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ISP News Archives for May 6, 2015

UPDATE TalkTalk Makes the Super Router Available to Plus TV Subscribers

6th May 2015 (8 Comments)

Until recently only TalkTalk’s superfast “Fibre Broadband” (FTTC) subscribers could benefit from the free inclusion of the ISPs Gigabit (1000Mbps+) WiFi capable wireless ‘Super Router‘ (Huawei HG633). But now new customers who take the ISPs Plus TV bundle, be they ADSL or VDSL based, will also receive the device.

EU Sets Out New Rules to Boost Mobile, Broadband and Internet Services

6th May 2015 (2 Comments)

After somewhat of a change in management the European Commission has today moved to adopt the final design for a Digital Single Market strategy across the EU, which among other things aims to foster online trade, harmonise radio spectrum for mobile services and create better incentives for investment in high-speed broadband.

Ofcom Finds UK ISP Unicom Probably Broke its Sales and Marketing Rule

6th May 2015 (4 Comments)

After a lengthy investigation the UK telecoms regulator has provisionally ruled that there are “reasonable grounds” for believing that Unicom (Universal Utilities) misled consumers over the sale of their fixed line telecommunications services (between the 1st March 2013 and 8th July 2014).

No Signal from Three UK Home Signal Mobile Booster for Several Days

6th May 2015 (2 Comments)

Apparently some customers who make use of Three UK’s Home Signal device, which harnesses your fixed line broadband connection via Femtocell technology to boost indoor mobile coverage, complain that they’ve not been able to get a working signal from it for several days.

ISP Velocity1 Expands 1Gbps FTTP Broadband to 475 Wembley Park Homes

6th May 2015 (1 Comment)

London ISP Velocity1 has confirmed that their 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network has recently been expanded to cover more of Wembley, specifically 475 homes inside the Wembley Park development.

ITU Begins to Build Future Standard for 5G Mobile Broadband Tech

6th May 2015 (0 Comments)

The International Telecommunication Union has started a new Focus Group, which will help them to identify the network standardization requirements for future 5G based Mobile Broadband technologies. Related services are due to surface around 2020 and often tout peak data speeds of anything from 10Gbps to 100Gbps (Gigabits per second).

ASA Ban TalkTalk Broadband TV Ad for “Misleading” 99.9% Reliability Claim

6th May 2015 (0 Comments)

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a TV advert for TalkTalk’s unlimited broadband service after it misleadingly claimed to offer a “network connection that’s a whopping 99.9% reliable” and because it also failed to make clear that the offer was only available to new customers.

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