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ISP News Archives for March 2015

Ex-UK Copyright MP Calls for ISPs to Proactively Tackle Internet Piracy

31st Mar 2015 (3 Comments)

The former Intellectual Property Adviser to the Prime Minister, Mike Weatherley MP, has published a new paper that calls for a dramatic change to the current EU Safe Harbour provisions (this removes ISPs, in certain circumstances, from liability for the illegal activity of their customers), which would weaken some of its protections and force ISPs to act more like an Internet police force.

Kent and Medway Sign Extended BT Superfast Broadband Rollout Contract

31st Mar 2015 (2 Comments)

The Kent and Medway councils in England appear to have quietly signed a second Broadband Delivery UK contract with BT, which will see the operator extend their FTTC/P based superfast broadband (24Mbps+) network beyond the existing coverage target of 91% by the end of 2015 (note: 95% will be covered by the “fibre broadband” footprint).

PureBroadband Uses CityFibre Network to Fuel Wireless Broadband in Hull

31st Mar 2015 (1 Comment)

Fixed wireless ISP Pure Broadband has today announced that they will be the first ISP to use CityFibre’s dark fibre optic backbone connectivity network to power their wireless mast sites throughout the city of Hull in East Yorkshire (England), which marks a significant upgrade to Pure’s existing network that has been in use since 2008.

Virgin Media, KC and BT Join Forces to Resist Opening their UK Dark Fibre

31st Mar 2015 (19 Comments)

Three of the biggest UK telecoms and broadband giants, including BT, Virgin Media and KC (KCOM), have jointly written a new letter to the national communications regulator in an attempt to dissuade Ofcom from making any changes that might require them to provide access to their Dark Fibre Optic lines.

Good Broadband Helps Lift Rutland to Top Halifax’s 50 Best Rural Areas

30th Mar 2015 (0 Comments)

The annual 2015 Halifax Rural Areas Quality of Life Survey has named Rutland in the East Midlands countryside as the best place to live in the Great British countryside because of its “good broadband“, health and life expectancy, crime rate, weather, employment, school results and personal wellbeing.

UK ISP Zen Internet Begins Offering Full Wholesale Solution

30th Mar 2015 (2 Comments)

Consumer and business ISP Zen Internet appears to have officially expanded into offering a full wholesale solution and selling direct to other providers, which goes well beyond the limited partner options that they’ve been offering for quite some time now.

BT Set Trial of Standalone Naked FTTC Superfast Broadband Without Phone

30th Mar 2015 (53 Comments)

BTOpenreach has set a trial date for the ability to order a naked superfast “fibre broadband” (FTTC / VDSL) service, which means you could take the broadband without also having to pay a separate fee for the phone line rental (aka – Naked VDSL, Single Order GEA-FTTC or SoGEA). There’s also a small update on VDSL Amplifiers and Vectoring.

Virgin Media UK Reduce their Broadband Bundle Prices for Easter

30th Mar 2015 (0 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has today introduced a time limited general reduction in the price of their dual and triple-play broadband, phone and or TV and mobile bundles. Some prices will be broadly unchanged, while others will get cheaper by several pounds per month.

Telford and Wrekin Sign £5.6m Deal for 98% Superfast Broadband Cover

28th Mar 2015 (12 Comments)

The Telford and Wrekin Council (Shropshire, England), after sitting out the first phase of the national Broadband Delivery UK plan, has signed a £5.6m contract with BT that will extend superfast broadband (24Mbps+) connectivity to reach 98% of local homes and businesses by the end of 2017.

Worcestershire UK Signs £6.2m BT Fibre Broadband Rollout Extension

28th Mar 2015 (0 Comments)

The £21m Superfast Worcestershire (England) project has signed a second £6.2m Broadband Delivery UK contract with BT that will see the operator push their “high-speed fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network out to reach an additional 8,000 homes and businesses (95% coverage) by Summer 2018.

Virgin Media Claim New 1.3Gbps WiFi SuperHub 2ac Router is the Fastest

27th Mar 2015 (25 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media has today officially launched their new SuperHub 2ac (VMDG490) router, which has been leaking out to customers for quite a few months (here) and includes support for the latest 1300Mbps Gigabit WiFi (802.11ac) standard. According to Virgin’s research, the WiFi is now faster than all of the other big UK ISPs.

BT Signs Deal to Rollout FREE WiFi Around Nottingham City Centre

27th Mar 2015 (0 Comments)

The Nottingham City Council and BT have today signed a new contract that will see the telecoms operator deploy free public WiFi wireless Internet hotspots across much of the city centre, which should benefit 310,000 residents as well as local businesses and visitors etc.

Ofcom Claims EE Broke their UK Consumer Complaint Handling Rules

27th Mar 2015 (4 Comments)

The national telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has concluded a yearlong probe into EE’s (also trading as Orange UK and T-Mobile) handling of consumer complaints and found that “there are reasonable grounds for believing” that the operator broke its rules (General Condition 14.4).

Best to Avoid Doing IP PBX Style VoIP via BT’s Home Hub Routers

27th Mar 2015 (6 Comments)

Customers of BT’s consumer broadband service should avoid using the ISPs Home Hub routers for business style VoIP phone setups because of a seemingly deliberate built-in weakness that, no matter what security settings you choose on the hub, it will always leave port 5060 open.

South Yorkshire UK Finally Publishes BT “Fibre Broadband” Rollout Map

27th Mar 2015 (8 Comments)

South Yorkshire (England) might have been late to the Broadband Delivery UK game, due to the infamous Digital Region disaster of prior years, but after last year’s signing of a contract with BT to upgrade the area we’re pleased to report that the project now has an official deployment map.

Some UK TalkTalk D-Link DSL-3680 Routers Vulnerable to DNS Hijack

27th Mar 2015 (2 Comments)

Customers of TalkTalk’s home broadband service in the United Kingdom, specifically those who use one of the ISPs older D-Link DSL-3680 routers (check the model code on the back), should be aware that for some people the hardware might be vulnerable to an easily performed remote DNS hijack.

BT Extends “Fibre Broadband” Rollout Contract with Emtelle to 2019

27th Mar 2015 (3 Comments)

In an unsurprising move BT has agreed to extend their contract with the Scotland-based Emtelle Group, which manufactures cable duct (plastic piping that encases underground fibre optic cables) as well as sub-duct and blown fibre products at its two plants in Hawick and Jedburgh, for another four years until 2019.