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ISP News Archives for July 2018

ISP BT Hike Premium Email Price by 50% for non-Broadband Users

13th Jul 2018 (7 Comments)

Customers of BT’s UK broadband products typically receive their email service at no extra cost, but if you want to retain this after leaving the ISP then you’d currently need to pay £5 per month for their Premium Email. Bad news though, on 22nd August 2018 that price will be hiked by 50% to £7.50.

Rural Village Gets Ultrafast Broadband – Still Waiting for Water

13th Jul 2018 (32 Comments)

Generally speaking broadband connectivity, while considered by many in the UK to now be an essential utility, is by no means as important as running water or electricity. As such we tend to expect the latter two to be present almost everywhere but tell that to the tiny rural village of Hebron (Wales, Carmarthenshire).

Broadband ISP TalkTalk Claim Britain’s Lowest Price for Sky Sports TV

13th Jul 2018 (1 Comment)

Budget UK ISP TalkTalk has today claimed to be launching “Britain’s lowest price Sky Sports deal,” which enables customers of their YouView (IPTV) based Pay TV, phone and “Faster Fibre” (FTTC) broadband service to get Sky Sports for just £15 extra per month for 9 months (£34 thereafter.).

Winners of the ISPA’s 2018 UK ISP Internet Industry Awards Unveiled

12th Jul 2018 (9 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has tonight announced the winners of their 20th annual 2018 internet industry awards, which among other things saw Hyperoptic scoop the top spot for the ‘Best Superfast Broadband‘ category and Gigaclear named as the ‘Best Rural Broadband‘ ISP.. again.

Unicom Hits Mobile Customer with £10K Bill for 17GB of UK Data

12th Jul 2018 (30 Comments)

A 70 year old customer of Unicom (aka – Universal Utilities, VERASTAR, Kinex etc.), who claims to rarely ever use her mobile phone, has had to battle the broadband ISP after she was hit with a staggering bill of £10K for allegedly gobbling 17 GigaBytes of mobile data in a single 8 hour window.

Northern Ireland Police Issue Second Warning of Broadband Scams

12th Jul 2018 (3 Comments)

The Police Service of Northern Ireland has this week issued a second warning about UK broadband customers being scammed after £78,000 was stolen from 5 people by fake ISP support agents over the past month. But there’s now a worrying new “compensation” twist to the fraud.

Giffgaff UK Refresh 4G Mobile Tariffs with Bigger Data Allowances

12th Jul 2018 (13 Comments)

Mobile operator giffgaff has launched a revised range of 4G mobile “goodybag” plans, which for the most part have been designed to give subscribers a bigger data allowance for Mobile Broadband use and usually at no extra cost.

Government Responds to UK Internet Snooping Law Consultation

11th Jul 2018 (6 Comments)

The Government has today published its response to the recent consultation on proposed amendments to the controversial 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, which among other things would force broadband ISPs to log the Internet Connection Records (ICR) of all their customers for up to 12 months.

Cityfibre Begin 1Gbps FTTH Broadband Build for Peterborough

11th Jul 2018 (2 Comments)

The joint £30m plan by Cityfibre and UK ISP Vodafone to deploy a Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network across the city of Peterborough (Cambridgeshire) has finally entered the build stage this week, with the first civil engineering work getting underway around Dogsthorpe.

Broadband ISP Zen Internet Publishes New UK Customer Charter

11th Jul 2018 (19 Comments)

Popular Rochdale-based ISP Zen Internet, which say they believe in putting “people before profits“, has this week published a new customer charter for all their residential and small business subscribers. This sets out a range of service commitments and promises to their users.

Virgin Media Sign UK Deal to Offer BT Sport TV in Full 4K UltraHD

11th Jul 2018 (7 Comments)

Cable broadband ISP Virgin Media and BT have today signed a new multi-year agreement that, effective from 30th July 2018, will enable the former to add the BTSport TV channels in full 4K UltraHD resolution to its top triple-play bundles “at no extra cost“.

Quickline UK ISP Boss Apologises for Major Broadband Outage

11th Jul 2018 (6 Comments)

The Managing Director of fixed wireless broadband ISP Quickline (Bigblu Broadband), Steve Jagger, has publicly apologised to customers after their network was hit by a major outage that began yesterday morning and stemmed from the loss of multiple fibre optic connections.

JT Completes FTTH Gigabit Broadband ISP Network on Jersey

11th Jul 2018 (4 Comments)

The stated-owned telecoms operator JT Group (Jersey Telecom) has quietly confirmed that after 6 years they’ve finally completed the build of a new 1Gbps capable “ultrafast” Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) broadband ISP network on the English Channel Island of Jersey. Any old copper lines will soon be gone too.

UK Ranked 35 out of 200 Countries for Average Broadband ISP Speed UPDATE

10th Jul 2018 (17 Comments)

New data from research group M-Lab and Cable.co.uk has revealed that for 2018 the United Kingdom delivered an average (mean) broadband download speed of just 18.57Mbps (up from 16.51Mbps in 2017) and ranks 35th fastest in the world (down from 31st) versus 200 other countries.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough UK Launch £5.6m Digital Strategy

10th Jul 2018 (3 Comments)

The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority has put £5.6m toward supporting the launch of their new ‘Delivering Digital Connectivity Strategy’, which aims to “significantly improve mobile, broadband and public WiFi coverage, whilst securing future proof full fibre [FTTP] and 5G networks.”

Jeremy Wright QC Replaces Matt Hancock as UK Culture Secretary

10th Jul 2018 (1 Comment)

The fallout from recent Brexit related resignations has triggered another round of musical chairs and resulted in the UK Government replacing Matt Hancock MP at the helm of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) with Jeremy Wright QC (MP for Kenilworth and Southam).

Openreach Pick Huawei and Nokia Kit for UK FTTP Broadband Rollout

10th Jul 2018 (12 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has today unsurprisingly announced that Huawei and Nokia have been awarded key contracts to deliver the new electronics (headend) that will support their on-going “Fibre First” project, which aims to roll-out 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband to 3 million UK premises by the end of 2020.