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ISP News Archives for February 2016

Virgin Media Campaign Hunts for Cable Broadband Expansion Areas

29th Feb 2016 (8 Comments)

Cable TV and ultrafast broadband provider Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has launched a new “Supercharging Local Communities” initiative, which is simply another way of encouraging people and communities to register their interest in potentially being covered by the operators £3bn network expansion.

BT Community Scheme Helps 25,000 UK Premises Get Fibre Broadband

29th Feb 2016 (24 Comments)

BTOpenreach has announced that their ‘Community Fibre Partnerships‘, which involve working with residents of isolated communities in order to upgrade their local connectivity, will soon have brought “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) services to an extra 25,000 UK homes and businesses.

UPDATE eBay UK Problems Strike BT and Sky Broadband Customers

29th Feb 2016 (11 Comments)

Customers of BT and Sky Broadband, specifically those that have been buying and selling products via the popular eBay UK website, appear to be complaining about problems when using and accessing the auction service.

IoD Demands 10,000Mbps Ultrafast Broadband to Cover UK by 2030

29th Feb 2016 (39 Comments)

Not an iceberg’s chance in hell. The Institute of Directors, which represents around 35,000 business leaders and directors, has called on the Government to go beyond their current ambition to deliver a Universal Service Obligation of 10Mbps broadband for all by 2020 and take us to 10,000Mbps by 2030.

Businesses Say Infrastructure Commission Needs TEETH to Help 5G Mobile

29th Feb 2016 (1 Comment)

The Confederation of British Industry has called on the UK Government to give the new Infrastructure Commission “strong teeth” so that it can overcome political obstacles and focus on long-term planning to facilitate the roll-out of future 5G mobile broadband and other improvements.

A Closer Look at Ofcom’s Proposed BT Openreach Duct and Pole Access

28th Feb 2016 (22 Comments)

One of the key changes in last week’s Strategic Review, which saw Ofcom move to increase the separation between BT and the division responsible for its UK phone and broadband network (Openreach), was the proposal to introduce a new wholesale Duct and Pole Access (DPA) solution to help ISPs build alternative networks.

Virgin Media Bring Symmetric 100Mbps to 2,000 Birmingham Businesses

26th Feb 2016 (49 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media Business (Liberty Global) has announced that 2,000 businesses in 250 buildings in the city of Birmingham (England) will soon be able to receive “equal upload download speeds of 100Mbps” thanks to their on-going network expansion.

Zen Internet Ranked 56th in the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies

26th Feb 2016 (4 Comments)

Rochdale-based UK ISP Zen Internet has been ranked 56th in the 2016 Sunday Times list of the 100 Best Companies, which ranks firms by the happiness and motivation of their workforce.

UK Declines in European Ranking of Mobile and Broadband Connectivity

26th Feb 2016 (6 Comments)

The European Commission has published their 2016 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), which sees the United Kingdom’s country ranking for mobile and fixed line broadband connectivity fall from 4th to 6th place; mostly because other countries are improving at a faster pace.

Major UK ISPs to Appeal Website Blocks for Trade Mark Abuse

25th Feb 2016 (10 Comments)

Several major broadband ISPs including BT, Sky Broadband, EE, TalkTalk and Virgin Media will in April go to the Court of Appeal (London) in order to argue against a 2014 ruling by the High Court, which extended court ordered website blocks to include sites that sell counterfeit goods (abuse of Trade Mark).

UPD7 Ofcom Confirm NO Openreach Split from BT, But Change is Coming

25th Feb 2016 (72 Comments)

The telecoms regulator has today published its preliminary proposals as part of a major Strategic Review of the United Kingdom’s Digital Communications market, but the big news is they’ve decided NOT to completely split BT from its national broadband and phone network (Openreach).

Government Opens Review to Improve Business Access to Broadband

24th Feb 2016 (33 Comments)

The UK Government Departments for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) have today jointly launched a new review that aims to specifically look at increasing the level of “affordable and high quality fibre broadband” available to businesses.

Swansea Propose Better Broadband as Part of GBP500m City Deal

24th Feb 2016 (1 Comment)

The city and county of Swansea (Wales) has today proposed a new £500m City Deal to the Government that could improve local health, business, energy and broadband services, not least by supporting a new transatlantic fibre optic cable with North America.

ITS Technology Opens UK Ultrafast Fibre Networks to Wholesale

24th Feb 2016 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group has made their growing collection of “ultrafast fibre networks“, which are spread out in various locations across the United Kingdom, available to partners as part of a wholesale solution and on a 45 day lead time for service.

PlusNet Extends FREE Unlimited Broadband Offer to 18 Months

24th Feb 2016 (3 Comments)

UK ISP Plusnet has extended their 12 months free unlimited broadband (up to 17Mbps) promotion for new subscribers to last for a total of 18 months (£9.99 per month thereafter), although you still have to pay the usual line rental charge on top of that.

BT Pledge Over GBP1bn to Boost UK Broadband, But is it New Money

24th Feb 2016 (40 Comments)

The CEO of BT Group, Gavin Patterson, has made a final plea ahead of tomorrow’s Strategic Review outcome and informed the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona (Spain) that he would “significantly” increase investment (£1bn+) in order to further improve national broadband connectivity.

UPDATE Entanet Laments Loss of Openreach Approved VDSL Modems

23rd Feb 2016 (15 Comments)

Shropshire-based communications provider Entanet has today warned of the “potential for confusion and misunderstandings” when BTOpenreach finally withdraws its VDSL Modem from their own FTTC “fibre broadband” installation service at the end of March 2016.