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ISP News Archives for August 2014

Worcestershire UK Confirms First Phase 3 Fibre Broadband Upgrades

30th Aug 2014 (0 Comments)

The Superfast Worcestershire (England) scheme has announced the next batch of areas that will be upgraded to receive BT’s “high-speed fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network, which aims to pass 90% of local homes and businesses by mid-2016 and hopefully 95% by 2017.

Estate Agent Claims Slow Broadband Can Wipe 25% off UK House Values

29th Aug 2014 (4 Comments)

Online estate agent House Simple has claimed that houses in broadband slowspots could lose 20-25% off the potential value of their property because buyers have become much more savvy and are increasingly paying attention to the quality of local Internet connectivity.

UPDATE2 BT Expand Superfast Broadband Rollout in Cornwall UK

29th Aug 2014 (26 Comments)

The £132m Superfast Cornwall project has announced that another 10 “hard-to-reach” rural communities will be able to receive access to BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network by early 2015, which will be an addition to the existing target of making the service available to 95% of Cornwall (England) and the Isles of Scilly by the end of 2014.

Vodafone UK Bring 4G Network and More Data to Pay-As-You-Go Users

29th Aug 2014 (8 Comments)

More news from mobile operators today after Vodafone announced that their new 4G based Mobile Broadband network, which since this time last year has been expanded to cover over 300 cities and towns as well as “thousands of smaller communities” across the United Kingdom, was also being made available to their Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) customers.

O2’s 4G Mobile Network Reaches 45 Percent of UK in 240 Towns and Cities

29th Aug 2014 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 has celebrated the first anniversary of their 4G (LTE at 800MHz) based Mobile Broadband network deployment by confirming that more than 240 towns and cities across the United Kingdom can now access the new service, representing a population coverage of 45% (up from 41% in April 2014).

UK Mobile Operators Cleared for 3G and 4G Power Boost at 1800MHz

29th Aug 2014 (2 Comments)

As expected the national UK telecoms regulator has today allowed O2, Three UK, EE and Vodafone to improve the coverage and capacity of their 3G (UMTS) and 4G (LTE + WiMAX) based Mobile Broadband networks by boosting the maximum permissible base station transmit power in the 1800MHz radio spectrum band by +3dB.

Sky Broadband Unlimited Goes FREE for 12 Months and Tweaks Prices

29th Aug 2014 (3 Comments)

UK ISP Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has today tweaked its standard unlimited broadband and phone bundle prices and begun offering the service free for the first 12 months of service (£7.50 thereafter). In addition, customers will get a £100 Marks & Spencers voucher or alternatively the option of a free Samsung GALAXY Tab 4 if they bundle in with a Sky TV service.

First BT Fibre-to-the-Remote-Node FTTrN Broadband Trial Set for Q4 2014

29th Aug 2014 (48 Comments)

The Superfast North Yorkshire project in England has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that its first trial of BT’s new superfast Fibre-to-the-Remote-Node (FTTrN) broadband technology, which has the potential to deliver much faster and more stable speeds than the traditional Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) service, is now being implemented and will be “ready to accept customer orders” in late 2014.

EE Expands 4G Mobile Broadband Network to 75 Percent of the UK

28th Aug 2014 (1 Comment)

Mobile operator EE has announced that their “superfast” 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband network is now available to 13 new towns across the United Kingdom (i.e. a total of 263 major towns/cities + over 2,500 villages/small towns), which lifts their total population coverage to 75% from 73% last month. The Prime Ministers home town of Witney has also been upgraded.

First Cabinet Live on Isle of Wight as BT Start Fibre Broadband Rollout

27th Aug 2014 (1 Comment)

The state aid supported £7.5m project to help extend BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network to an additional 20,000 “mainly rural” homes and businesses on the Isle of Wight, which resides just off England’s central southern coastline, has finally begun with the first street cabinet going live in Farriers Way, Shorwell.

UPD2 London Fixed Wireless ISP Relish Tackles Stability and CGNAT Concern

27th Aug 2014 (30 Comments)

Fixed 4G wireless broadband ISP Relish (UK Broadband Ltd.), which launched in June, claims to have put right a problem that caused connection drops for some of their early subscribers and has promised to release a limited block of public IPv4 addresses to their consumer customers (at cost) in order to cater for those frustrated by the network’s use of IP address sharing (CGNAT).

AAISP Fears Broadband Too Costly for ISPs in an Independent Scotland

26th Aug 2014 (24 Comments)

The boss of bracknell-based ISP Andrews & Arnold (AAISP), Adrian Kennard, has waded into the heated debate over Scottish independence by warning that some smaller broadband ISPs based in the rest of the United Kingdom might “simply cut off Scotland” because of higher costs. As our Scottish cousins might say, “a nod’s as guid as a wink tae a blind horse“.

BT’s Broadband YouView TV Service Blocks Unauthorised STBs

26th Aug 2014 (9 Comments)

Customers of BT’s YouView (IPTV) based broadband TV service can no longer access the ISPs premium content (e.g. the Discovery Channel, FOX, SyFy, MTV etc.) by using unauthorised set-top-boxes, such as those purchased from third party retailers.

UPDATE DNS Fail Stops Virgin Media Users Accessing ntlworld.com Email

26th Aug 2014 (5 Comments)

Customers of Virgin Media, specifically those with email addresses that use the ntlworld.com domain, have been unable to access their email for almost 24 hours after an unspecified problem hit the ISPs related Domain Name Servers (DNS).

Rural Shops Alliance in Urban Broadband Funding Moan to UK Government

26th Aug 2014 (12 Comments)

The Rural Shops Alliance (RSA), a trade association that claims to represent over 8,000 rural retailers across the United Kingdom, has described the Government’s city-focused Connection Voucher scheme as “bizarre” for “subsidising businesses which already have the potential to access superfast broadband“.

Let’s Stop Having Different UK Definitions for “Superfast Broadband”

26th Aug 2014 (27 Comments)

What is “superfast” or “fibre broadband“? The answer seems to vary depending upon whether or not you’re asking a Local Authority (council), the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) office, mobile operators or the national telecoms regulator. The situation has become ridiculously confusing.

UPD2 BT Raise Broadband and Phone Prices – Holiday to Bury Bad News

23rd Aug 2014 (95 Comments)

The consumer division of BT has used the bank holiday weekend, when many people will be taking time out away from home, to confirm that millions of their broadband and phone customers across the United Kingdom will again suffer the now traditional price rise from December 2014.