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Ripley Town Residents Challenge Obstructive BT FTTC Broadband Cabinets

12th July, 2012 (82 Comments)

Some 60 residents in the Derbyshire UK town of Ripley have handed a petition to BTOpenreach that calls for one of its new superfast broadband (FTTC) street cabinets, which is placed on a corner at the very end of Leamington Street, to be moved because, they claim, it could cause a potentially fatal car crash.

ISP O2 and BE Broadband Expand UK Unbundled LLU Coverage

12th July, 2012 (9 Comments)

Internet provider BE Broadband (O2 UK) is continuing to quietly expand the coverage of its unbundled (LLU) ADSL2+ (up to 24Mbps) broadband platform and appears to have enabled a further 17 telephone exchanges since November last year.

EU Delay Revision of Internet Data Retention Directive to Boost Privacy

12th July, 2012 (1 Comment)

The European Commission (EC) appears to have quietly confirmed that it will not revise the controversial Data Retention Directive (DRD) this year, which could affect the UK’s draft Communications Data Bill that seeks to expand the country’s internet snooping power through big broadband ISPs.

UPD O2 UK Hit by National Outage of Mobile Broadband and Phone Services

12th July, 2012 (4 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP O2 UK has suffered a serious nationwide outage of its Mobile Broadband and phone network (i.e. data, calls and texts), which began yesterday afternoon at around 1pm and continues to be sporadically affecting thousands of customers this morning. MVNO’s GiffGaff and Tesco Mobile have also been hit.

Fujitsu Withdraw from Broadband Projects in Cumbria and North Yorkshire UK

11th July, 2012 (7 Comments)

Japanese technology giant Fujitsu UK, which is one of only two major telecoms operators left in the government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) project to improve the country’s national internet infrastructure (the other is BT), plans to withdraw from bidding in two further regions – Cumbria and allegedly also North Yorkshire.

Draft UK ISP Internet Snooping Law Will Not Log Web Page Addresses

11th July, 2012 (4 Comments)

Yesterday’s meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee that is responsible for scrutinising the draft Communications Data Bill, which threatens to expand the UK’s existing internet snooping laws and force ISPs into monitoring a bigger slice of everybody’s online activity, appears to have confirmed that the bill will not require full web page addresses (URL) to be logged.

Vouchers to Help 900000 UK Homes Fix TV Loss Caused by 4G Services

11th July, 2012 (8 Comments)

The governments Communications Minister, Ed Vaizey MP, has set out the terms for a £180 million scheme to help 900,000 UK homes avoid the loss of Freeview Digital TV (DTV) services, which is expected to be disrupted by interference from the next generation of superfast “4G” (LTE) Mobile Broadband services.

ACTA Internet Copyright Treaty Still Alive in Canada-EU Trade Agreement

10th July, 2012 (2 Comments)

Significant chunks of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which threatened to make broadband ISPs more liable for the content they deliver but has since been dramatically rejected by the European Parliament (EP), have been found inside a leak of the new Canada-EU Trade Agreement (CETA). Here we go again?

UPDATE2 More Eutelsat UK Satellite Broadband ISPs Reveal 18Mb Packages

10th July, 2012 (1 Comment)

Last week saw satellite ISP Tooway Direct become the first UK reseller to adopt Eutelsat’s new range of faster and more flexible 18Mbps capable broadband packages via the KA-SAT spacecraft (here), which is targeted at rural communities. Now several more ISPs have updated their packages but many continue to conceal the usage policy (FAP).

ISP Claranet UK Launch Childsafe Network Level Adult Website Filter

10th July, 2012 (1 Comment)

Internet provider Claranet has today announced the launch of a new security service called Childsafe that, much like TalkTalk’s rival HomeSafe solution, aims to give families on its broadband packages access to an opt-in, network-level filtering service that restricts access to more than just websites.

BT Warn of Migration Trouble for Sub Loop Unbundled Broadband ISPs

10th July, 2012 (2 Comments)

BTWholesale has advised that consumers whom attempt to switch their broadband service from a Sub-Loop Unbundling (SLU) based ISP to a Shared Unbundled (LLU SMPF) provider are currently “being rejected” because of a fault, which forces the end-user to cease the service instead.

UK ISP Fluidata Report Record Office Internet Traffic Surge During Wimbledon

10th July, 2012 (0 Comments)

Business ISP Fluidata reports that last week’s annual Wimbledon tennis tournament in London (England) caused the highest increase in office internet traffic witnessed on their broadband network for any sporting event over the past three years, mostly as a result of video streaming (e.g. iPlayer) by day workers.

UPD AAISP UK Run First Live Trial of New FTTC Etherway Business Broadband

10th July, 2012 (12 Comments)

Bracknell-based ISP Andrews & Arnold (AAISP) has this week claimed to be the first UK provider to trial BT’s new FTTC based Etherway service, which combines the low cost of Fibre-to-the-Cabinet technology with the “simplicity, high reliability and performance” of Ethernet for a more affordable and faster business broadband product.

TalkTalk Prep Mobile Service and Admits Being Unconsciously Incompetent

9th July, 2012 (8 Comments)

The CEO of UK budget broadband and phone provider TalkTalk, Dido Harding, has admitted that two years ago the ISP was letting its customers down while going through a post-Tiscali acquisition period of being “unconsciously incompetent“. But all is well, now that they’ve become “much more consciously incompetent” instead.

MS3 Halfway to Completion of New Fibre Optic Broadband Network in Hull UK

9th July, 2012 (0 Comments)

MS3 Communications, an independent telecoms infrastructure developer, has confirmed that Phase 1 of their project to lay a new 116km long stretch of fibre optic cable around Hull (Yorkshire, UK), which will connect local businesses to ultra-fast broadband, is now “halfway to completion“.

North Dorset UK Could Solve Rural Broadband Woe via Old Railway Line

8th July, 2012 (17 Comments)

The Communities Partnership Executive of North Dorset (CPEND) claims to have gained a positive response from DEFRA’s Rural Communities Broadband Fund (RCBF) after it proposed to solve local rural broadband woes by laying a fibre optic cable along a former railway line (trailway) that runs from Sturminster Newton to Blandford.

UK Gov Says Broadband ISPs Will NOT Crash During 2012 Olympics

7th July, 2012 (8 Comments)

The UK government’s Cabinet Office, which in February 2012 controversially warned that broadband ISP “services may be slower during the [London 2012 Olympic Games] or in very severe cases there may be drop outs” (guidance pdf), has now reversed its warning and said that it does not expect any impact upon the UK internet infrastructure.