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The ITS Technology group has improved the broadband connectivity to the Bolesworth Estate in rural South Cheshire (England) by installing a new “ultrafast” fixed wireless access network. The estate, which covers some 6,300+ acres, is home to various residential, business and leisure properties.
Liberty Global, which is parent to UK cable operator Virgin Media, has today launched a new initiative called GIGAWorld that will help to promote their plans for rolling out Gigabit capable broadband (1000Mbps+) to the 12 European countries in which it operates (most could be done by the end of 2018).
UK ISP Andrews and Arnold (AAISP) has announced that customers of their pricey and usage restricted Home:1 broadband (FTTC / VDSL2 and ADSL2+) tariffs will be given a free +50GB (GigaBytes) data allowance boost, which for most people will begin on 1st December 2016 (i.e. your next bill).
Telecoms operator JT, which serves the English Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, has today hit back at its rivals by using the latest data from Ookla’s Speedtest.net service to try and prove that they offer the fastest 4G mobile and fixed line broadband service on both.
A new OnePoll survey of 2,000 UK adults from broadband ISP Relish Wireless, which operates a superfast fixed wireless 4G network in Swindon and central London, has found that 18% of respondents don’t even know their home phone number and 60% only take a land line to get broadband.
Internet provider Plusnet has today joined the Black Friday discounts club by slashing the prices of their ‘up to’ 17Mbps ADSL and superfast (38-76Mbps) FTTC based “fibre broadband” and line rental bundles, with between £2-£4.50 being knocked off the monthly rental prices.