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ISP News Archives for June 2015

ISP Fuel Broadband Adds Amazon Fire TV to FREE Unlimited Broadband Deal

10th Jun 2015 (0 Comments)

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.

GTC and Sky Bring 300Mbps FTTH Broadband and TV to New Reading Homes

9th Jun 2015 (21 Comments)

Sky (Sky Broadband) has today extended their existing relationship with utility infrastructure provider GTC by announcing a joint plan to make a new 300Mbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network and TV services available to homes at a popular Bellway Homes development (Kings Mead) in the large town of Reading (Berkshire, England).

UK Competition Regulator to “Fast Track” GBP12.5bn BT and EE Merger

9th Jun 2015 (6 Comments)

The Competition and Markets Authority has predictably approved last month’s request by BT for their £12.5bn merger with mobile telecoms giant EE to be “fast-tracked” to a full in-depth phase 2 investigation of the acquisition, which should save a little time.

UPDATE BT Confirm Broadband Customers to Pay GBP5 for European Football

9th Jun 2015 (28 Comments)

UK ISP BT has today confirmed that customers of their broadband service, which currently benefit from receiving BTSport TV content for free, will in the future have to pay an extra £5 if they also want to watch European football (Champions League etc.). But it will still be free for BT TV subscribers and there’s a 4K TV channel coming too.

Quickline Start BDUK Superfast Wireless Broadband Pilot in North Lincolnshire

9th Jun 2015 (9 Comments)

ISP Quickline has confirmed that they’ve begun the final deployment phase of their £2,054,000 Government funded superfast wireless broadband pilot in rural North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire (East England), which will deliver Internet speeds of up to 50Mbps and could eventually be deployed around the UK.

UPD 1Gbps FTTP Broadband Coming to 6,495 Premises in Gloucestershire UK

8th Jun 2015 (19 Comments)

The national UK telecoms operator BT appears to have lost out after rival pure fibre optic ISP Gigaclear signed a major new £10 million contract to deploy their “ultra fast” 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology to 6,495 homes and businesses in Gloucestershire (England).

Future Spy Cameras Could Steal Power from Your Home WiFi Signals

8th Jun 2015 (0 Comments)

Researchers working at the University of Washington appear to have become the first to harvest power using signals from home WiFi devices operating in the 2.4GHz radio spectrum band (note: an Asus RT-AC68U router was used for the demo), which allowed them to power several devices including a tiny camera.

Long Wait for BT’s GBP50m Pledge to Upgrade Broadband in 30 UK Cities

8th Jun 2015 (1 Comment)

One and a half years ago BT made a £50 million commitment to expand the commercial roll-out of superfast capable “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) services to 400,000 additional premises in 30 UK cities. Since then the operator has remained largely silent and questions are now growing over the projects status.

UK ISP TalkTalk Add FREE Install to GBP5 Superfast Fibre Broadband Offer

6th Jun 2015 (6 Comments)

Budget Internet provider TalkTalk has announced that their ‘up to’ 38Mbps capable unlimited “Superfast Fibre Broadband” (FTTC) package, which is currently priced at just £5 per month for the first 12 months of service (£15 thereafter), has now added free installation into the mix (saving another one-off fee of £25).

UPDATE ISP BT Broadband Customers Might No Longer Get FREE BTSport TV

5th Jun 2015 (28 Comments)

Customers of BT’s broadband bundles, most of which have for the past two years been able to benefit from free BTSport TV content, may be displeased to learn that the free ride could soon be coming to an end and some related content will instead cost an additional fee of £5 (still a lot less than non-BT customers pay).

Northumberland UK Signs BT Fibre Broadband Extension Contract

5th Jun 2015 (0 Comments)

The Northumberland County Council and BT have today signed a second contract worth £4.1m to improve local “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) coverage by putting the service within reach of an additional 3,000 homes and businesses by 2017, which will complement the original £18.9m contract.

UPD Vodafone and Virgin Media UK Parent – Liberty Global – Confirm Talks

5th Jun 2015 (1 Comment)

British mobile giant Vodafone confirms that they’ve held talks with global cable operator Liberty Global, which owns Virgin Media in the United Kingdom, about a “possible” and mutually beneficial “exchange” of some European businesses. But the idea of a huge £100bn+ mega merger appears to be off the table.

Judicial Review of UK Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act Starts

5th Jun 2015 (0 Comments)

The High Court in London will today hear the opening arguments of a Judicial Review that has been launched against the controversial Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIP), which among other things governs how much information the security services can collect from UK Internet and phone providers.

Study Finds Mass UK ISP Piracy Website Blocking Pushes Users to Go Legal

5th Jun 2015 (3 Comments)

A new research paper from a three man team, which was based out of Carnegie Mellon University and Wellesley College in the USA, has found that forcing broadband ISPs to block individual piracy websites (e.g. The Pirate Bay) had little impact. But blocking a mass of 19 websites in one go did appear to drive UK Internet users towards legal alternatives.

Vodafone Improves UK Rural Mobile Coverage by Hiding Kit in Bird Boxes

5th Jun 2015 (3 Comments)

How do you expand rural mobile network coverage (2G, 3G and 4G) without causing annoyance to locals or triggering unfounded fears of brain melting radiation? Vodafone’s answer is simple, hide everything inside an otherwise unassuming bird box.

CityFibre Seeks Support for New Ultrafast Fibre Optic Network in Edinburgh

4th Jun 2015 (0 Comments)

Fibre optic infrastructure developer CityFibre has launched its “Gig Up Edinburgh” campaign, which encourages local businesses and institutions in Scotland’s capital city to register their interest in the installation of a new “ultra-fast” pure fibre optic broadband network.

Pro-Broadband Ofcom Begins Review of UK Satellite Radio Spectrum Use

4th Jun 2015 (0 Comments)

The United Kingdom’s telecoms regulator has today signalled the start of yet another strategic review, which this time will examine the radio spectrum use of space-based science and satellite communication services. Ofcom’s review could affect the future availability of frequencies for 5G and other broadband technologies.