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ISP News Archives for December 2015

First Epping Forest Home is LIVE on Gigaclear’s FTTP Broadband Network

21st Dec 2015 (24 Comments)

After just three weeks of deployment Gigaclear has today confirmed that the first property (a house in the Ongar village of Bobbingworth) on their new 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the Epping Forest area of Essex (England) is now connected.

Internet Censorship Finally Gets its Own Error HTTP Status Code 451

21st Dec 2015 (2 Comments)

The Internet Engineering Steering Group, which is responsible for technical management of IETF activities and the Internet standards process, has approved the HTTP Status Code 451 (“Unavailable For Legal Reasons“) for use on websites / servers that have been blocked by a legal demand.

BT TV Becomes First UK Pay TV Service to Offer Netflix in Ultra HD

21st Dec 2015 (7 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT has announced that customers of their broadband and YouView (IPTV) based television platform will be the first in the Pay TV market to benefit from the ability to view Netflix’s 4K UltraHD video streams.

Northamptonshire UK Finish First Superfast Broadband Rollout Contract

21st Dec 2015 (5 Comments)

The first contract for the Superfast Northamptonshire project in England, which aimed to make BTOpenreach’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) network available to about 90% of premises by the end of 2015, has officially completed.

UK ISP Sky Broadband to Enable Net Censorship for ALL New Customers

21st Dec 2015 (2 Comments)

In a controversial move Sky Broadband has today announced that all new UK subscribers will soon have network-level filtering enabled by default when they sign-up (i.e. Parental Controls that block access to “adult” websites).

FREE WiFi Wireless Internet for All UK NHS Hospitals by 2020

21st Dec 2015 (8 Comments)

The Government has today pledged that every NHS Hospital in the United Kingdom will be able to provide staff, patients and visitors with a free WiFi (wireless Internet) hotspot connection by 2020.

Good Broadband Helps Fuel Halifax’s UK Top 50 Best Places to Live

18th Dec 2015 (9 Comments)

Halifax has published their fifth annual Quality of Life Survey, which reveals the top 50 best places to live (living standards) in the United Kingdom by looking at local health, employment, housing, education, personal well-being, crime rates, weather and of course broadband Internet connectivity etc.

UK ISP Zen Internet Criticises Lack of Detail in Internet Snooping Bill

18th Dec 2015 (13 Comments)

The Government’s new Internet Snooping ‘Investigatory Powers Bill‘ is very light on technical detail and being rushed into life so quickly that even now none of the major or minor ISPs seem to know what will actually be required of them, which is causing real concerns for providers like Zen Internet.

Sky UK XMAS Deal – 12 Months FREE Unlimited Broadband or £5 for Fibre

18th Dec 2015 (0 Comments)

Sky Broadband informs that they will today launch a Christmas and New Year offer on their ‘up to’ 17Mbps unlimited broadband package, which will make the service free for the first 12 months (£10 a month thereafter) and they’re also throwing in a £50 M&S e-voucher. Elsewhere Sky Fibre (up to 38Mbps) is also being cut to just £5 per month.

UK ISP Entanet Hails Strong Year of Growth

17th Dec 2015 (3 Comments)

Shropshire-based Entanet, which supplies broadband and other communications services to a number of UK ISPs and businesses, has today said that they’re on-course to achieve their £32 million year-on-year turnover goal and have had a broadly good year of growth.

EE Finally Recalls ALL Exploding UK Power Bar Battery Packs

17th Dec 2015 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator EE has finally wised-up to the fact that handing out millions of free portable Smartphone battery chargers (“Power Bars“) to their customers, some of which exploded (here), might not have been the best idea and they’re now recalling ALL of them.. as a “precaution.” Now here’s £20 to shut you up.

UK Gov Gifts Extra £2m for 100Mbps Broadband in Rural Gloucestershire

17th Dec 2015 (2 Comments)

The UK Government has allocated £2 million of additional public investment from a new fund to help improve the coverage of ultrafast broadband (100Mbps+) services in rural areas around Gloucestershire (England), with a particular focus on poorly served parts in the Forest of Dean.

First West Berkshire Premises Live on Gigaclear’s 1Gbps FTTP Broadband

16th Dec 2015 (0 Comments)

A local retailer and restaurant in Hungerford are two of the first premises in West Berkshire (England) to benefit from the roll-out of Gigaclear’s new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which aims to cover around 12,000 homes and businesses by the end of 2017.

MS3 Gives Wireless Broadband ISP Quickline a Fibre Optic Boost in Hull

16th Dec 2015 (0 Comments)

Internet provider Quickline, which offers a fixed wireless broadband service to homes and businesses in a number of UK regions, has signed a new deal to make use of MS3‘s dark fibre optic network in Hull (East Yorkshire, England) that should help to boost their service speeds at strategic locations.

UK Home Broadband ISP Users Shun Adult Internet Content Filters

16th Dec 2015 (6 Comments)

A new report from Ofcom has revealed that the vast majority of fixed line home broadband ISP subscribers have, after being given an “enforced” choice, chosen not to implement their provider’s network-level filtering (Parental Controls), which are designed to block adult websites (porn etc.).

BT Openreach Launch New 55Mbps FTTC and FTTP Broadband Speed

16th Dec 2015 (28 Comments)

In a surprise move BTOpenreach has today unveiled a new middle tier bandwidth product for their Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) and Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based “fibre broadband” services, which offers download speeds of up to 55Mbps and uploads of 10Mbps.

UK Average Broadband Speeds in Q3 2015 Hit 13Mbps vs 5.1Mbps Globally

16th Dec 2015 (3 Comments)

Akamai has released their latest State of the Internet Q3 2015 (SotI) report, which states that the world’s average fixed line broadband download speed is 5.1Mbps (unchanged from Q2), which compares with 13Mbps in the United Kingdom (up from 11.8Mbps). Elsewhere the UK’s overall country ranking has rebounded from 19th to 14th.