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Europe Aims to Cut Superfast Broadband Rollout Costs by 25%

27th April, 2012 (15 Comments)

The European Commission (EC) has today opened a new consultation that aims to cut the costs of broadband investment by 25% and thus make it cheaper to deploy new networks for “high speed internet” in the EU. Priority will be given to reducing the costs associated with civil engineering (i.e. digging up roads to lay fibre optic cable), which can account for up to 80% of the total cost.

Fixed Telecom Operators to Spend GBP33bn on Fibre Optic Rollouts by 2017

27th April, 2012 (0 Comments)

Consultancy firm Analysys Mason has estimated that fixed telecoms operators, specifically those in developed countries (Central and Eastern Europe, developed Asia–Pacific, North America and Western Europe), will over the next 5 year period (between 2012 and 2017) spend £33 billion (USD53.5bn) on the roll-out of new superfast fibre optic broadband networks (e.g. FTTH).

UPD ISP Vispa Brings 60Mbps Wireless Broadband to Burtonwood and Winwick

27th April, 2012 (5 Comments)

Cheshire-based Internet provider Vispa has confirmed that their superfast wireless broadband service (wifi), which recently delivered speeds of up to 100Mbps into parts of Manchester (here), will soon be available to order in two large civil parish villages of Burtonwood and Winwick (Warrington, England).

North Yorkshire Villages of Darley and Appletreewick Get Superfast Broadband

27th April, 2012 (4 Comments)

Several isolated rural villages in North Yorkshire (England, UK), including Darley, Appletreewick and Blubberhouses (possibly the best village name we’ve ever seen), will today celebrate the launch of a new community broadband wireless network (wifi) at the local Darley Memorial Hall (11am – 12 noon).

The Post Office UK Adjusts its Unlimited Broadband Package FUP to 100GB

27th April, 2012 (5 Comments)

The Post Office has announced that the Fair Usage Policy (FUP) on its Broadband Extra package, which claims to offer “unlimited monthly downloads“, will be changed from 1st June 2012 to impose a soft usage restriction of 100GB (GigaBytes) per month. Customers who repeatedly go beyond this will now be at risk from an unspecified reduction in their internet speeds.

Beautiful Video Illuminates World Transport and Fibre Optic Data Infrastructure

26th April, 2012 (0 Comments)

Human activity on Earth, our home planet (Milky Way Galaxy), has had many impacts upon our environment both good and bad. But here’s a breathtakingly beautiful look at what happens when you illuminate everything from roads, pipelines, flight paths and railways to undersea fibre optic internet/data cables.

Rural Hampshire UK Village Gets 40Mb Broadband via a Public Service Network

26th April, 2012 (3 Comments)

Residents of the aptly named rural village called Little London in Hampshire (England, UK), which could previously only receive internet download speeds of around 0.5Mbps (Megabits per second), can now access superfast broadband of up to 40Mbps thanks to a clever use of the local fibre optic Public Service Network (PSN).

UPD Sky UK Secretly Launch 76Mb Superfast Broadband Sky Fibre Pro Package

26th April, 2012 (10 Comments)

Customers of Sky Broadband (BSkyB) have discovered that the ISP is now offering a secret Sky Fibre Pro package, which delivers superfast broadband download speeds of up to 76Mbps and upload speeds of up to 19Mbps for £30 a month. Otherwise the service mirrors the recently launched and cheaper SkyBroadband Unlimited Fibre / 40Mbps package (here).

eXwavia Attacks Welsh Governments Lack of Broadband Investment in Anglesey

26th April, 2012 (3 Comments)

Wireless broadband ISP eXwavia has warned that the Welsh Government’s investment strategy for the island of Anglesey (Wales, UK) could result in a “business broadband meltdown” (a reference to the now uncertain future of Wylfa’s nuclear power station) because most of their efforts have so failed to focus upon the regions weak telecoms and internet infrastructure.

Morgan Stanley Warns of Margin Risk for TalkTalks New UK TV Service

25th April, 2012 (0 Comments)

Global financial services firm Morgan Stanley has warned that UK ISP TalkTalk faces a near-term Margin Risk from the costs incurred as a result of funding development and launch of their forthcoming TV service, TalkTalkTV, which will be based off the subscription free YouView (IPTV) platform.

UPD Cambridge UK Trial of TV White Space Wireless Broadband is Successful

25th April, 2012 (3 Comments)

The TV White Spaces Consortium, which comprises 17 international and UK technology and media companies (BT, Microsoft, BBC, Virgin Media, Alcatel-Lucent etc.), has reported that their 10 month long trials of White Space (IEEE 802.22) wireless broadband tech in urban and rural areas around Cambridge (England) have been “successful“.

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.