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6th Apr 2016 (0 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media Business (Liberty Global) has for the first time allowed its 50Mbps to 300Mbps broadband and phone packages, which are aimed at small businesses, to be resold through third party providers via their indirect partner channel.

6th Apr 2016 (0 Comments)

CityFibre has today signed a new 15-year agreement that will make SSE Enterprise Telecoms their first long-haul network (LDN) customer, with SSE buying Dark Fibre capacity along a stretch of network spanning 48 kilometres between Reading and Slough.

5th Apr 2016 (5 Comments)

BTOpenreach has today advised ISPs of a reduction in the price of energy usage per kWh from £0.1215 to £0.1174 for all comingling products utilised for LLU, Access Locate and Access Locate Plus. Elsewhere their cheaper to setup FTTC-Start service is now moving out of pilot and being launched on 4th May 2016.

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5th Apr 2016 (5 Comments)

Ofcom has published the final version of their most recent European Broadband Scorecard, which shows how the United Kingdom compares with Europe’s other major countries in terms of delivering the Government’s ambition for us to have the “fastest broadband of any major European country by 2015“.

5th Apr 2016 (4 Comments)

UK ISP Gigaclear, which is rolling out an ultrafast 5Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to rural communities across the United Kingdom, has today announced yet another equity investment boost of £24m that will be used to help further expand their coverage.

5th Apr 2016 (0 Comments)

Fibre optic infrastructure developer Cityfibre has today announced a new partnership with two business ISPs, Exa Networks and Diva Telecom. Both providers have promise to add around 350 sites to the operators national UK Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) / Ethernet / Leased Line network.

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5th Apr 2016 (0 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media has cut an extra £1 off its broadband and phone discounts and extended how long they last for from 6 to 12 months. The reductions only apply to bundles and so you still have to pay line rental from £15.33 per month (when pre-paid for 1 year) or £17.99 as standard.

4th Apr 2016 (9 Comments)

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.

4th Apr 2016 (0 Comments)

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).

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4th Apr 2016 (0 Comments)

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.

4th Apr 2016 (9 Comments)

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.

4th Apr 2016 (4 Comments)

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.

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4th Apr 2016 (6 Comments)

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.

2nd Apr 2016 (9 Comments)

The French government has now officially introduced a new decree that makes it much more difficult for broadband ISPs to advertise their services using “fibre optic” terminology if the network doesn’t actually deliver a fibre cable to your home. If only the UK would follow suit.

2nd Apr 2016 (1 Comment)

The joint £18.06m Connected Counties project, which involves Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire in England, appears to have reached its original Phase One contract goal of 90% “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) coverage (an additional 60,000+ premises passed) thanks to its work with BT.

1st Apr 2016 (40 Comments)

BTOpenreach has confirmed that the first customers have now gone live on their trial of “ultrafast” 330Mbps native Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology in Haydon Wick (North Swindon), which involves building fibre optic lines direct to your home from the local telephone exchange.

1st Apr 2016 (1 Comment)

Some 70 businesses on Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire can now access superfast broadband of up to 100Mbps, as well as Gigabit capable leased lines, after local ISP WarwickNet took over the management of the campus-wide network during 2013 and gave it a big upgrade.

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