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Kent-based wireless broadband ISP VFast has, in an unexpected move, become the latest provider to offer services over GTC’s 300Mbps open access Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) network, which is available to a number of new build home developments around the United Kingdom.
The Internet Telephony Services Providers Association, which is a trade body for the United Kingdom’s VoIP industry, has today announced the winners of their 8th annual 2016 ITSPA Awards. This year saw Telappliant collect the gong for Best Consumer Provider.
Customers of TalkTalk’s broadband based TV service may be pleased to learn that the premium BTSport content will be available to them from June 2016, which means that they’ll be able to subscribe to the related TV channels on a rolling monthly contract directly from BT.
After several months of work the European Commission has today announced the outcome of their investigation into the proposed £10.25bn merger between Three UK (CK Hutchison Holdings) and rival mobile operator O2 (Telefonica), which blocks the deal.
Fibre optic infrastructure developer Cityfibre has today moved forward with its plan to expand their pure fibre optic based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) / Ethernet network into the large towns of Milton Keynes and Northampton by signing up with two ISP partners in a deal worth £7 million.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a press advert for Three UK’s mobile network after rival EE and a member of the public both complained that the operator’s claim to offer “the undisputed. UK’s most reliable network” was misleading.
The CEO of Liberty Global, which owns cable operator Virgin Media in the United Kingdom, has joined French telecoms firm Illiad SA (here) by indicating that they too would have an interest in O2 (Telefonica UK) if the operator suddenly came up for sale again.
Telecoms operator BT has revealed the technical capabilities for their forthcoming pilot of “ultrafast” 300-500Mbps G.fast technology (consumer ISP products should start at 160Mbps), which will be rolled out to cover 25,000 premises in Cambridgeshire and Kent this summer.