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ISP News Archives for December 2013

Hyperoptic Bring 1Gbps Broadband to Residents of East Village in London

11th Dec 2013 (1 Comment)

City-focused ISP Hyperoptic has announced that its “hyper-sonic” 1000Mbps capable fibre optic broadband (FTTH/B) service is now available to residents of the new East Village neighbourhood, which is perhaps better known as the former Athletes’ Village in Stratford, London (E20).

UPDATE Next Gen Ultrafast 1Gbps G.fast Broadband Standard Gains Consent

11th Dec 2013 (10 Comments)

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) Study Group 15 has given its formal “consent” to the start of the final approval process for the next generation G.fast (aka – FTTC2 / ITU G.9700) broadband standard, which could one day deliver speeds of up to 1000Mbps (1Gbps) over some BT hybrid fibre (mixed copper and fibre optic) lines.

ASA Ban O2 UK Tweet Ad for Misleading EU Mobile Data Roaming Offer

11th Dec 2013 (0 Comments)

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a Twitter tweet advert from O2 UK after it misleadingly claimed that customers using their Mobile Broadband connection to roam while travelling around Europe would only need to pay £1.99 for a day’s worth of data usage, which failed to mention the tiny usage allowance.

Kenstella Road Residents Furious Over New 11 Metre BT Telegraph Pole

10th Dec 2013 (63 Comments)

Telegraph poles have been a part of the United Kingdom’s street landscape for as long as we can remember. But that hasn’t stopped an outpouring of anger from local residents after BT decided to erect a new 11 metre high pole along one side of Kenstella Road in Newlyn (Cornwall, England) to help improve broadband speeds.

Rectangular Light Spectrum Pulses Promise 10x Faster Fibre Optic Networks

10th Dec 2013 (0 Comments)

Swiss scientists working out of EPFL, part of Switzerland’s Federal Institutes of Technology, have found another way to boost the performance of existing fibre optic networks by shortening the distance (space) between pulses of laser light. Better yet the solution is said to be “highly flexible and can be easily integrated” into existing communication systems.

UPD B4RN Rural Broadband Project Hit by Serious Criminal Theft in Lancashire

10th Dec 2013 (25 Comments)

The B4RN (Broadband 4 Rural North) project in Lancashire (England) could face delays to the roll-out of their 1Gbps capable community-built and funded Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) based broadband network after thieves broke into one of their trailers and made off with critical equipment. Luckily locals have pulled together to help keep the work on track.

ISPA UK Begins Hunt for the 2014 Best Broadband ISP Awards Shortlist

10th Dec 2013 (0 Comments)

The Internet Service Providers Association UK has officially launched the hunt for next year’s annual Internet industry awards, which is seeking nominations for a string of familiar categories (e.g. ‘Best Superfast Broadband’ and ‘Best Consumer Fixed Broadband’) and two new ones.

ISP XLN Forces UK Customers to Pay for Insurance against BT Engineers

9th Dec 2013 (3 Comments)

Business ISP XLN Telecom has taken the unique, if controversial, approach of attaching a new monthly “Business Assurance” charge of +£1.95 to their customers broadband and phone bills in order to protect against the increasingly hefty engineer charges that BTOpenreach levy for fixing service faults (SFI).

Broadband Enabled UK Homes Forecast Shrinks by 2 Million for 2016

9th Dec 2013 (0 Comments)

Telecoms analyst Point Topic has slashed its prediction, which originally forecast that the United Kingdom would be home to just under 26m broadband lines at the end of 2016, by “almost” 8% to 23.88m due to the strain on disposable incomes and delays to the Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) deployment of BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) network.

Point Topic Backs Smaller ISPs to Fix UK Rural Superfast Broadband Woes

9th Dec 2013 (9 Comments)

London-based broadband analyst firm Point Topic has told ISPreview.co.uk, as part of our exclusive interview, that hybrid fibre optic (FTTC, DOCSIS etc.) services are the best way of getting affordable superfast Internet access to 95% of the country by 2017 and that smaller (altnets) ISPs should play a “major role” in connecting the final 5%.

UPD Strong Uptake as Street Cabinet 82 in Hunslet Finally Gets FTTC After Battle

9th Dec 2013 (15 Comments)

The long running spat over Street Cabinet 82 in Hunslet (Middleton, South Leeds), which was originally deemed to be commercially unviable for an upgrade to superfast broadband (FTTC), has finally come to an end after BTOpenreach upgraded the cabinet as part of its £2.5bn roll-out (i.e. not BDUK funded).

Devon and Somerset UK Detail Next 31 Areas for Superfast Broadband

9th Dec 2013 (11 Comments)

The £94 million Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) project in England has announced the next 31 local communities that can expected to receive an upgrade to support BT’s “high-speed fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) service by March 2014.

ISP to Expand Faster Wireless Broadband in Rural Northamptonshire UK

7th Dec 2013 (2 Comments)

Northamptonshire ISP VillageBroadband, which typically serves residents and businesses in the rural hamlet of Strixton and its neighbouring villages (Wollaston and Denton), has said that it expects to expand their coverage and double in size, all with no help from the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) scheme.

Broadband Connection Voucher Scheme Goes Live in First UK Cities

7th Dec 2013 (11 Comments)

The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills has announced that the Government’s Connection Vouchers scheme, which uses part of the £150m Urban Broadband Fund (“Super-Connected Cities“) to help SME businesses install superfast broadband (30Mbps+), has finally started to go live in 22 cities across the United Kingdom.

Cheshire UK Name First Areas to Benefit from BDUK Superfast Broadband

6th Dec 2013 (2 Comments)

The £28.5 million Connecting Cheshire project in England, which is supported by the national Broadband Delivery UK scheme, has announced that 14,000 local premises in over 30 “mainly outlying and rural communities” will gain access to BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network by the end of March 2014.

Mobile Operator Three UK Hints Towards Interest in O2 Acquisition

6th Dec 2013 (7 Comments)

The boss of mobile operator Three UK, David Dyson, has added fuel to the growing fire of rumours that surround their alleged interest in a merger with O2 by saying that “under the right circumstances” the United Kingdom could operate competitively with fewer operators. But there are significant complications to consider.

10821 UK Premises Covered Per £Million of Superfast Broadband Funding

5th Dec 2013 (6 Comments)

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has a published short performance report on the progress of their national £1.2bn Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) scheme, which claims that 10,821 premises have been covered by BT’s FTTC/P based superfast broadband (25Mbps+) network per £million of public funding (up to the end of September 2013).