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ISP News Archives for September 2013

BT Picked as Preferred Supplier for UK Isle of Wight Fibre Broadband Rollout

11th Sep 2013 (12 Comments)

Despite concerns the Isle of Wight Council (IWC) in Southern England has now voted to approve BT as the “preferred supplier” for their local £7.6 million rollout of superfast broadband (FTTC/P), which should bring better Internet access to areas that have suffered due to a lack of investment.

UK ISP BT Infinity TV Ad Banned for Misleading 8x Faster Fibre Optic Claim

11th Sep 2013 (13 Comments)

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a TV and website advert for BT’s superfast broadband BTInfinity (FTTC) service after they both made misleading claims about being able to offer “eight times faster fibre optic broadband” and “up to 8x faster than the UK average” speeds respectively.

Research Paper Claims UK ISP Warning Letters Will Not Cut Internet Piracy

10th Sep 2013 (0 Comments)

A new research paper has warned that the UK’s controversial anti-piracy tackling Digital Economy Act (DEAct), which aims to slash Internet piracy by adopting a “three-strikes” style graduated response system of warning letters and punishment for repeat offenders (e.g. suspension of your broadband service), will not succeed in reducing copyright infringement.

Nominet Moot BAN on Swearing and Bad Language in UK Internet Domains

10th Sep 2013 (11 Comments)

Nominet, which manages the registry of .uk Internet domain names, has at the behest of the government launched a review of its registration policy for new website domain names that will examine whether or not it should ban certain words and expressions (e.g. swearing).

ISP Virgin Media Begins Pilot of Netflix Movies on TiVo with 40000 UK Homes

10th Sep 2013 (3 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media has today become the first UK Pay-TV provider to reach an agreement to offer the Netflix unlimited movie streaming service via its TiVo based broadband Video-on-Demand (VoD / IPTV) platform, which will begin this week with a pilot of the app in 40,000 homes.

New £1.5m Scheme to Advise Cheshire UK Firms on Superfast Broadband

9th Sep 2013 (0 Comments)

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.

Hyperoptic Still Expect to Make FTTB Available in 10 UK Cities Before 2014

9th Sep 2013 (0 Comments)

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.

BT Sign £21.96m Deal to Rollout Fibre Broadband in West Yorkshire UK

9th Sep 2013 (7 Comments)

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).

XLN Telecom CEO Lambasts BT Monopoly over UK Superfast Broadband

9th Sep 2013 (37 Comments)

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“.

UK Mobile Operator EE Tops 1 Million Superfast 4G LTE Customers

9th Sep 2013 (0 Comments)

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“.

ISPreview Survey Finds Heavy UK Internet Data Use Now Common

9th Sep 2013 (0 Comments)

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.

ISP EE UK Adds £25 Marks and Spencer Voucher to Home Broadband

9th Sep 2013 (0 Comments)

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.

TalkTalk UK Raise Advertised Standard Broadband Speed up to 16Mbps

6th Sep 2013 (0 Comments)

Budget Internet provider TalkTalk has today followed the other big broadband ISPs by increasing the advertised download speed (“typical speed“) of their standard (ADSL2+) based packages “up to” 16Mbps (Megabits per second) from 14Mbps. But don’t expect to get faster speeds.

UPD ASDA Pick EE for UK 3G Mobile Network and In-Store WiFi Service

6th Sep 2013 (0 Comments)

Supermarket chain ASDA has entered into a new Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) partnership with EE (Everything Everywhere), which will give the high street giant the ability to offer its own 2G and 3G mobile voice, text and broadband services.

Free Cash Vouchers and Credits Galore from BT, TalkTalk, Sky and Virgin Media

6th Sep 2013 (8 Comments)

Customers taking a new broadband, phone and or TV service bundle from BT, Sky Broadband, Virgin Media and TalkTalk are being offered a range of special financial incentives as the ISPs go to war over competing voucher and credit promotions.

BT Openreach Moot Limited ISP Price Discount for UK FTTC and FTTP Installs

6th Sep 2013 (16 Comments)

BTOpenreach has confirmed that they’re considering the launch of a new special offer that would cut the price of existing superfast broadband (FTTC and FTTP) installations for ISPs and their end-users, albeit only at specific BT telephone exchanges.

UPDATE2 Sky Broadband is the First UK ISP to Begin Trialling Self Install FTTC

5th Sep 2013 (8 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which among other things works to maintain and upgrade BT’s national UK telecoms network, has confirmed Sky Broadband as the country’s first ISP to begin trialling a new and possibly cheaper wires only (self-install) variant of its up to 80Mbps capable FTTC superfast broadband technology (i.e. no home engineer visit required).