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ISP News Archives for March 2016

UPDATE Government Claims 90 Percent UK Superfast Broadband Cover

10th Mar 2016 (19 Comments)

Blink and you’ll miss it. Without any fanfare the Government’s Digital Economy Minister, Ed Vaizey, appears to have officially confirmed that 90% of the United Kingdom can now access a “superfast broadband” service, thanks partly to Phase 1 of their Broadband Delivery UK programme with BT.

Ed Vaizey Slams BT Service Quality and Seeks End to Separate Line Rental

10th Mar 2016 (16 Comments)

The UK Government’s Digital Economy Minister, Ed Vaizey MP, has taken a break from praising the progress of BTOpenreach’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) roll-out in order to criticise them for their “absolutely woeful” customer service. At the same time he also called for ISPs to stop advertising line rental with a separate price and called for clearer broadband speeds.

IHS Claim Cityfibre FTTP to Cover 20 Percent of UK Homes by 2020

9th Mar 2016 (4 Comments)

A new report from IHS has said that Cityfibre’s Gigabit fibre optic (FTTP) broadband network will increase its coverage area from “15% of all UK households to 20%” by 2020, which will help to boost NGA Internet connections to 15.5 million. But the figures do require some clarification.

Cambridgeshire UK Prep Plan for Future Phase 3 Fibre Broadband Rollout

9th Mar 2016 (5 Comments)

The Connecting Cambridgeshire scheme in England, which is currently working with BT (Openreach) in order to make FTTC/P based “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) services available to 95% of the county by 2017, has said that another 7,500+ premises could benefit from a future contract extension.

UPDATE Cityfibre and Updata Sign UK Fibre Optic Network Access Agreement

9th Mar 2016 (0 Comments)

Updata Infrastructure, which is part of Capita IT Enterprise Services and delivers public sector focused network connectivity solutions, has today signed a new deal that will allow them to access Cityfibre’s existing UK network of urban focused ultrafast fibre optic (FTTP) cables and related infrastructure.

Plusnet Revive 6 Months FREE Unlimited 38Mbps FTTC Broadband Deal

9th Mar 2016 (7 Comments)

UK ISP Plusnet has reintroduced the offer of 6 months free service on their up to 38Mbps Unlimited Fibre (FTTC) broadband package (£14.99 per month thereafter), which is perhaps slightly awkward timing given today’s other advertising related news.

BT Pledge to “Significantly” Boost UK Rollout of Ultrafast FTTP Broadband

9th Mar 2016 (35 Comments)

The CEO of BT Group, Gavin Patterson, has confirmed to the ‘Media & Telecoms 2016 & Beyond‘ conference in London that he will “significantly … accelerate the deployment” of their ultrafast 330Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology. But the details remain wafer thin.

ASA Ban PlusNet Advert for Misleading “Totally Unlimited” Broadband Claim

9th Mar 2016 (7 Comments)

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an old website advert for Plusnet’s broadband packages, which “misleadingly” claimed to offer a “TOTALLY UNLIMITED” and “Truly unlimited” service with no usage limits. But in reality there was a poorly explained traffic management policy.

VIDEO How B4RN’s Community 1Gbps FTTP Broadband Network Began

8th Mar 2016 (10 Comments)

The outspoken co-founder of the rural Lancashire, Cumbria and Yorkshire focused community B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North) project, Christine Conder, has uploaded a new video to help explain how their successful Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) network first got off the ground.

TrueSpeed Begin FTTP Fibre Optic Dig to North East Somerset Villages

8th Mar 2016 (9 Comments)

The diggers have finally come out after TrueSpeed Communications confirmed that they had started the build of their new symmetric 100Mbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which will initially connect the rural village of Priston in North East Somerset (England).

UK Labour MP Criticises Piracy Letters for Chasing 83 Year Old Pensioner

7th Mar 2016 (0 Comments)

The UK Labour MP for Dudley North, Ian Austin, has called on the Government’s Business Secretary, Sajid Javid, to protect consumers after an 83-year-old customer of Sky Broadband was dubiously accused of sharing unlawful copies of ‘The Company You Keep‘ (TCYK) film over public BitTorrent file sharing (P2P) networks.

UK ISP Surf Telecoms Gain Secure Gov Approved Network Certification

7th Mar 2016 (0 Comments)

Internet provider Surf Telecoms has achieved the secure government-approved network certification known as CAS(T) or CESG Assured Services (Telecommunications), which is one of the necessary milestones on the path towards becoming a full Public Services Network (PSN) provider.

Virgin Media Adverts Still Can’t Tell Copper Coax from Fibre Optic

7th Mar 2016 (52 Comments)

The seemingly endless debate about the pros and cons of advertising hybrid-fibre broadband connections as “fibre optic” has once again reared its head after a number of refreshed adverts for Virgin Media’s cable network began promoting their service as “optical fibre” alongside pictures of what is clearly a copper core coaxial cable.

Scottish Community Goes 1 Month Without Broadband and Phone

7th Mar 2016 (9 Comments)

A small community of rural homes and businesses around Drumcavel Road near Glasgow (Scotland) have been left without working fixed line broadband or phone services for one month, which occurred after a local fusebox exploded and damaged some of BTOpenreach’s underground infrastructure.

AAISP to Offer Pricey 1 TeraByte Home ADSL Broadband Package

7th Mar 2016 (5 Comments)

UK ISP Andrews and Arnold (AAISP) has announced that they intend to launch a new package for bog standard ADSL2+ (up to 20Mbps) based home broadband lines, which will give customers 1 TeraByte of monthly usage (a huge increase on the current 100 GigaByte [0.1TB] cap). But it’s not cheap.

Gloucestershire Council Suspend Broadband Funding for the Cotswolds

5th Mar 2016 (4 Comments)

At least part of the on-going effort to roll-out superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services in the Cotswolds, which is a rural area that predominantly straddles both Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, has been halted after Gloucestershire Council suspended £500,000 of its joint funding.

Locheilnet Boosts Capacity to Connect 270 Fort William Internet Users

4th Mar 2016 (0 Comments)

Not-for-profit community (CIC) ISP Locheilnet, which was set-up in 2012 with support from locals and £91,500 from Community Broadband Scotland (CBS), has expanded its 35Mbps capable wireless broadband network in Fort William by doubling its network capacity via a new cable.