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ISP News Archives for April 2017

UPD ISP TalkTalk Business Adopt BT Openreach Dark Fibre After CMA Ruling

10th Apr 2017 (0 Comments)

UK Internet provider TalkTalk Business has today confirmed that they will be one of the first ISPs to adopt Openreach’s (BT) proposed ‘Dark Fibre Access‘ product, which follows a key ruling by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that will affect how the service is priced.

Warrington MP Asks £246K Compensation for Slow Residential Broadband

10th Apr 2017 (49 Comments)

The MP for Warrington North (Cheshire, England), Helen Jones, has claimed that many residents in the area should be paid a total of £246,000 in compensation by ISPs because of the slow broadband speeds that local homes are alleged to endure. She wants Ofcom to take action.

Cityfibre Deploy Ultrafast Gigabit FTTP Broadband in Slough and Maidenhead

10th Apr 2017 (0 Comments)

Cityfibre has announced that two further large towns in Berkshire (England) – Slough and Maidenhead – will be the next on their list to benefit from the deployment of a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) broadband and Ethernet network for local businesses.

Which? 2017 UK Broadband Survey Awards Best ISP to Zen Internet

7th Apr 2017 (6 Comments)

Consumer magazine Which? has published the results from their first 2017 reader survey of broadband ISP satisfaction, which saw Zen Internet retain the top “Recommended Provider” award for their broadband service. At the other end TalkTalk attracted the lowest level of customer satisfaction.

City of London Corp Award 1Gbps Free WiFi Network Contract to O2 and CTIL

7th Apr 2017 (3 Comments)

Earlier this year we reported that the City of London Corporation aimed to deploy a free WiFi network with “gigabit speeds” across much of the city’s “Square Mile” heart (here). Today we can confirm that O2 and Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure (CTIL) will build and run it.

Virgin Media Confirm 300Mbps Broadband Roll-out for 42,000 Devon Premises

6th Apr 2017 (16 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media has announced that some 42,000 additional homes and businesses across Devon (England) will soon gain access to their ultrafast 300Mbps cable broadband and TV service, which forms part of the £3bn Project Lightning network expansion.

Black Country Broadband Scheme to Cover Extra 2,000 Premises via £1.2m Boost

6th Apr 2017 (0 Comments)

The Black Country Broadband Project in England’s West Midlands, which is working with Openreach (BT) to make “superfast broadband” (FTTC/P) available to 98% of premises by Autumn 2017, has secured a further £1.2m from the Local Enterprise Partnership to boost its reach.

RootMetrics Reveals 4G Mobile Coverage by Operator in the UK’s Biggest Cities

6th Apr 2017 (12 Comments)

RootMetrics has today published the results from their latest study, which reveals the 4G (LTE) network coverage of the United Kingdom’s four primary mobile operators, across 14 of the biggest cities. Unsurprisingly EE does the best in 13 of the 14 metro areas tested.

Broadband Trails Doctors as the Most Important Factor for New Communities

6th Apr 2017 (6 Comments)

A new study of 2,000 UK people by residential housing developer Redrow has claimed that the most important factor which goes toward creating a community is access to a local doctor’s surgery (99.5%), which was followed by “high-speed broadband” (98.1%).

ITSPA Names Finalists for the 2017 Best UK Internet VoIP Providers

6th Apr 2017 (0 Comments)

The Internet Telephony Services Providers Association, which represents the United Kingdom’s Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) industry, has announced their short-list of potential winners for this year’s ITSPA Awards event. Antheus, VoiceHost and Vonage are all up for the best consumer provider.

Ignore Virgin Media’s UK Cable Network Expansion Letters at Your Peril

5th Apr 2017 (14 Comments)

Most of us have become so familiar with the postman delivering marketing letters from the big ISPs that we now bin them without a second thought. One problem with this is that sometimes those letters carry important information, such when Virgin Media intend to dig up your pavement.

Wireless Broadband Network Extends its Rural South Oxfordshire Reach

5th Apr 2017 (0 Comments)

Fixed Wireless Access ISP Village Networks has confirmed that they’re now expanding the coverage of their superfast broadband network to reach the rural villages of Russell’s Water, Maidensgrove, Swyncombe, Stonor, Greenfield, Turville Heath, Park Corner, Britwell Hill and Howe Hill.

Ofcom to Boost Indoor 2G, 3G and 4G Mobile Cover by Legalising Repeaters

5th Apr 2017 (7 Comments)

At present it’s unlawful (unless approved by a Mobile Network Operator) for consumers to use repeaters that boost and retransmit UK mobile signals, which can help indoor coverage but may also cause interference or other adverse effects for nearby customers. Ofcom now proposes to change this.

Cityfibre Fined £35K for “serious failures” with Road Works Safety in Scotland

5th Apr 2017 (2 Comments)

The Scottish Road Works Commissioner has fined fibre optic network builder Cityfibre £35,000 due to a “number of serious failures to comply with road works legislation in Scotland,” such as the one that occurred in Edinburgh (here) after a contractor sat exposed in a manhole on a busy street.

Which? Survey Claims 12.5 Million UK Homes Frustrated by Poor Broadband

5th Apr 2017 (24 Comments)

Consumer magazine Which? has conducted a new Populus survey of 2,084 UK households, which claims that 16 million people (59% of respondents) have suffered a problem with their broadband connection during the past year and 12.5 million households were left frustrated as a result.

Rural FTTH Broadband ISP Gigaclear Opens New Office to Support Growth

4th Apr 2017 (3 Comments)

Rural fibre optic ISP Gigaclear has opened expanded office space at Abingdon Business Park (Oxfordshire), which should enable them to cope with plenty of new staff and support their ever growing roll-out of ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP/H) based broadband networks across England.

UK ISP Hyperoptic Offers 3 Months FREE Ultrafast Fibre Optic Broadband

4th Apr 2017 (9 Comments)

New customers of Hyperoptic’s 1000Mbps capable FTTB/P broadband network, which is available around parts of 21 cities in the United Kingdom, can now benefit from a new offer that gives the first 3 months of service for free, albeit only when taking out a 12 month contract.