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ISP News Archives for November 13, 2013

UK ISP Zen Internet to Significantly Boost Broadband Usage Allowances

13th Nov 2013 (4 Comments)

Customers of popular ISP Zen Internet, specifically those on the standard broadband (ADSL2+) packages, will be pleased to learn that their monthly data usage allowances are about to receive a significant boost and all at no extra cost. Happy Christmas.

Big UK ISPs Set to Block SolarMovie and Tubeplus Piracy Websites

13th Nov 2013 (9 Comments)

The EMEA division of the Motion Picture Association (MPA) has successfully won fresh court orders from the High Court in London that will require all of the United Kingdom’s six biggest broadband ISPs to block their customers from accessing the SolarMovie and Tubeplus websites over “illegal” Internet streaming content.

UPDATE NAO Praise UK Broadband Prices in Infrastructure Investment Report

13th Nov 2013 (1 Comment)

The National Audit Office (NAO) has published an interesting new report into the impact of infrastructure investment on consumer bills. The focus is centred on the hot-topic of energy and water prices but it also gives a brief mention to telecoms services.

UPDATE Marketing Fail – 6G Broadband Network Goes Live in Blackburn UK

13th Nov 2013 (17 Comments)

Sometimes marketing can be misleading (e.g. calling FTTC or cable lines “fibre optic”) and the same could perhaps be said of 6G Internet, which has just launched a new wireless broadband network in Blackburn (Lancashire, England) and for added confusion fun they’re calling the technology “Air Fibre” (they’re not the first to use that).

UK ISP PlusNet Cuts Unlimited Broadband and Calls Price to GBP2.75

13th Nov 2013 (3 Comments)

PlusNet has cut the cost of its ‘up to’ 16Mbps unlimited standard broadband and free weekend calls package to just £2.75 a month for the first 12 months of service (£9.99 thereafter) and their Unlimited Fibre Broadband (up to 76Mbps) has also dropped to £12.75 for the first 4 months (£19.99 thereafter).

CityFibre Confirm Ultrafast Fibre Optic Rollout Timetable for Peterborough UK

13th Nov 2013 (0 Comments)

CityFibre has confirmed that its recently announced £30 million project to deploy a new ultrafast metro fibre optic broadband and telecoms network around the city of Peterborough (East of England) will begin during Spring 2014.

ONS Reports 7.0 Million UK Adults Have Never Used the Internet

13th Nov 2013 (0 Comments)

The Government’s Office for National Statistics has published their latest Internet Access Quarterly Update Q3-2013, which reveals that the number of adults in the United Kingdom that have never gone online has shrunk from 7.1 million six months ago (Q1) to 7 million now (14% of the population).

Oxfordshire County Council Rejects Cotswolds Broadband Scheme for BT

13th Nov 2013 (8 Comments)

The promising Cotswolds Broadband project, which aimed to roll-out an open access and 100Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to 90% of homes and businesses (5000 premises) in the Chipping Norton area of west Oxfordshire (England), has joined a similar project in Dorset (Trailways) to be rejected by local councils in favour of BT.

BT Escape Unlimited Broadband Ad Ban But Scalded for FTTC Coverage Claim

13th Nov 2013 (0 Comments)

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has rejected a Virgin Media moan against BT’s use of “Unlimited Broadband” on its website but upheld a consumer’s complaint against a poster ad for the BTInfinity Business (FTTC) package in Manchester, which wrongly claimed to cover the recipient’s area.

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