband ISPs have been told to do with their network-level filtering solutions.

UK Countryside Alliance Poll Claims Broadband Upgrade to Kickstart Economy

6th Aug 2013 (2 Comments)

A new ComRes survey of 2,016 adults in Great Britain has found that 80% of people (rising to 85% in rural areas) expect that rolling out faster broadband across the whole of the United Kingdom would improve the economy. But 69% say that the focus should be on ensuring that everyone can get connected first (i.e. before tackling better speeds).

Suffolk UK Bring BDUK and BT Superfast Broadband Upgrades Forward

6th Aug 2013 (9 Comments)

The Suffolk County Council has confirmed that its state aid supported £40 million contract with BT, which aims to make superfast fibre broadband services available to 85-90% of local homes and businesses by the end of 2015, has connected its first street cabinet and will now be able to connect 16 areas by September 2013 (3 months ahead of schedule).

Best UK Rural and Urban ISP Finalists Named for Digital Challenge Awards

6th Aug 2013 (3 Comments)

The annual 2013 Next Generation Digital Challenge Awards, which will run alongside the NextGen Conference in London (14-15th October), has unveiled a shortlist of potential winners for its Best Fixed Rural Network and Best Fixed Urban Network category. Broadband ISPs CityFibre, Cotswolds Broadband, Hyperoptic and others are all in with a chance.

UPD Fibre Optic ISP Hyperoptic UK Joins BDUK Broadband Voucher Scheme

5th Aug 2013 (7 Comments)

Hyperoptic, which specialises in offering “hyper-sonic” fibre optic (FTTH/B) broadband internet speeds of 1000Mbps (Megabits) to high-rise buildings and apartment blocks around UK cities (e.g. London), has confirmed that it too has become a registered partner of the Connection Vouchers Scheme.

Wales UK Confirm Next 63 Communities to Get a BT Fibre Broadband

5th Aug 2013 (7 Comments)

The joint BT and state aid supported Superfast Cymru project, which aims to make broadband speeds of up to 80Mbps available to 96% of Welsh premises by the end of spring 2016 2015 (Q4), has revealed that 100,000 new premises in Wales will have access to the operators fibre (FTTC/P) network by the end of this year.

UK ISP Zen Internet Named BDUK Supplier for Broadband Voucher Scheme

5th Aug 2013 (0 Comments)

Rochdale-based Zen Internet has officially joined other ISPs to become an approved supplier for the government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) based Connection Vouchers Scheme (full details), which offers grants of up to £3,000 to help businesses in 22 UK cities install a superfast broadband connection.

UPD BT Sign BDUK Broadband Deal for Oxfordshire and Worcestershire UK

5th Aug 2013 (9 Comments)

BT has today signed two new state aid supported Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) contracts that will help to make their fibre broadband (FTTC/P) network available to 90% of Worcestershire premises by mid-2016 and bring superfast access (25Mbps+) to 90% of Oxfordshire by the end of 2015.

CityFibre UK Expand 1Gbps FTTH Network in Bournemouth to Businesses

5th Aug 2013 (0 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that its 1000Mbps capable fibre optic (FTTH/P) network in the south coast town of Bournemouth (England) will now been made available to local businesses, which mirrors a similar launch in the city of York earlier this year.

Tove Valley UK Connects 100 Homes to Superfast WiFi Wireless Broadband

5th Aug 2013 (0 Comments)

The community based Tove Valley Superfast Broadband project in Northamptonshire (England), which links together the local villages of Abthorpe, Weedon Lois, Wappenham, Slapton and Weston, has just connected its 100th home to their 100Mbps capable wireless broadband network.

Gov to Withhold UK BDUK Broadband Funds if Councils Fail to Publish Data

5th Aug 2013 (11 Comments)

The UK government’s culture secretary, Maria Miller, could withhold an extra £250m of rural superfast broadband (25Mbps+) funding from local authorities unless they do as she requested and publish vital BT coverage information. The data is needed to help smaller ISPs (altnets) build their networks and access £20m of RCBF funding.

Do Big UK ISPs Really Plan to Block Website Forums and Swearing

5th Aug 2013 (10 Comments)

The government’s controversial strategy for protecting children online by requiring the country’s largest broadband ISPs to introduce network-level filtering of adult websites (here) has come under fire again after some reports suggested that “Web Forums“, “Esoteric Content” and possibly even bad language might be on the censorship list. We attempted to find the truth.

BT and Vodafone Helped GHCQ Snoop on Transatlantic Fibre Optic Cables

3rd Aug 2013 (24 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT (codename “Remedy“) and Vodafone (codename “Gerontic“) are among several major telecoms operators that have been named by former NSA employee, Edward Snowden, as helping the UK Government’s Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) to snoop on more than 200 of the world’s transatlantic fibre optic cable links.

Metronet UK Rollout Superfast Broadband to 100 Schools in Manchester

2nd Aug 2013 (1 Comment)

Business ISP Metronet UK has teamed up with One Education in order to deploy superfast broadband internet connectivity to more than 100 schools in Manchester (England) and possibly beyond.