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Remember when BT introduced the new premium BTSport TV Pack at the start of this month for an extra £5 (here)? Do you also remember how BT then tried to force that pack onto their existing customers, unless they specifically opted-out? Well Ofcom wasn’t happy and neither were many of BT’s customers.
Residents in the rural Buckinghamshire (England) villages of North Marston and Granborough could soon be connecting to ultrafast broadband speeds after the £1.5m Aylesbury Vale Broadband project finally began digging its new fibre optic cable into the ground, which should take around 4 weeks to complete.
Customers of BT’s consumer broadband and phone services can now monitor the network status of their local area, remotely reboot their HomeHub wireless router, get support and manage their accounts online via the new MyBT Smartphone app for Android and iOS (iPhone) devices.
The Southern Uplands Partnership (SUP) has launched a new survey for those who live in rural communities along Scotland’s southern border region, which they hope will help to identify the areas that are most in need of better broadband connectivity and thus public funding support.
The government’s Broadband Delivery UK project, which is responsible for overseeing the national £1.7bn publicly funded roll-out of fixed line superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services to 95% of people by 2017/18, spent £5.041 million of its budget on publicity (adverts) during the six months from September 2014 to February 2015.