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ISP News Archives for June 2015

Smaller UK Broadband ISPs Faster to Pick-up the Phone – Big Ones Slow

4th Jun 2015 (4 Comments)

A new study has phoned some of the United Kingdom’s biggest and smallest broadband ISPs in order to work out how quick their call answer times were. The results reveal that the big boys (e.g. PlusNet and KC [Hull only] etc.) are among the slowest, while smaller providers tend to be the fastest (e.g. Exa Networks and B4RN etc.).

UK Mobile Internet Revenues to Overtake Fixed Broadband in 2017

4th Jun 2015 (0 Comments)

The latest Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2015-2019 report from PwC has predicted that revenues from Mobile Internet access (Mobile Broadband etc.) are set to overtake fixed line broadband services in 2017, increasing by an annual growth rate of 7.1% to reach £7bn by 2019 (the highest in Western Europe).

Northern Ireland Finds Extra GBP1m to Help Improve Rural Broadband

3rd Jun 2015 (1 Comment)

Remote rural areas in Northern Ireland have been given yet another boost after a further investment of £1 million was extracted from the Tackling Rural Poverty and Social Isolation (TRPSI) budget in order to help expand the reach of faster broadband and fuel uptake.

Interview – How Openreach is Creating a New Fibre Infrastructure for Wales

3rd Jun 2015 (21 Comments)

In this guest editorial Nicholas Hardiman, an IT consultant who has worked with Internet and Enterprise technologies since the 1990s, interviews Openreach’s (BT) Senior Project Manager, Steve Jones, about the work being done to bring faster “fibre broadband” connectivity to many thousands of new homes and businesses in Wales.

Sky Gets TalkTalk’s Misleading “Britain’s BEST DEALS” Broadband Ad Banned

3rd Jun 2015 (0 Comments)

UK ISP Sky Broadband has successfully nudged the Advertising Standards Authority to ban a TalkTalk press advert, which was ultimately ruled to have misleadingly claimed to offer “Britain’s Best Deals on totally unlimited broadband packages“.

Security Audit Exposes 60 Flaws in 22 Home Broadband ISP Routers

2nd Jun 2015 (0 Comments)

A new security audit, which was manually conducted by a group of security researchers as part of their IT Security Master’s Thesis at a Madrid University in Spain, has uncovered multiple vulnerabilities with 22 different home and office broadband routers, including popular brands like Huawei, Netgear, Zyxel, D-Link, Linksys, Belkin and Sagem.

Market Analysts Expect Virgin Media to Swap UK MVNO Partner from EE

2nd Jun 2015 (1 Comment)

A new research note from Berenberg Bank has estimated that BT’s on-going £12.5bn effort to buy mobile operator EE could in the long-term be good news for investors, but they also predict that it will result in Virgin Media ending their existing Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) deal with the UK mobile giant.

Vodafone UK Expands 4G Mobile Broadband Roaming to 58 Destinations

2nd Jun 2015 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has today announced that customers of their 4G (LTE) based mobile plans in the United Kingdom will now be able to make use of the same connectivity and their existing allowances (included calls, texts and Mobile Broadband data) while roaming across a total of 58 destinations worldwide.

UPD Mobile Operator Three UK Drops No Mid-Contract Price Rise Promise

1st Jun 2015 (8 Comments)

Last year saw mobile operator Three UK make a clear commitment concerning mid-contract prices rises by telling customers that the “fixed monthly recurring fee from Three will not go up in the minimum term of your contract,” but they now appear to have done a U-turn.

UPDATE More Dorset UK Homes to Receive Superfast Broadband

1st Jun 2015 (0 Comments)

The Superfast Dorset scheme in southern England, which is already working with BT to make faster “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) services available to 97% of local premises by the end of 2016 (95.6% will get “superfast” speeds of 24Mbps+), has today signed a Superfast Extension Programme (SEP) contract that will push close to universal coverage.

Fuel Broadband Offer 6 Months Free Unlimited ‘up to’ 16Mbps Internet

1st Jun 2015 (0 Comments)

Budget ISP Fuel Broadband will today reduce their £5 per month standard unlimited broadband (up to 16Mbps) bundle to being free for the first 6 months of service (includes free UK evening and weekend calls), although customers still need to take Phone Line Rental for £16.40 per month on top. But the offer is also masking a price hike.

Ultrafast UK Fibre Optic ISP Hyperoptic Reduces its Broadband Prices

1st Jun 2015 (1 Comment)

Urban fibre optic ISP Hyperoptic, which offers home broadband speeds of up to 1000Mbps across parts of several major UK cities (particularly London), will today reduce its prices for the first 12 month contract term to new customers.

UK ISP Website Piracy Block List Adds Rojadirecta, LiveTV and Drakulastream

1st Jun 2015 (5 Comments)

The Premier League and FA have succeeded in having the UK High Court force all of the markets largest broadband ISPs (e.g. BT, Virgin Media, Sky Broadband, TalkTalk and EE) into imposing blocks against three additional sports streaming websites that are known to infringe copyright (Rojadirecta, LiveTV and Drakulastream).

UPDATE Fear of New Migration Rule Drives ISP to Offer Anti-Slamming Service

1st Jun 2015 (5 Comments)

Ofcom’s easier broadband and phone switching rules are due to go live later this month (20th June). However one provider, AAISP (Andrews & Arnold), is so concerned about how it might result in more cases of slamming (i.e. consumers being switched without their consent) that they’re now offering a free “anti-slamming” service.