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ISP News Archives for October 2015

Ombudsman Services Records Rise in UK Telecoms Complaints

21st Oct 2015 (0 Comments)

Ombudsman Services, one of Ofcom’s two approved Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) consumer complaint handlers, reports that it has so far received a total of 15,542 complaints about UK phone, mobile and broadband providers in 2015 and Q3 complaints were up 35% from three years ago.

TalkTalk CEO Rubbishes BT’s “Weak” Broadband and Service Pledges

21st Oct 2015 (44 Comments)

The CEO of UK ISP TalkTalk, Dido Harding, has today blasted BTOpenreach’s commitments (Customer Charter) to improve national broadband speeds, network coverage and customer service as being both “weak” and lacking in ambition.

Government Offers GBP1m to Help UK Businesses Harness 5G Mobile

21st Oct 2015 (1 Comment)

The next (5th) generation of 5G based Mobile Broadband technology is still roughly five years away, but that hasn’t stopped the Government getting an early start and today they’ve offered another £1m to help encourage businesses to find innovative uses for the service.

EE UK Home Broadband Tops 927,000 Subscribers as Growth Slows

21st Oct 2015 (1 Comment)

EE reported their latest Q3 2015 results today, which revealed that their fixed line home broadband subscribers increased by just +8,000 in the quarter to total 927,000 (down sharply from +35K in Q2 and +50K in Q1). But 4G mobile performance continued to be strong.

UK ISP Sky Broadband Tops 5.75 Million Internet Subscribers

21st Oct 2015 (0 Comments)

Sky has today published the company’s latest results for Q3 2015, which reveals that their Sky Broadband division in the UK and Ireland added another +133,000 Internet subscribers in the quarter to total more than 5.75 million (up from the +96,000 added during Q2).

ISP Gigaclear Brings 1Gbps FTTP Broadband to 10000 Rural UK Premises

21st Oct 2015 (4 Comments)

Fibre optic ISP Gigaclear, which specialises in deploying 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband services to rural communities across the United Kingdom, has officially expanded their network to cover 10,000 premises and they intend to hit 20,000 by the end of 2015.

Cheshire UK Begins Expanded Phase 2 BT “Fibre Broadband” Rollout

21st Oct 2015 (0 Comments)

At the end of last year the Connecting Cheshire project in England signed a new £6m Superfast Extension Programme contract to bring BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) services to a further 10,000 premises by summer 2017 (here). Work on this has now started, with a rough roll-out plan also being published.

Vodafone UK Tells London – Give us Access to your Rooftops for 4G

21st Oct 2015 (4 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has called on London’s many councils to help them gain access to the roof-tops of 1,000 buildings across the capital, which would enabled them to deliver improved coverage of the latest 4G (LTE) based mobile broadband and voice services.

BT and Alcatel-Lucent Hit 5600Mbps Broadband Using XG-FAST Tech

20th Oct 2015 (61 Comments)

Forget BT’s plan to deploy “ultrafast” 300-500Mbps capable G.fast broadband technology to 10 million UK premises by 2020 (here). Today the operator has joined with Alcatel-Lucent to test future XG.FAST (G.fast2) technology, which under lab conditions has just pushed aggregate speeds of 5.6Gbps over 35 metres of copper cable.

Three UK to Boost 4G Mobile Broadband Speeds by 50 Percent

20th Oct 2015 (12 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has announced that their 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband speeds are now being boosted by up to 50% across the United Kingdom.

Virgin Media UK Confirms 300Mbps Broadband Package.. for SMEs

20th Oct 2015 (15 Comments)

Last month Virgin Media dashed hopes a little by increasing their top cable (EuroDOCSIS3) broadband speeds from 152Mbps to 200Mbps, which was below the long predicted rate of 300Mbps (here). But the ISP has today confirmed that a 300Mbps service will come, albeit initially only for businesses.

Cityfibre Waives up to GBP2500 in Fibre Optic Connection Fees

20th Oct 2015 (3 Comments)

Cityfibre, which is deploying ultrafast Gigabit-capable fibre optic (FTTP) broadband networks across a growing number of UK cities, has moved to soften the loss of the Government’s Connection Voucher scheme by waiving their connections fees for three weeks.

UK Businesses Seek “Ultrafast” Broadband to Overcome Obstacles

20th Oct 2015 (0 Comments)

Virgin Media Business has published a new research report from Oxford Economics, which hints that an extra £92bn and 1 million jobs could be added to the UK economy if businesses fully embraced the power of digital communications. One of the biggest boosts could come from faster broadband.

Sckipio Squeezes 2Gbps Broadband Out of G.fast over Copper Lines

20th Oct 2015 (1 Comment)

Israel-based Sckipio has made several announcements at the start of this week’s Broadband World Forum event, not least with their ability to squeeze a broadband speed of 2000Mbps out of the new G.fast (ITU G.9701) technology that BT are also preparing to roll-out. But there’s a catch.

Wessex Internet Bring Superfast Broadband to Rural Hilton in Dorset

19th Oct 2015 (1 Comment)

Rural ISP Wessex Internet (M12 Solutions) has announced that their alternative hybrid superfast wireless broadband (50Mbps) and fibre optic network has been expanded to cater for residents of a small rural village in Dorset (England) called Hilton.

WiFi Kettles in London Found Leaking Home Network Passwords

19th Oct 2015 (7 Comments)

Do you own one of those swanky, if not entirely necessary, Kettles with built-in WiFi (e.g. iKettle)? The chances are that you don’t, but if you did then you’d need to be careful because ethical hackers in London are showing just how easy it is to steal your home network key (PSK).

Vodafone UK Tells Ofcom to Make “bold structural” Changes to BT

19th Oct 2015 (10 Comments)

Telecoms giant Vodafone has today published a detailed summary of their submission to Ofcom’s Strategic Review, which is considering whether or not to separate BT from control of their national UK telecoms network (Openreach). Unsurprisingly the mobile giant is in favour of big changes.