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ISP News Archives for May 2014

UPDATE Ericsson Trial 10Gbps 5G Mobile Broadband Network in Japan

12th May 2014 (15 Comments)

The standard for the next generation of 5G mobile communications technology is still being debated, yet that hasn’t stopped telecoms giant Ericsson from teaming up with Japanese mobile firm NTT DOCOMO to test its own 10Gbps+ (Gigabits per second) capable solution in Yokosuka; albeit using the 15GHz radio frequency band.

UK ISP TalkTalk Cuts Unlimited Broadband Bundle to Just GBP1.75 Monthly

12th May 2014 (1 Comment)

Budget ISP TalkTalk has announced that its “totally unlimited” Simply Broadband and phone bundle has been reduced from £3.50 to just £1.75 per month for the first six months of service, although customers will still need to pay line rental on top from £11.75 when pre-paid a year in advance or £15.95 monthly.

Premiership Football Finals Knock Sky’s Broadband NOW TV Service Offline

12th May 2014 (4 Comments)

Customers who shelled out £9.99 for a Sky Sports Day Pass on Sky’s broadband-based Internet video streaming service NOW TV have been promised a refund after another spate of network congestion took the service offline just as the final Barclays Premier League Football matches of the 2013/14 season were kicking off.

Welsh Wireless Broadband ISP Xwavia Secures £1.2m Finance Wales Loan

9th May 2014 (21 Comments)

Powys-based wireless broadband ISP eXwavia Xwavia has, following last month’s report by ISPreview.co.uk (here), confirmed that they’ve secured an investment of £1.2 million from Finance Wales to help make faster Internet connectivity available to more rural parts of Wales in the United Kingdom. The first areas to benefit will be in Conwy.

Netflix UK Confirm GBP6.99 Price Rise and Broadband ISP Speeds for 4K

9th May 2014 (97 Comments)

Netflix UK, the Internet-based unlimited movie and TV video streaming service, has confirmed that the monthly price of their service will soon rise from £5.99 to £6.99 as already widely expected. But the good news is that this will only impact new customers, at least for now.

UPDATE ISPs Set to Agree Weakened Voluntary Internet Piracy Warning Letters

9th May 2014 (15 Comments)

A new report claims that the United Kingdom’s four largest home broadband ISPs (BT, TalkTalk, Sky Broadband and Virgin Media) are expected to imminently agree a controversial new Voluntary Copyright Alert Programme of Internet piracy warning letters with the Motion Picture Association and British Phonographic Industry.

ISPA Announce Finalists for its 2014 UK ISP Internet Industry Awards

8th May 2014 (2 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today revealed the official shortlist of finalists for its forthcoming 16th annual 2014 Internet industry awards, which has seen broadband providers including Hyperoptic, Sky Broadband and PlusNet gaining nominations across several consumer focused categories.

Wales Audit Office to Review Superfast Cymru Broadband Deployment

8th May 2014 (3 Comments)

The Wales Audit Office (WAO) has confirmed that it intends to conduct an audit of the Superfast Cymru scheme, which aims to make BT’s faster “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) speeds of up to 80Mbps available to 96% of Welsh premises by the end of spring 2016.

Metronet UK Aim Ultrafast Broadband for 50% of Top Manchester Office Spaces

8th May 2014 (1 Comment)

Business Internet provider Metronet UK has announced that their hybrid fibre optic (Dark Fibre) and “high capacity” carrier grade wireless network has now connected almost 20% of Greater Manchester’s “most important buildings” and almost 30% of those in Manchester city centre with speeds of up to 10Gbps.

UPDATE UK ISP AOL Broadband No Longer Available to New Customers

8th May 2014 (4 Comments)

One of the oldest ISP names in the United Kingdom, AOL Broadband (formerly AOL UK), appears to have stopped taking on new Internet and phone customers. Instead the provider’s website now redirects potential subscribers over towards their parent, TalkTalk.

UPDATE2 West Oxfordshire Council to Help Fund FTTP via Cotswolds Broadband

8th May 2014 (1 Comment)

Cotswolds Broadband (Broadway Partners), which aims to roll-out an open-access 100Mbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to 90% of homes and businesses in the Chipping Norton area of west Oxfordshire (England), looks like it might soon be able to move forward after West Oxfordshire District Council committed new funding to the project.

BT Achieves 66% UK Fibre Broadband Rollout Target as Customers Soar

8th May 2014 (37 Comments)

BT has today released their latest Q1-2014 (calendar) results, which confirm that their £2.5bn commercial roll-out of superfast capable “fibre broadband” technology (FTTC/P) has now reached its goal ahead of schedule by passing 19 million premises (around 66% of the United Kingdom). Separately, BT’s retail broadband ISP customers topped 7,281,000 (up +170k in the quarter vs +150k during Q4-2013).

O2 and BT Wholesale Sign UK Fixed Line and ICT Services Partnership

7th May 2014 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 UK might have sold off their fixed line Home Broadband and Phone customers to Sky Broadband (BSkyB) last year, yet a new 5-year partnership extension deal signed with BT Wholesale today means that the business side of their service(s) will continue to be expanded via a “fully-integrated suite of ICT services” to include mobile, Ethernet and FTTC “fibre broadband for the very first time“.

UK Mobile Virtual Network Operator OVIVO Pushed into Liquidation

7th May 2014 (3 Comments)

Mobile operator OVIVO, which was supplied by Vodafone UK via Cognatel and recently shocked around 50k – 70k customers by suddenly closing its service, has now suffered the final nail in its coffin after officially entering liquidation. Unfortunately this means that subscribers who haven’t already got a refund now stand little hope of receiving one.

RightsCorp Threatens More Bullying Piracy Letters for UK Internet Users

7th May 2014 (12 Comments)

The shadow of “speculative invoicing” could soon return to our shores after the US-based copyright enforcement agency RightsCorp, which monitors public P2P File Sharing traffic for “illegal” activity before pursuing related broadband ISP customers with financial settlement demands, confirmed that that they are “investigating a launch in Europe” and had received a “great reception” from interested groups in the United Kingdom.

Wireless Business ISP Urban WiMAX Moots Growth After Funding Boost

7th May 2014 (0 Comments)

London-based business ISP Urban WiMAX, which specialises in delivering a mix of wired and or wireless (wimax and microwave) broadband / Ethernet solutions to around 500 customers, last month secured additional investment worth £2.15 million through Santander’s Breakthrough programme and is now planning for their future growth.

B4RN Beat BT to Connect First Premises to 1Gbps Broadband in Dolphinholme

7th May 2014 (19 Comments)

The predominantly community funded and built B4RN (Broadband 4 Rural North) network, which is deploying a 1000Mbps capable “hyperspeed” Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) broadband platform in parts of rural Lancashire (England, UK), has beaten BT’s rival 330Mbps FTTP deployment in Dolphinholme by being the first to connect the Village Hall and several houses to its service.