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ISP News Archives for September 2015

SMEs to See Median Broadband Speed Demand of Just 8.1Mbps by 2025

3rd Sep 2015 (20 Comments)

The Broadband Stakeholders Group, which advises the Government on broadband matters, has published a new report that aims to predict the future requirements of small UK businesses (SMEs). The conclusion finds that SMEs will see median downstream demand rise from 5Mbps in 2015 to just 8.1Mbps by 2025, but the overall picture is more complex.

40941 Businesses Take Broadband Connection Vouchers – Breakdown by City

3rd Sep 2015 (16 Comments)

The Government’s Connection Voucher scheme, which offers grants worth between £100 and £3,000 to help SMEs around 50 UK cities get a superfast broadband (30Mbps+) service installed, has confirmed that 40,941 businesses have now benefitted from the vouchers (up sharply from 15K in Q1 2015).

UK Home and Small Business Broadband Connections Top 24 Million

2nd Sep 2015 (0 Comments)

Ofcom’s latest Telecoms Market Data update has revealed that the United Kingdom achieved a milestone of 24 million fixed line residential and small business broadband ISP connections (excluding corporate lines) in Q1 2015 (up by +277K since Q4 2014), which is 967,000 (4.2%) more than a year ago.

Virgin Media UK Quietly Increases Standalone Broadband Prices

2nd Sep 2015 (9 Comments)

New subscribers who prefer to take one of Virgin Media’s standalone broadband packages, which remove the phone line rental in favour of a single price, should note that the standard cost has just increased. Meanwhile those who prefer bundles can now benefit from a 9 month discount instead of the previous 6.

Vodafone Ad Banned for Misleading “unbeatable” Call Reliability Claim

2nd Sep 2015 (1 Comment)

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a national press and website advert for Vodafone’s mobile network after Three UK complained that the promotions could not substantiate the claims of being “unbeatable at connecting your calls” and “unbeatable at keeping your calls connected“.

UPDATE Price Details for Sky Broadband’s 940Mbps FTTH Service in York

2nd Sep 2015 (19 Comments)

Sky Broadband appears to have quietly unveiled the pricing for their forthcoming “Sky Ultra Fibre Optic” service in the city of York (England), where they’re working alongside Cityfibre and TalkTalk to roll-out a new 940Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) network. Oddly, line rental still exists.

ISP Fuel Broadband Offers 9 Months FREE Unlimited Service

2nd Sep 2015 (2 Comments)

Internet provider Fuel Broadband will later today begin offering their ‘up to’ 17Mbps unlimited broadband + UK evening and weekend calls bundle, which also comes with an Amazon TV Fire Stick (plus a 30 day Amazon Prime trial) and wireless router, free for the first 9 months (£5 a month thereafter).

Virgin Media’s Ultrafast Broadband to Reach 50K Nottingham Premises

1st Sep 2015 (0 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has announced that the next area to benefit from their £3bn “Project Lightning” network expansion will be the city of Nottingham (England), which will see an additional 50,000 homes and businesses gain access to ultrafast broadband.

80 Percent of Wales Can Now Get 30Mbps Superfast Broadband

1st Sep 2015 (25 Comments)

An independent study of broadband Internet connectivity in Wales has claimed that 80% of premises in the country should now have access to a superfast connection (30Mbps+), which rises to 81.3% when you use the Government’s definition of 24Mbps+. But rural areas still have a long way to go.

UK ISP BT Business Offers 6 Months Free Unlimited Broadband

1st Sep 2015 (0 Comments)

Internet provider BT Business has today launched a new offer on their standard UK unlimited broadband (up to 17Mbps ADSL2+) packages, which means that new customers will benefit from being able to take the first 6 months of service for free (available to order until 18th December 2015).

Giffgaff Launch New UK 4G Tariffs – Now Say Goodbye to Unlimited Data

1st Sep 2015 (19 Comments)

Mobile operator giffgaff, which makes use of the Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) platform from O2 UK, will tomorrow revamp its range of 4G and Tethering friendly mobile tariffs (goodybags) to include bigger Internet data allowances and more choice. Now say goodbye to the “unlimited” plan.

Low Spec Bundled Routers Discourage New Broadband ISP Customers

1st Sep 2015 (4 Comments)

The latest survey of 910 ISPreview.co.uk readers has found that a little over half of respondents (55.1%) get their Internet connection hardware (router) included as part of a broadband ISP bundle and over a third (38.4%) say that the quality of this kit is “very important” to their choice of provider.