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ISP News Archives for 2014

F-Secure Warns – UK People Ignore Privacy via Careless Use of Public WiFi

30th Sep 2014 (0 Comments)

The potential security risks of accessing a public WiFi hotspot are nothing new and yet a new F-Secure study of consumers in London has discovered that many users are continuing to connect themselves, without first checking the hotspots validity, to so-called “poisoned” wireless Internet access points (designed to steal your data).

BT Commit GBP6.4m to Rollout Superfast Broadband in The Black Country

30th Sep 2014 (7 Comments)

As expected BT has been chosen as the supplier for a £12.2 million Broadband Delivery UK based project in The Black Country (Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton – England’s West Midlands), which aims to make fixed line superfast broadband (24Mbps+) speeds available to 98% of local premises by mid-2017.

Culture Secretary Says UK Needs Broadband as Good as South Korea

29th Sep 2014 (38 Comments)

The Government’s Secretary of State for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, Sajid Javid, has today told the annual Conservative Party Conference that having better broadband Internet connectivity than the largest EU states is “never enough” and he wants the United Kingdom to “compete with the likes of Japan and South Korea“, where ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) networks are common.

UPDATE Budget ISP Primus Saver Changes Name to Fuel Broadband

28th Sep 2014 (7 Comments)

One of the markets cheapest broadband providers, Primus Saver (New Call Telecom), has decided to re-brand under the new name of Fuel Broadband. The move is due to take affect from Wednesday 1st October 2014.

UPDATE2 Big UK ISPs Say Home Routers Safe from SHELLSHOCK Bug

27th Sep 2014 (4 Comments)

Last week’s news was flooded with coverage of a new vulnerability in the command-line Bash interface (shell) for many Linux / Unix based systems, called SHELLSHOCK (CVE-2014-6271). Bash forms a part of everything from web servers to Smartphones (iPhone, Android etc.) and even quite a few broadband routers, but don’t worry because most of you will be safe.. probably, hopefully.

Horton Village Angry at Superslow BDUK and BT Broadband Upgrade

26th Sep 2014 (14 Comments)

Some 150 residents of Horton, a small and quite remote rural South Gloucestershire (England) village, have expressed anger at the performance of BT’s recent Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) funded upgrades that are reportedly failing to deliver the promised “superfast” (24Mbps+) speeds.

Luxury Goods Maker Wants ISPs to Block Websites for Trade Mark Abuse

26th Sep 2014 (5 Comments)

Broadband ISPs in the United Kingdom could soon be forced to block websites that abuse commercial Trade Marks, assuming the owner of luxury brands including Cartier and Mont Blanc (Compagnie Financière Richemont SA) gets their way in a new court case, which Internet providers and the Open Rights Groups (ORG) are fighting.

Portsmouth Makes Broadband Vouchers Available Outside the City

26th Sep 2014 (12 Comments)

The city of Portsmouth in Hampshire (England) has joined Bristol to make their local £4.7m superfast broadband Connection Vouchers available to businesses outside of the city’s boundary. The vouchers, worth between £200 and £3,000 +vat per firm, are designed to help SME businesses install a superfast broadband (30Mbps+) connection.

Obstacles Remain as TalkTalk Dream 60% 1Gb FTTP Broadband Cover

26th Sep 2014 (20 Comments)

The boss of TalkTalk’s business division, Charles Bligh, has confirmed that the ISP ultimately wants 50-60% of homes in the United Kingdom to connect via their new ultrafast 1000Mbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network. But in order for this to work Bligh admits that take-up will need to be 30-40% or higher and the cost per home must be below £500. Difficult.

Not a SCAM – Sky Refunds Former UK Phone, TV and Broadband Users

25th Sep 2014 (2 Comments)

An unspecified number of Sky’s (Sky Broadband) former customers, specifically those who left the provider in 2012 or earlier, are being told to expect a refund after an administrative blunder meant the operator failed to refund the remaining credit on some accounts.

UPDATE BT Boast of 1000Mbps G.fast and FTTdp Broadband Technology

25th Sep 2014 (49 Comments)

Earlier this month ISPreview.co.uk became the first to reveal some of the results from BT’s first field trial of hybrid-fibre G.fast (ITU G.9701) and FTTdp broadband technology (here) and today the operator, perhaps seizing on recent calls from UK Labour Party activists, delivered its own take describing the service as “very promising … with significant potential” for the future.

Fibre GarDen Unveil FTTP Broadband Package Prices for Cumbria Villages

25th Sep 2014 (7 Comments)

The Digital Dales (Fibre GarDen) project has today revealed how much locals in the rural communities of Garsdale and Dentdale (Cumbria, England) will have pay in order to receive a service from the new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based superfast broadband network, which is due to start construction on Monday 5th October 2014.

BT Openreach Launch New Rural Mobile Infill Solution to Tackle UK Notspots

25th Sep 2014 (16 Comments)

BTOpenreach recently completed a field trial of a new Mobile Infill Infrastructure Solution (MiiS), which is designed to leverage BT’s existing fixed line network in order to deliver mobile services into areas that suffer from “non-existent or patchy” coverage, and has now made the product available to mobile operators and ISPs across the United Kingdom.

5am is Best for the Fastest UK Broadband Speeds and 9pm the Slowest

25th Sep 2014 (6 Comments)

A new uSwitch study, which analysed data from 3.1 million UK Internet speedtests between 1st July 2013 and 30th June 2014, has concluded that consumers get the best broadband ISP performance if they go online at 5am (least busy) and the slowest if they start surfing at 9pm; a drop in speed of 21% was recorded between these periods.

Fujitsu UK to Build Sky, TalkTalk and CityFibre 1Gb FTTH Network in York

24th Sep 2014 (0 Comments)

CityFibre have unsurprisingly announced that Fujitsu has been chosen as the build partner for the first deployment phase of their new city-wide Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP/H) broadband network for homes and businesses in York (England), which is being conducted alongside Sky Broadband (BSkyB) and TalkTalk.

B4GAL Start Building 1Gbps Broadband to 9 Rural Lanarkshire Villages

24th Sep 2014 (5 Comments)

The rural South Lanarkshire (Scotland) villages of Abington, Crawford, Crawfordjohn, Elvanfoot, Lamington, Leadhills, Roberton, Wanlockhead and Wiston look set to benefit after a local community project (B4GAL) confirmed the start of their community-owned and superfast Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) based network deployment.

BT Adds UK Autumn 2014 Promotions with Cheaper Broadband

24th Sep 2014 (0 Comments)

The start of a new season tends to mean new promotions and BT’s consumer division has obliged by introducing several new offers on their various standard (ADSL) and superfast (FTTC) broadband packages, which among other things pushes their entry-level ‘up to’ 17Mbps service down to just £2.50 per month for the first 6 months (£8 thereafter).