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Virgin Media UK Reaches 4.38 Million Broadband ISP Subscribers in Q1 2012

25th April, 2012 (0 Comments)

Cable giant Virgin Media UK has today released their latest quarterly results to 31st March 2012 (Q1-2012), which saw their total broadband ISP subscriber base climb from 4,351,100 at the end of last year (Q4-2011) to 4,381,600 now (+30,500 new adds). This represents a strong growth over the +17,500 added in Q4-2011.

ASA UK Bans Virgin Media Broadband Bundle Advert for Super Tiny Small Print

25th April, 2012 (0 Comments)

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a press advert for Virgin Media’s “Faster for a fiver” broadband and phone bundle promotion after it was deemed to be “misleading” because the small print was too small to be legible.

UPD Internet Piracy Tackling Digital Economy Act Delays Implementation to 2014

25th April, 2012 (1 Comment)

The UK governments Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has confirmed that its still highly controversial Digital Economy Act (DEA), which seeks to tackle “illegal” internet copyright infringement (piracy) by broadband ISP customers, won’t be implemented until 2014 (assuming it ever gets implemented).

UK ISP TalkTalk Promises to Create 450 New Jobs Just as it Axes 390 Staff

24th April, 2012 (18 Comments)

Internet and phone provider TalkTalk UK has warned that up to 390 jobs could be cut as it moves to close a customer service/sales call centre in Northampton, while also restructuring another two in Preston and Warrington; but crucially some 450 new jobs will be created elsewhere.

UK ISP Easynet Launches Business 80Mbps FTTC Superfast Broadband

24th April, 2012 (1 Comment)

Communications provider Easynet Global Services has today launched a range of new ‘up to’ 80Mbps (Megabits per second) capable Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) based business superfast broadband internet access products for the UK market, which it curiously claims will be available to 80% of UK businesses by 2014.

UPD Netflix UK Expand Unlimited Internet Movie Streaming Service to Sony PS3

24th April, 2012 (3 Comments)

Netflix UK has officially expanded its increasingly popular broadband based unlimited movies and TV subscription video streaming service to the Sony Entertainment Network (SEN), which includes selected Internet-connected Sony BRAVIA televisions, Blu-ray players, Network Media players and PlayStation 3 (PS3) game console devices.

Stricter Rules Cause UK Advertised Broadband ISP Speeds to Fall by 33 Percent

24th April, 2012 (0 Comments)

A new uSwitch study has revealed that the recent introduction of stricter guidelines by the UK Advertising Standards Authority (full details) has caused advertised (headline) broadband ISP “up to” speeds on non-superfast packages to fall by 33% (-7.08Mbps) from an average of up to 21.66Mbps to 14.58Mbps (Megabits per second).

BT Openreach Invites UK ISPs to Join Trial of 330Mbps Fibre Optic Broadband

24th April, 2012 (43 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which manages access to BT’s national UK telecoms and internet access infrastructure, has begun inviting ISPs (i.e. those that are members of the NGA Industry Group) to take part in its first official trial of “premium” ultrafast 330Mbps (Megabits per second) capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband speeds (likely to be advertised as a clean “300Mbps“).

UK ISP Fluidata Prepares Network to Cope with Olympic Games Data Surge

23rd April, 2012 (1 Comment)

Business ISP Fluidata, which earlier this year warned of the potential danger from an increase in office internet traffic during this year’s 2012 London Olympic Games (here), has today revealed how its own broadband network will cope with the event. A major £2.4M upgrade has also been announced.

Cybermoor Moots Gigabit Broadband Speeds for Alston Moor in Cumbria UK

23rd April, 2012 (1 Comment)

The Cybermoor Networks project, a partially community built fibre optic broadband network for the residents and businesses of Alston Moor in rural Cumbria (England, UK), has signed a new infrastructure upgrade deal with Calix that will enhance the current service and could potentially bring ultrafast Gigabit broadband ISP speeds to the area.

Vodafone Signs GBP1 Billion Takeover of Cable and Wireless Worldwide

23rd April, 2012 (4 Comments)

Communications provider Vodafone (Europe) has reached a “fair and reasonable” agreement to buy global telecoms giant Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW) for a cash offer of £1.044 Billion (38p per CWW share), which is well above the estimated £700m that had been hinted at during February 2012 (here) when news of the talks first broke.

RaceOnline 2012 Initiative Replaced by Go ON UK to Help Get Everyone Online

23rd April, 2012 (1 Comment)

The UK’s Digital Champion and head of Race Online 2012, Martha Lane Fox, has today launched a “radical new cross-sector partnership” called Go On UK that aims to bring the benefits of the internet to “every individual, organisation and community” across the country. Sound familiar? It’s really just a replacement for RO2012 that formally ends today.

Everything Everywhere Claim 74 Percent of Brits Want 4G Broadband ASAP

21st April, 2012 (15 Comments)

Mobile group Everything Everywhere (Orange UK and T-Mobile) has used YouGov to independently survey 2,033 British adults in order to discover that 74% of people apparently want to bring “4G” superfast Mobile Broadband services to the country as soon as possible. Funnily enough the result is also exactly what EE would want to hear.

21st April, 2012 (9 Comments)

John Lewis, a popular high street retail giant, appears to have quietly slipped its way into the UK’s internet access market by launching their own JohnLewis Broadband (JLBB) service. The new ISP offers both standard and superfast services, although their prices probably won’t worry the competition.

Sky UK Offers 6 Months FREE Unlimited Broadband and Anytime Calls Bundle

20th April, 2012 (2 Comments)

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has launched a new promotion that offers 6 months free unlimited broadband and anytime calls (Sky Talk Unlimited) to both new customers and existing Sky TV subscribers, after which the price will return to just £15 a month.

UPD5 Slow Web and Routing Issues Return to UK ISP BE Broadband and O2

20th April, 2012 (25 Comments)

Customers of internet provider Be Broadband UK are being affected by a “so called routing issue” this week that appears to be causing difficulty when trying to access websites (some are slow and others won’t load). The problems appear to be eerily reminiscent of those that traumatised the ISP through much of February (here).

PCCW Owned UK Broadband Confirms Swindon Launch of 4G Internet Service

20th April, 2012 (4 Comments)

As expected UK Broadband (UKB), the sibling of Hong Kong based telecoms giant PCCW, has announced that Swindon will be the “first local authority in the UK” to benefit from a borough-wide superfast “4G” Mobile Broadband service over its 3.5GHz based Long Term Evolution (LTE) network.