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ISP News Archives for November 2013

EE UK Officially Launch 4G LTE Home Broadband Service in Rural Cumbria

11th Nov 2013 (14 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (4GEE) has today launched their special 4G (LTE) based fixed wireless home broadband service, which focuses on rural areas and will cost up to around £25 per month for a data allowance of 25GB (though smaller packages start at £7.50). The first to benefit will be residents in remote parts of Cumbria (England).

UK ISP Scotnet Sues Customer in Effort to Recover ADR Complaint Fees

11th Nov 2013 (2 Comments)

Scotnet, which is one of the few ISPs dedicated towards providing broadband services to Internet users in Scotland, has taken the somewhat controversial step of launching legal action against one of their customers in order to recover around £350 worth of CISAS’s Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) complaint handler fees.

UPDATE BT Sport Grabs More Critical Football TV Content from Sky and ITV

10th Nov 2013 (25 Comments)

BT’s recently launched BTSport TV service, which airs premium sport matches for free to their own broadband subscribers and at cost to others, has scored another major coup against Sky (Sky Broadband) and ITV after it gobbled up the exclusive broadcast rights to all 350 matches from the 2015 – 2018 UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League (football).

BT Publish Latest 21CN WBC 20Mbps UK Copper Broadband Rollout Update

8th Nov 2013 (101 Comments)

BTWholesale has today furnished ISPreview.co.uk with their latest telephone exchange based roll-out update for the on-going deployment of the 21CN based Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC) platform; specifically the part that supports their up to 20Mbps capable ADSL2+ solution.

FREE Superfast WiFi Service in Birmingham UK City Centre Goes Live

8th Nov 2013 (0 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media Business confirms that it has completed the build of their new “super-fast” public wifi wireless Internet hotspot service in the centre of Birmingham, which covers around 2.5 square miles of the city and offers “no usage limits“.

Ofcom to Let Concept Solutions People Expand UK Fibre Optic Network

8th Nov 2013 (0 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator has proposed to grant Code Powers to Concept Solutions People (CSP), which would allow them carry out street works in order to expand the reach of their point-to-point fibre optic network to include new urban locations with a view to the “development and commercialisation of regional open access networks“.

ThinkingWISP Expand Wireless Broadband Further into South Norfolk UK

8th Nov 2013 (8 Comments)

Fixed wireless broadband ISP ThinkingWISP, which was first established in 2011 as a local partnership between InTouch Systems, the Norfolk Rural Community Council and AF Affinity to improve Internet access around rural Norfolk and some parts of Suffolk in England, have confirmed plans to expand their existing network.

Vodafone Fail Ofcoms UK 3G Mobile Broadband Coverage Requirement

7th Nov 2013 (5 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK has failed Ofcom’s 3G based Mobile Broadband coverage obligation, which requires them to provide related network coverage in the 2100MHz band to at least 90% of the UK population. But apparently they only fell short by 1.4%.

Entanet Outlines UK ISP Migration Plan After O2 Wholesale Closure

7th Nov 2013 (5 Comments)

Communications provider Entanet, which supplies a number of UK Internet providers with broadband services, has this week become the latest operator to publish plans for moving their existing O2/BE Wholesale based unbundled (LLU) lines away from that network and onto their BT-based platform.

Hull ISP KC Calls UK Broadband Speed Demand Study a Dangerous Red Herring

7th Nov 2013 (5 Comments)

The Hull-based incumbent telecoms provider KC, which covers part of East Yorkshire in England, has advised the UK Government to ignore an “unambitious” new study by the Broadband Stakeholder Group after it suggested that a “median household” might only require bandwidth of 19Mbps (Megabits per second) by 2023.

UPDATE ISPA Conference to Discuss Future of the UK Internet and Broadband

6th Nov 2013 (6 Comments)

The 8th annual ISPA Conference, which will be held on Wednesday 27th November 2013 (9:15am – 4pm), has set out quite an interesting agenda and one that intends to look at the state of national broadband provision (both now and post-2015) as well as what ISPs might look like in ten years’ time.

Virgin Media UK Scrapes Upwards to Reach 4.48m Broadband Subscribers

6th Nov 2013 (5 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has today published its latest Q3-2013 (calendar) results and confirmed that their total broadband ISP subscriber base has crept upwards by +13,600 in the quarter to total 4,488,600, which follows a slight fall of -15.5k during the prior Q2 period. Network coverage has also improved.

Right Holders Seek to Stop Geographic Internet Address Masking

6th Nov 2013 (14 Comments)

Not content with tackling Internet piracy it now looks as if some Copyright Holders want to stop people from accessing legal content in other countries by blocking services that allow you to go online via the Internet address (IP) of a different location (e.g. such as when you use a VPN to view UK online TV content from the USA). Satellite ISPs take note.

UPD2 BT Openreach FTTC Superfast Broadband Modems Break VPN Access

5th Nov 2013 (2 Comments)

The Director of broadband ISP Andrews & Arnold (AAISP), Adrian Kennard, claims to have discovered a fault with the superfast broadband FTTC (VDSL) modems that BTOpenreach distributes to new subscribers, which can affect “almost anyone running any sort of VPN” (Virtual Private Network) Internet service.

BSG Claims UK Homes to Only Need 19Mbps Broadband Speeds by 2023

5th Nov 2013 (104 Comments)

The Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG), which advises the Government on broadband matters, has published a new report that claims to outline a “new way for measuring and forecasting demand for bandwidth in UK homes“. The research concludes that the “median household” will require bandwidth of 19Mbps (Megabits per second) by 2023.

ISP Direct Save Telecom Slash the Cost of New UK Phone Line Installs

5th Nov 2013 (0 Comments)

Budget communications provider Direct Save Telecom has cut the one-off price for new residential line installations by around 40% from £49.95 to only £29.95, which is of course subject to the customer taking out a service linked to an 18 month contract term.

Ofcom Start Publishing Raw UK Fixed Line Broadband ISP Speedtest Data

5th Nov 2013 (0 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has decided to publish some of the raw data that’s used to construct their bi-annual fixed line broadband speeds report (e.g. the August 2013 Report) and have made it available to the public via XLS (MS Excel) and CSV format.