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ISP News Archives for September 2019

Vodafone UK Deploys Ultrafast 5G Mobile to Gatwick Airport

12th Sep 2019 (11 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK has announced that their new 5G network, which is capable of ultrafast mobile broadband speeds, has just been deployed to cover the South Terminal building at Gatwick Airport. The North Terminal is set to follow by early 2020.

Openreach Put the Brakes on Future UK G.fast Broadband Plans

11th Sep 2019 (51 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has today informed ISPs that they are holding off giving any further guidance on future build plans for their hybrid fibre G.fast “ultrafast broadband” (100Mbps+) technology, which means that under the existing rollout they will only cover 2.73 million UK premises by March 2020..

Cityfibre Bringing FTTH Broadband to Social Housing in Scotland

11th Sep 2019 (3 Comments)

Fibre optic network builder Cityfibre has reached a new access agreement (wayleave) with several housing associations in Scotland, which means that residents of social homes in two Scottish cities – Aberdeen and Stirling – may soon be able to access a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband ISP network.

UK ISP Aquiss Moves to Retire ADSL Broadband Packages

11th Sep 2019 (9 Comments)

Shropshire-based UK ISP Aquiss has today announced that they intend to withdraw their old copper line ADSL and ADSL2+ based broadband packages from 31st December 2019. Existing customers will continue to be supported but their main focus will now be on fibre-based FTTC, FTTP / FTTH and GPON products.

Isle of Wight ISP WightFibre Bundle New TV Service via netgem.tv

11th Sep 2019 (1 Comment)

Cable and full fibre broadband ISP WightFibre, which serves homes and businesses on the Isle of Wight (South Coast of Hampshire, England), has entered into a new partnership that enables them to supply a TV service based off the netgem.tv video streaming and set-top-box platform.

Kent UK Extend Fibre Broadband Rollout and Boost Gigabit Vouchers

11th Sep 2019 (3 Comments)

The Kent County Council in England has confirmed that 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband from Openreach (BT) is set to reach an additional 5,000 rural premises. On top of that they’ve boosted the value of the UK Government’s rural Gigabit broadband vouchers from £1,500 to £2,500 per household.

Court Forces Big UK ISPs to Block Nintendo Switch Piracy Sites

10th Sep 2019 (17 Comments)

Nintendo has won an injunction in the UK High Court that forces all of the largest broadband ISPs – Sky Broadband, BT, TalkTalk, Virgin Media and EE – to block four websites that were found to have facilitated copyright infringement (internet piracy) by helping to distribute video games for the company’s Switch console.

Trustwave Find Multiple Vulnerabilities in D-Link and Comba Routers

10th Sep 2019 (2 Comments)

Digital security specialist Trustwave has discovered five new “credential leaking” vulnerabilities in several broadband routers from Comba and D-Link. Unfortunately, not all of these vulnerabilities have been patched “despite multiple outreach attempts” by the company to manufacturers.

ISP Vodafone UK Withdraw Ex-Bulldog LLU Broadband Network UPDATE

10th Sep 2019 (8 Comments)

Customers who still connect via Bulldog’s legacy unbundled (LLU) ADSL broadband platform (including via other ISPs) are being informed that Vodafone has announced the withdrawal of their service and plan to switch off related Multi-Service Access Nodes (MSAN) in November 2019.

Openreach in MDU Pilot as FTTP Rollout in Salford Tops 45K Premises

10th Sep 2019 (8 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has announced that more than 45,000 premises in Salford (Greater Manchester) can now access their Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network, which has been deployed as part of their work to cover 4 million premises by March 2021 and possibly 15 million by around 2025.

Virgin Media UK Deploy Engineers to Clean Up Musselburgh Beach

10th Sep 2019 (3 Comments)

Engineers from cable TV and broadband ISP Virgin Media last week took time out from their on-going work in Musselburgh (East Lothian, Scotland) to help clean the local beach, which resulted in the team of 20 collecting 10 large bags of litter. The local network is currently being extended to a 6,000 extra premises.

George Soros Ponders Sale of Stake in UK Full Fibre ISP Hyperoptic

10th Sep 2019 (0 Comments)

One of the original backers of urban “full fibre” (FTTP/B) broadband ISP Hyperoptic, George Soros, has reportedly hired banking firm LionTree to oversee a partial or full sale of his stake in the business. The move follows last year’s £500m investment push (here), which will support their rollout to reach 2 million UK premises by 2021.

1Gbps Fibre ISP toob Start Southampton Rollout Despite Virgin Media

10th Sep 2019 (14 Comments)

Portsmouth-based UK ISP toob, which was setup by several of Vodafone’s former directors (here) and has attracted investment of £75m (here), is officially starting the rollout of their 900Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network in Southampton, despite Virgin Media’s threat to “keep them out of our city.”

Examining the Attitudes and Fears of UK Internet Non-Users vs Users

9th Sep 2019 (4 Comments)

A new survey of 2,000 British people by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) has helped to shed new light on the reason why some people (18% of respondents) still choose NOT to use the internet. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the biggest reason turns out to be a simple “lack of interest” (69% of non-users now vs 82% in 2013).

Premier League Hail Success of UK ISP Work to Stop Internet Piracy

9th Sep 2019 (4 Comments)

The UK Government’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has recently published its annual 2019 intellectual property crime and enforcement report, which among other things reveals that the Premier League (Football) managed to remove or block over 210,000 live streams and over 360,000 clips of its matches.

ISPs Hyperoptic and Gigaclear Ranked in 2019 Tech Track 100

9th Sep 2019 (11 Comments)

Full fibre UK broadband ISPs Hyperoptic and Gigaclear have once again made it into the Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 for 2019, which is a league table of Britain’s top 100 private technology companies with the fastest-growing sales over the latest 3 years. But they have both fallen in rank.

Headache for UK ISPs as Firefox Adopt DNS Over HTTPS by Default UPDATE

9th Sep 2019 (24 Comments)

Broadband ISPs and the Government could clash with Mozilla after the internet technology developer announced that it would move forward with its proposal to enable DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) by default in their popular Firefox website browser, albeit with tweaks to respect ISP network-level internet filters.