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ISP News Archives for November 2015

UK Court Defers DRIPA Internet Snooping Appeal to CJEU

20th Nov 2015 (3 Comments)

The Government’s appeal to overturn an earlier ruling against their Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIP), which found the legislation to be unlawful, has today been given a boost after the decision was formally passed on to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

The UK Fastest 3G and 4G Mobile Broadband Operators in Major Cities

20th Nov 2015 (5 Comments)

RootMetrics have today published their latest H2 2015 report into the Mobile Broadband (3G and 4G) performance of EE, Three UK, Vodafone and O2 across nine of the United Kingdom’s primary cities, which reveals that EE is still the fastest overall provider.. but not in all of the cities.

ITS Tech Offer to Buy Struggling Fibre GarDen Cumbria Broadband Project

20th Nov 2015 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group has offered to buy the Digital Dales (Fibre GarDen) project, which was hoping to deploy an ultrafast FTTP broadband network to the rural Cumbria (England) villages of Garsdale and Dentdale until it was stalled by funding problems and a contractor dispute (here and here).

GTC Deploy 300Mbps Broadband to Cumbria’s Story Homes Development

19th Nov 2015 (0 Comments)

Utility infrastructure provider GTC, which last year made their 300Mbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network the standard broadband technology across all of their future new build homes (here), has confirmed that they’re now rolling out to the new Story Homes development in West Cumbria (England).

UK Broadband Provider AAISP Suffers Strong DDoS Assault

19th Nov 2015 (1 Comment)

Internet provider Andrews and Arnold (AAISP) appears to have become the target for a semi-sporadic Distributed Denial of Service assault (DNS reflection), which began hitting their network yesterday and has caused some of their customers to lose connection.

UPDATE Uncertainty for BT as Ofcom Lift Sky’s Pay TV Sport Regulation

19th Nov 2015 (9 Comments)

The 2010 decision that helped to grow BT’s broadband based TV business, which involved Ofcom imposing regulation that required Sky to offer wholesale access (“Wholesale Must Offer“) to their Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 channels (at prices set by the regulator), has today been removed.

A Snapshot of Home Broadband Traffic on Gigaclear’s FTTP Network

18th Nov 2015 (19 Comments)

Rural fibre optic ISP Gigaclear, which this week announced plans to launch a new 5000Mbps service during early 2016 (here), has today revealed a few interesting bites of information about data traffic on their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network.

Hull ISP KC Business Offers GBP1000 Installation Discount

18th Nov 2015 (5 Comments)

The business division of Hull’s incumbent telecoms operator, KC, has confirmed that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that wish to connect with their new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based Lightstream broadband network can now get an installation discount of up to £1,000.

UPDATE Sky Broadband Launch New Sky Q Hub Router and Internet TV

18th Nov 2015 (5 Comments)

Sky (Sky Broadband) has today soft launched a new range of devices and a more dynamic approach to distributing TV content, both online and via Satellite, through the launch of their next-generation entertainment and Internet system called Sky Q (available in the UK from early 2016).

ASA Ban Misleading “FREE” BT Sport TV and Broadband Bundle Adverts

18th Nov 2015 (1 Comment)

Several members of the public and Sky (Sky Broadband) have succeeded in getting the Advertising Standards Authority to ban a press, website, poster and TV ad for BT’s various TV and broadband bundles, all of which claimed that BTSport was “free” even though there were caveats and contradictions galore.

Ofcom Slap BT for Bad Billing of GBP1.7m from EE Merger to Openreach

18th Nov 2015 (4 Comments)

Rivals are today hoping that BT may have dented its position in Ofcom’s on-going Strategic Review after the UK telecoms regulator revealed that the operator had billed £1.7m from part of their EE mobile merger to its “functionally separate” Openreach division, which was called “inappropriate“.

Limavady Town Centre Covered by New FREE WiFi Network

18th Nov 2015 (0 Comments)

The town centre of Limavady in Londonderry (Northern Ireland) has been covered by a new free street-based public WiFi hotspot network that reaches through Main Street, Market Street, Catherine Street and Linenhall Street.

Small Changes as BSG Stiffens UK ISP Open Internet Code of Practice

17th Nov 2015 (0 Comments)

The Broadband Stakeholders Group, a think-tank for UK government policy, has today completed a review of its Voluntary Open Internet and Traffic Management Codes of Practice for ISPs and proposed a number of changes to help keep the commitments in line with Europe’s new Net Neutrality stance.

UPD2 Plusnet Launch New HUB ONE “Fibre” Router and Self-Install FTTC

17th Nov 2015 (20 Comments)

Low cost ISP Plusnet has announced the introduction of a new Hub One router for their “fibre broadband” (FTTC) customers, which features the latest AC spec WiFi and also allows them to offer a self-install service like most of the other big ISPs have already been doing.

Golden Eye Targets Sky Broadband Customers with Piracy Threat Letters

17th Nov 2015 (9 Comments)

Customers of Sky Broadband will soon become the latest to be targeted by Golden Eye International (part of the ‘Ben Dover’ porn brand), which intends to send letters to the ISPs subscribers that will demand compensation for the alleged sharing of copyright material on P2P file sharing networks.

Virgin Media Customers Suffer Days of Webmail and IMAP Woes

17th Nov 2015 (6 Comments)

Customers of Virgin Media’s cable broadband service, specifically some of those with ntlworld.com, blueyonder.co.uk and virginmedia.com based ‎email addresses, have since Friday been suffering from an intermittent problem that is hampering their access via the ISPs Webmail and IMAP system.

No Sign of UK as Europe Reveals their Top 5 Broadband Projects

17th Nov 2015 (1 Comment)

Last night in Brussels the European Commission announced the winners of their inaugural European Broadband Award event, which aimed to identify the unions top 5 “high-speed” (30Mbps+) broadband projects. Sadly none of the United Kingdom’s excellent projects made it on to the winners list.