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Broadband Delivery UK Progress as Cheshire Reaches Half-Way Point

3rd Nov 2014 (1 Comment)

The £28.5m Connecting Cheshire project in England has become the latest Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) programme to reach the half-way mark after it announced that 40,000 additional local homes and businesses had now been connected to BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network, which aims to reach 96% of premises across the region by the end of summer 2015.

Sky Broadband Asks 200,000 UK Customers – Want a Mobile Tariff

3rd Nov 2014 (0 Comments)

One of the UK telecoms markets worst kept secrets is that BSkyB (Sky Broadband) has an ambition to launch their own mobile phone service and indeed various discussions with major Mobile Networks Operators (MNO) have been taking place throughout the year (here and here). As a result the news that Sky are about to conduct a mobile service “trial” with Vodafone is no surprise, but it is big news.

UPDATE Customers of UK ISP Zen Internet Braced for Price Rises

3rd Nov 2014 (0 Comments)

Customers of medium sized ISP Zen Internet have started to receive letters (emails) that warn of an impending price rise, which is due to hit on 1st December 2014.

Virgin Media Expands WiFi to 150 London Underground Tube Stations

3rd Nov 2014 (0 Comments)

Virgin Media has announced that its UK network of public WiFi Hotspots have been expanded again to cover a total of 150 London Underground Tube stations. Apparently commuters who make use of the underground WiFi network (over 2.5 million devices are registered to use the service) gobble more than 3TB (TeraBytes) of data every single day.

Manufacturers Criticise “Poor” National UK Broadband Infrastructure

3rd Nov 2014 (19 Comments)

A new report from the EEF trade association, which claims to champion manufacturing and engineering in the United Kingdom and Europe, has highlighted the problem of “deteriorating confidence” in wide areas of the country’s infrastructure, especially the road networks, broadband connectivity and energy supply.

UPDATE2 UK Pushes “Unworkable” National 2G Mobile Network Roaming

3rd Nov 2014 (9 Comments)

The Government’s Culture Secretary, Sajid Javid, will this week shun objections by the United Kingdom’s largest mobile network operators (EE, Vodafone, O2 and Three UK) when he launches a new consultation on proposals that could force the operators to improve mobile reception in rural areas through greater sharing of key infrastructure (wireless masts etc.).

DEFRA Committee Launch Fresh Inquiry into UK Rural Broadband Provision

1st Nov 2014 (50 Comments)

A Commons Select Committee for the UK Government’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has launched a new inquiry that will examine the current broadband coverage in rural areas. It will also look at the “Assisted Digital” (i.e. Digital by Default) support being offered to isolated communities and farmers who struggle to get online.

Broadband ISP PlusNet Tops Moneywise Home Finance Awards

1st Nov 2014 (0 Comments)

UK ISP PlusNet has won three gongs at the inaugural Moneywise Home Finance Awards 2014 for their broadband service, which rated them the ‘Most Recommended Broadband‘, ‘Best Broadband for Service‘ and also ‘Best Broadband for Value for Money‘.

UPDATE Suffolk Signs First Superfast Broadband Extension Contract with BT

31st Oct 2014 (10 Comments)

The Suffolk County Council (SCC) today claims to have signed the United Kingdom’s first Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) based Superfast Extension Programme (SEP) contract with BT, which aims to extend the coverage of the operators “fibre optic broadband” (FTTC/P) network to 95% of local homes and businesses “before 2018“.

Broadband Speeds of 10Mbps Needed for an Effective Quality of Service

31st Oct 2014 (34 Comments)

The United Kingdom’s telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has suggested that there is an “increasingly compelling argument” for fixed line broadband download speeds of 10Mbps (Megabits per second) to be considered a requirement for an “effective quality of service,” especially where there is simultaneous use of the connection by different services or users within the home.

BT Staying Tight Lipped Over New Bundle Netflix and Broadband Deal

31st Oct 2014 (4 Comments)

Customer of BT’s consumer broadband and phone services in the United Kingdom will soon be able to bundle Netflix’s popular unlimited Internet TV and Movie streaming service alongside the ISPs broadband, television and phone products, all as part of a single bill.

UK ISP PlusNet Adds Useful Broadband and Phone Help Videos

31st Oct 2014 (4 Comments)

A small but interesting piece of news today is that budget Internet provider PlusNet has uploaded a raft of new YouTube help videos, which cover everything from tackling broadband connection and speed problems to phone line faults and how to change your payment details.

Did Labour Just Complain the UK Gov’s Broadband Speeds are Too Fast?

30th Oct 2014 (17 Comments)

Politicians, love them or hate them, they’ll often turn even a sane person barmy and that certainly seems to be the direction that some people may take when they listen back to a few of the comments that were spoken at today’s 2014 Parliamentary Internet, Communications and Technology Forum (PICTFOR) in Portcullis House.

UPDATE Government Brings FREE WiFi to 1,000 UK Public Buildings

30th Oct 2014 (0 Comments)

The Government has today announced that it expects 1,000 public buildings (e.g. libraries, museums, civic centres and transport hubs etc.) across some of the United Kingdom’s largest cities to be offering a free WiFi hotspot (wireless Internet) service by March 2015.

Leicestershire UK Confirm Next Phase 2 Areas for “Fibre Broadband” Rollout

30th Oct 2014 (0 Comments)

The £18.8m Superfast Leicestershire project in central England has announced the next batch of 38 Phase Two communities that can expect to benefit from the state aid supported roll-out of BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network, which is anticipated to reach 96% of local homes and businesses by March 2016.

BT Tops 7.47m Broadband ISP Customers as FTTC Covers 21m UK Premises

30th Oct 2014 (32 Comments)

National UK telecoms giant BT has today posted their latest results for Q3-2014 (calendar), which reported slowing retail broadband growth to total 7,473,000 customers (up by +88k versus the +104k added in Q2 and +170k in Q1). The operator also revealed that their superfast capable “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network could now reach 21 million homes and businesses (premises passed).

EE UK Launch Next Gen 4G Mobile Broadband with 90Mbps Average Speeds

30th Oct 2014 (8 Comments)

As predicted by ISPreview.co.uk earlier this month (here), mobile operator EE has today officially launched their new next generation 4G+ network upgrade (LTE-Advanced), which can theoretically support Internet download speeds of up to 300Mbps and claims it will deliver average speeds of up to 90Mbps (Megabits per second).