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ISP News Archives for June 2015

XILO’s UK Broadband Services Vanish from Website

25th Jun 2015 (3 Comments)

Internet and hosting provider XILO created a small influx of emails for us this month after the page for their fixed line broadband services vanished from the ISPs website and their “Community Forum” also appeared to no longer be accessible.

EE Once Again Named London’s Fastest Mobile Broadband Provider

25th Jun 2015 (3 Comments)

Mobile operator EE has come top in the latest RootMetrics study of Mobile Broadband (3G and 4G) performance for the United Kingdom’s capital city of London, with the operator reporting the fastest median download speed of 25.4Mbps and the fastest uploads of 19.3Mbps. Vodafone was a distant 2nd.

ISP PlusNet Says Farewell to 24/7 UK Based Telephone Support

25th Jun 2015 (3 Comments)

One of PlusNet’s most attractive features over the years has been its ability to offer around the clock customer support via United Kingdom based call centres, but no longer.

UK Comms Business Magazine Reveals Best ISP 2015 Award Winners

24th Jun 2015 (0 Comments)

The Comms Business magazine has once again announced the winners of their annual 2015 Comms Business Awards event, which took place last Tuesday in London. In the end Virtual1 picked up the gong for ‘Best Internet Service Provider’, but there were plenty of other awards too.

UPD Sky Broadband Build New 1Gbps FTTH Trial for 5000 Derbyshire Homes

24th Jun 2015 (10 Comments)

Contractors who appear to be working for Sky (Sky Broadband) have been spotted building new telegraph poles and fibre optic cable ducting around the civil parish village of Woodville, Midway and the Swadlincote areas of Derbyshire in England. Some 5,000 local homes will benefit.

Akamai Q1 2015 Report Sees UK Average Broadband Speeds Hit 11.6Mbps

24th Jun 2015 (0 Comments)

The latest global Q1 2015 State of the Internet report from Akamai has revealed that the world’s average fixed line broadband download speed is now 5Mbps (up by 10% since Q4 2014), while the United Kingdom increased by 6.7% in the quarter to 11.6Mbps. Overall the UK is now the 21st fastest in the world, which is down three places from the end of 2014.

EE Begins Offering Free Portable Phone Charger to Customers.. Again

24th Jun 2015 (2 Comments)

Telecoms operator EE has announced that their offer of a free portable 2600mah Smartphone charger (Power Bar) for existing mobile and fixed broadband customers, which suffered a huge supply shortage shortly after it was first introduced in April (here), has returned.

London UK Businesses Gobble Lion’s Share of Broadband Vouchers

24th Jun 2015 (6 Comments)

The Government’s Broadband Delivery UK programme has today released a breakdown of regional uptake for their Connection Voucher scheme, which offers grants worth up to £3,000 to help SME businesses get a superfast broadband (30Mbps+) service installed. So far 25,000 vouchers have been taken, with 8,857 being gobbled in London.

Virgin Media UK Preps Google Email Migration to Own Brand Platform

23rd Jun 2015 (13 Comments)

Customers of Virgin Media should keep an eye out for problems with the ISPs email service because the provider has just confirmed that, over the next few months, they’ll be migrating the current platform away from Google and onto their own service. But big email migrations rarely go smoothly.

BT Openreach to Recruit 112 New Telecoms Engineers for Scotland

23rd Jun 2015 (4 Comments)

BT plans to recruit another 500 or so broadband and phone engineers from across the United Kingdom this year and they’ve today confirmed that 112 of those will be focused in Scotland, including from areas around Orkney, Oban, Greenock, Galashiels and in the Highlands and Islands and North East.

Ultrafast ISP Wessex Internet Cuts Prices and Boosts Data Allowances

23rd Jun 2015 (3 Comments)

Rural ISP Wessex Internet (M12 Solutions), which deploys superfast wireless broadband (50Mbps) and some ultrafast (up to 1000Mbps) fibre optic services to premises in parts of North Dorset and South West Wiltshire (England), has reduced some of their charges and boosted usage allowances.

30Mbps BDUK Satellite Broadband Pilot Begins in N.Ireland and Scotland

23rd Jun 2015 (6 Comments)

The latest Broadband Delivery UK Market Testing Pilot (MTP) to go live is Avanti’s scheme, which is using their Ka-band HYLAS 1 and HYLAS 2 Satellite spacecraft to deliver broadband speeds of up to 30Mbps to potentially 13,000 premises across parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland (e.g. Antrim, Aberdeenshire, Dumfries, Galloway, The Borders).

UK ISP TalkTalk Confirm First Prices for 940Mbps FTTH Broadband in York

23rd Jun 2015 (12 Comments)

Internet provider TalkTalk has revealed the first package and price details for their new 940Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) broadband network in the city of York (England), which as we revealed last month is being called Ultra Fibre Optic (UFO). Existing customers will effectively get it at “no extra cost“.

ITU Hands Future 5G Mobile Broadband Tech a Target Speed of 20Gbps

23rd Jun 2015 (0 Comments)

The International Telecommunication Union has put a lid on the debate over the peak performance capabilities of future 5G (IMT-2020) based Mobile Broadband technology by defining its top speed as 20Gbps (Gigabits per second), which is 20 times faster than the 4G (IMT-Advanced) rate of 1Gbps.

Vodafone UK’s Rural Open Sure Signal Brings 3G Mobile to Broad Chalke

22nd Jun 2015 (2 Comments)

Vodafone has announced that their Rural Open Sure Signal (Femtocell) technology has been expanded to help the isolated “not-spot” community of Broad Chalke in Wiltshire (England) to receive a 3G based Mobile Broadband and voice service.

Ofcom Attempt to Finally Resolve BT Ethernet Overcharging Dispute

22nd Jun 2015 (0 Comments)

After several years and various legal challenges the UK telecoms regulator has proposed what could be the final resolution to a long running dispute relating to BT’s overcharging for business Ethernet services, which initially required them to repay £94.8m to Sky (Sky Broadband), TalkTalk, Virgin Media, Cable & Wireless Worldwide (Vodafone) and Verizon.

VIDEO Documentary of B4RN’s UK Rural Fibre Optic Broadband Rollout

22nd Jun 2015 (8 Comments)

The community built B4RN project, which is rolling out a 1000Mbps capable fibre optic broadband (FTTH) network to thousands of premises in rural Lancashire in England (inc. parts of Yorkshire and Cumbria), has uploaded an interesting new documentary film that charts their history and on-going work.