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ISP News Archives for 2014

EE UK Calls for BT Phonebook Charge to be Cut from Line Rental

3rd Apr 2014 (8 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP EE has called on the UK communications regulator, Ofcom, to remove the “unjustified and discriminatory” charge for BT’s Phonebook, which gets passed on to consumers via the price they pay for standard fixed phone line rental.

Vodafone UK Pumps Extra GBP100m into 150 New Shops and 1400 Staff

3rd Apr 2014 (8 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has boosted their presence in the United Kingdom by another £100 million in order to open 150 new shops and create 1,400 new jobs, which will form part of their annual investment in networks and services that’s currently set to hit £1 billion in 2014. But are they gearing up for something even bigger.

UPDATE Prime Minister Demands More Broadband Roll-Out Info from BT

3rd Apr 2014 (25 Comments)

The Prime Minister of the coalition Government, David Cameron, has joined recent calls from the Public Accounts Committee by demanding that BT “give more detail in their roll-out plans” so that rival ISP schemes can “see whether there are different ways of filling any gaps” in the planned broadband coverage.

Connecting Cheshire Expands Broadband Rollout to 1000 Extra Premises

2nd Apr 2014 (9 Comments)

The Connecting Cheshire project in England has found another £643k to help boost its state aid supported £28.5 million roll-out of “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) services, which will add an additional 1,000 “rural” premises to BT’s local network coverage.

Lancashire UK Confirm Final Spring 2014 Superfast Broadband Rollout Areas

2nd Apr 2014 (0 Comments)

The Superfast Lancashire project in England has announced a finalized list of the next 15 communities to receive access to BT’s “high-speed fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network under the state aid supported scheme, which intends to make the service available to 97% of local premises by the end of 2015.

The UK Top 7 Fastest Big Fixed Line Home Broadband ISPs – March 2014

2nd Apr 2014 (8 Comments)

The average home broadband ISP download speeds for the largest seven Internet access providers in the United Kingdom managed to reach 20.94Mbps in March 2014, while uploads hit 4.79Mbps. As usual BT and Virgin Media continued to hold the top spots for downstream performance.

Keycom and Vision Fibre Media Bring 1Gbps Broadband to Homes in Chelsea

2nd Apr 2014 (1 Comment)

Residents of the Kings Chelsea development in London (England) can now benefit from “ultra-fast” broadband speeds of up to 1000Mbps (Megabits per second) after Keycom and Vision Fibre Media joined forces to roll-out a new fibre optic infrastructure in the area.

24 Million Home Routers and ISPs Open to DNS DDoS Amplification Attacks

2nd Apr 2014 (1 Comment)

A new report from Nominum, which provides ISPs with DNS based analytics and monetization solutions, has claimed that 24 million home broadband routers, including many in the UK, could be exposing ISPs and their users to becoming unwitting participants in massive Internet DNS-based Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

UK ISP TalkTalk Slows Access to Imgur.com Website After IWF Block

2nd Apr 2014 (4 Comments)

Customers of budget broadband provider TalkTalk recently found their access to the hugely popular image sharing website – imgur.com – to be slow or virtually unusable due to the ISPs implementation of the Internet Watch Foundation’s (IWF) voluntary child abuse block list.

BT Openreach Offers “first ever” UK Wide 100Gbps Service to ISPs

1st Apr 2014 (24 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which maintains BT’s national UK telecoms network, has moved to give big broadband ISPs and mobile operators more capacity for their networks by launching the “first ever UK-wide” 100Gbps (Gigabits per second) capable service.

BT Bring 300Mbps FTTP Broadband to 800 Birmingham UK Businesses

1st Apr 2014 (16 Comments)

Telecoms operator BT might have scrapped the original UK roll-out target for their “ultra-fast” 300Mbps capable (30Mbps uploads) Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology (here), but that doesn’t mean to say the deployments have stopped and now another 800 businesses in Birmingham look set to benefit.

RCBF Grants £300k to Boost BT FTTC Broadband in Redcar and Cleveland

1st Apr 2014 (1 Comment)

The Government’s £20m Rural Community Broadband Fund (RCBF) has awarded another grant of £300,000 to help boost BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC) coverage in the rural North Yorkshire (England) borough of Redcar and Cleveland (specifically East Cleveland).

Big UK ISPs Set to Censor Access to All Internet Content Depicting Adults

1st Apr 2014 (7 Comments)

Broadband ISPs in the United Kingdom have unanimously agreed to support a new Government initiative that aims to make the Internet friendlier to those under the age of 5, and Justin Bieber, by removing or changing any and all content depicting or involving adults (aka – “adult content“).

Public Accounts Committee Blasts UK Superfast Broadband Rollout Again

1st Apr 2014 (10 Comments)

The latest Public Accounts Committee report into the United Kingdom’s £1.2bn national Broadband Delivery UK project with BT, which aims to make fixed line superfast broadband (25Mbps+) speeds available to 95% of people in each local authority area by 2017, has once again poured heavy criticism upon the scheme for its alleged failings in competition and openness.

UK PostOffice Tweaks its Broadband and Phone Prices

31st Mar 2014 (4 Comments)

The Post Office has quietly tweaked their broadband and phone prices, which sees the standard cost of line rental increase from £12 to £13 inc. VAT per month, while the price of broadband access has fallen to compensate and you now get a £50 bill credit. Sadly free UK evening calls have been removed.

Ofcom to Boost UK Base Station Power for 1800MHz Based 3G and 4G Mobile

31st Mar 2014 (2 Comments)

The communications regulator has today proposed to boost the maximum permissible “base station transmit power” in the 1800MHz radio spectrum band for 3G (UMTS) and 4G (LTE / WiMAX) based Mobile Broadband and voice services by +3dB, which could improve coverage and capacity.

UPDATE Ofcom UK Investigates Unicom’s Sales and Marketing Tactics

31st Mar 2014 (9 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator has opened an own-initiative investigation into Universal Utilities (Unicom) after a series of consumer complaints raised concerns about the fixed-line broadband and phone providers sales and marketing tactics in respect to their service terms and contracts.