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ISP News Archives for October 2015

Savills – Slow Broadband Makes it Harder to Rent Rural Property

19th Oct 2015 (0 Comments)

In a not entirely surprising study Savills, the global real estate provider, has found that broadband speed is now one of the primary considerations for those seeking to rent residential or commercial property in rural areas and poor connectivity can be a huge hindrance.

GO ON UK Campaign Maps Digital Exclusion and Broadband

19th Oct 2015 (11 Comments)

Charity Go ON UK has produced a new heatmap of Digital Exclusion across the United Kingdom, which contrasts the availability of broadband and digital skills with Internet usage in order to identify which Local Authorities are falling short. Unsurprisingly urban areas tend to do well, but there are some interesting twists.

ASK4 Bring 100Mbps Broadband to 5 New Student Housing Developments

17th Oct 2015 (0 Comments)

Sheffield-based ISP ASK4, which serves businesses as well as student accommodation and homes in multi-tenant buildings, has announced that five new UK student housing developments have gained access to their 100Mbps capable broadband service.

Giffgaff Win Best Mobile Provider for Customer Service, Vodafone Worst

17th Oct 2015 (6 Comments)

Mobile operator Giffgaff has been named as the best UK mobile network operator for customer service, with only 5% of respondents to a new survey rating them as “poor”. Unfortunately the bottom spots were occupied by Vodafone and EE.

Fibre GarDen Calls a HALT to Rural Cumbria FTTP Broadband Project

16th Oct 2015 (63 Comments)

Going nowhere fast. The Digital Dales (Fibre GarDen) project, which had been hoping to deploy a 100Mbps FTTP broadband network to 580 premises in the rural Cumbria (England) villages of Garsdale and Dentdale, has today ground to a halt over funding problems.

BBC iPlayer TV Service Starts to Block UK VPN Services

16th Oct 2015 (26 Comments)

In an effort to clampdown on Internet piracy the BBC has decided to block users of UK Virtual Private Networks (VPN) from being able to view their online iPlayer video streaming content, which has also restricted access for many legitimate users.

Global Fixed Broadband Lines Top 700 Million as Fibre Takes Over

16th Oct 2015 (0 Comments)

New data reveals that the world is now home to a total of 700 million broadband Internet lines (Q2 2015) and the dominance of pure copper line (ADSL) connections has now been replaced by significantly faster fibre optic (FTTH/P) and hybrid fibre (FTTC/x) services. But the regional picture is mixed.

ISP Hyperoptic Goes Live with 1000Mbps Broadband in Birmingham

16th Oct 2015 (2 Comments)

Pure fibre optic ISP Hyperoptic has announced that their Gigabit (1000Mbps) Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network is now live in the city of Birmingham, with Queens College Chambers being the first residential development in the middle of the city to benefit.

AAISP Trial 3dB ADSL Broadband on UK TalkTalk Wholesale Lines

16th Oct 2015 (2 Comments)

Internet provider Andrews and Arnold (AAISP) has announced that they’re going to trial a 3dB SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) profile on their TalkTalk Wholesale connected ADSL2+ lines, which could deliver increased speeds but only if your copper line is very short / stable enough to handle it.

Aylesbury Vale Broadband to Connect First 100Mbps FTTH Customers

16th Oct 2015 (17 Comments)

The £1.5m Aylesbury Vale Broadband project, which is currently deploying an ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network to the rural Buckinghamshire (England) villages of North Marston and Granborough, has announced that their first customers will go live next month.

UPDATE Boosty Trial Hybrid 4G and Home Broadband Speed Booster

15th Oct 2015 (4 Comments)

A new company called Boosty appears to have modified one of TP-Link’s Portable WiFi / 4G Routers to offer a new service that can combine Mobile Broadband networks with your existing fixed line Home Broadband connection in order to deliver faster speeds.

Unicom’s Parent Company Universal Utilities Renames to VERASTAR

15th Oct 2015 (7 Comments)

A few months ago Ofcom fined Unicom (Universal Utilities) £200,000 for misleading consumers over the sale of their fixed line telecommunications services (here) and so it’s perhaps worth pointing out that the ISPs parent company has just renamed itself to VERASTAR.

Urban Residents of Haydock in Merseyside Criticise Slow BT Broadband

15th Oct 2015 (32 Comments)

Residents of Ashbury Drive in Haydock (Merseyside, North West England) have launched a new campaign to secure better broadband connectivity for the area after their complaints were turned into a game of pass-the-buck by the local council and BTOpenreach.

Suffered a Difficult Broadband Cancellation? Ofcom Wants to Know

15th Oct 2015 (3 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, doesn’t normally handle individual consumer complaints, but in a rare move they’ve today called upon customers of broadband, phone and pay TV operators to send in feedback if they’ve recently tried to, or succeeded in, terminating their service contract.

Virgin Media Trials FREE 166Mbps WiFi Under Pavements in Chesham

15th Oct 2015 (3 Comments)

A few months ago we reported that Virgin Media were planning to roll-out a new network of FREE public WiFi Hotspots (here) around the UK and today we might be getting our first glimpse of that strategy as the operator begins installing wireless access points under the pavements in central Chesham (Buckinghamshire, England).

Vodafone UK Loses Another MVNO Client as Sainsbury’s Dropped

14th Oct 2015 (5 Comments)

A few months ago TalkTalk accused Vodafone of “withdrawing entirely from the [Mobile Virtual Network Operator] market” (here) and today we learn that Sainsbury’s, which entered into a similar MVNO agreement in 2013, has been unable to reach a deal for continued service.

Hertfordshire to Start Expanded Fibre Broadband Rollout 6 Months Early

14th Oct 2015 (3 Comments)

The Connected Counties project has announced that it will bring forward the start of their Superfast Extension Programme (SEP) contract in Hertfordshire by six months, which means that BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network should reach 98% coverage by June 2018 instead of 2019.