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ISP News Archives for April 2016

Remote Balquhidder Community Preps Own 1Gbps FTTH Broadband

21st Apr 2016 (18 Comments)

The remote rural community of Balquhidder in the Stirling council area of Scotland has setup its own Community Interest Company (CIC) and is poised to start the roll-out of an ultrafast 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which could benefit up to 170 local properties.

UK ISP Sky Broadband Suffers Slow Growth to 5.94 Million Subscribers

21st Apr 2016 (2 Comments)

Sky has published their latest results to the end of Q1 2016 (calendar), which reveals that the total number of Sky Broadband subscribers in the UK and Ireland increased by just +46,000 in the quarter to total approx. 5.94 million (down sharply from the +144K added in Q4 2015 and +133k in Q3).

Dorset UK Moots GBP4m Ultrafast Broadband Upgrade for Businesses

21st Apr 2016 (0 Comments)

The Dorset County Council (DCC) in England has started an open procurement exercise to eventually find a supplier and infrastructure to help them build an “ultrafast broadband” network to reach businesses in the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) area.

Study Finds UK ISP Blocks of Internet Piracy Website Do Sort of Work

20th Apr 2016 (4 Comments)

A new study of nearly 60,000 Internet users in the United Kingdom has examined whether the 2014 block of 53 pirate websites (copyright infringement) by the largest broadband ISPs had a positive outcome for legal content. The results suggest that it did, although there may be diminishing returns for future blocks.

Ofcom UK – Vodafone in Trouble for Dodgy PAYG Mobile Sales and Billing

20th Apr 2016 (2 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator has today confirmed that they have “reasonable grounds” to believe that Vodafone’s sales and billing tactics for Pay-As-You-Go (payg) Mobile customers may have breached their consumer protection rules between 26th May 2011 and 28th September 2015.

UK ISP BT Bodges SMTP Email, Redirects Sent Messages to Staff Account

20th Apr 2016 (2 Comments)

Some of BT’s customers had a nasty surprise yesterday after they discovered that the ISP’s outgoing (SMTP) email server appeared to be forwarding their messages to an unusual address (stevewebb2@btinternet.com), which quickly became full and then bounced the emails back with an error.

GibFibreSpeed Bring 10Gbps FTTH Broadband to 60-70 Percent of Gibraltar

20th Apr 2016 (9 Comments)

Some 60-70% of Gibraltar, which is a British overseas territory that sits on the southern end of Spain’s Iberian Peninsula in the Mediterranean sea, is now within reach of an ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/B) broadband network thanks to local ISP GibFibreSpeed (A.J. Sheriff Electrical Ltd.).

Brighton and Hove City Council Expand BT’s FREE WiFi in City Centre

19th Apr 2016 (1 Comment)

The Brighton and Hove City Council in East Sussex (England), which a couple of years ago deployed free WiFi Hotspots from The Cloud (Sky) to its main public libraries, has now separately teamed up with BT to roll-out free “unlimited” WiFi at a range of locations across the city centre.

BT Partly Suspends G.INP Roll-out to ECI Fibre Broadband Cabinets

19th Apr 2016 (8 Comments)

Openreach (BT) recently began the roll-out of Physical Retransmission ReTX (G.INP) technology to their ECI based Street Cabinets, which can improve the performance of their 40-80Mbps Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL) lines. But this has now been partly suspended after problems occurred on some lines.

The 2016 Top UK Mobile Networks for Speed, Cover and User Satisfaction

19th Apr 2016 (0 Comments)

A joint study from Which? and OpenSignal has revealed that actual coverage of 4G (LTE) mobile in the United Kingdom is poor, although EE (BT) managed to deliver the best 4G reach and Three UK came top for Mobile Broadband speed. But GiffGaff is still the highest rated by consumers.

UPDATE UK Councils Quietly Recognise 30Mbps as NGA Broadband

18th Apr 2016 (5 Comments)

Over the past two months a growing number of UK councils have begun to consult on how best to use money that has been clawed back (gainshare) from BT in order to further extend local broadband coverage, but this time around they all seem to agree that NGA connectivity starts at 30Mbps, not 24Mbps or 15Mbps.

Cityfibre Turnover Hits GBP6.4m as Fibre Serves 1200 Customer Premises

18th Apr 2016 (0 Comments)

Fibre optic infrastructure developer Cityfibre has today reported their final results to the end of 2015, which reveals that their cable duct and fibre network footprint comprised 743km (2014: 543km) serving 1,200 customer premises (up from 885 in 2014) and turnover jumped by 67% to £6.4m.

FTTH Overtakes Cable as World Broadband Users Hit 751 Million

18th Apr 2016 (0 Comments)

The total number of world broadband subscriptions reached 751.2 million at the end of last year, which is a quarterly Q4 2015 growth of around +1.31% (down from +1.4% in Q3 2015) and there are now more FTTH users worldwide than those using cable (e.g. Virgin Media) technologies.

UPDATE 50 UK MPs Call for Better Advertising of Broadband ISP Speeds

16th Apr 2016 (20 Comments)

The cross-party British Infrastructure Group (BIG), which is led by Grant Schapps MP, has announced the launch of a new campaign that aims to change the “scandal” of how most ISPs advertise broadband speeds that only 10% of the fastest customers can actually achieve.

UPDATE BT Prep Trial of Long Reach VDSL Broadband to Hit 10Mbps USO

16th Apr 2016 (13 Comments)

In a predictable development Openreach (BT) has confirmed that their “very exciting” Long Reach VDSL (FTTC) broadband technology, which could be used to help deliver the future 10Mbps Universal Service Obligation (USO), will soon be leaving the labs and becoming a targeted network-based trial.

BT Openreach Trial 18Mbps FTTC Broadband Speed for Slow ADSL Lines

15th Apr 2016 (21 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has today launched a new low tier bandwidth product for their Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL) based “fibre broadband” services, which offers download speeds of up to 18Mbps (2Mbps uploads) for those stuck on slow speed ADSL lines.

Sky UK Offers FREE 38Mbps FTTC Fibre Broadband for 1 Year

15th Apr 2016 (0 Comments)

Sky Broadband has quietly tweaked the prices for their ‘up to’ 38Mbps Sky Fibre (25GB usage) and Sky Fibre Unlimited packages, with the former being free for the first 12 months of service (£10 a month thereafter) and the latter being £10 per month for the first 12 months (£20 thereafter).