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ISP News Archives for 2014

Superfast Broadband Connection Voucher Scheme Extended to 2016

3rd Dec 2014 (4 Comments)

The Government’s Connection Voucher scheme, which offers grants worth up to £3,000 in order to help small and medium sized businesses around any of 22 cities across the United Kingdom to gain access to a superfast broadband (30Mbps+) service, has been extended by a full year to March 2016. Additional funding and expanded coverage is also confirmed.

UK Government Quietly Removes the “Rural” from its Broadband Scheme

3rd Dec 2014 (26 Comments)

A small but interesting change has recently happened to some of the Government’s official Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) documentation, which until recently was frequently and perhaps somewhat misleadingly still being described as the “Rural Broadband Programme“. The same piece of text has since been amended to read “Superfast Broadband Programme“, but we wouldn’t worry.

Metronet UK Bring Hybrid Fibre Optic and Wireless Network to Newcastle

2nd Dec 2014 (0 Comments)

Manchester-based business ISP Metronet UK, which operates a carrier-grade hybrid superfast fibre optic and wireless broadband network, has announced the roll-out of their platform to cater for businesses in the north England city of Newcastle.

Ofcom – Fixed Line Broadband ISP Connections Hit 23.22 Million in Q2 2014

2nd Dec 2014 (1 Comment)

The telecom regulator’s latest Telecoms Market Data Tables update for Q2-2014 has reported that the United Kingdom is now home to a total of 23,219,000 fixed line residential and small business broadband ISP connections (excluding corporate lines), which is up by +179,000 in the quarter. Meanwhile BT’s Retail share of the market has continued to rise from 31.6% in Q1 to 32% in Q2.

8 Friends Raise Money to Build FREE WiFi for Velindre Cancer Centre

2nd Dec 2014 (0 Comments)

Patients and visitors to the Velindre Cancer Centre, which is the largest non–surgical cancer Hospital in Wales, can now get online via a new free WiFi wireless Internet service after 8 friends managed to raise over £44,000 in order to upgrade the facility with a little help from The Cloud (Sky).

One to Watch LIVE – Oral Evidence for the UK Rural Broadband Inquiry

2nd Dec 2014 (5 Comments)

The annual Autumn Statement isn’t the only thing on tomorrows Parliamentary agenda because following at 3pm will be a key Oral Evidence hearing for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee’s inquiry into the broadband coverage of rural areas across the United Kingdom, which is sure to be worth a watch given the guest list.

EE Micro Network Brings Better Mobile Cover to 1,500 Rural Communities

2nd Dec 2014 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator EE has today announced that its new “Micro Network” solution, which is based on technology designed by Parallel Wireless, will be used to expand their 3G and 4G based Mobile Broadband and voice coverage to reach more than 1,500 rural communities, without the need for new cabling, by 2017 (i.e. locations where existing coverage is unreliable and fixed line home broadband is slow).

ISP Direct Save Telecom Launch Low Cost 38Mbps FTTC Broadband Service

1st Dec 2014 (2 Comments)

Budget Internet and phone provider Direct Save Telecom has introduced a cheaper entry-level unlimited “Fibre Broadband” (FTTC) package, which includes the first three months free of charge and then customers pay £14.75 per month (plus a one off set-up fee payment of £24.95).

Government Reviews State Aid Approach for Broadband Delivery UK

1st Dec 2014 (15 Comments)

The Government’s Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has appointed economic analysts Oxera to conduct an independent evaluation of how state aid (public funding) is being used in the national Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) scheme, which currently aims to make fixed line superfast broadband (24Mbps+) speeds available to 95% of the population by 2017.

Gigaclear Deploy 1Gbps Broadband to 3 More Rural Oxfordshire UK Villages

1st Dec 2014 (1 Comment)

Fibre optic ISP Gigaclear has announced that their 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network is now available to three more rural Oxfordshire (England) villages, including Wootton, Standlake and Forest Hill.

UK ISP TalkTalk Customers See Slow Recovery After 3-4 Day Email Fail

1st Dec 2014 (1 Comment)

Customers of TalkTalk’s Internet service in the United Kingdom are slowly beginning to see their email (@talktalk.net) return to normal after an unspecified problem with the ISPs related services prevented them from gaining access, often by throwing up authentication (login/password) errors.

GibFibreSpeed ISP Bringing 500Mbps FTTH Broadband to Gibraltar

1st Dec 2014 (5 Comments)

The British overseas territory of Gibraltar, which sits on the southern end of Spain’s Iberian Peninsula in the warm Mediterranean sea, looks set to benefit from even faster broadband after a new ISP called GibFibreSpeed began promising local Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) connections with speeds of up to 500Mbps (Megabits per second).

GBP150m UK Mobile Infrastructure Upgrade Project Makes Slow Progress

1st Dec 2014 (10 Comments)

The Government’s £150 million Mobile Infrastructure Project (MIP), which aims to improve mobile coverage in areas where there is currently none (i.e. benefitting around 60,000 UK premises out of 80,000 known not-spots), is finally starting to talk to some of the local authorities that it originally expected to have completed by the end of 2013.

Vodafone UK Still Considering Bid for Virgin Media’s Owner to Tackle BT

29th Nov 2014 (8 Comments)

The endless jostling for dominance of the United Kingdom’s fixed line broadband and mobile telecoms market has continued after reports appeared to suggest that BT’s move to grab either O2 or EE, which was mirrored by a similar approach from Three UK’s parent, has pushed Vodafone back towards a potential acquisition of Virgin Media (Liberty Global) or possibly one of the other big fixed line ISPs (e.g. TalkTalk or Sky Broadband).

Mobile Operator Three UK Counters BT by Mooting Own Bid for EE and O2

28th Nov 2014 (5 Comments)

Hold on to your hats because Three UK’s Hong Kong based parent, Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., has reportedly decided to counter BT’s preliminary talks to buy O2 or EE by preparing to make a similar bid of its own. Suddenly there’s the prospect that BT might need to pay more than it planned.

UK High Court Forces Big ISPs to Block 53 New Internet Piracy Websites

28th Nov 2014 (45 Comments)

Section 97A of the United Kingdom’s Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (CDPA) has come in handy again after Rights Holders won one of their most significant victories to date, securing a court order that forces all of the country’s largest broadband ISPs to block 53 websites that were found to facilitate Internet copyright infringement (piracy).

UK ISP PlusNet Offer 12 Months Free 17Mbps Unlimited Broadband

28th Nov 2014 (3 Comments)

Budget ISP PlusNet has become the latest provider to tout Black Friday discounts as the reason for slashing the cost of their unlimited standard (ADSL2+) home broadband service, which is now free for the first 12 months of service (£9.99 thereafter) when taken with line rental from £12.99 per month (i.e. when pre-paid for a year in advance or £15.95 as standard) plus £75 Cashback.