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Sky UK Extends 6 Months FREE Unlimited Broadband and Calls Bundle

16th August, 2012 (0 Comments)

Media giant Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has extended its online-only 6 months free unlimited broadband with free evening and weekend UK landline calls bundle, which includes a £25 Marks and Spencer’s Voucher, for another month. But price hikes are coming.

Fluidata Brings Choice of 50 UK ISPs to Digital Region in South Yorkshire

15th August, 2012 (2 Comments)

The long suffering Digital Region network, which offers an alternative superfast broadband platform to BT in South Yorkshire, has received a boost after it adopted Fluidata’s Service Exchange Platform (SEP). The move could give local homes a choice of more than 50 ISPs instead of just a handful.

UPD2 Ofcom Report Finds UK Average Broadband ISP Speeds Rise to 9Mbps

15th August, 2012 (20 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today published its latest study of the United Kingdom’s average fixed line internet performance. The report, which is based on data from May 2012, reveals that the average broadband download speed has jumped from 7.6Mbps (Megabits/sec) in the last survey to reach 9Mbps now (+19%).

ONS Q2 2012 Report Finds 7.82 Million UK Adults Have Never Gone Online

15th August, 2012 (4 Comments)

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released its latest Internet Access Quarterly Update Q2-2012, which found that a total of 42.52 million UK adults have gone online (84% of the population; up from 83.7% in Q1). The number of adults who have never used the internet has thus declined since Q1 by -4% to 7.82 million (16%).

Quickline Set to Expand Wireless Internet Coverage in Lincolnshire UK

15th August, 2012 (0 Comments)

Yorkshire-based Fixed Wireless ISP Quickline Communications has claimed that it will be able to bring superfast internet download speeds of up to 40Mbps to 100% of the “worst served broadband areas” in rural north and north east Lincolnshire by the end of 2012.

North Yorkshire ISP Brings Wireless Broadband to Three New Rural Villages

15th August, 2012 (0 Comments)

Local ISP I Love Broadband (LN Communications) has once again expanded the coverage of its superfast wireless broadband service to include a further three rural civil parish villages in or near to the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire.

UK ISP Website Censorship Measures Face IP Address Sharing Nightmare

15th August, 2012 (0 Comments)

An Ofcom commissioned CSMG investigation into the impact of IP address sharing upon website blocking measures, which makes such methods “technically complex” for ISPs to implement, has found that 97% of “top-level domains” (.com, .net and .org) reside on addresses that are shared with other sites. Block one and you risk hurting others.

UK ISP PlusNet Launches 76Mbps FTTC Superfast Broadband Package

14th August, 2012 (11 Comments)

Budget internet and phone provider PlusNet has today launched two new superfast broadband (FTTC) packages, which offer internet download speeds of up to 76Mbps alongside a bigger usage allowance of 250GB (GigaBytes), free installation and UK calls. Prices start at just £19.99 a month.

Fixed Line UK Broadband ISP Connections Top 20.9 Million in Q1 2012

14th August, 2012 (1 Comment)

The communications regulator, Ofcom, has confirmed in its latest quarterly Telecoms Market Data Tables Q1 2012 report that the UK is now home to a total of 20.89 million fixed line home and small business broadband ISP connections (up from 20.43m in Q4-2011), which includes 552k superfast fibre optic based services (e.g. FTTC).

UK ISP Virgin Media Finally Blocks the Newzbin Internet Piracy Website

14th August, 2012 (3 Comments)

National UK cable operator Virgin Media has this week become one of the last big fixed line broadband ISPs to block customers from being able to access the Newzbin (Newzbin2) website, which is deemed by the High Court to be a site that facilitates internet piracy (copyright infringement).

Doubts Cast Over Plan to Extend UK Mobile Broadband Coverage to 98%

14th August, 2012 (0 Comments)

Serious doubt has been cast over the viability of the government’s £150m Mobile Infrastructure Project (MIP), which aims to make Mobile Broadband and voice services available to “at least 98%” of the United Kingdom by the end of 2017 (currently 95%), after Three UK chose not to sign-up.. yet.

O2 Wholesale Claims UK Businesses at Risk from Capped Data Allowances

14th August, 2012 (3 Comments)

Broadband ISP supplier O2 Wholesale UK (BE Wholesale) has warned that an “average business” of 50 employees can eat 61GB (GigaBytes) of internet data a month (i.e. email 26GB, browsing 22GB, video 1.7GB and video conferencing 7.9GB), which is allegedly more expensive for rival providers to cater for than their own “unlimited” option.

New UK Map of Broadband ISP Speed Finds 13 Percent Get Below 2Mbps

14th August, 2012 (16 Comments)

Telecoms analyst Point Topic has today published a new UK map of broadband speed availability, which claims that 13% of UK homes and businesses (nearly 4 million premises) still can’t receive internet download speeds of above 2Mbps (Megabits per second) and most are in rural areas.

Three Rural Essex UK Parishes Get Superfast Wireless Broadband

13th August, 2012 (3 Comments)

Wireless ISP County Broadband has expanded the reach of its Next Generation Community Access (NGA) network in Essex (England, UK) to include faster internet access for homes and businesses in three further rural parishes – Tendring, Great Bromley and Thorrington.

BSkyB UK Rivals Could Raise Broadband ISP Bundle Prices After Pay TV Ruling

13th August, 2012 (3 Comments)

The price UK consumers pay for bundling broadband, TV and or phone services when premium movie or sports content is included from BSkyB could soon rise after several recent competition rulings left Ofcom’s effort to break the media giants alleged hold over the pay-tv market in tatters.

BBC Hands Over GBP300m to Help Rollout UK Superfast Broadband

10th August, 2012 (28 Comments)

As widely expected the BBC has officially confirmed that it will take an additional £300m from its TV Licence Fee (formerly the 3.5% Digital Switchover Budget) to help the UK government roll-out superfast broadband (25Mbps+) ISP services around the country.

UPD Ofcom Let Fibrewave Deploy 100Mb Fibre Broadband in Cambridgeshire UK

10th August, 2012 (9 Comments)

Telecoms regulator Ofcom UK has today proposed to grant Fibrewave Networks the power to “carry out street works” as part of its plan to roll-out a new rural fibre optic based superfast broadband ISP network in Cambridgeshire, which will initially cover the villages of Earith, Bluntisham and Colne.