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17th Nov 2015 (28 Comments)

Forget the battle over that 10Mbps USO or the Government’s 24Mbps+ “superfast” target and who cares about “ultrafast” 100Mbps+ speeds? Yes you can forget all that because rural fibre optic ISP Gigaclear are about to add a 5000Mbps (5Gbps) broadband package to their options.

17th Nov 2015 (7 Comments)

Comparison site Cable.co.uk has announced the winners of their inaugural Broadband Awards 2015, which saw Plusnet grab more wins across different categories than any other ISP. But there were also some wins in different areas for Virgin Media, Sky Broadband, Zen Internet and a few other providers.

16th Nov 2015 (7 Comments)

Last month the Government’s Connection Voucher scheme, which gifted grants of up to £3,000 to help smaller UK businesses get a superfast broadband (30Mbps+) service installed, came to an end after funding dried up (here) and today we learn that a total of 55,000 SMEs have benefited.

16th Nov 2015 (22 Comments)

The publicly funded Aylesbury Vale Broadband project, which is deploying a Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network across the rural Buckinghamshire (England) villages of North Marston and Granborough, is facing an official complaint from a nearby wireless ISP.

16th Nov 2015 (0 Comments)

The South Gloucestershire Council in England has confirmed that its second state aid supported £1.54m contract with BTOpenreach has now entered into the deployment phase, which should put their “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network within reach of an extra 1,800+ local homes and businesses.

16th Nov 2015 (8 Comments)

In a surprise move BT has confirmed that the Chief Executive Officer of their Openreach division, Joe Garner, is step down in order to take on the same role at the Nationwide Building Society. The switch comes at a pivotal point for the telecoms giant, which is facing the possibility of a split from BT group.

14th Nov 2015 (4 Comments)

The manager of Vodafone’s fixed line network, Sean Teggart, claims that 80% of incidents involving broken fibre optic cables on their network are attributable to UK street works, while the rest can be caused by everything from shotgun wielding farmers to cable hungry rats.

13th Nov 2015 (18 Comments)

Politics in Worcestershire (England) can sometimes be messy, although one local councillor has now taken it to another level by saying that the use of state aid funding to improve broadband connectivity would only help people who choose to “live out in the sticks with the badgers and rabbits“.

13th Nov 2015 (4 Comments)

As a CEO there are probably some things you shouldn’t say so soon after leaving your customers reeling from another round of price rises (here). Never the less Sky’s boss, Jeremy Darroch, has warned that growing competition from BT and Netflix won’t stop it raising prices again.

13th Nov 2015 (0 Comments)

Customers of EE’s TV (IPTV) service, which is usually taken alongside their fixed line broadband and phone bundles, should note that the ISP has just added 25 premium channels (Discovery, British Eurosport, Cartoon Network, HISTORY, Sony Movies etc.) as part of a new deal with TVPlayer.

13th Nov 2015 (17 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which is responsible for maintaining / managing access to BT’s national UK telecoms and broadband network, has added a new “Fibre Index” page to their website that adds a small amount of extra information about broadband usage on their network.

13th Nov 2015 (2 Comments)

The county of Cheshire in England, specifically the Connecting Cheshire project that is working to deploy “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) services to reach the vast majority of the region by summer 2017, has confirmed that clawback from BT will return £3.4m to help further boost coverage.

12th Nov 2015 (3 Comments)

BT’s Consumer division has once again reduced the prices of their ‘up to’ 17Mbps unlimited broadband and superfast ‘up to’ 38Mbps BTInfinity packages, with both now starting at £5 and £10 per month respectively for the first 12 months of service. Sainsbury’s vouchers worth up to £100 are also included.

12th Nov 2015 (0 Comments)

The City of Cardiff and surrounding regions in the South East of Wales have today jointly proposed a major new City Deal to the UK Government, which could be worth up to £1.28 billion and would hopefully see big improvements to local transport and possibly also digital infrastructure.

12th Nov 2015 (32 Comments)

The Government’s Broadband Delivery UK initiative, which is primarily working with BT to make fixed line superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services available to 95% of the United Kingdom by 2017/18, has ended Q3 2015 by confirming that 3,311,843 extra premises have now benefited from the effort.

12th Nov 2015 (3 Comments)

The Onlincolnshire project, which is working to roll-out FTTC/P based “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) services to “at least” 89% of all premises in Lincolnshire (England) by April 2016, has confirmed that clawback from BT will result in £4.6m being returned to help further boost coverage.

12th Nov 2015 (0 Comments)

The incumbent East Yorkshire (England) telecoms operator, KC, has confirmed that 5,000 homes and businesses in East Hull have just been added to their on-going “Lightstream” fibre optic broadband (FTTP/C) roll-out project, which aims to reach more than 105,000 premises passed by March 2017.

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