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Northallerton High Street Gains FREE WiFi Internet from CLANNET

24th February, 2014 (0 Comments)

A joint £1,000 project undertaken by Northallerton Retail & Business Forum, Northallerton Town Council and Hambleton District Council has resulted in the installation of a new free wifi hotspot being deployed to cover Northallerton High Street.

UPD Sudbury Locals Left Without Broadband and Phone from BT for 2 Weeks

24th February, 2014 (5 Comments)

Residents and businesses on and around Melford Road in the small market town of Sudbury (Suffolk, England) have been left without broadband and phone services since 4th February 2014 when a car hit a local BT telegraph pole and damaged its cables.

Port Glasgow School Block ‘Yes Scotland’ Campaign Site for Policy Violation

24th February, 2014 (0 Comments)

The curse of skin deep Internet filtering (censorship) has struck again after a young pupil studying at St Stephens school in Port Glasgow (Scotland) found that she could access the pro-union website Better Together but was blocked from accessing the pro-independence Yes Scotland one due to a “policy violation” (hehe).

Better Broadband for Suffolk UK Connects 14,000 Premises to FTTC

22nd February, 2014 (1 Comment)

The drip feeding of roll-out information from the £40m Better Broadband for Suffolk project reveals that more than 2,100 homes and businesses in Southwold and Reydon can now access BT’s “high speed fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network after 7 local street cabinets (serving 174 postcodes) were upgraded.

Virgin Media UK Apprenticeship Scheme Helps Boost Engineer Jobs by 116

22nd February, 2014 (2 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has added another 116 engineers as part of their on-going apprenticeship scheme and more are expected to follow. The new recruits are apparently needed to “help meet the demand for superfast broadband and digital services” in homes across the United Kingdom.

First Fibre Broadband Rollout Areas in East Riding of Yorkshire Confirmed

21st February, 2014 (0 Comments)

The £14m Broadband East Riding Project, which aims to make BT’s superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services available to a further 42,734 local premises by December 2015, has announced its first roll-out locations for late April 2014 onwards.

Entanet UK Secures Multi-Million Investment for Management Buyout

21st February, 2014 (2 Comments)

Communications provider Entanet, which supplies a number of Internet providers and businesses in the United Kingdom with broadband, Ethernet, VPN and other services, has managed to secure an initial private equity investment of £6m that will be used to support a £14m “management buyout” and to upgrade their services.

KC Says 71% of Brits Consider Broadband Speed During House Hunting

21st February, 2014 (104 Comments)

A new survey conducted by incumbent Hull ISP KC, with more than 2,000 adults across the United Kingdom, has revealed that 71% of Brits take Internet speed into account when looking for a new home. This is partly being driven by the growth in connected devices and home working.

Google Chrome Compression Speeds Up Web Browsing on Slow Internet Links

21st February, 2014 (4 Comments)

Sadly many people still live in locations where slow fixed line or mobile broadband connections can be quite common and in other cases you may need to reduce your usage to avoid going over a data cap. Thankfully Google’s popular Chrome website browser now has the capability to compress website pages just like the Turbo Mode of its rival Opera.

EE UK Drop Unlimited Home Broadband Price to £2 for Mobile Users

20th February, 2014 (1 Comment)

Existing customers of EE’s mobile network, including T-Mobile and Orange UK subscribers, can now take their fixed line unlimited Home Broadband (up to 17Mbps) and free calls package from just £2 per month for the first 12 months (plus line rental from £11 pre-paid or £15.40 monthly).

Digital Inclusion Scheme Brings FREE WiFi to 200 Castle Vale Residents

20th February, 2014 (2 Comments)

The Castle Vale Community Housing Association (CVCHA) has teamed up with CommunityUK to launch a new digital inclusion scheme that will help over 200 residents in Castle Vale (Birmingham, England) to get online via a free wireless Internet connection.

Businesses Show Interest in CityFibre’s Fibre Optic Plan for Peterborough

20th February, 2014 (10 Comments)

CityFibre’s “Gig Up” campaign, which has been working to drum up business support for their £30m strategic partnership with Peterborough City Council to roll-out a new 1000Mbps fibre optic network in the area, has heralded its efforts as a success after attracting interest from 100+ firms within the first week.

Virgin Media WiFi on London Underground Arrives at 10 More Stations

20th February, 2014 (1 Comment)

Virgin Media has announced that a further ten London underground tube stations (total of 131) have just been added to their public wireless internet (wifi) hotspot service.

EE UK Growth Boost to 726K Home Broadband Users as 4G Reaches 2 Million

20th February, 2014 (4 Comments)

Telecoms operator EE has released its latest Q4-2013 financial results and revealed that their fixed line Home Broadband subscriber base added +12k new customers in the quarter to total 726,000 (up from +10k added in Q3), while their 4G based Mobile Broadband users went from 1.2m in Q3 to 1.996m now.

UK Ultrafast FTTH Fibre Optic Broadband Lines Slow to Grow – Global Ranking

19th February, 2014 (107 Comments)

The FTTH Council Europe, which campaigns for the widespread adoption of true Fibre-to-the-Home (100Mbps+) broadband ISP connections, has published its latest annual table of global FTTH coverage and revealed that growth in the United Kingdom has slowed and continues to offer less than 1% penetration (234k premises passed at 10.3% uptake).

Ofcom Shun WiFi Interference Fears to Prep 2.3GHz Auction for Mobile

19th February, 2014 (3 Comments)

The communications regulator has assessed the impact for both licensed and licence-exempt uses of the 2.3GHz and 3.4GHz radio spectrum bands and found that the risk of interference with other services, such as WiFi (adjacent 2.4GHz band), did exist but wasn’t big enough to be worth worrying about.

EE Expand 4G Mobile Broadband to 14 New UK Towns and 18 Big Airports

19th February, 2014 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (4GEE) has extended the reach of its “superfast” 4G (LTE at 1800MHz) based Mobile Broadband network to 14 more towns (total 174 towns and cities) and 18 of the UK’s largest airports, which means their service now covers 70% of the population. Commuters on key rail and road routes will also benefit.