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11th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

Last year O2 UK signed a new deal to provide visitors and residents of Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea (i.e. Central London) with access to one of the largest free wireless internet (wifi) access zones in Europe. Today ISPreview.co.uk interviews both O2 and Westminster City Council (WCC) about what this means and how it’s been funded.

9th February, 2013 (9 Comments)

Last night’s decision to cut the European Union’s seven-year 2014 to 2020 budget by 3% to around £768bn has taken a significant casualty. The European Commission’s (EC) plan to boost funding for future superfast broadband projects through its €9.2bn (£7.78bn) Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) has effectively been wiped out.

9th February, 2013 (7 Comments)

Internet provider BE Broadband, which got into trouble this week for cutting off one of its customers over excessive usage (here), has launched a fresh promotion that offers their “unlimited” broadband packages at half price for 12 months (when taken with a one year contract).

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8th February, 2013 (7 Comments)

A new survey of just over 2,000 UK adults conducted by ICM for the Halifax (Lloyds Banking Group) has claimed that 20% would pay more for “good broadband” (defined as speeds greater than 2Mbps) and two thirds (67%) of those were prepared to pay up to 3% more (22% would pay between 4% to 10% more).

8th February, 2013 (3 Comments)

Mobile network operator EE has announced the next stage of its urban focused 4G roll-out across the United Kingdom, which will see a further 27 towns being enabled to support the new superfast Mobile Broadband technology by June 2013 (i.e. 65 UK towns and cities in total).

8th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which engages with 34 countries that claim to support a market economy and democracy, has ranked the United Kingdom 9th in its latest fixed line broadband penetration tables to June 2012 (down from 8th a year earlier). But we do poorly in other areas, such as fibre optic uptake.

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7th February, 2013 (4 Comments)

The troubled Digital Region (DRL) broadband network, which currently reaches 80% of homes and businesses in South Yorkshire (England), has this afternoon selected Bouygues Energies and Services (ETDE SA) as its “preferred bidder” to take over the running of their business.

7th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

A group of several familiar private equity firms, including KKR, Apax Partners, Blackstone and CVC Capital Partners, are once again reported to be preparing another colossal £10bn takeover bid for the 4G offering UK mobile network operator EE (Everything Everywhere).

7th February, 2013 (3 Comments)

The British Phonographic Industry, which represents the United Kingdom’s music industry and recently reported “strong growth” from digital music sales in 2012, has claimed that 345m tracks were downloaded “illegally” over P2P (BitTorrent) during H1-2012 (compared with 239m legal tracks) and around 7m individuals use at least one service “where content is hosted illegally” every month.

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7th February, 2013 (1 Comment)

Utility provider SSE (Scottish & Southern Energy), which offers a range of broadband, phone, gas and electricity services to customers in the United Kingdom, has launched a new £20 Customer Service Guarantee that will see the operator cough up money if their support quality fails to satisfy a new customer charter.

7th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

ABI Research estimates that the global fixed broadband ISP market (i.e. DSL, cable and fibre optic services) managed to grow by 7% last year to generate a total service revenue of around £120 billion ($188bn), which was helped by a strong growth in ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) connectivity.

7th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

Austrian artist Peter Jellitsch has created a somewhat unique piece of art that delivers a physical interpretation of what the signal from a home wifi wireless network (WLAN) might look like if you could see it with your naked eye.

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7th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

The United Kingdom’s economics and finance ministry, HM Treasury, has quietly withdrawn vital secondary legislation that sets out how the costs of its controversial measures to tackle internet piracy by customers of broadband ISPs would be shared. The move could result in further delays for the Digital Economy Act (DEAct).

6th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

The Northamptonshire County Council (NCC) confirms that BT has been picked as the “preferred supplier” to help every household in the county gain access to a superfast broadband (30Mbps+) ISP connection by March 2017 (note: 90% coverage for speeds of 25Mbps+ is set for 2015).

6th February, 2013 (37 Comments)

Internet provider BE Broadband (O2 UK) could face questions from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after a customer on their “unlimited” use package(s) was, without warning, allegedly given just 14 days to find a new provider after the ISP terminated their service due to “excessive” usage.

6th February, 2013 (9 Comments)

Cable provider Virgin Media UK has today released its latest results (Q4-2012), which saw subscribers to their broadband ISP climb to total 4,465,000 (up by +51,600). But the big news is that international cable operator Liberty Global (LGi) has officially agreed to buy VM (merger) for an enterprise value of approximately $23.3 billion (£14.88bn).

5th February, 2013 (1 Comment)

The latest Telecoms Market Data Tables Q3 2012 update from Ofcom has revealed that the United Kingdom is now home to a total of 21,371,000 fixed line broadband ISP connections (excludes corporate lines), which is up by +264,000 over the previous quarter and includes 639,000 superfast fibre broadband (FTTx) lines.

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