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ISP News Archives for January 2015

8 Pilot UK Superfast Broadband Projects Ready to Begin Deployment

14th Jan 2015 (19 Comments)

The Government’s pick of eight pilot projects for their £10m Innovation Fund, which was setup last year to “test innovative solutions” for delivering superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services to the final 5% of the United Kingdom (i.e. the most difficult to reach rural areas), will officially begin deployment during early 2015.

BT January Sale Cuts the Price of Unlimited Broadband and FTTC Bundles

14th Jan 2015 (4 Comments)

BT has today decided to kick off the New Year by offering up two of their standard unlimited broadband and superfast (38Mbps) FTTC based (BTInfinity) packages at a reduced price online until Monday 19th January. A Sainsbury’s Gift card is also included, worth between £25 and £50.

BT Wholesale Suspend New Orders for 330Mbps FTTP on Demand Broadband

14th Jan 2015 (31 Comments)

BTWholesale has confirmed that new orders for their Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) based Fibre on Demand (FoD) product, which offered the potential for people within reach of an FTTC capable line to order a full 330Mbps fibre optic broadband connection, have been suspended.

UPDATE ISPs Urge Caution as Cameron Tries 3rd Internet Snooping Revival

13th Jan 2015 (2 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has felt it necessary to respond after the Prime Minister, David Cameron, created another storm by using last week’s Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks in Paris (France) as a basis to demand tough new Internet surveillance powers and, some believe, to call for a ban on the use of encryption.

Vodafone UK Says You Don’t Need More Than 20Mbps on a Mobile

13th Jan 2015 (9 Comments)

The CEO of mobile operator Vodafone UK, Jeroen Hoencamp, has moved to defend the performance of their 4G (LTE) Mobile Broadband network by saying that Internet “speed only gets you so far” and “the reality is that you don’t currently need anything beyond 20Mbps [Megabits per second] on a mobile device“.

Rural UK Landowners Angered by New Mobile Network Coverage Deal

13th Jan 2015 (6 Comments)

The Country Land and Business Association, which represents tens of thousands of landowners across both England and Wales, appears to have reversed its earlier support for the Government’s plan to improve geographic mobile network coverage (2G, 3G and 4G). At the heart of the problem is a change to regulate the price that landowners can charge telecoms operators for access.

UPD Diamond Resorts International to Deploy WiFi at Six More UK Resorts

13th Jan 2015 (0 Comments)

Diamond Resorts International has signed a new contract with The Cloud (Sky) to roll-out an expanded network of WiFi hotspots for members, owners and guests at six of its resorts in the United Kingdom by the end of this year.

Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire Detail 2015 “Fibre Broadband” Rollout

13th Jan 2015 (0 Comments)

The state aid supported CSW Broadband partnership, which is working to make BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network available to 92% of Coventry, 96% of Solihull and 91% of Warwickshire in England (overall 91% will receive “superfast” speeds of 24Mbps+) by spring 2016, has published its roll-out plan for most of 2015 (Phase 4).

UPDATE Blocked Cable Ducts Hamper BT Fibre Optic Rollout in Rural Wiltshire

12th Jan 2015 (58 Comments)

BTOpenreach’s state aid supported plans to roll-out a fibre optic cable through their existing cable ducts in order to help bring superfast broadband connectivity to parts of rural south Wiltshire in England, specifically the Dun Valley and surrounding areas, have been dealt a blow due to several key ducts being blocked by silt.

TalkTalk Add Netflix Internet Video Streaming to their YouView TV Boxes

12th Jan 2015 (0 Comments)

Budget broadband ISP TalkTalk has predictably followed last year’s similar move by BT (here) and made the popular Netflix Internet TV and Movie streaming service available to owners of their YouView (IPTV) based platform, with those who pre-registered for the service being first in line to receive it on their set-top-box.

Ofcom – Few UK Children Know How to Disable ISP Internet Filters

12th Jan 2015 (4 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator has today published its 3rd survey into the use and effectiveness of Internet safety measures, such as the network-level filtering (Parental Control) tools that were last year introduced by all of the largest broadband ISPs to help block “adult content” from young eyes.

Seethelight Tweaks UK FTTH Broadband Speeds and Prices for 2015

12th Jan 2015 (39 Comments)

During a database update we noted that fibre optic ISP Seethelight, which offers an ultrafast 300Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband package to several parts of the United Kingdom via the Independent Fibre Networks Limited platform, looks set to change some of its services and increase prices from 1st February 2015.

UK ISP PlusNet Offers FREE Unlimited Business Broadband

12th Jan 2015 (7 Comments)

Aggressive competition in the home broadband space appears to be reaching domestic-grade business packages too, with PlusNet Business being today expected to start offering their ‘up to’ 18Mbps capable unlimited Internet access package free for the first 12 months of service (£13 +vat per month thereafter).

Connect 8 Campaign Hopes to Bring Fast Broadband to South Oxfordshire

9th Jan 2015 (42 Comments)

A group of eight rural villages in southern Oxfordshire (England), which includes Howe Hill, Britwell Hill, Cookley Green, Greenfield, Park Corner, Pishill with Stonor, Russells Water and Swyncombe, have clubbed together in order to launch the Connect 8 campaign that hopes to persuade BT to improve their broadband connectivity.

EE Expands 4G LTE Mobile Broadband Network to 80% of UK

9th Jan 2015 (9 Comments)

Mobile operator EE has announced that their “superfast” 4G (LTE at 1800MHz, 800MHz and 2.6GHz) based Mobile Broadband network is now available to 80% of the United Kingdom’s population, which should reach 98% by the end of 2015.

UK ISP TalkTalk Business Offer Half-Price Complete Broadband Bundle

9th Jan 2015 (0 Comments)

Internet provider TalkTalk Business has cut the price of their Complete bundle, which among other things includes unlimited broadband and anytime UK landline and mobile calls, from £10.50 +vat per month to just £5.25 (plus phone line rental of £14.50 +vat per month).

B4YS Start Rural FTTH Broadband Rollout for Yealand, Silverdale and Storth

9th Jan 2015 (17 Comments)

Good news. The B4RN 4 Yealand, Silverdale & Storth (B4YS) project has broken out a mole-ploughing monster and officially dug its first soil as part of their community-funded and built deployment of a new 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network for the three rural villages of Yealand, Silverdale and Storth in Lancashire (England).