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11th Apr 2016 (6 Comments)

UK ISP Satellite Internet, which uses the SES (ASTRA) Satellite platform to deliver ‘up to’ 25Mbps capable broadband services, have announced that their service has now completed deployment to the Government’s final pilot test location of Broomfield in North Somerset.

11th Apr 2016 (5 Comments)

The Competition and Markets Authority has today written a last ditch letter of appeal that urges the European Commission not to approve the proposed £10.25bn merger of Three UK (CK Hutchison Holdings) and O2 (Telefonica), which it says will result in “long-term damage to the UK mobile telecoms market.”

11th Apr 2016 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has today launched a new ’30 Day Network Guarantee’, which gives all new and upgrading consumers or small business mobile customers the chance to try their service for a month without being locked into a long contract (i.e. after 30 days you can leave “with no strings attached“, if you want).

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11th Apr 2016 (11 Comments)

Openreach, which maintains and manages access to BT’s national UK telecoms network, has today confirmed that their ‘up to’ 40-80Mbps Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL) dominated “fibre broadband” network is now within reach of 25 million homes and businesses (86%+ UK coverage).

11th Apr 2016 (0 Comments)

Pure fibre optic ISP Hyperoptic has this morning announced that their Gigabit (1000Mbps) capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP/B) broadband network is now being expanded to a 13th “hyper-city“, Brighton in East Sussex (England).

8th Apr 2016 (2 Comments)

The state aid supported CSW Broadband project, which is working with BT to extend their “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) FTTC/P network to “nearly” 94% of Warwickshire, Solihull and Coventry (England) by 2017, has announced the next batch of areas to benefit from an upgrade.

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8th Apr 2016 (9 Comments)

ISP WiSpire, which offers faster wireless broadband services to isolated parts of rural Norfolk, has today launched a new website and revamped their packages. Some of the changes include the addition of a new 30Mbps package and a Broadband Delivery UK subsidised option for those in sub-2Mbps areas.

8th Apr 2016 (8 Comments)

Sky has launched a new discount that offers their ‘up to’ 17Mbps Sky Broadband Unlimited package free for the first 12 months of service (£10 thereafter) and they’ve also thrown in a £100 Marks and Spencer e-voucher, although you still have to pay line rental on top.

8th Apr 2016 (12 Comments)

Admittedly the opening title of Vodafone’s new survey of 2,000 British adults doesn’t make a lot of sense, “ONE IN FIVE BRITS WOULD RATHER GO WITHOUT GAS OR ELECTRICITY THAN BROADBAND” (broadband requires electricity to work). But get away from the headline and are there are some useful figures.

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8th Apr 2016 (0 Comments)

TalkTalk has today begun offering their unlimited SimplyBroadband package free for the first 12 months of service (£7.50 per month thereafter), although you still have to pay line rental of £15.93 per month (when pre-paid for 1 year) or £17.70 as standard on top.

8th Apr 2016 (8 Comments)

Over the year’s we’ve talked a lot about the different ways in which Government’s and operators choose to define terms like “fibre broadband” and now the local authority in Shropshire has managed to water it down further by adding wireless connections into the mix.

7th Apr 2016 (0 Comments)

Carlisle-based ISP Solway Communications has put in a new application for Code Powers from Ofcom (i.e. quicker / easier approval of civil works) and at the same time revealed that they’re considering a major expansion of their wireless and 1Gbps FTTP broadband network.

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7th Apr 2016 (33 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator has today launched a new ‘Call for Inputs‘ to help inform the design of the Government’s proposed broadband Universal Service Obligation (USO), which would ensure that everybody could get a minimum Internet speed of 10Mbps (Megabits per second) by 2020.

7th Apr 2016 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone have today announced that their Rural Open Sure Signal (Femtocell) technology has been deployed to seven remote villages in Cumbria (England), which means they can now access 3G based Mobile Broadband and voice services for the first time.

7th Apr 2016 (2 Comments)

The Government’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has today published a very basic piece of new guidance that is designed to help consumers who may have received a letter that accuses them of having shared copyright material online via P2P (BitTorrent) file sharing networks.

7th Apr 2016 (0 Comments)

Reports indicate that Virgin Media and Sky (Sky Broadband) could both sign significant mobile network capacity deals with Three UK (CK Hutchison Holdings), which is dependent upon whether or not the European Commission approves the proposed merger with O2 UK (Telefonica).

6th Apr 2016 (16 Comments)

The Broadband SE16 campaign group has accused the local council and BTOpenreach of failing to live up to their commitment to deliver faster “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) connectivity to 4,000 Southwark premises by March 2016. “Not a single person in Rotherhithe has benefitted,” said the group.

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