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ISP News Archives for August 2018

ISP Sky Broadband Adds £100 Reward Card to Discounted Packages

17th Aug 2018 (13 Comments)

UK ISP Sky Broadband appears to have enhanced their existing package discounts for new customers by introducing a £100 reward card (Prepaid Mastercard), which is available across all three of their primary unlimited broadband (ADSL, FTTC) and phone line rental bundles.

British Fibre Networks Deploy 1Gbps FTTH to UK New Build Homes UPDATE

16th Aug 2018 (5 Comments)

British Fibre Networks, which launched earlier this year (here) with an aspiration to build a new open access 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband ISP network to serve over 35% of UK new build homes by 2020, has now begun its first deployment on an apartment block in North Wales, for LW Group.

ISP Pembs WiFi Builds Own 1Gbps FTTH Broadband in Rural Wales

16th Aug 2018 (16 Comments)

A little known fixed wireless ISP called Pembs WiFi has quietly begun to branch out by building their own 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) “hyperfast broadband” network to cater for several rural villages in north Pembrokeshire (Wales, UK), which has its own layer2 capacity back to data centres in London.

Vodafone UK Extends Free Mobile Roaming to 29 New Destinations

16th Aug 2018 (5 Comments)

Customers of mobile operator Vodafone‘s pay monthly 4G ‘Red Entertainment‘ plans will soon be able to enjoy cost free global roaming in a total of 77 destinations when a further 29 countries are added to the list, including some big locations such as the USA, South Africa, Canada and most of of the Caribbean.

ISP Aquiss to Stop Selling Copper Line ADSL Broadband Packages

15th Aug 2018 (14 Comments)

Shropshire-based UK ISP Aquiss has today announced that they are to withdraw the ADSL and ADSL2+ based copper line broadband packages from sale to new customers from 31st December 2018. The provider will instead focus on selling faster hybrid-fibre (FTTC) and full fibre (FTTP / GPON) based services.

Virgin Media UK Confirms Incoming Annual Price Hikes for 2018

15th Aug 2018 (55 Comments)

Cable broadband ISP and TV operator Virgin Media has today become the latest provider to confirm that customers will soon be hit by an annual price increase on their bills between October and November 2018, although they claim that the average rise is a little “lower than last year” (i.e. 4.5% in 2018 against 4.7% in 2017).

Vodafone UK Blocking Wangiri International Missed Call Fraud

15th Aug 2018 (7 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has announced that “where possible” they are now trying to block international Wangiri scam calls before they even reach users. On top of that they’re also pledging to “reimburse any victim who has incurred a charge” as a result of calling such a number.

Ex Ofcom UK Boss Stephen Carter Approached to Take BT CEO Role

15th Aug 2018 (13 Comments)

The hunt for somebody to replace the outgoing CEO of BT Group, Gavin Patterson, appears to have reached fever pitch, with reports on Sky News that the former boss of telecoms regulator Ofcom, Stephen Carter (Lord Carter of Barnes), has been approach to take over the position. But there are other candidates too.

Digital Scotland Delivers 900,000 Superfast Broadband Premises

14th Aug 2018 (14 Comments)

The £428 million Digital Scotland (DSSB) project with BT (Openreach) has announced that their roll-out of FTTC and FTTP based “superfast broadband” ISP technology has managed to reach an additional 900,000 homes and businesses across Scotland since it began.

Big Broadband ISPs Must Improve UK Support for Deaf Users

14th Aug 2018 (6 Comments)

Living with a hearing problem is no fun and there can be different forms of such disabilities, which means a solution that works for one group may be unusable for others. Suffice to say that we expect the largest broadband ISPs to cater for such scenarios but a new investigation by Cable.co.uk suggests some are falling short.

CALA Agrees FTTP Partnership with Hyperoptic in West Scotland

14th Aug 2018 (6 Comments)

Property developer CALA Homes has today signed a new partnership agreement with “full fibre” (FTTP/B) UK ISP Hyperoptic, which will result in residents of CALA’s new build home developments in West Scotland being offered “day one access to gigabit broadband speeds“.

Intel Coughs to Puma CPU Flaw that Hit Virgin Media Hub 3 Router UPDATE

14th Aug 2018 (23 Comments)

After nearly two years Intel has finally published an advisory and formal CVE entry for a flaw in their Puma 5, 6 and 7 chipsets that resulted in various broadband ISP routers, such as Virgin Media UK’s Hub 3.0 (ARRIS TG2492S/CE), suffering from a mix of latency spikes and a DDoS security vulnerability.

RootMetrics H1 2018 Study Name EE and Three UK Best for Mobile

14th Aug 2018 (17 Comments)

The latest “scientific” H1 2018 examination of 4G and 3G mobile network operator performance across the United Kingdom, which was conducted by RootMetrics and IHS Markit, has today seen EE and Three UK come top with a quality score of 96 and 93 out of 100 (respectively).

Virgin Media Extend to 7000 Sunderland Premises and Upgrade TV App

13th Aug 2018 (9 Comments)

The city of Sunderland in Tyne and Wear is the next to benefit from Virgin Media’s rollout of their cable ultrafast broadband and TV network, which currently covers half of the city and will now be extended to a further 7,000 premises. Separately VM has also updated their Virgin TV Go app with a download feature.

Vaioni Aim to Become One of the UK’s Largest Ethernet Networks

13th Aug 2018 (0 Comments)

Manchester-based ISP Vaioni Wholesale has announced a new “multi-million-pound” investment in its Ethernet Network (V.E.N), which they hope will enable them to build one of the “most powerful Software Defined Networks” in the United Kingdom. No sums were mentioned for the investment.

TVWS Tech Brings 30Mb Broadband to 400 Monmouthshire Homes UPDATE

13th Aug 2018 (13 Comments)

Some 400 homes residing within 6 kilometres of Llantilio Crossenny in Monmouthshire (Wales, UK) will be the next to benefit from fixed wireless superfast broadband via Broadway Partners, which will use the new long range TV White Space (TVWS) technology to deliver their internet connectivity.

ISP Freeola Add FTTP Option to UK Ultrafast Broadband Packages

13th Aug 2018 (18 Comments)

Internet and hosting provider Freeola has followed the recent launch of their G.fast plans by adding a new range of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based home “ultrafast broadband” packages to their line-up, which offer average peak time download speeds of either 140Mbps or 290Mbps.