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ISP News Archives for December 2013

BT and FON Offer One Hour of FREE Public WiFi Hotspot Access

5th Dec 2013 (5 Comments)

BT are offering one hour’s worth of free access to their national network of public wireless Internet (wifi) hotspots, which is part of a special pre-Christmas promotion.

Just 8% of UK Businesses Suffer Broadband Speeds of Below 2Mbps

5th Dec 2013 (0 Comments)

The latest annual E-Commerce and ICT Activity study from the Office for National Statistics has revealed that the vast majority (96%) of businesses in the United Kingdom have Internet access (95% use broadband) and (85.5%) of those continue to use DSL broadband technology. But superfast connectivity is growing.

Radio Amateurs Fear Interference from Next Gen G.fast Broadband Tech

5th Dec 2013 (16 Comments)

A group of radio amateurs have warned that the next generation G.fast (ITU G.9700 / aka – FTTC2) broadband technology, which BT and Huawei plan to “field trial” in the UK alongside Fibre-to-the-Distribution-Point (FTTdp) lines for potential speeds of up to around 1000Mbps (here), could cause significant interference for them.

UK Home Office Sets Out Plan to Force ISPs into Blocking Extremist Websites

4th Dec 2013 (11 Comments)

The Government’s Home Office has today published a new report from the Prime Minister’s Task Force on Tackling Radicalisation and Extremism, which proposes to force broadband ISPs into helping identify and block websites that contain “extremist content“.

UPDATE UK Gov Touts £10m Competitive Fund to Boost Rural Broadband

4th Dec 2013 (10 Comments)

The Government’s Treasury has today announced a new £10 Million “competitive fund” that aims to “test innovative solutions to deliver superfast broadband services to the most difficult to reach areas“, which sounds a lot like another attempt to do what DEFRA’s £20m Rural Community Broadband Fund (RCBF) has often struggled to achieve.

Three UK Begins Low Key 4G LTE Mobile Broadband Rollout

4th Dec 2013 (5 Comments)

It started with a whimper. Mobile operator Three UK has quietly revealed, through a small mention in an unrelated press release, that its new superfast 4G (LTE at 800MHz and 1800MHz) based Mobile Broadband network has now finally started to go live for existing customers “at no extra cost“.

EE UK Reveals Pre-Christmas 4G LTE Mobile Broadband Rollout Plan

4th Dec 2013 (5 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (4GEE) has announced that 10 more towns around the United Kingdom have now been enabled for its 4G (LTE at 1800MHz) based superfast Mobile Broadband network and a further 19 will go live before Christmas day.

ASA UK Bans BT Broadband Advert for Misleading Performance Claims

4th Dec 2013 (3 Comments)

The tit for tat advertising war appears to be continuing after a complaint by Sky Broadband (BSkyB) successfully resulted in the banning of another national press advert for BT’s Broadband services, which boldly said “Official. BT Broadband offers better overall performance than Sky and TalkTalk“.

Suffolk UK Seek to Expand BDUK and BT Superfast Broadband Rollout

4th Dec 2013 (10 Comments)

The £40 million Better Broadband to Suffolk project, which is working to make BT’s superfast “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network available to more than 85% of local homes and businesses by the end of 2015, has joined other regions in seeking fresh Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) funding to reach more premises.

The Top 7 Fastest UK Fixed Line Home Broadband ISPs – November 2013

4th Dec 2013 (0 Comments)

The latest monthly performance study of the United Kingdom’s largest seven home broadband ISPs has found that the average download speed in November 2013 was 17.304Mbps (up from 16.842Mbps last month) and the average upload speed climbed to 3.370Mbps (up from 2.896Mbps).

UPDATE High Court Finds BT Infringes on ASSIA DSL Management Patent

3rd Dec 2013 (0 Comments)

The High Court of Justice in London has ruled that BT infringes upon one of ASSIA’s patents for DSL management technologies, which the telecoms operator allegedly uses as part of their national FTTC (VDSL) based Next Generation Access (NGA) network deployment.

UK ISP Sky Broadband Launch New Sky Hub Router with Integrated FTTC

3rd Dec 2013 (11 Comments)

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has today unveiled a new version (SR102) of their original Sky Hub (SR101) wireless router, which improves upon the old model by being coloured in “stylish black” and integrating a VDSL modem so that customers who adopt their FTTC superfast broadband (Sky Fibre) package no longer need to use a separate modem from BTOpenreach.

UK Comes Top of the Major EU Countries for Superfast Broadband

3rd Dec 2013 (3 Comments)

The latest Analysys Mason study has claimed that the United Kingdom remains top of the “big five” (EU5) European countries (i.e. France, Germany, Italy and Spain) in terms of superfast broadband (30Mbps+) coverage, take-up, average service speeds and competition. But the wider picture remains more complex.

Former BT Wifi Boss Becomes the New CEO of UK ISP PlusNet

3rd Dec 2013 (0 Comments)

Internet and phone provider PlusNet, which is a semi-independent sibling of BT, has appointed Andy Baker (Aged 41) to be its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Andy replaces the ISPs current CEO, Jamie Ford, whom is leaving to pursue a role as the Managing Director of IT Services at BT Business.

BT Employee and Copper Telecoms Thieves Jailed After UK Police Sting

2nd Dec 2013 (3 Comments)

The Snaresbrook Crown Court has sentenced a corrupt former BT employee and members of a criminal gang to a total of over 32 years in jail after they were found to have colluded over the theft and damage of vital copper broadband and phone cable, which cost the telecoms operator a total of £279,635.00.

Crunch Meeting Called Over Failed FTTH Project in Kent Village of Selling

2nd Dec 2013 (9 Comments)

Residents of Selling, a small rural village in Kent (England), have called a public meeting in the hope of being able to solve the areas four year spat over the failure of Internal Communication Systems (ISC) to complete the £50k roll-out of a new ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network.

UK Church Switches Off Local Wireless Network After Porn Scare

2nd Dec 2013 (2 Comments)

People visiting Chester Cathedral in Cheshire (England) can no longer access the Internet via the church’s local wireless (wifi) network after it was discovered that they could still view pornography via the service.