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ISP News Archives for July 2015

Airband Consortium to Bid for Full Devon and Somerset Broadband Contract

2nd Jul 2015 (3 Comments)

Worcester-based fixed wireless ISP Airband, which yesterday won a separate open market contract to deploy superfast broadband to 5,800 premises across the Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks in England (here), could form part of a consortium that will bid for the full Devon and Somerset contract after it failed to reach a deal with BT.

Wireless ISP AirBand to Deploy Superfast Broadband in Dartmoor and Exmoor

1st Jul 2015 (8 Comments)

The Connecting Devon and Somerset project in England has announced that a fixed wireless access (FWA) provider called Airband has won their open tender contract for deploying superfast broadband to 5,800 homes and businesses across the Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks.

N.Ireland Broadband Project – How to Spend EUR1.3m on Kit Worth 30k

1st Jul 2015 (0 Comments)

A new report from Northern Ireland’s Public Accounts Committee has blasted the EU funded Bytel project after it “grossly mishandled” public funding and spent £920k on unused equipment that should have cost just £21.3k+. The 2004 scheme aimed to provide “high-speed broadband” between Belfast, Craigavon, Armagh, Dundalk and Dublin

UPDATE East Sussex Signs Extended Fibre Broadband Rollout Contract

1st Jul 2015 (2 Comments)

The East Sussex County Council, which is working in partnership with Brighton and Hove City, has today become one of the last local authorities in England to sign a Superfast Extension Programme (SEP) contract to help expand the reach of superfast broadband connectivity to thousands more homes.

UK ISP BT Spices Up Broadband and SIM-Only Mobile Bundles

1st Jul 2015 (0 Comments)

BT has tweaked some of their Internet and mobile package features and prices by adding 1000 minutes to the BTMobile 2GB tariff, cutting the cost of their superfast Unlimited BTInfinity (FTTC) service to just £12.50 a month and returning Sainsbury’s vouchers worth £75 to £125 to their home broadband deals.

KC Claims Hull UK Economy Boosted by their Superfast Broadband Rollout

1st Jul 2015 (3 Comments)

The incumbent telecoms operator for Hull in East Yorkshire, KC, has today published a new report which they claim proves the positive impact that their FTTP dominated roll-out of superfast broadband is having. Overall the local digital economy now accounts for £6.93bn per annum (24% of the total).

UK Government Finally Adds “up to” on its 80Mbps Fibre Broadband Signs

1st Jul 2015 (24 Comments)

A small but mildly comical change has been made in the Government’s publicity drive for the Broadband Delivery UK project. Somebody somewhere finally recognised that those big red and white “speed limit” signs, which are often used to highlight the top speed of 80Mbps for FTTC “fibre broadband” lines, needed an “up to” prefix.

Entanet Unconvinced by BT’s Plan to Scrap Traditional Phone Services

1st Jul 2015 (3 Comments)

Entanet, which supplies broadband and telecoms services to a number of UK ISPs and businesses, says they’re “not convinced” by BT’s hope of being able to replace their old traditional phone services, including a relaxation of related regulation, with a new pure IP based network within the next 10 years.