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ISP News Archives for 2017

UK ISP Aquiss Reduce Unlimited Broadband Prices and Scrap 12 Month Term

3rd Oct 2017 (5 Comments)

Shropshire-based ISP Aquiss has today announced that they’ve reduce the price of their ‘up to’ 19Mbps (ADSL2+) capable “family premium” unlimited broadband packages and scrapped their 12 month contracts in favour of a short rolling 30 day term.

UPDATE3 Wireless ISP Relish Start 1Gbps “Full Fibre” Home Broadband Package

3rd Oct 2017 (5 Comments)

In a curious move Relish Wireless, which is a fixed wireless ISP in London and Swindon that was acquired by Three UK, has updated their website to offer a new range of “Home Fibre” broadband services that claim to offer a “full fibre experience” with ultrafast download speeds from 50Mbps to 1Gbps.

ISP Community Fibre Makes Progress on Wandsworth 1Gbps Broadband Rollout

2nd Oct 2017 (5 Comments)

Two years ago the London Borough of Wandsworth announced that it had teamed-up with local ISP Community Fibre to roll-out a new 1000Mbps capable ultrafast fibre optic (FTTP/H) broadband network to 20,000 council homes. The provider has so far done 5,500 and the next areas are now being announced.

Devon Council Criticised for Secrecy of Broadband Project’s Scrutiny Meetings

2nd Oct 2017 (42 Comments)

The Upottery Parish Councillor and Chairman of the B4RDS (Broadband for Rural Devon & Somerset) campaign, Graham Long, has criticised Devon Council for conducting scrutiny of the regional broadband roll-out project (Connecting Devon and Somerset) in private, with “press and public excluded“.

Cityfibre Deal to Bring 1Gbps Fibre to Businesses in Cheltenham and Gloucester

2nd Oct 2017 (0 Comments)

Cityfibre has today signed a new deal with Cheltenham-based ISP Bamboo, which will support the roll-out of their 500Mbps and 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cater for businesses in the large town of Cheltenham and the city of Gloucester (Gloucestershire, England).

Report Calls for More Competition in the UK Fixed Line Broadband ISP Market

2nd Oct 2017 (5 Comments)

The Social Market Foundation, a non-partisan think tank, has warned that broadband and telephony remain “highly concentrated consumer markets” and a lack of effective competition can translate into higher prices, poorer services, less choice and possibly lower rates of investment or innovation.

UK ISP BT Start Free FTTC Infinity 1 Broadband Speed Boost up to 76Mbps

30th Sep 2017 (35 Comments)

Existing customers of BT’s 52Mbps (9.5Mbps upload) capable Infinity 1 (FTTC) “fibre broadband” service will be pleased to learn that the ISP has decided to reward them with a free speed boost ‘up to’ 76Mbps (19Mbps upload) and a doubling of their cloud storage, but not everybody will benefit.

Virgin Media UK Discounts Standalone 50-300Mbps Cable Broadband Prices

29th Sep 2017 (30 Comments)

Cable network Virgin Media has today cut the prices of their 50Mbps to 300Mbps range of standalone broadband packages for the first 12 months of service (new customers). At the same time they’ve also increased the prices on some of their bundles (i.e. broadband, phone and /or TV).

UK ISP TalkTalk Enhance Nuisance Call Blocking with ‘Check and Report’

28th Sep 2017 (9 Comments)

Broadband ISP TalkTalk, which already blocks nuisance calls at the network level and recently enabled Caller Display + Last Call Barring for all users at no extra cost, has today launched a new phone security feature called ‘Check and Report‘ that helps customers to identify and stop unwanted calls.

New EU Measures to Tackle “illegal” Internet Content Cause ISPs Concern

28th Sep 2017 (11 Comments)

The European Internet Services Providers Association (EuroISPA) has warned that the European Commission’s new plan for tackling “illegal” online content risks forcing internet providers to adopt aggressive filtering and monitoring technologies, which could end up removing legitimate content.

Openreach and Grosvenor Co-Investment Deal for Ultrafast FTTP in London

28th Sep 2017 (13 Comments)

Openreach’s (BT) roll-out of Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband tech has been given a boost by their first co-investment deal with a major UK landowner (Grosvenor Britain & Ireland), which will see their network being expanded across the firm’s London estate (130 sites).

Cityfibre – H1 Turnover Hits £9m as FTTP Serves 4,235 UK Customer Premises

28th Sep 2017 (0 Comments)

Cityfibre has published their latest results for the six months to 30th June 2017 (H1), which reveals that they now have 4,235 connected customer premises on their UK “full fibre” FTTP network (up from 3,962 in H2 2016) and a total of 3,556 route kilometres of operational ducted fibre (up from 3,383km).

Hyperoptic UK Extends 1Gbps Broadband to SACO’s Serviced Apartments

28th Sep 2017 (0 Comments)

City-centric fibre optic ISP Hyperoptic has signed a new deal that will see their 1Gbps broadband network (FTTP/B) being extended to cater for SACO’s stock of serviced apartments across the United Kingdom, which exist in many of the same urban areas as the operator’s existing network.

UPD Shropshire Land Agency Criticises Wireless Broadband Land Access Contracts

27th Sep 2017 (5 Comments)

The Director of Halls, Shaun Jones (Chartered Surveyor), has claimed the contracts that landowners in Shropshire are being asked to sign with wireless ISP Airband, which won the deal to roll-out a 30Mbps+ broadband network to 14,000 premises, leave “too much scope for future problems.”

Ofcom Praise Sky and Virgin Media in Q2 2017 UK Consumer Complaints Study

27th Sep 2017 (7 Comments)

Broadband providers Virgin Media and Sky Broadband have today been praised by Ofcom’s Q2 2017 UK consumer complaints report after they received fewer gripes than any other ISP for their service. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for BT and TalkTalk, which attracted the most complaints.

Mobile Operators Report Big Surge in Internet Data Use Since Free EU Roaming

26th Sep 2017 (3 Comments)

The European Union’s move in June 2017 to scrap roaming charges for mobile calls, texts and data / internet services (here) has resulted in operators’ reporting a huge rise in data traffic due to travellers, which has multiplied by between 3-6 times this summer compared with last year.

Europe vs UK – New Study Summarises Fixed Broadband and 4G Coverage

26th Sep 2017 (16 Comments)

The European Commission has published a new study from IHS Markit and Point Topic, which summarises the current state of broadband coverage across Europe and measures how close the EU is to achieving their Digital Agenda goals (i.e. 30Mbps for all, with 50% subscribed to 100Mbps+ by 2020).