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During a routine check we noticed that UK ISP BT appears to have reduced some of its prices and refocused all of their home broadband products around “unlimited” usage, which has resulted in the removal of their 10GB capped ADSL2+ and the 40GB BTInfinity (FTTC) broadband packages.
Utility infrastructure provider GTC, which among other things deploys 300Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) broadband networks to new build home developments, has added a new ISP (Love Your Broadband) to offer services over its network (includes a FIRS distributed Sky TV package).
It’s long been known that the data collected by Mobile Network Operators and WiFi providers can be used to track your location, but two new reports have revealed that operators could track more than this and also sell the data on for commercial benefit. Most consumers aren’t aware of this.
The UK Labour Party has today set out a list of changes that it would like to see being made to the controversial Draft Investigatory Powers Bill, which aims to force broadband ISPs into logging a much bigger slice of your online activity and to then share it with the security services.
A cautious welcome has greeted UKB Networks submission for planning permission to build six or seven new 15 metre masts in the urban part of North Swindon after an earlier proposal was rejected (here). But the new locations could mean that fewer premises will receive the broadband service.
Consumers covered by Hyperoptic’s ultrafast 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP/B) network in London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Cardiff, Bristol, Reading, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield, Birmingham or Newcastle can now order the service for a reduced price.