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ISP News Archives for 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.

Homes in Portknockie Left Without BT Broadband and Phone for 11 Days

22nd Aug 2014 (2 Comments)

Residents of Portknockie, a coastal village in Moray (Scotland) that’s home to a few hundred premises, have been left without access to a fixed line broadband or phone service for almost two weeks after a storm battered the area and flooding damaged BTOpenreach’s local telecoms infrastructure.

City of Perth in Scotland Deploys FREE WiFi Wireless Internet Coverage

22nd Aug 2014 (0 Comments)

The local authority for Perth has announced that a growing number of locations across the Scottish city can now access a free wireless Internet (wifi hotspot) service thanks to funding from the UK Government’s £150m Urban Broadband Fund (“Super-Connected Cities“).

ISP PlusNet Highlights Rising UK Demand for Netflix Video Streams

22nd Aug 2014 (3 Comments)

Broadband ISP PlusNet has kindly supplied us with a new graph to show how consumer Internet traffic on the popular Netflix TV and movie streaming service has changed over the past 6-7 months (on their network).

First Xwavia Wireless Broadband Customers Go Live in Conwy, Wales

21st Aug 2014 (0 Comments)

Welsh Wireless ISP Xwavia has today announced that the first residential and business customers in Conwy have been connected to their new superfast broadband network, which offers Internet speeds from 10Mbps to 1000Mbps (Megabits per second).

Superfast Wales Project Deploys Some Ultrafast 330Mbps FTTP Broadband

21st Aug 2014 (11 Comments)

Believe it or not, Wales will be getting some 330Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband from BT as part of the local state aid supported £425m Superfast Cymru project. This aims to make faster “fibre broadband” (FTTC) speeds of up to 80Mbps available to 96% of Welsh premises by the end of spring 2016 (700,000 premises).

ASA UK Ban Misleading Primus Saver Unlimited Broadband Advert

21st Aug 2014 (0 Comments)

Budget ISP Primus Saver (New Call Telecom), which recently scrapped some of their old packages due to low uptake (here and here), has had a website advert for their “Unlimited Broadband for just £2” service banned after one of their customers suffered a mid-contract price rise for both line rental and broadband.

3269 Rural UK Premises Getting Superfast Broadband via RCBF Grants

21st Aug 2014 (1 Comment)

The government’s £20m Rural Community Broadband Fund, which was setup to help rural areas in the last 10% of England gain access to superfast broadband (24Mbps+), has issued an update to confirm that a total of 3,269 (up from 2,118 at the last update) domestic and business premises are currently anticipated to have the “potential” to receive such a service thanks to RCBF investment.

EE UK Make 4G Mobile Broadband Roaming Possible in 14 New Countries

21st Aug 2014 (4 Comments)

Customers of UK mobile operator EE (4GEE) will be pleased to learn that they’ll now be able to benefit from “superfast” 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband connectivity when roaming around across an additional 14 new global destinations.