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12th Mar 2014 (5 Comments)

The B4RN (Broadband 4 Rural North) project has posted another one of their increasingly professional videos, which depicts how the recently won Land Rover Freelander2 vehicle is being put to good use with the local roll-out of their 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network in rural Lancashire (England).

12th Mar 2014 (4 Comments)

The latest research from Point Topic has claimed that superfast broadband (30Mbps+) coverage in the United Kingdom increased by 4.9% during 2013, reaching a total coverage of 75.2% (20.4 million homes) during the beginning of 2014. Ofcom has also published their European Broadband Scorecard, which puts the UK ahead of the other “major” EU states.

12th Mar 2014 (0 Comments)

The £20.1 million West Sussex Better Connected project has finally announced the first 7 communities that will receive an upgrade to “better, faster broadband services” using the latest fibre optic based FTTC/P technologies from BT. But there’s confusion over whether the coverage target is 98% or 90% and a conflict with wireless ISP Kijoma.

11th Mar 2014 (7 Comments)

The NetGear-based SuperHub (VMDG485) broadband routers, which are supplied by cable provider Virgin Media, appear to be suffering from a new security flaw that means your administrative settings web page and WiFi passphrase is left exposed for around 7 seconds when the device reboots.

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11th Mar 2014 (21 Comments)

As consumers we have a right to be huffy at our ISPs when something goes wrong. But is the Internet provider still to blame if, as in the recent cases of AAISP and now PlusNet, your home broadband router ends up being hijacked by a DNS redirection exploit?

11th Mar 2014 (14 Comments)

The latest ISP Speed Index update for Netflix‘s unlimited Internet movie and TV video streaming service has revealed that BT is now at the top of the table with an average speed of 2.85Mbps (Megabits per second), although they’re only very marginally ahead of Virgin Media.

11th Mar 2014 (39 Comments)

A group of Hollywood movie studios have successfully won a case in London’s High Court that will require all of the country’s major broadband ISPs to block their customers from accessing the following websites – Megashare, Viooz, Watch32 and Zmovie. All were found to be facilitating Internet copyright infringement (piracy).

11th Mar 2014 (5 Comments)

The state aid supported Superfast Lancashire project in England has confirmed the names of a further 11 communities that will soon gain more access to BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) network by the end of June 2014 (Q2 – 2014 deployment period).

10th Mar 2014 (2 Comments)

Fibre optic developer CityFibre has announced a new partnership that will see them working with business ISP Businesscoms to offer a range of 1000Mbps capable broadband packages to local firms, specifically those within reach of their new £30 million Peterborough CORE network.

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10th Mar 2014 (17 Comments)

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, has joined forces with Germany to develop the next generation of ultrafast 5G based Mobile Broadband technology, which will apparently only take “one second” to download an 800MB (MegaByte) film. In reality, it won’t be quite that fast.

10th Mar 2014 (7 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media has told ISPreview.co.uk that they’re keeping a close eye upon the state aid supported BT and Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) roll-out of superfast broadband (FTTC/P) services, which focuses upon areas that have been left neglected by private sector investment, to ensure that no overbuilding takes place.

8th Mar 2014 (4 Comments)

BT’s up to 80Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) technology now comes in a new flavour – GEA-FTTC Street Access. The service appears to be targeted at mobile operators that want to improve local wifi and 4G coverage by utilising council street furniture (e.g. payphones) but can’t get or don’t need a full fibre optic line for the capacity.

7th Mar 2014 (0 Comments)

The £35.44 million e-Sussex project has today announced the next batch of Phase 3 locations in East Sussex (England), which will benefit from superfast broadband (25Mbps+) speeds under the joint Broadband Delivery UK programme with BT.

7th Mar 2014 (1 Comment)

The £56.6 million Fastershire project (best name ever), which aims to make BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network available to around 90% of homes and businesses in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire by the end of 2016 (148,000 premises), has confirmed the next batch of locations for its roll-out.

7th Mar 2014 (5 Comments)

The boss of Europol‘s cybercrime division, Troels Oerting, has warned that they are seeing an “increase in the misuse” of free public wireless Internet networks (WiFi hotspots). In particular hackers have been known to target them as a means of stealing personal and financial information.

7th Mar 2014 (45 Comments)

NFU Mutual, the farming friendly financial advice and insurance firm, has warned in a new study of 1,600 UK adults that 1 in 5 families have struggled to access online resources for their children’s schoolwork because of poor broadband connections. As usual, rural areas are likely to be the worst hit.

6th Mar 2014 (0 Comments)

Broadband provider Satellite Internet, which delivers its service via the SES (ASTRA) platform of spacecraft, has followed the example of some rival ISPs and launched their own optional “low-cost equipment rental scheme“. The new method effectively replaces the large one-off setup cost with a monthly rental payment of £12.50 on a 24 month contract.

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