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14th Nov 2013 (15 Comments)

The economic benefits of rolling out superfast broadband around the United Kingdom are often complex to understand but a new study commissioned by the government claims that it’s “excellent value for taxpayer money” and will deliver a net return of £20 for every £1 spent by 2024.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).

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.

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).

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.

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.

12th Nov 2013 (3 Comments)

The £28.5 million Connecting Cheshire project, which aims to make BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network available to “around” 96% of premises across Cheshire, Halton and Warrington, has today become the latest Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) project to publish a roll-out map.

12th Nov 2013 (0 Comments)

Budget conscious Internet and phone provider TalkTalk has today posted its latest results to Q3-2013 (calendar) and revealed that they only added +5,000 broadband subscribers (down from +8k in Q2 and +10k in Q3) to total 4,076,000. But the uptake of their superfast broadband (FTTC) product has continued to skyrocket.

12th Nov 2013 (0 Comments)

Virgin Media, which in September became the first Pay-TV provider in the United Kingdom to offer the Netflix unlimited movie streaming service via its TiVo based broadband Video-on-Demand (VoD) platform, has announced that the new service is now out of the “successful” pilot phase and available to customers. Some will even get it for free.

12th Nov 2013 (0 Comments)

Global telecoms giant Ericsson has published its latest Mobility Report (Q3-2013) and revealed that the world is currently home to 2 billion Mobile Broadband subscribers (total mobile subscriptions of around 6.6bn) and that this will reach 8bn by 2019 (9.3bn total mobile subs) when 2.6bn will also be on 4G LTE services.

11th Nov 2013 (29 Comments)

The Managing Director of BT’s Next Generation Access (NGA) division, Bill Murphy, has said that it and not Local Authorities are responsible for withholding the vital broadband speed and coverage (SCT) data as part of the publicly funded Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) roll-out process.

11th Nov 2013 (2 Comments)

The latest update from the £132 million public and privately funded Superfast Cornwall project has confirmed that 82% of Cornwall in England (206,000 homes and businesses) can now access BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) service and this is apparently providing a “major economic boost” to local businesses.

11th Nov 2013 (35 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media appears to be gearing up for another round of broadband speed boosting after its website was updated to mention the launch of a new unlimited 150Mbps 152Mbps (12Mbps upload) service. Similarly a growing number of existing customers are being told to expect a big performance upgrade.

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