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ISP News Archives for October 2014

UK Broadband Ltd Secure Indefinite Licence Extension for 4G at 3.4GHz

9th Oct 2014 (1 Comment)

UK Broadband Ltd (PCCW), which is the parent of London-based wireless broadband ISP Relish, has officially been granted an indefinite extension to its spectrum licence for use of 40MHz in the 3.4GHz band that is being used to help deliver 4G (LTE) based fixed wireless and mobile broadband services.

BT Offers Cheap Shared Internet Service to UK Housing Associations

9th Oct 2014 (2 Comments)

BT Business has today announced the launch of a new service for housing associations (i.e. council style homes for those on low incomes), which among other things will allow tenants to share Internet access in order to help reduce monthly rental costs.

Suffolk UK to Meet Government’s Superfast Broadband Target in 2018

9th Oct 2014 (21 Comments)

On Tuesday next week the Suffolk County Council in England will vote to approve a new plan that aims to extend their existing £40m Better Broadband for Suffolk project and make superfast broadband (24Mbps+) speeds available to 95% of the county, although it won’t complete until sometime in 2018 (later than the national target of 2017).

UPD Homes in London’s Marlin Apartments Get 1000Mbps Broadband

9th Oct 2014 (1 Comment)

Residents and travellers who choose to make use of the swanky Marlin Apartments (Marlin) at three sites in London (Empire Square, Canary Wharf and Queen Street) can now gain access to broadband speeds of up to 1000Mbps (Megabits per second) thanks to Hyperoptic’s new Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network.

EE UK Slashes Superfast Home Broadband Prices for 6 Months

9th Oct 2014 (0 Comments)

New customers looking to take one of EE’s fixed line superfast home “Fibre Broadband” (FTTC) packages, which offer Internet download speeds of up to 38Mbps and 76Mbps, can now benefit from a discount price that applies for the first 6 months of service (note: it use to only apply for 3 months).

Northern Ireland Sees Progress on GBP23.5m Broadband Upgrade Project

9th Oct 2014 (0 Comments)

The £23.5m Broadband Improvement Project for Northern Ireland, which aims to make faster BT based “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) services available to an additional 45,000 premises by December 2015, it appears to be making some progress, with a new postcode checker being added and a general roll-out plan surfacing.

Belkin Fixes Bug that Caused their Routers to Disconnect your Internet

8th Oct 2014 (3 Comments)

Owners of broadband routers made by Belkin, an American manufacturer of consumer electronics, recently found themselves unable to get online after a silly flaw in the kit meant that related customers couldn’t connect to the Internet because the device was unable to ping one of the manufacturers own remote “heartbeat” servers.

BT Delivers 3Tbps via Existing 359km Commercial Grade Fibre Optic Link

8th Oct 2014 (9 Comments)

BT and Huawei have successfully harnessed a “record spectral efficiency” of 5.97bit/s/Hz in order to deliver super channel speeds of 3Tbps (Terabits per second) over an existing 359km long fibre optic link using commercial grade hardware and software in a real world environment.

Three UK Fined GBP250K by Ofcom for Customer Complaint Failings

8th Oct 2014 (3 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has been fined £250,000 by the United Kingdom’s national telecoms regulation, Ofcom, after it failed to handle some customer complaints in a fair and timely manner.

BT Secures 7 Year Public Service Broadband Contract for Wales UK

8th Oct 2014 (0 Comments)

The Welsh Government has today awarded a multi-million pound and 7 year contract to BT’s Global Services division, which will see the national UK telecoms operator taking the reins of Wales’s Public Sector Broadband Aggregation (PSBA) network (this has been in operation since 2007).

Shropshire and Marches Campaign Gives up Hope of Better Broadband

8th Oct 2014 (25 Comments)

The Shropshire and Marches Campaign for Better Rural Broadband has announced its withdrawal from the local county broadband partnership, with concerns over attendance, confidentiality clauses, pre-set agendas and politics allegedly hampering their ability to propose and devise new ways of match funding with the Government’s £11.38m Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) grant.

UPDATE2 Big Fibre Optic Cable Break Hits Broadband ISPs in Hull and Leeds

8th Oct 2014 (4 Comments)

A number of broadband ISPs in Hull and Leeds (England) have suffered almost 24 hours of service disruption following a break in one of the area’s major fibre optic supply cables, which appears to have been damaged as a result of a JCB digger accidentally cutting through several cables during local street works.

UPDATE EE Add FREE TV Service to its UK Home Broadband and Mobile

8th Oct 2014 (4 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP EE (Everything Everywhere) will today go head-to-head with BT, TalkTalk, Sky Broadband (BSkyB) and Virgin Media when they become the latest telecoms giant to introduce their own TV (IPTV) product, with the related Set-Top-Box (STB) being offered for free to their 775,000 existing Home Broadband customers.

Gigabit Copper Broadband One Step Closer as Sckipio Outs First G.fast Kit

7th Oct 2014 (12 Comments)

Israel-based Sckipio appears to have become one of the world’s first manufacturers to produce hardware that is fully compliant with the ITU-T’s G.fast recommendation (G.9700/1), a technology that BT recently demonstrated as having the capability to deliver broadband speeds of up to almost 1000Mbps via existing copper telephone lines.

BT Exchange Fire Disrupts Services for Tens of Thousands in Derby UK

7th Oct 2014 (4 Comments)

A serious fire at BT’s main telephone exchange in central Derby (Colyear Street) has left tens of thousands of customers without a working phone line across parts of both Derbyshire and Staffordshire in England.

UPDATE ISP Hyperoptic Cuts 20Mbps to 1Gbps FTTH Home Broadband Prices

7th Oct 2014 (5 Comments)

City-focus UK ISP Hyperoptic has decided to follow up yesterday’s big coverage and progress update by slashing the price of their fibre optic broadband and phone packages for the first 6 months of service, which sees their entry-level 20Mbps package fall to just £2.50 inc. VAT per month and the top 1000Mbps (1Gbps) option going for £30 (note: line rental of £12.50 must be added).

Marriott Hotel Fined for Blocking Guests Personal WiFi Hotspots

7th Oct 2014 (1 Comment)

Sadly not all hotels offer a WiFi Internet service and some even charge excessive amounts for access, although in most of these cases it’s often possible to get your computer online by using a Smartphone to setup a personal WiFi hotspot via a Mobile Broadband link (3G, 4G). At least it is unless your hotel decides to deliberately block personal WiFi.