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ISP News Archives for 2014

GOWEX to Flood Newcastle and Gateshead with FREE WiFi Coverage

28th May 2014 (1 Comment)

The visitors and residents of Newcastle and Gateshead in North East England will be pleased to learn that GOWEX has been picked to roll-out a free wireless Internet (wifi hotspot) network across “scores of public areas” in both locations.

Virgin Media Customers Suffer UK Email Outage During Google Migration

28th May 2014 (1 Comment)

Customers of cable broadband operator Virgin Media have been left without the ability to directly send or receive email (e.g. Outlook, Thunderbird etc.) since yesterday afternoon after an unspecified fault caused their servers to fail at just after 3pm.

Zen Internet Warns Consumers to Disable Idle Time-Out on Broadband Routers

28th May 2014 (0 Comments)

Rochdale-based ISP Zen Internet has spent time analysing common broadband patterns and discovered that a “significant number” of their broadband users appear to be suffering a performance loss, especially those on 8Mbps ADSL and 20-24Mbps ADSL2+ lines, because their routers unwittingly enabling the “idle time-out” (aka – “dial-on-demand“) setting.

Hyperoptic Prep 1Gbps Home Broadband for Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds

28th May 2014 (21 Comments)

Urban-focused ISP Hyperoptic has revealed that its “hyper-sonic” 1000Mbps (Megabits per second) capable home and business Fibre-To-The-Building/Home (FTTB/H) network will soon be expanded to include large buildings and office blocks in the “hyper-cities” of Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds (England).

£1m Grant to Help 3700 Extra Hampshire Premises to Get Fibre Broadband

27th May 2014 (1 Comment)

The Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has awarded a grant worth £1 million to help make superfast broadband services available to an additional 1,700 homes and businesses in the New Forest and over 2,000 in the Test Valley (Hampshire, England).

UPD TalkTalk Launch Fibre Broadband Super Router with “Britain’s fastest Wi-Fi”

27th May 2014 (19 Comments)

Budget ISP TalkTalk has today unveiled its new “Super Router“, which as we first revealed last year will be based off the latest Huawei HG635 hardware and features a built-in VDSL modem and the most recent Gigabit (1000Mbps+) capable wifi wireless networking spec (802.11ac) that the provider says “offers Britain’s fastest Wi-Fi technology“.

Darwin Private Equity Completes Buyout of UK Broadband ISP ASK4

27th May 2014 (0 Comments)

Sheffield-based ISP ASK4, which serves businesses as well as student accommodation and homes in multi-tenant buildings, has been acquired by Darwin Private Equity as part of a £21.5 million buy-out and refinancing deal.

AAISP Boss Highlights the Problem of Virgin Media’s Fibre Optic Claim

27th May 2014 (35 Comments)

The complaints department for cable operator Virgin Media has admitted that one of its leaflets was “worded badly” after the Managing Director of broadband provider AAISP (Andrews and Arnold), Adrian Kennard, complained that their claim of using a “fibre optic cable to install the services at the customers property” was misleading.

Europe Softens State Aid Rules for Faster Broadband Deployments

27th May 2014 (2 Comments)

As expected the European Commission (EC) has adopted a revised General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER) for the use of state aid (tax payers money) with regards to rolling out faster Next Generation Access (NGA) broadband networks, which among other things means that broadband funding under €70m (£57m) doesn’t have to be notified or approved by the EC.

BT Trumpets the Impact of a Superfast Broadband Boost for UK Businesses

27th May 2014 (1 Comment)

At present around 6,000 businesses in Cornwall have taken one of BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) services and the operator has surveyed 224 of those in order to demonstrate the economic benefits of upgrading, with the operator estimating that the technology has helped to create 611 new jobs and safeguard another 807 (i.e. 21% attributed either a created or safeguarded job to superfast broadband).

Tibus Seeks to Build Ultrafast 10Gbps Fibre Optic Network in Belfast

23rd May 2014 (1 Comment)

Businesses in the city of Belfast (Northern Ireland) could soon benefit after Tibus (The Internet Business Ltd) revealed that it was planning to make use of the UK Government’s “Super-Connected Cities” Connection Voucher Scheme in order to roll-out a new fibre optic network in the area.

EE Fastest for Mobile Broadband in Birmingham, Coventry and Leicester

23rd May 2014 (0 Comments)

A new RootMetrics study finds that mobile operator EE has beaten Vodafone, O2 and Three UK to be crowned the fastest and most reliable Mobile Broadband (3G and 4G) provider for the cities of Birmingham, Coventry and Leicester in England during the first half of 2014.

Competition Spat Erupts on Jersey as JT Replace Old Broadband Packages

23rd May 2014 (3 Comments)

The on-going roll-out of an ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband ISP network on Jersey (Channel Islands) by JT Global (Jersey Telecom) will have many benefits but it also means lots of changes, such as the eventual removal of “all copper services”, and some aspects of this transition have now triggered a competition row.

UK ISP Zen Internet Launches Unlimited FTTC Fibre Office Package

22nd May 2014 (13 Comments)

Communications provider Zen Internet has added a new ‘up to’ 76Mbps (19Mbps uploads) capable Unlimited Fibre Office package, which includes an SLA and 60Mbps speed “guarantee”, to its wider range of superfast broadband (FTTC) products for business and home users in the United Kingdom.

TalkTalk, Sky Broadband and Virgin Media Add New Gift Credits and Vouchers

22nd May 2014 (0 Comments)

The seemingly endless merry-go-round of special offers has continued this week with Sky Broadband, TalkTalk and Virgin Media all adding a range of new vouchers and gift credits, with some worth as much as £100, to attract new subscribers.

Manchester UK Extends its Recycled Fibre Optic Network by 5km

22nd May 2014 (2 Comments)

TelecityGroup has today announced a new deal with The Loop (Gamma), which has resulted in a 5km extension of the now 82km (50 miles) long and 1Gbps+ capable fibre optic network that serves businesses around the city of Manchester.

Vodafone UK Boosts 4G Mobile Broadband with Netflix Content

22nd May 2014 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has signed an exclusive promotional partnership with Internet-based unlimited movie and TV video streaming service Netflix UK, which from July 2014 will give customers of their latest 4G based Mobile Broadband network free access to Netflix’s content.