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ISP News Archives for October 2015

Zen Internet, Giffgaff and Three UK Pick-up Customer Experience Awards

14th Oct 2015 (2 Comments)

Broadband and telecoms operators Zen Internet, Giffgaff and Three UK have all recently picked up several gold (winner) and silver (runner-up) gongs at the annual UK Customer Experience Awards 2015 event.

UPD Vodafone, TalkTalk and Sky Deliver Last Minute BT Pinata Bashing

14th Oct 2015 (24 Comments)

The on-going attempts to turn BT into a pinata continue this week as both Vodafone and Sky (Sky Broadband) have taken another opportunity to prod the telecoms giant ahead of Ofcom’s Strategic Review decision, with one demanding a national Gigabit broadband network and the other attacking the operator’s excess profits.

Marketers Complain of Emails Being Blocked as SPAM by UK ISPs

14th Oct 2015 (4 Comments)

A new study by Return Path has decried the otherwise welcome fact that commercial marketers are finding it harder and harder to push their annoying emails into your inbox. For example, 82% of commercial emails reached their intended UK recipients this year, which is down from 87% in 2014.

UK ISP Vispa Launches New Site and Unlimited Broadband Products

14th Oct 2015 (4 Comments)

Internet provider Vispa appears to have today emerged from a lengthy period of restructuring by launching a new website. The ISP has also refreshed their somewhat tired range of broadband services with a new set of “Truly Unlimited” (no traffic throttling) options.

Vodafone Expand 3G Mobile Open Sure Signal to First Scottish Village

13th Oct 2015 (4 Comments)

Vodafone has announced that their Rural Open Sure Signal (ROSS100) technology, which makes use of fixed line broadband connections in order to boost local outdoor 3G mobile signals (femtocell), has been expanded to reach its first community in Scotland – Tarbert on the Isle of Harris.

UK Government SUSPENDS Broadband Connection Voucher Scheme

13th Oct 2015 (16 Comments)

The Government’s Connection Voucher scheme has been suspended to new applications as funding dries up. The vouchers gifted grants worth up to £3,000 to help smaller businesses in 50 UK cities get a superfast broadband (30Mbps+) service installed.

Parent of London Wireless Broadband ISP Relish Suffers GBP37.5m Loss

13th Oct 2015 (1 Comment)

The generically named UK Broadband Ltd., a sibling of Hong Kong based telecoms firm PCCW (HKT) and the company behind London fixed wireless ISP Relish, has reportedly been given one year to turn itself around after losses for 2014 quadrupled to £37.5m on a turnover of just £1.5m vs £2m in 2013.

Skyenet Expands Rural Wireless Broadband Service on the Isle of Skye

13th Oct 2015 (0 Comments)

Skyenet, a rural community project that delivers fixed wireless broadband services to Aird, Achnacloich, Tokavaig, Ord and Drumfearn on the remote Isle of Skye in Scotland, has announced that their network will soon be expanded to include Heaste in the south of Sky and other Sleat villages.

UK ISP Direct Save Telecom Creates 50 Jobs at New Watford Office

12th Oct 2015 (1 Comment)

Budget ISP Direct Save Telecom has today announced the further expansion of their business by expanding into new offices in the centre of Watford (Hertfordshire), which will also result in the creation of 50 new local jobs.

Slow Public WiFi Hotspots Pervade London’s Busiest 5 Airports

12th Oct 2015 (0 Comments)

A new survey has examined the real-world performance of FREE public wireless Internet (WiFi) hotspots at five of the busiest airports around the Greater London area and found that most struggle to deliver more than a handful of Megabits (Mbps).

Vodafone Expand Home Broadband and Phone to 22M UK Premises

12th Oct 2015 (3 Comments)

Telecoms operator Vodafone has today announced that their new fixed line home broadband and phone packages, which were initially launched with limited coverage, have now become available to customers in any of 22 million premises across the United Kingdom.

UPDATE House of Commons Debate UK Superfast Broadband Rollout

12th Oct 2015 (10 Comments)

The House of Commons (Westminster) will today debate the Government’s national Broadband Delivery UK programme (dominated by BT contracts) and related commitments to improve mobile network coverage at 3pm in the Commons Chamber. But it probably won’t result in much change.

BT and Virgin Media – The Excess Marketing Letter SPAM Kings

12th Oct 2015 (18 Comments)

Mirror mirror on the wall, which of the biggest broadband ISPs sends the most marketing junk of them all? The latest survey of 1,139 ISPreview.co.uk readers has revealed that nearly all receive ISP marketing mail through their letter boxes at home, but some suffer significantly more junk than others.

UPDATE Hackers Start to Exploit New NETGEAR Router Security Flaws

10th Oct 2015 (3 Comments)

Consumers who own any one of several NETGEAR broadband router models (JNR1010v2, JNR3000, JWNR2000v5, JWNR2010v5, N300, R3250, WNR2020, WNR614, WNR618) could be vulnerable to two new exploits that may allow a remote attacker to gain full control of your device.

Stealth Price Rise – Sneaky TalkTalk Scraps Speedy Payment Discount

10th Oct 2015 (9 Comments)

It’s become increasingly difficult this year to describe TalkTalk as a “low cost” broadband provider, what with so many sharp price rises stealing our headlines. But now customers are about to lose yet another benefit with the ISP quietly moving to scrap their 10% Speedy Payment Discount.

UPDATE2 BT Resuscitate 330Mbps Fibre-on-Demand Broadband in Wales

10th Oct 2015 (66 Comments)

BTOpenreach has told ISPreview.co.uk that their premium “ultrafast” 330Mbps capable Fibre-on-Demand (FoD / FTTPoD) broadband service has now become available for all exchanges in Wales (albeit only for those who can already receive an FTTC line), but you still can’t order it.

North East Somerset ISP TrueSpeed Bring 100Mb FTTP Network to Priston

9th Oct 2015 (1 Comment)

TrueSpeed Communications (formerly Wansdyke Telecom), which earlier this year pledged to roll-out a new 1Gbps capable pure fibre optic (FTTP) broadband network to parts of rural North East Somerset and possibly Wiltshire, has announced that Priston will be the first village to benefit.