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ISP News Archives for September 2015

Ofcom Investigates Vodafone UK Complaint of BT Ethernet Delays

9th Sep 2015 (1 Comment)

The national telecoms regulator has opened a new investigation after Vodafone complained that BTOpenreach failed to meet its obligations to them by both “delaying provision” of its Ethernet (high-capacity data line) services without their consent and then “failing to compensate” for that delay.

Virgin Media Broadband to Reach 3,000 Businesses in Manchester

9th Sep 2015 (0 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media Business has today confirmed that 3,000 businesses in over 300 buildings will benefit from the on-going expansion of their ultrafast broadband network in Manchester, which is currently being deployed to 150,000 extra premises (mostly homes) in the city.

UPDATE North Yorkshire UK Confirm £21m to Expand Superfast Broadband

8th Sep 2015 (2 Comments)

The Superfast North Yorkshire project has revealed that a further £21m is to be spent on expanding superfast broadband (24Mbps+) connectivity to 95% of local premises across the county. As a result discussions are now taking place with BT in order to “draw up contracts for the start of phase three“.

Interoute in Agreement to Acquire UK Network Provider Easynet

8th Sep 2015 (4 Comments)

Managed service provider Easynet (MDNX) has today been acquired by industry rival Interoute for an enterprise value of £402 million, which will give the merged group access to a “full suite of the combined companies products and services“.

CityFibre Sign GBP5.6m Deal to Extend Fibre Optic Network in Edinburgh

8th Sep 2015 (0 Comments)

Fibre optic developer Cityfibre has signed a new 7-year and £5.6 million deal (including an option to extend to 19 years and grow in value to £16m) with Edinburgh City Council that will see the operator construct a new 100km long Gigabit Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network extension in the city.

UK Homes Could in Future Provide Electricity for BT’s Broadband Network

8th Sep 2015 (44 Comments)

The Broadband Forum has produced a new technical specification (TR-301) that appears to lay the groundwork for future deployments of VDSL2 (FTTC) and G.fast based broadband technologies that suck the power they need directly from home users (your electricity bill might take a hit).

Unpaid Contractors Cast Shadow Over Fibre Garden’s Cumbria FTTP Rollout

8th Sep 2015 (8 Comments)

The community driven Digital Dales (Fibre GarDen) project, which recently began work to roll-out a 100Mbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to 580 premises in the rural Cumbria (England) villages of Garsdale and Dentdale, is trying to recover after unpaid contractors downed tools.

Academic Study Reveals Urban and Rural Broadband Speed Gaps

7th Sep 2015 (8 Comments)

The Oxford Internet Institute and RCUK Digital Economy Research Hub have conducted an academic study into Internet access and the gap between urban and rural broadband speeds, which they suggest “risks damaging business, adds to farming costs and could be driving young people away“.

Broadband Plays its Part as CLA Names Top Rural Counties for Business

7th Sep 2015 (3 Comments)

The Country Land and Business Association, which represents many thousands of landowners in England and Wales, has recently named the top 10 counties in England for running a rural business and Cheshire comes top of the table. As usual the quality of broadband and mobile connectivity plays a big part.

Fuel Broadband Owner Claims to be UK’s Fastest Growing Home ISP

7th Sep 2015 (0 Comments)

Telecoms provider New Call Telecom, which owns low cost ISP Fuel Broadband (formerly Primus Saver), has today claimed to be the “fastest growing residential broadband provider” in the United Kingdom after they were ranked 53rd in the Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 list.

EE UK Botches Customer Emails After Domain Renewal Fail

7th Sep 2015 (1 Comment)

Customers of telecoms provider EE, specifically those who still use an old Freeserve (fsnet.co.uk) email address that dates back to the days of dialup Internet access, appear to have been left without working email after the operator apparently forgot to renew its own web domain.

WightFibre Gobbles Wireless ISP Click4Internet on the Isle of Wight

4th Sep 2015 (1 Comment)

Cable operator WightFibre, which focuses on delivering ultrafast broadband services across the Isle of Wight that resides just off the central south coast of England (Hampshire), has announced the purchase of rival fixed wireless ISP Click4Internet for an undisclosed sum.

Speedtests Hint of Faster Virgin Media Broadband Uploads Boost

4th Sep 2015 (47 Comments)

Data collected from new broadband speedtests conducted on Virgin Media’s network now appear to have revealed that the operator will also be giving their upload speeds a boost next month, albeit not by as much as some customers might have hoped.

20K Council Homes in Wandsworth to Get 1000Mbps Fibre Broadband

4th Sep 2015 (4 Comments)

The London Borough of Wandsworth has joined forces with a little known ISP called Community Fibre in order to create what could be one of the fastest council estates in the United Kingdom, with residents in a north Battersea estate receiving broadband download speeds of up to 1086Mbps.

Odd Looking Asus RT-AC5300 Router Claims World’s Fastest WiFi

4th Sep 2015 (5 Comments)

One of the problems with the new generation of ultrafast home broadband services is finding a router that can keep pace. The good news is that ASUS’s new RT-AC5300, which looks like some sort of alien tech, might just have the answer with its total combined “world’s fastest” WiFi speed of 5334Mbps.

UPDATE Sky Broadband Outage in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire

4th Sep 2015 (17 Comments)

Customers of Sky Broadband in the Gloucestershire and Wiltshire areas of England yesterday began suffering from a Major Service Outage (MSO) after an unspecified problem triggered a loss of broadband and phone service across multiple telephone exchanges in the area.

South Yorkshire ISP Origin Broadband Hails Growth Spurt

3rd Sep 2015 (9 Comments)

Doncaster-based ISP Origin Broadband appears to be recovering from last year’s rocky collapse of the failed £100m Digital Region network and has reported that turnover is up 400% on the last six months, with the provider adding 300 residential and up to 400 business customers a month.