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Netflix UK, the broadband-based unlimited movie and TV video streaming service, has increased the price of their HD quality Standard Plan for new customers by an inflation busting 7.15% from £6.99 to £7.49 per month. But existing customers are safe.. at least for now.
The national telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has launched an own-initiative investigation into Vodafone’s billing and complaints handling procedures after an unspecified number of the mobile operator’s customers in the United Kingdom made related complaints.
As expected the Cornwall Council in south west England has today signed a new £7.6m contract with BT to make “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) speeds available to 99% of the county within the next few years.
The UK telecoms regulator has today launched a consultation on several new tweaks to the FTTC “margin squeeze” test, which is designed to keep the BT’s “fibre broadband” prices under control by forcing them to “maintain a sufficient margin between [their] wholesale and retail superfast broadband charges“.
The CTO of BT’s Wholesale division, Colin Bannon, has revealed that their future G.fast (ITU G.9701) broadband technology has also been tested on longer copper lines of 350 metres and the operator found that at this distance it was still able to deliver Internet speeds of 300Mbps.
Consumers who suffer significantly slower broadband speeds than promised by their ISP will, under Ofcom’s new rules, be allowed to exit their contract at any time. But the new rules will only apply to providers that offer ADSL2+ (up to 20Mbps) or FTTC / VDSL (up to 40-80Mbps) based services (i.e. Virgin Media is excluded).