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Half of UK Premier League Footy Fans Have Streamed Matches “Illegally”

4th Jul 2017 (4 Comments)

A BBC commissioned ComRes interview of 1,000 adults who are regular viewers of Premier League Football has revealed that 47% have used their broadband connections to stream live matches from pirated sources (e.g. unofficially modified Kodi boxes or “illegal” steaming sites).

BT Sport TV Grabs European Rugby Rights Until 2021/22

4th Jul 2017 (2 Comments)

Telecoms and broadband giant BT has boosted their premium TV credentials today by acquiring the rights to broadcast all of the European Rugby Champions Cup and the European Rugby Challenge Cup matches live in the UK and Ireland, which will start from the 2018/19 season and run until at least 2021/22.

UPDATE B4RN Expand 1Gbps FTTH Broadband to Rural Suffolk and Norfolk

4th Jul 2017 (18 Comments)

The plucky rural ISP B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North), which has been deploying their 1Gbps community built and funded fibre optic (FTTP/H) broadband network to remote homes in Lancashire, Cumbria and Yorkshire, has now connected 3270 properties and is expanding into Suffolk and Norfolk.

L.110 Lightweight Optical Cable Could Cut Rural FTTH Broadband Rollout Costs

3rd Jul 2017 (15 Comments)

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) has granted first-stage approval (‘consent‘) to a new standard called L.110, which specifies a lightweight optical cable that could make it easier and cheaper for communities to roll-out their own FTTH/P ultrafast broadband networks.

Rights Holders Ask Google to Block UK ISP Piracy Site Blocking Notifications

3rd Jul 2017 (5 Comments)

Several enforcement groups for copyright holders have taken the unusual step of asking Google to remove links for the website blocking notification pages used by Virgin Media, BT and Sky Broadband, which inform visitors when websites have been blocked by a court order.

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UK Gov Start £400m Digital Infrastructure Fund to Boost “Full Fibre” Broadband

3rd Jul 2017 (6 Comments)

Last year the Government committed £400m of public money to support a new Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund (here), which has today gone live. The new fund could help to support alternative network ISPs in deploying ultrafast broadband FTTH/P networks to 2 million extra UK premises.

TalkTalk Survey Warns Slow Broadband “Load Rage” Driving Brits Barmy

1st Jul 2017 (12 Comments)

A new survey of 2,000 British adults by Mortar, which was commissioned by UK ISP TalkTalk, has revealed that slow broadband comes top in a list of household bugbears for 2017 and as a result this is causing people to lose their cool as often as 138 times a year (aka “Load Rage“).

Liberty Granted Permission to Challenge UK ISP Internet Snooping Law

30th Jun 2017 (8 Comments)

The High Court in London has today approved a request by Liberty, a human rights group, to challenge part of the Government’s controversial Internet surveillance powers in the new Investigatory Powers Act. The effort is being supported by £53,313 raised via crowd-funding.

Virgin Media UK to Close “Shops” and Cut Hundreds of Jobs

30th Jun 2017 (9 Comments)

The fallout from Virgin Media’s (Liberty Global) recent internal struggles appears to be hitting other parts of the business, with 250 jobs and 30 shops reportedly now being lined up for the chop.

New EU Videos Show B4RN Building its Community 1Gbps FTTH Broadband

30th Jun 2017 (3 Comments)

The community funded and built 1Gbps B4RN Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) network in rural parts of Lancashire, Cumbria and Yorkshire has received some extra support from the EU’s Digital Single Market team, which has published a couple of new videos on the project.

1,300 Extra Staffordshire UK Premises to Get BT’s “Fibre Broadband”

30th Jun 2017 (0 Comments)

A further 1,300 homes and businesses in Staffordshire (England) are due to be covered by Openreach’s (BT) “superfast fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network after the state aid fuelled Superfast Staffordshire project received a funding boost of £1.7 million.

Gigaclear and BT Win Essex’s Phase 3 “Superfast Broadband” Rollout Contract

30th Jun 2017 (6 Comments)

The Superfast Essex project in England has announced the award of their £24m Phase 3 “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) roll-out contract to Gigaclear and BT, which should extend the network to a further 24,000 premises and push local coverage to around 97% by December 2019.

UK ISP Plusnet Removes Broadband Internet Traffic Prioritisation

30th Jun 2017 (12 Comments)

Internet traffic prioritisation has been completely removed from Plusnet’s residential broadband service(s), which is because the ISP claims to have been “investing heavily in its network” and as a result their platform now has enough “capacity and resilience” that prioritisation is no longer needed.

London Assembly Warn City’s Broadband and Mobile is “frankly embarrassing”

29th Jun 2017 (11 Comments)

A new report from the London Assembly’s regeneration committee has described the quality of mobile (4G) and fixed line broadband connectivity in the city as “frankly embarrassing.” The report also calls for more ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) to be deployed in order to “bypass the copper problem.”

UK ISP TalkTalk Details 1st August 2017 Price Hikes for Broadband

29th Jun 2017 (7 Comments)

Customers of TalkTalk’s existing broadband and phone (line rental) packages have this week been informed that their prices are set to be hiked by between 4-6% from 1st August 2017 and some increases will be introduced from tomorrow. The cost of calls is also set to rise.

10000 Hull UK Premises Set for 250Mbps FTTP in KCOM’s Summer Roll-out

29th Jun 2017 (19 Comments)

East Yorkshire ISP KCOM has today announced the next phase of their £60m Lightstream roll-out (July – September 2017), which will see their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) dominated ultrafast broadband network reach a further 10,000 homes and businesses in East Hull.

UPDATE2 Virgin Media Resuscitate 50Mbps Broadband as a Budget Option

29th Jun 2017 (6 Comments)

Earlier this year Virgin Media made the bold decision to adopt “ultrafast broadband” (100Mbps+) as the entry-level speed for their service (here), although ISPreview.co.uk has learnt that the cable operator is about to test the reintroduction of their old 50Mbps tier as a new budget package.