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ISP News Archives for April 2018

Broadband and Internet Issues Fuelling UK Family Arguments

25th Apr 2018 (4 Comments)

A new uSwitch.com survey of 2,004 UK adults (773 parents), which was conducted during March 2018 and weighted to reflect a nationally representative criteria, has claimed that 30% of respondents have taken out their frustrations with internet devices or services on other members of their household.

ITSPA Name Finalists for 2018 Best UK Internet VoIP Provider Awards

24th Apr 2018 (1 Comment)

The UK Internet Telephony Services Providers Association, which represents the Voice-over-IP (VoIP) industry, has announced their short-list of potential winners for the 2018 ITSPA Awards event. Hello Telecom, Gradwell, SureVoIP and Voipfone are all up for the best consumer / SOHO provider category.

Which? 2018 UK Mobile Network Survey Ranks UW and Giffgaff Top

24th Apr 2018 (4 Comments)

Consumer magazine Which? has published the results from their latest 2018 consumer survey of Mobile Network Operators (MNO), which ranked Utility Warehouse top with a customer score of 84% and they were followed by giffgaff (81%). Sadly Vodafone retains the bottom spot.

ISP TalkTalk Launch 150Mbps and 300Mbps G.fast Home Broadband UPDATE3

24th Apr 2018 (25 Comments)

Low cost UK internet provider TalkTalk has today officially launched their new range of unlimited G.fast based ultrafast home broadband packages, which offer download speeds of ‘up to’ 150Mbps (30Mbps upload) and 300Mbps (50Mbps upload) from just £40 per month (including line rental).

Mobile Operator Three UK Preparing to Enter the Business Market

24th Apr 2018 (6 Comments)

Reports indicate that consumer focused mobile operator Three UK (CK Hutchison) are going through an upgrade of their national network, which aside from laying the ground work for a future 5G service will also pave the way for a move into business connectivity (beyond existing small business tariffs).

Scientists Learn from ADSL to Boost Fibre Optic Broadband Speeds

24th Apr 2018 (4 Comments)

A team of Dutch scientists from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have borrowed a technology from existing copper based ADSL and VDSL (FTTC) networks in order to boost speeds over pure fibre optic (FTTH/P) lines, such as by implementing adaptive modulation techniques.

Cityfibre 1Gbps FTTH for Edinburgh, Coventry, Huddersfield and Stirling

24th Apr 2018 (3 Comments)

The UK cities of Edinburgh, Coventry, Huddersfield and Stirling have today been named as the next to be covered via Cityfibre and Vodafone’s joint deployment of a new Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) broadband ISP network by the end of 2021.

Terms Agreed for Bidco to Buy UK FTTH Builder CityFibre for £538m

24th Apr 2018 (5 Comments)

Fibre optic (FTTP/H) network builder Cityfibre has announced that they’ve agreed the terms of a recommended £537.8m cash acquisition by Connect Infrastructure Bidco Limited (Bidco), which is a newly-incorporated company that is jointly-owned by a consortium of two key infrastructure investors.

Internet Users Only Keeping a UK Fixed Phone Line for Broadband

24th Apr 2018 (4 Comments)

Do we still need a fixed line telephone (voice) service? A new ISPreview survey of 1,911 readers has found that only 14.5% still use a landline phone service for making most of their calls and 67.2% said they’d get rid of it if the service wasn’t still needed by most ISPs for home broadband.

ISPA Name Finalists for the 2018 UK ISP Internet Industry Awards

23rd Apr 2018 (4 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today revealed the finalists for their 20th annual industry awards, which sees some broadband providers being nominated several times across various different categories (e.g. Hyperoptic, Zen Internet, Community Fibre, Gigaclear).

Peak Time Congestion Hits Hardest for Broadband ISP Plusnet

23rd Apr 2018 (17 Comments)

A new study into the impact on broadband ISP download speeds of peak (afternoon) vs off-peak (morning/daytime) internet usage at the largest six broadband providers in the United Kingdom has revealed that Plusnet suffers the biggest proportional drop in performance, while oddly TalkTalk got faster.

1Gbps Hyperoptic Broadband Coming to Bellway South London Homes

23rd Apr 2018 (0 Comments)

Fibre optic UK ISP Hyperoptic has entered into a partnership with new build property developer Bellway South London (BSL), which will see their Gigabit capable hyperfast broadband (FTTP/B) network being made available from day one at their new development sites in the city.

London FTTH Broadband ISP Community Fibre Raises Extra £25m

23rd Apr 2018 (0 Comments)

The UK government supported National Digital Infrastructure Fund has made its first big investment by putting £18m into Community Fibre, which aspires to bring 1Gbps “full fibre” broadband to more than 500,000 premises across London by 2022. Existing investor Railpen has also put in £7m.

Wireless ISP Connexin Details Plan for £5m Data Centre in Hull UK

21st Apr 2018 (0 Comments)

Wireless ISP Connexin, which operates superfast broadband networks in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (England), has confirmed their plan to spend £5 million building a new data centre (CXNDC) in their home city of Hull so as to help it become “one of the UK’s leading smart cities.”

The Best and Worst 10 Areas in the UK to Live by Broadband Speed

20th Apr 2018 (28 Comments)

A new study has identified the top 10 and bottom 10 council areas in the United Kingdom to live by their average (mean) broadband ISP speed, which is ranked by considering the average speed that is possible if everyone in the area brought the fastest available service. Speedtest data is then used as a balance.

Snooping TalkTalk Security Feature Causes Customer Concern UPDATE2

20th Apr 2018 (25 Comments)

A number of TalkTalk’s broadband ISP customers in the UK have raised concerns after the provider sent them an alarmist warning email, which without providing any useful details claimed that they “may have downloaded a virus on one or more of your devices” (phishing emails adopt a similar approach).

UK and EU Mobile Broadband Speeds Fall While Roaming Q1 2018

19th Apr 2018 (5 Comments)

Ookla has published a new table, which reveals how much your Mobile Broadband (3G / 4G) speeds could drop within the EU when you roam outside of your home country. For example, the average local mobile download speed in the UK is 26.16Mbps but this drops by -19.4% (21.08Mbps) when roaming.