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ISP News Archives for 2017

ADTRAN and Deutsche Telekom Test cDTA Upgrade for G.fast Broadband

20th Jul 2017 (4 Comments)

German telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom and ADTRAN, which supplies the kit being used in various broadband roll-outs around the world, have conducted lab trials of the new hybrid-fibre G.fast technology using the 212MHz and coordinated Dynamic Time Allocation (cDTA) upgrades.

North Skye Broadband Project Scraps State Aid Application Over Delays

20th Jul 2017 (11 Comments)

The North Skye Broadband (NSB) project, which had been planning to deploy a B4RN-like fibre optic broadband network to 2,000 rural premises on the Northern side of the Isle of Skye in Scotland, has given up its application for significant state aid support after facing repeated delays.

£3m South Gloucestershire BT Deal Targets Universal Superfast Broadband

20th Jul 2017 (5 Comments)

The South Gloucestershire Council in England, which is already working with Openreach (BT) to extend “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) coverage to 97% of the region by December 2017, has signed a new £3m contract that will benefit a further 4,300 premises (3,800 via FTTP).

UPDATE Shock as Gigaclear Shelve Full Fibre Broadband Plan in Rural Worcestershire

20th Jul 2017 (18 Comments)

A number of rural communities in Worcestershire (England) have been left to continue suffering from slow broadband speeds after Gigaclear abandoned their remaining commercial 1Gbps FTTP deployment plans due to problems with economic viability and permits.

UK ISP TalkTalk Sees Broadband Subscribers Return to Growth

19th Jul 2017 (6 Comments)

Internet provider TalkTalk has today issued one of their short quarterly trading updates, which didn’t reveal a lot but we do learn that during Q2 2017 (calendar) the provider added another +20,000 on-net broadband and line rental customers (total 3,967,000) and churn fell to just 1.2%.

ISP Ecom Bringing Gigabit FTTP Broadband to Rural Buckinghamshire Villages

19th Jul 2017 (2 Comments)

Little known ISP Ecom (Electronic Communities) has revealed to ISPreview.co.uk that they’re building a new ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to several rural villages in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire (i.e. Dunton, through Creslow and on to Whitchurch with more to follow).

Hub Network Services Chosen to Wholesale Bristol’s BNET 1Gbps “Full Fibre”

19th Jul 2017 (2 Comments)

The ITS Technology group has appointed Hub Network Services (HNS) to become the wholesale provider for Bristol City Council’s recently re-purposed BNET fibre optic Ethernet and broadband network, which was commercialised to supply Gigabit capable “full fibre” (FTTP) services to local businesses.

Virgin Media Get ASA to Ban Sky Broadband “Super Reliable” TV Ad Claim

19th Jul 2017 (10 Comments)

A complaint by Virgin Media has prompted the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to ban a major TV and national press advert for Sky Broadband’s service after they were found to have misleading claimed that the ISP offered a “Super Reliable” broadband service.

Virgin Media UK Launch New Customer Account Control and Help App

19th Jul 2017 (0 Comments)

Customers of Virgin Media’s UK cable broadband and TV network can now download a new Tablet and Smartphone app for Android and iOS (iPhone) devices, which will give them access to the latest account details, package choice, billing, local service status (faults etc.) and general help.

UPDATE Openreach Conduct “forensic investigation” of £1.5bn Carillion Deal

18th Jul 2017 (0 Comments)

Openreach (BT) is allegedly conducting a “forensic investigation” of their £1.5bn three-year extension deal with construction firm Carillion (here), which has recently been hit by various financial troubles (e.g. net debt and pensions) that have sent the company’s shares into a nosedive.

Leicestershire Approve £5.63m Project to Extend Superfast Broadband Cover

18th Jul 2017 (25 Comments)

The Leicestershire County Council appears to have moved forward with Phase 3 of their on-going Superfast Leicestershire project, which will commit up to £5.633m to extend “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) coverage to the final 3% of local premises (i.e. as many as they can reach).

UPDATE BT Wholesale Broadband Checker Adds Options for VRI and NTEFaceplate

18th Jul 2017 (15 Comments)

The BT Wholesale Broadband Checker has recently added two additional rows to its output for the customer premise environment (‘VRI‘ and ‘NTEFaceplate‘) and so far as we can tell these only show when testing with a specific telephone number (i.e. not specific address or postcode checks).

UPDATE Wireless ISP Locheilnet Win £42K for Rural Broadband Boost in Scotland

18th Jul 2017 (0 Comments)

The community (CIC) fixed wireless ISP Locheilnet, which offers broadband speeds of up to 35Mbps to areas from the West side of Loch Linnhe, both sides of Loch Eil and from Banavie to the wider Achnacarry/ Bunarkaig/Clunes area and Glenfinnan, has secured £42K to upgrade their core network.

2,300 Extra North Lincolnshire UK Premises to Get “Superfast Broadband”

18th Jul 2017 (7 Comments)

A further 2,300 homes and businesses in North Lincolnshire (England) are set to get access to “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) speeds via Openreach’s (BT) network due to a reinvestment of £2.9m in public funding from earlier phases of the Northern Lincs Broadband project.

Survey Finds Dissatisfaction with UK Adverts for Broadband ISP Speed

18th Jul 2017 (0 Comments)

The latest survey of 816 ISPreview.co.uk readers has found that 68% are unhappy with how broadband providers advertise their headline download speeds, although respondents were split on the best approach for improving the clarity of such promotions.

UK ISP TalkTalk Offer Cheap Sky Sports or Cinema TV with Broadband

18th Jul 2017 (0 Comments)

Internet provider TalkTalk appears to be making a more aggressive move to grab a bigger share of the premium Pay TV market today by reducing the price of their broadband based triple-play TV bundles and cutting the price of the Sky Sports and Sky Cinema add-ons by 75% and 50% respectively.

Openreach Start Consultation on Plan for Large Scale FTTP “Full Fibre” Rollout

17th Jul 2017 (55 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has today launched their consultation on the prospects for a “large-scale” roll-out of Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) ultrafast broadband technology across the United Kingdom by around 2025, which in theory could see the operator’s “full fibre” network reach up to 10 million premises.