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ISP News Archives for October 2016

ISP Zen Internet “Happy” to Offer Automatic Compensation for Faults

14th Oct 2016 (4 Comments)

Many broadband ISPs are concerned about the plan to give UK residential and small business consumers an automatic right to compensation (here) when their service fails, but not all. The Regulatory Manager of Zen Internet, Gary Hough, has said that they’re “broadly supportive” of the proposals.

West Sussex UK Moot County-Wide 1Gbps Fibre Optic Broadband Roll-out

14th Oct 2016 (7 Comments)

The West Sussex County Council has proposed a new “Gigabit West Sussex” framework that will shortly start seeking suppliers to help it “bring ultrafast [FTTP/H broadband] to as many parts of the County as possible,” starting with a contract to deploy a new Dark Fibre network in Adur & Worthing.

Q2 2016 Take-up Stats for the BDUK and BT Fibre Broadband Roll-out

13th Oct 2016 (66 Comments)

The Government’s Broadband Delivery UK project has released its latest Q2 2016 take-up data for the state aid supported roll-out of superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services across the United Kingdom, which shows that many local authorities are seeing 30% adoption of the new service and that will help reinvestment.

Report Finds Poor SME Broadband Hampers the “Northern Powerhouse”

13th Oct 2016 (1 Comment)

A new report from the IPPR North think-tank has claimed that small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) are lagging behind other businesses in the “Northern Powerhouse” (northern England) region due to a “double-whammy of patchy … broadband connectivity” and lack of digital skills.

UPD Study Challenges Ofcom’s Strategy to Grow New Broadband Networks

13th Oct 2016 (2 Comments)

A new BT commissioned report from Analysys Mason has perhaps unsurprisingly warned that Ofcom’s effort to encourage alternative network (AltNet) ISPs to build rival ultrafast broadband networks, such as by opening up access to Openreach’s cable ducts, may fail to achieve the desired result.

BT and Toshiba Demo Secure UK Quantum Communications

13th Oct 2016 (6 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT and Japanese electronics firm Toshiba have today teamed-up to demonstrate the future of secure data communication via quantum cryptography, which works by delivering secret keys over fibre optic cables via the “smallest possible packets of light.”

TrueSpeed’s 150Mbps FTTP Broadband Reaches More Somerset Villages

13th Oct 2016 (0 Comments)

Fibre optic ISP TrueSpeed Communications has confirmed that their roll-out of a symmetric 150Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the rural Chew Valley area of North East Somerset (England) is now in the process of reaching three more local communities.

Sky Broadband Preps UK Launch of New MVNO Sky Mobile Service

13th Oct 2016 (2 Comments)

Sky has today published their latest quarterly trading update, which is very vague and sadly includes no new information on the size of their Sky Broadband base. On the upside we finally get a progress update on the imminent launch of their new O2 (MVNO) based Sky Mobile service.

Ullapool Communities in Scotland Raise £85K to Build Broadband Network

12th Oct 2016 (3 Comments)

Last month we reported that several rural communities around Ullapool, Lochbroom, Little Lochbroom, Gruinard Bay, Elphin and Coigach in the Scottish Highlands were aiming to build their own 50Mbps wireless broadband network (here). Happily the project has now begun its build phase after raising £85,000.

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

12th Oct 2016 (7 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has announced some enhancements and an extension of their new 18Mbps (2Mbps upload) Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) based product trial, which began in July 2016 (here) and is designed to help people stuck on slow ADSL based pure copper broadband lines.

KCOM Confirm Next FTTP Fibre Broadband Roll-out Areas in Hull UK

12th Oct 2016 (0 Comments)

KCOM has today announced the next roll-out phase for their “ultrafast” Lightstream fibre optic (FTTP/C) broadband network in Hull (East Yorkshire), which reflects the next 6 months of deployment from now until March 2017; this will add an additional 25,000 premises passed to the total.

Business Broadband ISP Metronet UK Gobbles Rival M247 for £47.5m

12th Oct 2016 (0 Comments)

Alternative business ISP Metronet UK, which has built its own hybrid fibre optic and wireless broadband networks’ in several urban areas around the United Kingdom, has today acquired rival provider M247 for £47.5 million.

Cityfibre Confirms Town of Bracknell to Become its Next UK “Gigabit City”

12th Oct 2016 (0 Comments)

Cityfibre has today announced that the Berkshire town and civil parish of Bracknell will become their next “Gigabit City“, which means that an existing fibre optic network in the area is being re-purposed in order to supply local businesses with 1Gbps capable / FTTP style broadband.

BT Says – We’ll Do the 10Mbps Broadband USO Without Public Funding

12th Oct 2016 (9 Comments)

BT has said that the Government can avoid imposing a tricky industry levy on ISPs or using public funding to help pay for the proposed 10Mbps broadband Universal Service Obligation (USO) because they’ll take the full responsibility, as well as pushing superfast broadband (24Mbps+) to 97-98% of the UK.

BT Adverts Banned for Misleading “fastest fibre speeds as standard” Claim

12th Oct 2016 (5 Comments)

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a series of adverts for BT’s Infinity “fibre broadband” (FTTC) services, including a major TV campaign featuring actor Ryan Reynolds, after Virgin Media complained that it had made “misleading” claims about service speed.

Disruptive Virgin Media Street Works Cause Anger in Oldham

11th Oct 2016 (8 Comments)

Virgin Media’s noble efforts to expand the reach of their 300Mbps cable broadband network have once again rubbed people up the wrong way in Greater Manchester, with local businesses and residents in Oldham complaining that they weren’t given enough notice about the disruption.

Sckipio Unveil 1Gbps Symmetric “Virtual Fibre” G.fast Broadband Tech

11th Oct 2016 (2 Comments)

Israel-based Sckipio, which helped to create some of the kit that BT has used in their UK trials of 330Mbps capable hybrid-fibre G.fast (ITU G.9700/9701) broadband (roll-out plan), has today launched three new technologies that they hope will make the connectivity method more useful.