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ISP News Archives for April 2016

UK ISP TalkTalk Launch TV Subscription Free Streaming Service

26th Apr 2016 (1 Comment)

Apparently everybody has to have their own Internet video streaming service and TalkTalk has become the latest to join the party with the launch of their new Blinkbox based pay-as-you-go (payg) TV Store, which claims to offer “the latest movies and hit TV shows at Britain’s lowest price” to everybody.

EE’s Open Source Network to Help Bring 4G Mobile to UK Rural Areas

26th Apr 2016 (1 Comment)

Mobile operator EE (part of BT) has partnered up with Lime Micro and Canonical, both of which are key open source technology innovators, to launch a fully programmable network capability that could help to create new applications and improve 4G network coverage to remote rural areas.

UK Police Arrest 6th Person in Connection with the TalkTalk ISP Hack

26th Apr 2016 (0 Comments)

Last year’s traumatic hack of TalkTalk’s website, which exposed the personal details of 156,959 customers’ (including 15,656 bank account numbers and sort codes), is continuing to have repercussions after Staffordshire Police confirmed that a sixth person had been arrested.

Rest of Scotland Confirms Next Fibre Broadband Upgrades for EOL Areas

26th Apr 2016 (3 Comments)

The £410m Digital Scotland programme has announced the next batch of locations in the Rest of Scotland project area (excludes the Highlands and Islands region, which we covered yesterday) that will benefit from an upgrade to Opernreach’s (BT) faster “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) services.

Vispa Extend 250Mbps Wireless Broadband to More Cheshire UK Homes

26th Apr 2016 (0 Comments)

Several new locations in the county of Cheshire (England) could soon benefit from a 250Mbps (Megabits per second) capable superfast CityWireless broadband network from UK ISP Vispa, which has confirmed that they’re extending their reach beyond the original Warrington area.

The Next Highlands and Islands Fibre Broadband Rollout Areas Named

25th Apr 2016 (3 Comments)

The Highland and Islands Enterprise (HIE) in Scotland has today announced the next batch of areas that will benefit from their on-going work to make BT’s “high-speed fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network available to 84% of the region’s premises by the end of 2016.

Virgin Media TV Customers Facing Price Rise for Sky Content

25th Apr 2016 (6 Comments)

Approximately 900,000 of Virgin Media’s existing customers, specifically those who take a triple-play bundle of broadband, phone and TV that includes the Sky Sports or Sky Movies content, look set to face a monthly price increase of between £1 and £2.50 on their bills.

Cityfibre Confirm Gigabit Fibre Optic Network for Leeds and Bradford

25th Apr 2016 (0 Comments)

As expected Cityfibre has today confirmed that the two cities of Leeds and Bradford in Yorkshire (England) have become the latest to benefit from their ultrafast Gigabit capable fibre optic (FTTP) broadband and Ethernet data network, which can connect local public sector and business sites.

EE Targets 95 Percent 4G Landmass Cover and Brings Support Back to UK

25th Apr 2016 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator EE appears to have been influenced by new parent BT and plans to improve customer support by bringing it back to the United Kingdom and hiring 600 new staff. On top of that they’ll increase their 4G landmass network coverage from 60% of the UK to 95% (99.8% population coverage).

2 Years On – Waiting for Sky and TalkTalk’s 940Mb FTTH Broadband in York

25th Apr 2016 (3 Comments)

It’s officially been two years since Cityfibre, Sky Broadband and TalkTalk announced their Joint Venture (here) to roll-out a new 940Mbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network across the city of York in England, but we’re still not clear when it will launch or whether it will progress beyond Phase One.

Bad News for Slow Broadband – Average Web Page Size Now 2.3MB

23rd Apr 2016 (8 Comments)

The latest HTTP Archive statistics, which collects and analyses the World Wide Webs (WWW) digitised content, has confirmed that the average web (website) page size is now 2.3MB (MegaBytes) and that’s up from 1.95MB one year ago and 0.7MB five years ago.

Aylesbury Vale Broadband Sniff GBP500k to Expand 300Mbps FTTH Pilot

23rd Apr 2016 (0 Comments)

The Aylesbury Vale Broadband project, which has recently rolled out a 300Mbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network to part of North Marston in Buckinghamshire (England) and they’re now heading towards Granborough, may soon secure another £500,000 for further expansion.

BT Build the Longest Continuous Stretch of Fibre Optic Cable in the UK

22nd Apr 2016 (35 Comments)

Openreach (BT) claims to have built the longest continuous stretch of fibre optic (spine) cable in the United Kingdom at 45 miles, which occurred as part of their Broadband East Riding project to reach 1,580 homes and businesses across a rural part of East Yorkshire.

Sky Confirm No Plans to Build Own UK Fibre Optic Broadband Network

22nd Apr 2016 (5 Comments)

In a somewhat unsurprising development Sky’s (Sky Broadband) CEO, Jeremy Darroch, appears to have now officially ruled the operator out from any ambition to build its own national ultrafast fibre optic broadband (FTTP/H) network in the United Kingdom.

Cornwall UK Moot Third EU Funded GBP16m Superfast Broadband Rollout

22nd Apr 2016 (3 Comments)

The Cornwall Council in South West England has unveiled tentative plans for a third “Superfast 2” contract (total value of up to £16.25m) to further expand the local availability of superfast broadband (30Mbps+) services to some of the approximately 39,400 premises that have yet to achieve such speeds.

UPD Sky Broadband Outage Hits the South Midlands and South Downs

21st Apr 2016 (5 Comments)

Customers of Sky Broadband and Talk services in the South Midlands and South Downs areas of England currently appear to be suffering Internet and phone connectivity problems due to a major outage.

BT Openreach Offer UK ISPs an FTTC Simultaneous Provide Discount

21st Apr 2016 (3 Comments)

Internet providers that wish to sell Openreach’s (BT) FTTC “fibre broadband” product alongside a newly order copper line (WLR or unbundled MPF), which is better known as a Simultaneous (SIM) Provide, will soon be able to benefit from a £49 +vat discount.