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ISP News Archives for 2014

Vodafone UK Pay-as-you-go Customers to Get Cheaper EU Roaming

20th Jun 2014 (1 Comment)

Mobile operator Vodafone has expanded the availability of their £2 extra Per Day EuroTraveller add-on to Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) customers, which means that related users will now be able to take their existing UK voice minutes, texts and data (mobile broadband) allowances with them when they are travelling anywhere in the operators Europe Zone.

EE to Conduct LIVE UK Trials of Voice Calls over WiFi and 4G Mobile

20th Jun 2014 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator EE has announced, as part of their 2014 investment of £275m to improve phone calls, that it will soon conduct one of the United Kingdom’s first trials of Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE / 4G) tech using the 800MHz band (this will also benefit rural areas) and a similar trial using WiFi (native SMS/TXT services will also available through WiFi).

BDUK to Review UK Council Compliance with Broadband Coverage Data

19th Jun 2014 (2 Comments)

Too little, too late? The boss of the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) programme, Christopher Townsend, has promised to review which local authorities have so far failed to publish detailed coverage maps and related data down to the 7-digit postcode level, which is often needed by smaller ISPs to help them secure state aid funding.

UK Government Unveils Bidders for £10m Broadband Innovation Fund

19th Jun 2014 (33 Comments)

The Government’s £10 million Innovation Fund, which aims to “test innovative solutions to deliver superfast broadband services to the most difficult to reach areas” (i.e. the final rural 5% of the United Kingdom), has today announced a list of the successful bidders and the nature of the pilot schemes they have proposed.

UK ISP Fluidata to Wholesale ITS Technology’s Fibre Broadband Infrastructure

19th Jun 2014 (3 Comments)

Business ISP Fluidata has signed a new deal to wholesale out access to ITS Technology Group’s “ultra high speed broadband infrastructure“, which include its networks in Hammersmith, Fulham and the Fibre Garden project in Cumbria (England).

Virgin Trains Promise FREE “Superfast” WiFi for all Customers

19th Jun 2014 (0 Comments)

Virgin Trains has today pledged to provide free “superfast” WiFi wireless Internet access “for all customers” after signing a major new deal for the West Coast franchise with the Government’s Department for Transport (DfT), which will run from 22nd June 2014 until March 2017.

£119K Grant Helps Rural Village of Diseworth to Get Faster Broadband

19th Jun 2014 (0 Comments)

Some 250 homes and businesses in the rural Leicestershire (England) village of Diseworth should gain access to BT’s “high speed fibre broadband” service by the end of 2015 after it was announced that an additional £119,000 had been secured from the UK Government to help fund the upgrade.

UPD Ofcom Tackle BT’s Fibre Broadband Prices But Kill TalkTalk Complaint

19th Jun 2014 (6 Comments)

The national UK telecoms regulator has today dropped TalkTalk’s “margin squeeze” complaint against BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC) prices, but has moved to promote competition in the market by launching a new consultation that would force BT to “maintain a sufficient margin between its wholesale and retail superfast broadband charges” and thus allow other ISPs “profitably to match its prices“.

UPDATE Sky Broadband Trial 950Mbps FTTH Service in Basingstoke UK

18th Jun 2014 (12 Comments)

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has quietly announced a new trial of a 950Mbps (Megabits per second) capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) style Internet connectivity in the English town of Basingstoke (Hampshire), which will apparently drop down to speeds of ‘up to’ 150Mbps over a wifi wireless network.

UK Gov Boosts Northamptonshire Fibre Broadband Grant to GBP5.5m

18th Jun 2014 (1 Comment)

The Government’s Broadband Delivery UK office has boosted its funding allocation for Northamptonshire in England from £3.64 million to £5.5 million, which should help an extra 30,000 local homes and businesses to receive access to BT’s faster “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network.

Ofcom Probe ISP UKFSN and Start ADR Complaints Enforcement Programme

18th Jun 2014 (5 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator has re-started its monitoring and enforcement programme to check whether broadband and phone providers are giving consumers the required access to an approved Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) complaints handler. As part of this they’ve also begun an investigation of the UK Free Software Network (UKFSN), a small ISP run by Jason Clifford.

Superfast Dorset UK Reveals Phase 2 Fibre Broadband Rollout Areas

18th Jun 2014 (0 Comments)

The Superfast Dorset scheme in southern England, which is worth £31.75 million and supported by the local councils, Broadband Delivery UK office and BT, has announced the next 8 telephone exchange areas in the county to benefit from an upgrade to faster “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) based Internet connectivity.

IET Calls on UK ISPs to Restrict Internet Access of Virus Infected Computers

17th Jun 2014 (2 Comments)

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IEF) has called on broadband ISPs in the United Kingdom to help tackle malware (malicious software and viruses) by, for example, restricting Internet access to infected computers and devices (e.g. PCs, Tablets etc.).

Ofcom Maps Rising Superfast Broadband Availability for 11 UK Cities

17th Jun 2014 (3 Comments)

The communications and media regulator, Ofcom, has examined 11 cities across the United Kingdom to assess the availability of standard and superfast broadband Internet connectivity. Overall the study found that faster Next Generation Access (NGA) networks now reach around 90% in most of the cities but wide variations remain.

UPD Virgin Media Invest £1bn in UK Network and Calls Sky Broadband “Lousy”

17th Jun 2014 (25 Comments)

The current CEO of Virgin Media (Liberty Global), Tom Mockridge, has branded Sky Broadband’s rival service as “lousy” and said that their new offer of 24 months free unlimited broadband alongside the Sky Sports TV bundle “means their broadband is maybe not that good“. Mockridge acted as BSkyB’s deputy chairman between 2012 and early 2013.

UPD Quick Snapshot of UK Internet Traffic During the Brazil 2014 World Cup

17th Jun 2014 (0 Comments)

The opening ceremony and first match for Brazil’s 2014 WordCup Football event, which began during the late evening hours on Thursday 12th June 2014, saw many broadband ISPs in the United Kingdom report a drop in Internet traffic as subscribers disconnected to visit the living room TV or local pub instead of video streaming.

UPDATE BT Plc Website Blocked by AntiVirus Firms for Phishing Attack

17th Jun 2014 (1 Comment)

The official BT Group website (http://www.btplc.com) is today being flagged up by a number of Internet security checks and Anti-Virus firms due to an alleged infection of Phishing Malware (malicious software), which is normally used to help hackers steal personal information.