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DEFRA Demands Claw-back from UK State Aid Broadband Project be Repaid

7th May 2015 (5 Comments)

In a controversial twist the Government’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has called on a superfast broadband project in Rothbury (Northumberland), which received a slice of state aid, to repay any benefits derived from claw-back (as opposed to reinvesting into better coverage).

UK ISP BT Offers £125 Prepaid Visa Card to New Broadband Customers

7th May 2015 (0 Comments)

We’re no fans of the musical chairs approach to voucher discounts, which seem to change weekly, but BT has done an unusual new twist. New customers who join one of their BTInfinity (FTTC) “fibre broadband” packages will now also get a £125 Prepaid Visa Card, which reduces to £75 for standard broadband (ADSL) subscribers.

Connect8 Moots Wireless Broadband Solution for Rural South Oxfordshire

7th May 2015 (6 Comments)

The Connect8 campaign, which represents the residents of eight rural villages in southern Oxfordshire where BT have refused to upgrade (Howe Hill, Britwell Hill, Cookley Green, Greenfield, Park Corner, Pishill with Stonor, Russells Water and Swyncombe), looks set to adopt a fixed wireless broadband network to fix the problems.

UPDATE2 Aylesbury Vale Broadband Project Lifts Target Speed to 1000Mbps

7th May 2015 (0 Comments)

The £1.5m Aylesbury Vale Broadband project, which is supported by the district council in Buckinghamshire (England) and aims to improve connectivity for residents of several rural villages (North Marston and Granborough with more to follow), has lifted its future service speed target from 30Mbps to 1000Mbps.

BT Top 7.71M Broadband Subscribers with 3M On Infinity “Fibre Broadband”

7th May 2015 (30 Comments)

The national UK telecoms operator, BT, has today published the latest results for Q1-2015 (calendar) and confirmed that their retail business added +121,000 new broadband subscribers in the quarter (up from +119k in Q4 2014) to total 7,713,000, which includes 3,010,000 on BTInfinity “fibre broadband” (up by +266k vs +209k in Q4 2014).

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