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ISP News Archives for May 2015

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).

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.

ISPA Unveils Finalists for the 2015 UK ISP Internet Industry Awards

5th May 2015 (2 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today announced the official shortlist of finalists for their forthcoming 17th annual 2015 Internet industry awards, which sees Exa Networks, Hyperoptic and Keycom leading the way with 5 or more nominations each across various different categories.

UK Home and Small Business Broadband ISP Lines Hit 23.7M in 2014

5th May 2015 (0 Comments)

Ofcom’s latest Telecoms Market Data Tables update has revealed that the United Kingdom ended 2014 with a total of 23.73 million fixed line residential and small business broadband ISP connections (excluding corporate lines), which is up by +319k in Q4 2014 and marks a good quarter of growth from the +192k added in Q3 2014.

Eutelsat Touts New 22Mbps Business Broadband Satellite Packages

5th May 2015 (3 Comments)

Eutelsat, a European focused Satellite operator, has announced that ISPs which help to distribute its services in the UK (e.g. Avonline and Bentley Walker) and other countries will soon be able to offer a new range of new ‘up to’ 22Mbps download (6Mbps uploads) capable business packages; one of which comes with a bigger usage allowance.

Broadband ISP PlusNet Quietly Launches New YouView Based TV Service

5th May 2015 (5 Comments)

Sheffield-based Internet provider PlusNet has quietly updated their website to reveal the official launch details for their long awaited YouView (IPTV) based TV service, which is designed to be taken as part of a bundle alongside the ISP’s residential Unlimited Fibre Broadband (FTTC) and phone product. Here’s what you get..

Most Brits Would Sacrifice Chocolate, Alcohol and Sex Before Broadband

5th May 2015 (1 Comment)

A new survey of 3,000 consumers by fibre optic broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which appears to consist largely of London dwellers, has found that Brits would sooner sacrifice chocolate (45%), alcohol (24%) or sex (22%) for a week than their broadband connection (9%).

Rural B4YS FTTH Broadband Rollout Reaches Yealand Village Hall

5th May 2015 (3 Comments)

The B4RN 4 Yealand, Silverdale & Storth (B4YS) project, which is working with B4RN to deploy a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network for three rural Lancashire (England) villages (Yealand, Silverdale and Storth), has achieved a significant milestone by connecting Yealand Village Hall.

Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire UK Sign 2nd BT Fibre Broadband Deal

5th May 2015 (2 Comments)

The Connected Counties project, which is working with BT and the Broadband Delivery UK programme to bring faster “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) connectivity to 90% of premises in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire (England) by April 2016, looks set to reach more areas after a new extension contract was signed.