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11th June, 2014 (2 Comments)

The Black Country (i.e. stems from a heritage of coal mining and heavy industrialisation), which represents Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton in England’s West Midlands, appears to finally be making progress with their Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) plan to make superfast broadband (25Mbps+) services available to 95% of local premises by 2017. But a supplier still hasn’t been chosen.

11th June, 2014 (6 Comments)

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint by TalkTalk and several others against a TV advert for BT’s Sport service, which failed to make sufficiently clear that it wasn’t free to business customers or that it was only available to view online, unless customers also had access to Sky Digital or BT TV with superfast broadband via BTInfinity.

10th June, 2014 (2 Comments)

The Superfast Cymru scheme, which is supported by public funding and aims to make BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network (speeds of up to 80Mbps) available to 96% of Welsh premises by the end of spring 2016, has now helped a total of 134,707 premises (most are homes and 4% businesses) in Wales to access the new connectivity.

10th June, 2014 (0 Comments)

Cisco has published its 2014 Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecast, which reveals that consumer Internet traffic has grown from 26,213 PetaBytes in 2012 to 29,071PB at the end of 2013 (excluding business traffic) and, fuelled by a +29% annual growth in online video content, it’s expected to hit 83,298PB by 2018. But the predictions may not be reliable.

10th June, 2014 (3 Comments)

Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has announced the imminent launch of a new Sky Sports TV bundle that will come with two years’ worth of free unlimited standard broadband (normally £7.50 a month when taken alongside a Sky TV package).

10th June, 2014 (7 Comments)

A new take-up map for superfast broadband (30Mbps+) connections in the United Kingdom has caused Point Topic to complain that millions of consumers are still “waiting for something to buy” because Internet content developers still haven’t come up with a “killer app” to take advantage of the service.

10th June, 2014 (1 Comment)

KC’s plan to make their ‘up to’ 350Mbps capable fibre optic (FTTP/C) Lightstream broadband network available to 45,000 premises accross Hull in East Yorkshire (England) could be facing a significant delay after KCOM Group’s latest preliminary results appeared to change the projects timescale.

10th June, 2014 (9 Comments)

Fibre optic network developer CityFibre appears to have set itself the difficult task of rolling out their 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP/H/T) network to reach 1 million homes, businesses and public sector sites by 2016, which will take place in 20 cities across the United Kingdom.

9th June, 2014 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK has announced that their “ultrafast” 4G based Mobile Broadband network will reach five of the “largest cities and towns” in the South of England this summer 2014, which will benefit nearly 1 million people and over 35,000 businesses.

9th June, 2014 (0 Comments)

Modern televisions and set-top-boxes that have adopted the pan-European Hybrid Broadcast Broadband Television (HbbTV) specification, which supports Internet capable features like digital teletext, catch-up TV (IPTV), electronic programme guides, interactive advertising, games and more, could be vulnerable to a simple radio attack by hackers.

9th June, 2014 (4 Comments)

As promised Xwavia (formerly eXwavia), fresh from its somewhat controversial injection of new investment by the Welsh Government (here), has confirmed the deployment of its 10-100Mbps capable wireless broadband network into the market town of Conwy on the north coast of Wales.

9th June, 2014 (13 Comments)

Property developer Berkeley Group has become one of the first house builders to announced that it will seek to provide all new homes in the United Kingdom with “fibre optic broadband” infrastructure by 2016.

9th June, 2014 (17 Comments)

The Director of Strategy and Policy at urban fibre optic developer CityFibre, Mark Collins, has today revealed more to ISPreview.co.uk about their Joint Venture plans with Sky Broadband and TalkTalk to roll-out an “ultra-fast” 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP/H) broadband network for UK homes in three cities, starting with York.

6th June, 2014 (4 Comments)

Internet provider The Phone Co-op, an independent consumer co-operative, has this week announced the acquisition of Namesco’s broadband service, which was agreed on 31st May 2014 and has forced more than 2,400 of Namesco’s residential and business customers to migrate onto the new owners network.

6th June, 2014 (43 Comments)

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IEF) will next week host a Rural Broadband Debate that will look at current government policy and propose a solution for bringing “reasonable” broadband access to the most remote communities at a “reasonable” price, which could involve combining technologies and greater mobile spectrum sharing between network operators.

6th June, 2014 (0 Comments)

Customers who have been migrated from BE Broadband to Sky Broadband’s network, specifically those who had taken the extra BE Webhosting service, have been told that their old email addresses (@bethere.co.uk) and webspace will cease to function on 31st July 2014.

6th June, 2014 (0 Comments)

Mobile and Internet provider EE (Everything Everywhere) could move from being a private to public company in the United Kingdom through an Initial Public Offering (IPO), which is to be considered by the joint venture owners Orange (France Telecom) and Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) after the summer break.

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