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ISP News Archives for February 2016

CableLabs is One Step Closer to 10Gbps Full Duplex DOCSIS3.1 Broadband

18th Feb 2016 (6 Comments)

Cable operators like Virgin Media (Liberty Global) are slowly gearing up to launch trials of their new DOCSIS 3.1 technology, which could push peak download speeds to 10Gbps (1Gbps upload). But now CableLabs claims to have proven the “viability” of a symmetrical 10Gbps using the same standard.

UPDATE Centre for Policy Studies Calls for Ofcom to Initiate BT Breakup

17th Feb 2016 (44 Comments)

The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) has joined a growing chorus of people and organisations calling for BT to be separated from control of their national UK broadband and phone (Openreach) network, which the group suggests could “provide a market with a level playing field between all players.”

Sky Allows BT TV to Use Sky Sports 1 and 2 on a Non-Reciprocal Basis

17th Feb 2016 (0 Comments)

Ofcom has finally closed a 2013 complaint by BT, which alleged that Sky was abusing a dominant position by making wholesale supply of Sky Sports 1 / 2 (TV channels) to BT’s YouView (IPTV) platform conditional on BT wholesaling their BTSport channels to Sky for retail on their satellite platform.

UPDATE UK Still Absent on World Ultrafast FTTH Broadband Ranking

17th Feb 2016 (14 Comments)

The FTTH Council Europe, which campaigns for the adoption of ultrafast Gigabit (1000Mbps+) capable Fibre-to-the-Home broadband technology, has published its latest global ranking of FTTH/P/B progress and unsurprisingly the United Kingdom still doesn’t even make it to the list.

UPDATE Scotland UK Reveals its Next “Fibre Broadband” Rollout Areas

17th Feb 2016 (6 Comments)

The £410 million Digital Scotland project has so far helped to make BT’s “high-speed fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network available to an additional 115,000 premises and this week the next batch of upgrade areas have been confirmed, including for the remote Highlands and Islands region.

ISP Aylesbury Vale Broadband Extends 300Mbps FTTH to Granborough

17th Feb 2016 (4 Comments)

The publicly funded Aylesbury Vale Broadband project, which last year rolled out a 300Mbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network to the rural Buckinghamshire (England) village of North Marston, has this week announced that they’ve commenced the 3km extension to reach Granborough.

GTC Bring FTTH Broadband to New Homes in London and High Wycombe

16th Feb 2016 (0 Comments)

Utility infrastructure provider GTC has announced that their 300Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network is being deployed across two new build developments in London and High Wycombe, which should benefit 445 homes.

Virgin Media Tops 4.69 Million Broadband Users and Extends 300Mbps

16th Feb 2016 (18 Comments)

Cable Internet and TV provider Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has published their results for Q4 2015 and revealed that they added +69,100 broadband users in the quarter to make for a total of 4,694,900 (up from the +55,500 added in Q3 2015). The new 300Mbps service will also be extended to “Home Workers“.

Whoopsie – BT Openreach Advert Claims UK Invented the Internet

16th Feb 2016 (3 Comments)

Most people with IT knowledge know that the Internet stemmed from a 1960’s project in the United States (ARPANET), but apparently nobody told BTOpenreach (you know.. that company responsible for phone and Internet services) after one of their adverts hailed the UK as the “country that invented the internet“. Oops.

Telecoms Gripes Created 8.3 Million UK Consumer Complaints in 2015

16th Feb 2016 (0 Comments)

According to the annual ‘Consumer Action Monitor’ report from Ombudsman Services, which is one of two Ofcom approved dispute resolution handlers for broadband and phone providers, some 16% (up from 15% in 2014) of all the 52 million consumer complaints made last year related to telecoms services.

New UK Law to Force Age Verification on Internet Porn Sites

16th Feb 2016 (3 Comments)

The government has launched a new consultation on proposals that would require “all” pornographic Internet content providers (e.g. websites) to introduce Age Verification Systems, with the hope being that this would prevent vulnerable children from accessing potentially damaging material. But children will probably find a way around it.

Three UK Trial “Home Mobile Broadband” Service in Northern Ireland

15th Feb 2016 (9 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK has announced that consumers in Northern Ireland will be the first to trial their new “Home Mobile Broadband” service, which really just sounds like a normal 3G / 4G data tariff with a bigger usage allowance (up to 40 GigaBytes).

UK ISP Direct Save Telecom Cuts Standard Line Rental Price by 30p

15th Feb 2016 (0 Comments)

Budget broadband ISP Direct Save Telecom has announced that they’ve cut 30p off the cost of their monthly line rental, which is now priced at £15.95 per month as standard or the equivalent of £13.50 per month when pre-paid for a year in advance (£162 in total).

Hyde Group Housing Association and Hyperoptic Rollout 1Gbps Broadband

15th Feb 2016 (0 Comments)

Fibre optic ISP Hyperoptic has joined forces with the Hyde Group, which is a United Kingdom focused Housing Association with 50,000 homes under its banner, in order to roll-out their ultrafast 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to related residents.

Shropshire and Herefordshire Moot Own Business Broadband Vouchers

15th Feb 2016 (4 Comments)

The Herefordshire and Shropshire councils appear to have been so impressed by the Government’s recently ended Connection Voucher scheme (here), which gifted grants of up to £3,000 to help smaller UK businesses get a superfast broadband (30Mbps+) service installed, that they’re mooting a local replacement.

Call Flow On-Target to Complete Pilot Broadband Network in Hampshire

15th Feb 2016 (7 Comments)

Call Flow Solutions looks set to complete the expanded roll-out of their Government supported “superfast” (30Mbps+) hybrid fibre optic and wireless broadband network in rural Hampshire (England) by March 2016 as planned, with Monkwood, Beauworth, Privett and Preshaw nearly all about to go live.

B4RN Bring 1Gbps Broadband to 1,600 Rural Homes in North England

15th Feb 2016 (18 Comments)

It’s fast approaching three years since the community built and funded B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North) project first picked up shovels and began building their own ultrafast 1000Mbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network to parts of rural Lancashire, Cumbria and Yorkshire.