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Internet Video Streaming to Dominate Mobile Data Traffic by 2019

3rd June, 2014 (1 Comment)

Telecoms giant Ericsson has today published its annual Mobility Report, which reveals that Internet video services will grow to account for more than 50% of mobile data traffic in 2019 (up from around 40% today) and 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband coverage in Europe will reach 80% (currently 25%) by the same year. But 4G uptake could struggle.

CityFibre Acquires 140km Metro Fibre Optic Network in Coventry UK

3rd June, 2014 (5 Comments)

Fibre optic infrastructure developer CityFibre have signed a strategic partnership with Coventry City Council in England, which has enabled the firm to acquire Coventry’s 140km metro fibre network (Coventry CORE). The network will now be upgraded and extended in order to make broadband speeds of 1000Mbps available to local businesses.

Campaign Moots Rural Worth Valley Broadband Solution with Virgin Media

3rd June, 2014 (0 Comments)

The community Fibre Valley campaign, which has been working to help bring superfast broadband to premises in the rural Worth Valley area of West Yorkshire (England), looks set to consider a new solution that could see Virgin Media or BT running a fibre optic cable into the small village of Stanbury.

PEACE – Aston University Project to Tackle Global Internet “capacity crunch”

3rd June, 2014 (2 Comments)

Birmingham-based Aston University in England has launched a new £1.5m international project called Petabit Energy Aware Capacity Enhancement (PEACE) that aims to “significantly improve bandwidth” and “reduce energy consumption” on our major fibre optic networks, which carry over 99% of all network and Internet data.

The Fastest UK Mobile Broadband Operators in London – 2014 vs 2013

2nd June, 2014 (3 Comments)

RootMetrics has published its latest biannual study of Mobile Broadband (3G and 4G) performance across the city of London (England), which conducted 88,670 tests during March 2014 to reveal that EE still deliver the fastest download (17.8Mbps) and upload (9.3Mbps) speeds. But rivals O2, Three UK and Vodafone are improving.

BT Offers Extra YouView Broadband TV Box on its Triple Play Bundles

2nd June, 2014 (8 Comments)

Customers adopting one of BT’s triple-play broadband, TV and phone bundles have now been given the option of adding a second YouView (IPTV) set-top-box, for use in different rooms, to their service. But unlike the primary box, which is usually included at no extra cost, the second one won’t be free and you’ll need BTInfinity (FTTC).

Survey – Public WiFi Hurt by Security Fears and Fiddly Signup Forms

2nd June, 2014 (0 Comments)

A new survey of 827 ISPreview.co.uk readers has found that 63.3% of respondents would rather use Mobile Broadband (3G / 4G) than a public WiFi hotspot (26.1%) to go online when out and about, while 10.5% said they don’t use either. Apparently the key reasons for this are due to fears over weak wifi security and the fiddly sign-up forms.

Lincolnshire UK Fund Encourages SMEs to Harness Superfast Broadband

2nd June, 2014 (0 Comments)

The Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) has teamed up with Creative England and the UK Government’s Regional Growth Fund (RGF) in order to offer grants worth up to £25,000 to small and medium sized businesses that can develop innovative solutions for taking advantage of superfast broadband connectivity.

The UK Top 8 Fastest Major Home Broadband ISPs for May 2014

2nd June, 2014 (15 Comments)

The average fixed line home broadband download speed for the largest eight ISPs in the United Kingdom held stable at 21.7Mbps (up from 21.32Mbps in April 2014) and Internet uploads were similarly unchanged at 5.04Mbps. As usual Virgin Media and BT remain the fastest national providers. A new chart that tracks the monthly changes has also been added.

UK Gov Spent £185K to Recruit New Broadband CEO and Project Managers

1st June, 2014 (13 Comments)

The Government’s Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) has revealed that a total of £184,591.50 was granted for a SofS approved recruitment campaign for new Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) project managers and a CEO earlier this year, which is almost as much as the chosen CEO himself will be paid (£200k per annum).

Next Generation 10Gbps WiFi at 5GHz Successfully Tested and Due in 2018

31st May, 2014 (6 Comments)

The forthcoming 2015 launch of the new 802.11ac-2013 WiFi WLAN wireless home networking standard (here), which promises speeds of up to 7Gbps (Gigabits per second), hasn’t even happened yet and Huawei are already overshadowing it with plans to introduce a 10Gbps standard (802.11ax) during 2018.

UK ISP Sky Broadband Must Try Harder to Deliver a Better Router

31st May, 2014 (12 Comments)

Over the past couple of years most of the big broadband ISPs have introduced new routers with modern features, such as support for the latest Gigabit capable 802.11ac WiFi standard, Gigabit LAN ports, IPv6, USB ports, 5GHz wifi and so forth (note: there’s some variance on these between ISPs). But not all have been as fast to keep pace.

Worcestershire and West Yorkshire UK Begin FTTC Broadband Rollouts

30th May, 2014 (8 Comments)

The state aid supported £20.75m Superfast Worcestershire and separate £21.96m Superfast West Yorkshire projects in England have today announced the start of their respective deployment phases, with the first local homes and businesses going live with BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) services in each area.

PlusNet UK Prep Product Refresh and Half Price Unlimited Fibre Broadband

30th May, 2014 (25 Comments)

Internet provider PlusNet has cut the cost of its superfast ‘Unlimited Fibre Broadband and Calls’ (FTTC) package in half from £19.99 to just £9.99 a month for the first 6 months of service. Meanwhile there are also plans for another rise in the cost of line rental and a product refresh to simplify their packages.

Virgin Media Unveil Final Big Bundles of Quad Play Broadband and Mobile

29th May, 2014 (6 Comments)

As expected UK cable operator Virgin Media, which last month launched its new quad-play ‘Big Kahuna’ and ‘Big Bang’ broadband, phone and TV bundles with a mobile service (here), has today unveiled the details and prices for its full range of revamped packages including ‘Big Connection’, ‘Big Easy’ and ‘Big Daddy’.

UK ISP Zen Internet Bids Farewell to Usenet Service

29th May, 2014 (2 Comments)

In a not entirely surprising move Zen Internet has informed customers that their old Usenet (Newsgroups) service is to be completely withdrawn.

Vaioni to Cover up to £6K of Fibre Leased Line Excess Construction Charges

29th May, 2014 (0 Comments)

Manchester-based business ISP Vaioni has announced that it will offer up to £6,000 worth of cover against Excess Construction Charges (ECC), irrespective of operator choice, on all orders of its fibre optic based Leased Line services.