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ISP News Archives for June 2014

TalkTalk Player Revamped for Essentials TV and Plus TV Customers

13th Jun 2014 (0 Comments)

UK ISP TalkTalk has unveiled a revamp of the ‘Player’ for their YouView (IPTV) TV based broadband and phone bundles, which ordinarily gives customers access to all the latest blockbuster movies and catch-up content. The enhanced Player includes a series of new features, such as an improved search engine and more of the latest blockbusters to rent from £4.00 for 48hrs.

BT Openreach Engineers Forget to Install VDSL Modems in FTTC Homes

13th Jun 2014 (6 Comments)

“Oops!.. I did it again” is a well-known song recorded by American pop-star Britney Spears and one that also comes to mind after learning that, very occasionally, some of BTOpenreach’s telecoms engineers will neglect to install a VDSL modem as part of their superfast broadband FTTC Basic Install process.

ISPA UK Reveal Internet Hero and Villain Shortlist for 2014 Awards

12th Jun 2014 (6 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has this afternoon revealed the final shortlist of potential winners for their annual Internet Hero and Internet Villain gongs at the forthcoming 2014 Internet industry awards. You can probably guess who’s on this year’s Villains list.

UK ISP TalkTalk Boosts Broadband Network Capacity with Zayo Deal

12th Jun 2014 (1 Comment)

Budget Internet provider TalkTalk has agreed to an extension of its existing network capacity contract with international bandwidth infrastructure provider Zayo Group, which should boost the ISPs broadband capacity in the United Kingdom and improve connectivity with New York and Europe.

EE Introduce Cheaper UK Home Broadband and FTTC Packages for All

12th Jun 2014 (2 Comments)

As expected EE has today dropped the -£10 discount for existing mobile customers from their fixed line Home Broadband packages and instead lowered the prices for everybody. In addition, Home Broadband subscribers will also now benefit from the 2 for 1 cinema tickets and 241 pizza express (2 for 1 pizza, every Wednesday) promotions.

Half of Sky TV Users Connect On Demand Sky+HD Box to Broadband

12th Jun 2014 (0 Comments)

The growing importance of fast Internet access in the delivery of modern television content has been highlighted again after Sky (Sky Broadband) revealed that 50% of their 10.6 million TV customers in the United Kingdom had connected their Sky+HD set-top-box to broadband in order to benefit from on-demand and catch-up-tv content.

KC Bring FREE Public WiFi Wireless Internet to the Town of Beverley

12th Jun 2014 (0 Comments)

The medieval market town of Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire (England) area is to give locals and visitors access to a free “high-speed” wireless Internet (wifi hotspot) service following a new deal with the local telecoms incumbent KC. Sadly it will only be free to use for the first 20 minutes.

Superfast Essex UK Project Begins Vague BT Fibre Broadband Rollout

12th Jun 2014 (26 Comments)

The Superfast Essex scheme, which is worth £24.62 million and aims to make BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network available to 87% of local homes and businesses by the end of summer 2016 (with plans to reach 95% through additional funding), has finally started Phase One of its deployment, albeit without telling locals which communities will benefit next or offering a clear timescale.

UK Superfast Broadband Uptake and ISP Market Share – Q4 2013

11th Jun 2014 (0 Comments)

Telecoms analyst Point Topic has revealed that there were an estimated 22,782,100 active fixed line broadband subscribers in the United Kingdom at the end of 2013 (including from smaller altnets), which includes 5,615,780 superfast broadband (25Mbps+) / NGA users (24.6% of the total). But as expected, Virgin Media and BT continue to dominate.

EE Boost UK Customer Service Quality with 300 New Jobs in Derby

11th Jun 2014 (3 Comments)

Mobile and broadband provider EE (Everything Everywhere) has announced the creation of 300 new customer-facing jobs in Derby, which forms part of their on-going effort to put the troubled past behind them and potentially become “number one for customer service in the telecoms sector“.

The Black Country Slowly Moving Forward with Fibre Broadband Rollout Plan

11th Jun 2014 (2 Comments)

The Black Country (i.e. stems from a heritage of coal mining and heavy industrialisation), which represents Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton in England’s West Midlands, appears to finally be making progress with their Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) plan to make superfast broadband (25Mbps+) services available to 95% of local premises by 2017. But a supplier still hasn’t been chosen.

ASA Uphold TalkTalk Complaint Against Misleading BT Sport TV Advert

11th Jun 2014 (6 Comments)

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint by TalkTalk and several others against a TV advert for BT’s Sport service, which failed to make sufficiently clear that it wasn’t free to business customers or that it was only available to view online, unless customers also had access to Sky Digital or BT TV with superfast broadband via BTInfinity.

Wales UK Superfast Broadband Rollout Project Reaches 135K Premises

10th Jun 2014 (2 Comments)

The Superfast Cymru scheme, which is supported by public funding and aims to make BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network (speeds of up to 80Mbps) available to 96% of Welsh premises by the end of spring 2016, has now helped a total of 134,707 premises (most are homes and 4% businesses) in Wales to access the new connectivity.

Global Internet Traffic Tops 29K PetaBytes a Month and Set for 83K by 2018

10th Jun 2014 (0 Comments)

Cisco has published its 2014 Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecast, which reveals that consumer Internet traffic has grown from 26,213 PetaBytes in 2012 to 29,071PB at the end of 2013 (excluding business traffic) and, fuelled by a +29% annual growth in online video content, it’s expected to hit 83,298PB by 2018. But the predictions may not be reliable.

Sky Broadband UK Offer 24 Months FREE Internet with Sky Sports TV

10th Jun 2014 (3 Comments)

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has announced the imminent launch of a new Sky Sports TV bundle that will come with two years’ worth of free unlimited standard broadband (normally £7.50 a month when taken alongside a Sky TV package).

Internet Content Devs Failing to Take Advantage of Superfast Broadband

10th Jun 2014 (7 Comments)

A new take-up map for superfast broadband (30Mbps+) connections in the United Kingdom has caused Point Topic to complain that millions of consumers are still “waiting for something to buy” because Internet content developers still haven’t come up with a “killer app” to take advantage of the service.

UPDATE Delay Fears Strike KC’s Fibre Optic Broadband Rollout in Hull

10th Jun 2014 (1 Comment)

KC’s plan to make their ‘up to’ 350Mbps capable fibre optic (FTTP/C) Lightstream broadband network available to 45,000 premises accross Hull in East Yorkshire (England) could be facing a significant delay after KCOM Group’s latest preliminary results appeared to change the projects timescale.