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ISP News Archives for June 2016

Lord Lucas Scalds UK ISP Internet Piracy Threat Letters in Key Debate

16th Jun 2016 (5 Comments)

The Conservative peer Lord Lucas has told a House of Lords debate on the new ‘Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Bill‘ that copyright owners who attempt to bully broadband ISP subscribers by demanding money to settle suspected cases of Internet piracy are “villains” that “abuse the system” and must be tackled.

Vodafone Hikes UK Out of Bundle Prices and EU Roaming Charges

16th Jun 2016 (11 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has recently started to text customers in order to warn them about an impending price rise that will affect many of their standard out-of-bundle charges, as well as roaming charges in EU regulated countries, all of which are due to hit on 23rd July 2016.

BT Openreach Introduce 384 Port Upgrade for FTTC Broadband Cabinets

16th Jun 2016 (21 Comments)

Telecoms watchers may be interested to learn that BTOpenreach has introduced extra capacity for their VDSL based Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) broadband services by giving engineers the ability to upgrade their large Huawei street cabinets (H200) and increase customer capacity to 384.

Twitter Sponsors FREE WiFi at St Pancras Railway Station in London

15th Jun 2016 (1 Comment)

Social networking giant Twitter has teamed up with Wifi metropolis to offer 4 hours for free public WiFi hotspot access at St Pancras International Railway Station in London (normally only the first 10 minutes are free).

UK Study Claims Slow Broadband Speed Fosters Low Internet Use

15th Jun 2016 (2 Comments)

An interesting study from researches at King’s College London, which examined 1.9 billion UK sessions of BBC iPlayer video streaming by 32 million monthly users between May 2013 and January 2014, has suggested that people in the UK who suffer from slow broadband speeds will also spend less time online.

BT and FON to Supply FREE UK Public WiFi for All From 22nd June 2016

15th Jun 2016 (8 Comments)

Getting online between 22nd June and 22nd July 2016 could briefly become easier in the United Kingdom after FON confirmed that it had teamed up with BT to provide free public WiFi hotspot access, which is in honour of the Wireless Broadband Alliance’s (WBA) first World WiFi Day. But there’s a catch.

7,000 Swindon Premises to Benefit from Virgin Media Cable Expansion

15th Jun 2016 (4 Comments)

Earlier this month reports claimed (here) that cable operator Virgin Media were on the verge of announcing a major expansion of their 300Mbps broadband and TV network into parts of North Swindon (Wiltshire), where a state aid supported wireless network is deploying, and it’s now been confirmed that 7,000 premises will benefit.

UPDATE Cable Break Hits Major Broadband ISPs and Users in London

15th Jun 2016 (4 Comments)

Thousands of homes and businesses in and around central London have been left without a functional broadband and phone service, which began yesterday afternoon after third-party contractors working on a construction project accidentally cut through a number of core fibre optic cables (pictured).

BT Confirm First 9 UK Areas to See 1Gbps FTTP Broadband Rollout

15th Jun 2016 (5 Comments)

Last month it was revealed that BT intended to roll-out their ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) broadband network to 2 million premises around the United Kingdom by 2020, with about half being businesses. Today Openreach has confirmed the first 9 areas that will benefit.

Hyperoptic Defuse Complaint Over “full fibre optic broadband” Advert

15th Jun 2016 (3 Comments)

The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that UK ISP Hyperoptic did not break ad rules by describing their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Building (FTTB) broadband network as “true fibre” and “full fibre optic broadband“, despite the last bit of connectivity into homes being done over Cat5e copper cable.

UPDATE UK ISP TalkTalk Suffering More Unexplained Website Woes

14th Jun 2016 (6 Comments)

Once again websites and email services that belong to broadband ISP TalkTalk appear to be suffering from further disruption today and have been up and down like a yo-yo, although so far the provider hasn’t provided much of an explanation for the problems.

Judge Orders BT Openreach to Pay GBP500k After Engineer Accident

14th Jun 2016 (14 Comments)

The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales (Old Bailey) has fined a “disappointed” BT (Openreach) £500,000 and ordered it to pay costs of £98,913.51 after one of their engineers, David Spurgeon, fell 7 metres from a loft, shattering both ankles and suffering back injuries.

BT Openreach Reveals G.fast Broadband Cabinet Extension Pod

14th Jun 2016 (34 Comments)

We already know a lot about BT’s forthcoming roll-out of “ultrafast” 300-500Mbps G.fast technology and last month’s new technical document (here) similarly appeared to confirm that the operator had opted to deploy the service from street cabinet extensions. This week we finally got a look at one.

Virgin Media Deal to Put Ultrafast Broadband into UK New Build Homes

14th Jun 2016 (1 Comment)

Virgin Media has mirrored BT’s move from earlier this year (here) by signing a new partnership deal with the Home Builder’s Federation (HBF), which should make it easier to ensure that new build homes in England and Wales are prepared for the operator’s 300Mbps coax and fibre optic broadband network.

North Lincolnshire UK Begins Phase 2 BT Fibre Broadband Rollout

14th Jun 2016 (9 Comments)

The Northern Lincs Broadband project in England today announced that the rural village of Appleby has become one of the first to benefit from their new Superfast Extension Programme (SEP) contract with BT, which will expand “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) to an additional 3,400 premises.

ISPA Publish UK Internet Hero and Villain Awards Shortlist for 2016

14th Jun 2016 (1 Comment)

Once again the UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today revealed the shortlist of potential winners for their annual Internet Hero and Internet Villain awards. It’s perhaps no surprise to find that people like Donald Trump (US presidential candidate) are up for the villain gong.

UPD Fibre Break Hits Gigaclear’s Gloucestershire Fibre Optic Network

14th Jun 2016 (7 Comments)

The on-going state aid supported deployment of Gigaclear’s new 5Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) broadband network in rural Gloucestershire (England) has suffered a blip today after their main fibre optic cable in the area was damaged, resulting in a loss of service for some locals.