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EE Set Go Live Date for New UK 4G Mobile and Fixed Fibre Broadband Service

3rd October, 2012 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (4GEE) has today announced that their new 4G (1800MHz) based mobile and separate fixed line superfast fibre broadband (FTTC) service will officially go live on 30th October 2012, which follows yesterday’s industry agreement to shift Ofcom’s related spectrum auction forward to spring 2013.

Wales UK Given GBP20 Million Broadband Funding Boost

3rd October, 2012 (0 Comments)

The Welsh Government has today announced a further £20m to help the existing investment of £425m deliver faster broadband ISP services, which will initially see 96% of homes and businesses in Wales being given access to download speeds of up to 80Mbps (FTTC) by the end of 2015.

UPD UK ISPs Slam Ofcom for Underestimating Cost of Internet Piracy Letters

3rd October, 2012 (3 Comments)

Several of the UK’s largest broadband providers have warned that the communications regulator, Ofcom, has “understated” the cost of enforcing its new online copyright infringement code of practice, which is designed to tackle internet piracy among ISP customers.

Witherslack Village Joins Vodafone UK Open Femto Mobile Broadband Trial

3rd October, 2012 (0 Comments)

The rural village of Witherslack in Cumbria (England) has become the latest to be selected by Vodafone to take part in its on-going trials of Open Femto technology, which is designed to boost Mobile Broadband speeds and coverage by connecting into an existing fixed line internet service (ISP).

TV Could Suffer as UK Mobile Operators Agree Early 4G Launch in H1 2013

3rd October, 2012 (2 Comments)

The country’s mobile phone operators have finally agreed to put aside their differences after Ofcom moved its timetable for the auction of superfast 4G (LTE) compatible mobile broadband spectrum (800MHz and 2.6GHz) forward by roughly 6 months, which weakened EE’s perceived early-launch advantage. But will Freeview TV services suffer?

ASA UK Ban Virgin Media TV Advert for Misleading Broadband Buffering Claim

3rd October, 2012 (7 Comments)

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has once more raked Virgin Media over the coals after a TV advert for the service, which featured Dr Who actor David Tennant, misleadingly implied for a second time that customers who joined their super-fast broadband ISP could “say goodbye to buffering” on internet video streams.

UK Government Sacks Man Who Questioned BT Superfast Broadband Costs

2nd October, 2012 (38 Comments)

The government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has allegedly sacked the author of an internal discussion paper that questioned some of the costs of BT’s financial model for delivering superfast broadband (FTTC) services into the “final third” of mostly rural parts of the UK.

Western Europe Forecast to Have the Lowest Mobile Data Growth Rate

2nd October, 2012 (0 Comments)

Market saturation, delays in the availability of 4G based Mobile Broadband services and the greater propensity of consumers to use WiFi for mobile internet use will give Western Europe (UK, France etc.) the lowest annual growth rate in mobile data (29%) between 2012 to 2017. One solution could be to attract more fixed line ISP users to go mobile.

Vodafone and O2 Given Green Light to Merge UK 3G and 4G Mobile Networks

2nd October, 2012 (2 Comments)

Mobile operators O2 (Telefonica) and Vodafone have been given the green light to merge their UK based 2G, 3G and future 4G (LTE) platforms through a new network sharing agreement that will also lay the foundations for 98% population coverage by the end of 2015 (two years ahead of Ofcom’s 2017 deadline).

BT Openreach UK Confirm 6 Month FTTC Superfast Broadband Price Cut in 2013

2nd October, 2012 (3 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which manages access to BT’s national UK telecoms network, has announced that ISPs offering its up to 80Mbps capable superfast broadband (FTTC) service will from next year be able to discount the connection fee to £30 +vat (normally £80) for a period of 6 months.

Top 8 UK Fastest Broadband ISPs by Internet Speed for September 2012

2nd October, 2012 (11 Comments)

The latest summary of anecdotal consumer broadband ISP speed testing data from Broadband.co.uk, which covers the previous month of September 2012, reveals that the average internet download speed has increased slightly from 16.720Mbps (Megabits per second) in August to top 17Mbps now.

Small Claims Track Makes Court Best for Handling UK Internet Piracy Cases

1st October, 2012 (0 Comments)

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has today introduced a new small claims track to the Patents County Court (PCC) that should make it easier for UK internet users to defend themselves against dubious claims of file sharing piracy. Rights Holders will also find the process a lot cheaper.

BT Openreach UK Engineers Face More Delays After Week of Flooding

1st October, 2012 (36 Comments)

BTOpenreach, which manages access to BT’s national UK telecoms network, has warned customers to expect yet more engineer delays with their broadband and phone services after a week of high winds and heavy flooding exasperated the existing problem and forced them to focus even more effort upon repairs.

B4GAL Targets Community Fibre Broadband for 9 Rural Lanarkshire Villages

1st October, 2012 (3 Comments)

A new broadband action group called B4GAL (Broadband for Glencaple and Lowther) appears to be proceeding with plans that could eventually result in nine rural South Lanarkshire (Scotland, UK) villages being connected up to a new community-owned and superfast Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network.

Cumbria UK to Spend GBP2.5m Promoting Superfast Broadband to Businesses

1st October, 2012 (2 Comments)

The Cumbria County Council, which last month awarded its £70m contract (external investment) for rolling out superfast broadband (25Mbps+) services to BT, will also spend £2.5m on a new “integrated business support programme” to promote related products to local businesses. But is it necessary?

UPDATE 2nd October is Crunch Day for a UK 4G Mobile Broadband Agreement

1st October, 2012 (3 Comments)

The government’s culture secretary, Maria Miller, will this week make a final play to prevent legal wrangling between the country’s big mobile operators from delaying Ofcom’s auction of superfast 4G compatible mobile broadband spectrum (800MHz and 2.6GHz). The offer of an earlier spectrum release could be on the cards.

BT and Virgin Media Cite Political and Legal Concerns of Internet Censorship

28th September, 2012 (5 Comments)

A successful Freedom of Information (FoI) request to the UK government’s Department for Education (DfE) has revealed that broadband ISPs BT and Virgin Media have raised a number of political, technical and legal concerns with proposals to toughen censorship of adult websites and related internet content via new Parental Controls.