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Cumbria UK Still Passing the Buck over BT Fibre Broadband Coverage Data

14th May, 2014 (3 Comments)

The Cumbria County Council has once again refused to publish the 7-digit postcode level broadband speed and coverage data for their state-aid supported roll-out of BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) network, which aims to reach 93% of homes and businesses in the region by the end of 2015. This time the buck is passed back to BT on copyright grounds.

£1m Fund to Help Female Entrepreneurs Benefit from Superfast Broadband

14th May, 2014 (3 Comments)

The Government’s Equalities Office has setup a new £1m Challenge Fund alongside the national Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) programme, which will be used to help female entrepreneurs get the most out superfast broadband.

RBS and NatWest Respond to HSBC by Adding FREE WiFi to their UK Banks

13th May, 2014 (3 Comments)

Banking giants RBS and NatWest have confirmed that all of their customers will be able to access a free wireless Internet (wifi) service, which is already active in over 800 of the bank’s branches across the United Kingdom, by the end of the summer 2014 when almost 1,200 additional branches will have free WiFi installed.

IETF Commits to Hamper State Sponsored Mass Internet Surveillance

13th May, 2014 (0 Comments)

The influential Internet Engineering Task Force, which is a large open international community of network designers and operators that work to help evolve the Internet’s underlying protocols and architecture, has decided to take action against massive state sponsored Internet snooping (e.g. GCHQ/NSA etc.) through the development of new solutions to mitigate such activity.

Biggest Four UK ISPs Launch Online Child Safety Website – Internet Matters

13th May, 2014 (0 Comments)

As expected the Government has nudged BT, TalkTalk, Virgin Media and Sky Broadband into launching a new portal called InternetMatters.ORG, which represents a joint internet safety campaign that aims to help both parents and children to understand the dangers of the online world and how to protect themselves.

EU Court Rules People Sometimes Have a Right to be Forgotten Online

13th May, 2014 (2 Comments)

Sometimes Internet privacy and freedom of information can come into bitter conflict with each other and that appears to be the outcome of a new ruling against Google by the European Union’s Court of Justice (ECJ). The outcome could lay the groundwork for everybody to have a “right to be forgotten” online.

Isle of Wight Confirms First BT Fibre Broadband Rollout Areas

12th May, 2014 (4 Comments)

The Isle of Wight Council, which represents a small island just off England’s central south coast that is home to around 140,000 people, has named the first communities to benefit from their local Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) supported deployment of BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) network.

BSkyB Confirm Interest in Sky Germany and Italy Acquisitions

12th May, 2014 (5 Comments)

BSkyB (Sky Broadband) has confirmed last week’s report that it has an interest in merging with Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland, which are all broadly owned and controlled by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox (although Murdoch’s stake in BSkyB is just over 39%). But no agreement has “ever been reached“.

HSBC Installs Free Wi-Fi in Bank Branches Across the United Kingdom

12th May, 2014 (7 Comments)

Banking giant HSBC has put out a short announcement today to confirm that over 650 of its branches across the UK are now able to offer customers free wireless Internet (wifi) access, which is thanks to the installation of a premium BT Wi-fi network.

UPDATE Derbyshire UK Offers Small BT FTTC Broadband Rollout Update

12th May, 2014 (3 Comments)

Do you live in the English county of Derbyshire? If so then aside from a very tentative deployment map you’re probably starved for information about the progress of your local £27.67m Digital Derbyshire project, which is working to make BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network available to 95% of local premises by the end of 2016.

UPDATE Ericsson Trial 10Gbps 5G Mobile Broadband Network in Japan

12th May, 2014 (15 Comments)

The standard for the next generation of 5G mobile communications technology is still being debated, yet that hasn’t stopped telecoms giant Ericsson from teaming up with Japanese mobile firm NTT DOCOMO to test its own 10Gbps+ (Gigabits per second) capable solution in Yokosuka; albeit using the 15GHz radio frequency band.

UK ISP TalkTalk Cuts Unlimited Broadband Bundle to Just GBP1.75 Monthly

12th May, 2014 (1 Comment)

Budget ISP TalkTalk has announced that its “totally unlimited” Simply Broadband and phone bundle has been reduced from £3.50 to just £1.75 per month for the first six months of service, although customers will still need to pay line rental on top from £11.75 when pre-paid a year in advance or £15.95 monthly.

Premiership Football Finals Knock Sky’s Broadband NOW TV Service Offline

12th May, 2014 (4 Comments)

Customers who shelled out £9.99 for a Sky Sports Day Pass on Sky’s broadband-based Internet video streaming service NOW TV have been promised a refund after another spate of network congestion took the service offline just as the final Barclays Premier League Football matches of the 2013/14 season were kicking off.

Welsh Wireless Broadband ISP Xwavia Secures £1.2m Finance Wales Loan

9th May, 2014 (21 Comments)

Powys-based wireless broadband ISP eXwavia Xwavia has, following last month’s report by ISPreview.co.uk (here), confirmed that they’ve secured an investment of £1.2 million from Finance Wales to help make faster Internet connectivity available to more rural parts of Wales in the United Kingdom. The first areas to benefit will be in Conwy.

Netflix UK Confirm GBP6.99 Price Rise and Broadband ISP Speeds for 4K

9th May, 2014 (97 Comments)

Netflix UK, the Internet-based unlimited movie and TV video streaming service, has confirmed that the monthly price of their service will soon rise from £5.99 to £6.99 as already widely expected. But the good news is that this will only impact new customers, at least for now.

UPDATE ISPs Set to Agree Weakened Voluntary Internet Piracy Warning Letters

9th May, 2014 (15 Comments)

A new report claims that the United Kingdom’s four largest home broadband ISPs (BT, TalkTalk, Sky Broadband and Virgin Media) are expected to imminently agree a controversial new Voluntary Copyright Alert Programme of Internet piracy warning letters with the Motion Picture Association and British Phonographic Industry.

ISPA Announce Finalists for its 2014 UK ISP Internet Industry Awards

8th May, 2014 (2 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today revealed the official shortlist of finalists for its forthcoming 16th annual 2014 Internet industry awards, which has seen broadband providers including Hyperoptic, Sky Broadband and PlusNet gaining nominations across several consumer focused categories.