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A new scheme called Connecting Cheshire Superfast Business, which is supported by £1.5m from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Connecting Cheshire, has been launched to help over 900 small and medium-sized businesses across Cheshire and Warrington (England) make the most of superfast broadband.
London-based ISP Hyperoptic has confirmed that they still expect to start deployment of a “hyper-sonic” 1000Mbps capable fibre optic broadband (FTTH/B) service as many as 10 new UK cities by the end of 2013 2014 when they hope to reach 80,000 homes.
The West Yorkshire (England) local authorities have today agreed to a new £21.96 million state aid supported Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) contract with BT, which will make the operators “high-speed fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network available to 97% of local premises by the end of Autumn 2015 (the last 3% will get speeds of at least 2Mbps).
The CEO of Business ISP XLN Telecom, Christian Nellemann, has said that the national rollout of superfast broadband technology is “crucial” to the United Kingdom’s small and medium sized businesses but called for the government to stop helping BT “maintain a monopoly on fibre services“.
Mobile provider EE UK has today reported passing a major milestone after they successfully added 1 Million customers to their superfast 4G (LTE at 1800MHz) based Mobile Broadband network, which is claimed to be “one of the fastest 4G adoption rates in the world“.
The latest ISPreview.co.uk survey of 1,241 internet users in the United Kingdom has revealed that 51.9% of respondents consumed more than 60GB (GigaBytes) of data over their broadband ISP connections each month, which is up from 37.6% two years earlier (here). Equally impressive is the growing amount of time that we all spend online.
Telecoms provider EE has taken a leaf of their rivals book and added a £25 M&S voucher to any online orders of their cheap fixed line home broadband and superfast “fibre broadband” packages, which are currently being offered at half price for between the first 12 and 3 months of service.