Home » UK ISP News Archive » Monthly Archives: November 2015 (109 Posts Found)

ISP News Archives for November 2015

Ofcom Opens Wider Investigation of BT Openreach’s Ethernet Delays

6th Nov 2015 (20 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator has today decided to launch a wider investigation after Vodafone complained that BTOpenreach had failed to meet its obligations to them by both “delaying provision” of its Ethernet (high-capacity data line) services without their consent and then “failing to compensate“.

North Devon Villages Petition Culture Secretary for Faster Broadband

6th Nov 2015 (2 Comments)

Residents from three small rural villages in North Devon (Filleigh, East Buckland and West Buckland) have joined forces in order to hand a petition to the Government’s Culture Secretary, John Whittingdale MP, in the hopes of using it bring faster broadband services into the area.

Cable Operator Virgin Media Tops 4.625 Million Broadband Users

6th Nov 2015 (6 Comments)

Cable Internet, phone and TV provider Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has published their results to the end of Q3 2015, which reveals that they added +55,500 (net) UK broadband customers in the quarter to make for a total of 4,625,800 (43% take their 100Mbps+ services).

UK ISP TalkTalk Now Says Only 156,959 Customers Affected by Hack

6th Nov 2015 (4 Comments)

At the end of last week TalkTalk informed their broadband and phone customers that “less than” 1.2 million customer email addresses, names and phone numbers had been compromised by the cyber-attack on their website (here), but today this has been sharply revised down to the figure of 156,959.

Rory Stewart MP Questions the Higher Cost of UK Rural Broadband

6th Nov 2015 (21 Comments)

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for DEFRA and Conservative MP for Penrith and The Borders (Cumbria), Rory Stewart, has spoken of his concern for the “unjust situation” where people in rural areas can be forced to pay more for a slower broadband ISP package than their urban counterparts.

Gigaclear Begin Rollout of 1Gbps FTTP Broadband in West Berkshire UK

5th Nov 2015 (1 Comment)

Fibre optic ISP Gigaclear has today officially begun the roll-out of their new 1000Mbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to parts of remote rural West Berkshire in England, which should benefit around 12,000 homes and businesses by the end of 2017.

EE UK Offer 500MB of FREE PAYG Mobile Broadband Data Every Month

5th Nov 2015 (1 Comment)

Telecoms operator EE Mobile has launched a special Christmas promotion for their new Pay As You Go (PAYG) customers, which will give subscribers 500MB (MegaBytes) of free data every month for a year. On top of that they’ve included a £10 Google Play voucher.

Specs for the NEW Virgin Media SuperHub 3 Cable Broadband Router – Adds VoIP

5th Nov 2015 (17 Comments)

Liberty Global, which owns Virgin Media in the United Kingdom, has today confirmed that they’ve started the roll-out of a new cable broadband router (SuperHub 3), which can also act as a VoIP based telephone gateway, to their European and UK operators.

Quickline Expand 50Mb Wireless Broadband in Lincolnshire via Upton Mast

5th Nov 2015 (0 Comments)

Internet provider Quickline has confirmed the installation of a new fixed wireless network mast in the small rural Lincolnshire (England) village of Upton (West Lindsey), which should deliver superfast broadband speeds of up to 50Mbps to the surrounding area.

Gigaclear Details Full Gloucestershire FTTP Broadband Rollout Schedule

5th Nov 2015 (1 Comment)

Gigaclear has already started the build of their new 1000Mbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in rural Gloucestershire (England) and they’ve now published the full roll-out schedule for that deployment, which should benefit 6,495 premises by the end of May 2017.

Nottinghamshire UK Details Extended “Fibre Broadband” Rollout Plan

5th Nov 2015 (0 Comments)

The Better Broadband for Nottinghamshire scheme in England has revealed a more detailed roll-out plan for their second state aid supported “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) contract with BTOpenreach, which will extend the service to another 17,000 premises by Spring 2018 (98% coverage).

BT Tweaks UK Phone Call Clearing Procedure Again to Stop Fraudsters

4th Nov 2015 (5 Comments)

BT has once again tweaked their national telecoms network in order to significantly reduce the time that a phone call connection can be held open (active) after the called party puts their handset down (i.e. such as when you end a voice call), which could make life more difficult for fraudsters.

UK Gov Publish New ISP Internet Snooping Investigatory Powers Bill

4th Nov 2015 (10 Comments)

The Home Office has published the first draft of its new Investigatory Powers Bill, which marks the third attempt to expand the United Kingdom’s Internet snooping laws by forcing ISPs into logging a bigger slice of everybody’s online activity; irrespective of whether or not you’ve committed a crime.

UPDATE Government Inquiry as Fourth Person Arrested for TalkTalk Hack

4th Nov 2015 (0 Comments)

British police have arrested a fourth person, a 16 year old boy from Norwich, in connection with the recent cyber-attack on TalkTalk’s website (here), which resulted in the personal details of 1.2 million broadband ISP customers being stolen by Internet criminals.

BT Tries to Prove its Indispensable – Shows GBP18bn UK Economic Boost

4th Nov 2015 (28 Comments)

BT has launched a new salvo in its efforts to defend against calls for them to be split from control of their national telecoms network by highlighting the results of an “independent” study, which found that the operator is responsible for generating £1 in every £80 produced in the United Kingdom.

Advocates of Fibre Optic Broadband Hail Gimme Fibre Day 2015

4th Nov 2015 (48 Comments)

Do you want to see the United Kingdom replacing all of its ageing copper telecoms cable with high-capacity pure fibre optic lines (FTTH/P), which can delivery ultrafast Gigabit broadband speeds? If so then you should probably lend your support to today’s annual Gimme Fibre Day 2015 event.

North Yorkshire UK Makes Progress on Phase 3 Fibre Broadband Plan

3rd Nov 2015 (5 Comments)

The Superfast North Yorkshire scheme in England, which is working with BTOpenreach to make FTTC/P based superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services available to around 90% of local premises by late 2016, looks to have finally agreed some solid details for a future expansion to reach 95%.