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B4RN Spinoff B4YS Nears 1Gbps Rural FTTH Broadband Funding Goal

21st Aug 2014 (4 Comments)

The community built and funded B4RN 4 Yealand, Silverdale & Storth (B4YS) project, which as the name suggests is a spin-off from B4RN’s scheme in Lancashire (England) that aims to roll-out a “hyperfast” 1000Mbps fibre optic based Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network to the remote rural villages of Yealand, Silverdale and Storth, is close to hitting its first funding goal.

Virgin Media and TalkTalk Add New Bill Credits and Vouchers to Bundles

21st Aug 2014 (1 Comment)

Customers looking to take one of Virgin Media and TalkTalk’s broadband bundles should note that this week both providers have launched a number of new time-limited special gift credit and voucher offers, some of which are worth up to £120. Virgin are also offering a free Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 on their top package.

UPDATE Fluidata Complain of BT Openreach UK Fibre Leased Line Delay

21st Aug 2014 (4 Comments)

Business ISP Fluidata has criticised the “endemic problems plaguing” current and future fibre leased line provisioning from BTOpenreach, which have seen existing issues combine with rising demand for related services to create some extremely long waiting times for the providers customers.

ITS Bring 36Mbps Fixed Wireless Broadband to East Manchester

20th Aug 2014 (1 Comment)

ITS Technology, which very recently gobbled wireless broadband ISP CityServe Ltd. in East Manchester (here), has completed its overhaul of the aforementioned network and today announced the launch of their “faster [and] more reliable” 36Mbps (Megabits per second) capable business and home broadband service in the same area.

375 Leeds and Bradford Firms Gobble Broadband Connection Vouchers

20th Aug 2014 (3 Comments)

More than 375 businesses in Leeds and Bradford have taken up the Government’s Broadband Connection Vouchers scheme, which offers grants worth up to £3,000 to help SME firms install a superfast broadband (30Mbps+) service in any of 22 cities across the United Kingdom. As a result they’re no.1 in the top 10 cities (outside London) claiming vouchers.

The Forgotten Importance of Broadband Internet Upload Speeds

20th Aug 2014 (60 Comments)

Hands up if your broadband ISP makes the upload (upstream) speed of your Internet package clear on their advertising? We thought not. Sadly only a few of the major ISPs even bother to advertise upload performance and those that do only tend to show it on certain products. But how fast you can push information into the online world does matter and its importance is growing.

University College London Launches FREE Public WiFi

20th Aug 2014 (0 Comments)

The University College London (UCL) has today teamed up with The Cloud (BSkyB) to launch a free public WiFi wireless Internet service at several of its campus sites across the capital city. But there is a caveat concerning how “free” it is.

EE and Three Battle for Title of UK Fastest Mobile Broadband Operator

19th Aug 2014 (9 Comments)

Mirror mirror on the wall.. RootMetrics has today published their “midyear” (H1-2014) report into mobile operator performance across the United Kingdom, which has seen O2, EE, Three UK and Vodafone all battle it out over areas including service reliability, call / text performance and Mobile Broadband speeds for Internet access.

FREE WiFi Wireless Internet Comes to Camden Market in London

19th Aug 2014 (1 Comment)

Shoppers visiting the Camden Market (Stables Market) in London look set to benefit after it was announced that Purple WiFi and Cisco Meraki were helping to make a free WiFi hotspot service available across all public areas.

PM David Cameron Switches On Gigaclear’s 1Gbps Broadband in Northmoor

19th Aug 2014 (29 Comments)

Residents and businesses in the Parish of Northmoor (West Oxfordshire, England) can now benefit from an ultrafast 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network after the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, turned up for Gigaclear’s official switch-on event.

Manufacturers Call for Permanent UK Infrastructure Authority

18th Aug 2014 (2 Comments)

One authority to rule them all.. and in the darkness bind them. The EEF claims that the United Kingdom would benefit from the establishment of a permanent UK Infrastructure Authority to manage everything from long-term planning to investment and development of the national transport, energy and presumably also its communications (broadband and phone) networks.

UPDATE TalkTalk Business Sends USA Piracy Warning Notice to UK Customer

18th Aug 2014 (12 Comments)

Internet provider TalkTalk Business has allegedly taken the seemingly unusual decision to forward a USA sourced copyright infringement notice from Warner Bros., which concerns a suspected attempt to share the recent Godzilla movie over P2P (BitTorrent), to a customer via its sibling ISP Opal Solution.

Welsh BDUK Scheme Brings Fibre Broadband to 190000 Premises

18th Aug 2014 (0 Comments)

The state aid supported £425m Superfast Cymru project with BT in Wales, which aims to make faster “fibre broadband” (FTTC) speeds of up to 80Mbps available to 96% of premises by the end of spring 2016 (total of 700,000 premises), has confirmed that over 190,000 premises are now able to benefit thanks to its work.

New Housing Estate Locals Complain FTTH Broadband ISP Has a Monopoly

16th Aug 2014 (78 Comments)

A new 200 acre housing development in South Gloucestershire (Charlton Hayes), which once complete will include 2,200 homes (inc. a school, business space and shops) and is situated near to the notorious Internet slowspot of Bradley Stoke, has seen its first residents complain about the lack of ISP choice because they can only get Seethelight’s 300Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) service.

WarwickNet Plans Broadband Network Expansion via UK Code Powers

15th Aug 2014 (0 Comments)

Ofcom has today proposed to grant Code Powers to ISP WarwickNet Ltd., which would make it simpler for them (e.g. easier approval for street works) to roll-out their “superfast” and “ultrafast” broadband network by, among other things, making use of BTOpenreach’s cable duct and pole sharing (DPS) products.

EE’s UK Customer Service Solution – 50p to Jump the Phone Queue

15th Aug 2014 (16 Comments)

Some operators seem to have a knack for finding new ways of annoying their customers. As a case in point, EE has decided that broadband and mobile customers who call their support line will be offered the ability to jump in front of the queue for an additional one-off fee of 50 pence.

BT Start Phase 2 UK Vectoring Trials to Boost “Fibre Broadband” Speeds

15th Aug 2014 (64 Comments)

The second phase of BTOpenreach’s VDSL Vectoring (ITU-T G.993.5) trial, which could improve the performance of BT’s existing “up to” 80Mbps capable hybrid-fibre (FTTC) superfast broadband lines by significantly reducing interference (crosstalk), has finally got underway and will run for “at least” 3 months.