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The Motion Picture Association of Europe (MPA) has once again convinced the High Court to force all of the United Kingdom’s largest broadband ISPs to block access to 13 extra websites, which were all found to facilitate Internet copyright infringement (piracy).
Businesses operating from Skylon Park, which is a 72-hectare site within the Hereford Enterprise Zone, look set to benefit after the ITS Technology group announced that it would roll-out a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) broadband network to the area using existing cable ducts.
A new report has revealed that the joint £6.5m Broadband Delivery UK and Isle of Wight Council project to expand the coverage of BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network on the Isle of Wight (resides just off England’s central south coast) has come in under budget to the tune of £1.7m+.
Ofcom’s latest Telecoms Market Data Tables (Q2 2016) update has revealed that the United Kingdom is now home to a total of 24,858,000 fixed residential and small business broadband lines (up by 684,000 from a year previously); 10.91m (44%) of those are cable DOCSIS or fibre (FTTC/P/H) based.
Homes in the rural Gloucestershire village of Miserden have apparently been taken out of the broadband “dark ages” after a little known VoIP provider called Voneus built a new fibre optic (FTTP/H) and wireless network into the area, which has made speeds of 100Mbps available to residents.
The rural Norfolk (England) community of Barton Turf and its surrounding villages can now gain access to a faster broadband connection after WiSpire expanded their fixed wireless access network to the area, which was done by installing their kit on top of the local St Michael & All Angels church.
UK ISP iDNET, which tends to be quite highly rated by its subscribers, has today launched both a new website and a new range of unlimited broadband packages, including a number of affordable options for home users. The move marks a shift away from the ISP’s history of capped allowances.