ISP News Archives for September 12, 2013

CityFibre, which in 2011 completed the construction of a new 10Gbps (Gigabits per second) capable and 103km long fibre optic ring network in the English city of York (The York CORE), has claimed that BT might be attempting to disrupt their infrastructure by threatening to challenge its use through the European courts. But BT states there’s “no truth” to the claim.

The European Commission (EC) has published its official proposal for the construction of a new EU Single Telecoms Market, which promises even cheaper mobile roaming charges, stricter guidelines to help safeguard open internet access (Net Neutrality) and new measures to boost superfast broadband development.

The government’s Broadband Delivery UK office has published details of the 31 responses that were received during the brief consultation on their new Connection Vouchers Scheme, which uses part of the £150 million+ “Super-Connected Cities” / Urban Broadband Fund to help businesses cover the cost of installing a new superfast broadband ISP service.

Computing magazine PC Pro has revealed the winners of its annual PCPro Excellence Awards 2013, which once again saw Zen Internet named as the Best Broadband Supplier and PlusNet coming in as “Highly Commended“.

Customers of the Post Office’s broadband and phone service have been hit by a variety of service problems, ranging from a total loss of telephone connectivity to an inability to contact support, since the ISP began the migration of their telecoms platform from BTWholesale to TalkTalk Wholesale at the start of September 2013.