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BT Sign £146m Deal to Rollout FTTC Broadband in the Highlands and Islands

26th March, 2013 (3 Comments)

It’s been a long time coming but Scotland’s Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has finally signed its “most ambitious” contract worth £146 million with BT, which will make superfast broadband (FTTC/P) ISP services available to 84% of premises in the Highlands and Islands by the end of 2016.

The UK NextGen Broadband Infrastructure Conference Events for 2013

25th March, 2013 (0 Comments)

The national NextGen Conference and exhibition, which each year holds several special events around the country that are designed to showcase the importance of a modern digital infrastructure (broadband internet access) and encourage idea sharing, has finalised its timetable for 2013.

UPD Hyperoptic Brings 1Gbps FTTB Broadband to 20k London UK Homes

25th March, 2013 (34 Comments)

Urban ISP Hyperoptic, which currently offers “hyper-sonic” fibre optic (FTTH/B) broadband internet speeds of 1000Mbps (Megabits) to high-rise buildings and apartment blocks around London (England), has achieved its second major target after the service became available to 20,000 homes.

DEFRA Open GBP20m UK Rural Community Broadband Fund for Final Bids

22nd March, 2013 (1 Comment)

The government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has today opened the third and possibly final round of bidding for their £20 million Rural Community Broadband Fund (RCBF), which is designed to help rural farmers, homes and businesses benefit from improved internet connectivity.

UPDATE2 Entanet Based UK ISPs Hit by Major National Broadband Outage

22nd March, 2013 (8 Comments)

Entanet, which supplies broadband and telecoms services to a number of ISPs and businesses across the United Kingdom, appears to have been hit by a serious network outage last night that resulted in a larger number of customers being left without internet access for several hours.

Ofcom Approves 4G Spectrum Trading Between UK Mobile Operators

22nd March, 2013 (0 Comments)

Ofcom has confirmed that Mobile Network Operators (MNO) in the UK will soon be able to boost their Mobile Broadband network capacity, speeds, coverage and reliability by trading radio spectrum in the recently auctioned 4G (LTE) frequency bands of 800MHz and 2.6GHz.

CLANNET Brings FREE WiFi Hotspot to Leyburn in North Yorkshire UK

22nd March, 2013 (0 Comments)

Community ISP CLANNET has this week launched a new free wireless internet (WiFi) hotspot service in the North Yorkshire (England) market town and civil parish of Leyburn (Wensleydale), which is home to around 2,500 people.

Shetland Islands Suffer Vital Undersea SHEFA2 Fibre Optic Cable Break

22nd March, 2013 (0 Comments)

Some parts of the remote Shetland Islands (North of Scotland, UK) could be left without good broadband internet and phone connectivity for well over a week after a vital fibre optic link to the undersea SHEFA-2 (Faroese Telecom) cable, which links the Faroe Islands with mainland Scotland, was cut.

UPD Virgin Media and BT UK Begin Censorship of 3 Internet Piracy Websites

22nd March, 2013 (2 Comments)

BT, Virgin Media and other ISPs have officially started blocking their broadband customers from being able to access three websites – Fenopy, H33t and Kickass Torrents – that were last month found by London’s High Court to be facilitating internet piracy (copyright infringement).

Zen Internet and PlusNet Top Which UK Best Broadband ISP Awards

21st March, 2013 (0 Comments)

The latest biannual Which? magazine consumer survey of broadband ISP reliability, value, performance and general customer satisfaction has awarded its Recommended Provider status to several UK ISPs and phone providers including Zen Internet and PlusNet.

BT Sign GBP13.8m Deal to Deploy Superfast Broadband in Hampshire UK

21st March, 2013 (0 Comments)

The Hampshire County Council (HCC) has today signed a state aid supported £13.8m contract with BT to make super-fast broadband (24Mbps+) ISP connectivity available to “at least” 90% of all local premises by the end of 2015 (i.e. around 57,000 homes and businesses in the county).

ISP EE Launch Fixed 4G and Mobile Broadband Service to Rural Cumbria UK

21st March, 2013 (1 Comment)

Mobile operator EE has today announced the launch of both a 4G (LTE) based fixed wireless and mobile broadband network to serve rural homes and businesses in the Northern Fells area of Cumbria (England), which should receive average internet speeds of between 8-12Mbps (Megabits).

UPDATE2 Ofcom UK Find BT in Breach of its 2005 Regulatory Undertakings

21st March, 2013 (2 Comments)

Ofcom has warned that a delay with moving Customer Side Records (CSR) to separated computer systems means that BT is now in breach of its 2005 Undertakings, which committed the operator to a “functional separation” of systems and processes to support the development of “effective competition” in the UK telecoms market.

UK ISP PlusNet Demands More Women in the Technology Industry

20th March, 2013 (2 Comments)

Internet provider PlusNet has today claimed that jobs in the UK technology industry “stereotypically speaking … attract hairy, geeky blokes (sorry guys!)” (yeah thanks) and that it would like to see more women getting involved in the I.T. sector.

Sparse News for Broadband in the UK Governments Budget 2013

20th March, 2013 (0 Comments)

The Chancellor of the UK government, George Osborne, today set out his annual Budget 2013 report but unfortunately anybody expecting to hear about new funding or pledges for broadband and related projects will be left to feel very disappointed. But there were still a few small bits and pieces of information.

The Cloud UK Brings FREE WiFi to 900 High Street Superdrug Stores

20th March, 2013 (1 Comment)

The Cloud (BSkyB) has once again expanded the reach of its public wifi hotspot network in the United Kingdom by signing a new deal to roll-out free wireless internet across 900 Superdrug stores, which typically sell health and beauty products on the high street.

Fibre Optic ISP Hyperoptic UK Recruits Former BT Vision and PlusNet TV Head

20th March, 2013 (5 Comments)

Urban focused ISP Hyperoptic, which supplies ultrafast 1000Mbps (Megabits) capable fibre optic broadband (FTTB) services to thousands of homes around London (England), has recruited BTVision’s (IPTV) former Head of Propositions, Darren Shenkin, to potentially help develop its own TV products.