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The national UK Connection Voucher scheme, which offers grants worth up to £3,000 to help SME businesses get a superfast broadband (30Mbps+) connection installed, has seen a massive surge in interest with 24,000 businesses now taking one. But the money could run out by the end of 2015.
The Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications, which represents telecoms regulators from across the EU (e.g. Ofcom in the UK), has conducted a new survey to uncover consumer attitudes towards Net Neutrality. The study unsurprisingly reveals that consumers would switch ISP if a provider imposed certain limits on their access.
Business ISP WarwickNet appears to have stolen a march on rival BT by becoming the first Internet provider in the United Kingdom to commercially deploy VDSL2 Vectoring (ITU-T G.993.5) technology, which improves performance by reducing crosstalk interference, on their superfast SLU Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) broadband lines.
Communication providers (broadband, mobile, TV and phone) that make it hard for customers in the United Kingdom to cancel or switch their service have been placed under the spotlight after the national telecoms regulator, Ofcom, launched a new monitoring and enforcement programme to assess the problem.
Vodafone has today taken the wraps off their new fixed line home broadband and phone packages, which marks the operators second stab at a notoriously competitive market that they originally quit in 2011. But have they done enough this time to combat BT and the other established ISPs.
All new customers who take Fuel Broadband’s 6 months FREE unlimited broadband offer (£5 per month thereafter), which among other things comes with free UK evening and weekend calls, will now also receive a FREE Amazon Fire TV Stick (normally retails for £35) for WiFi video streaming to your televisions HDMI port.