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UPDATE North Yorkshire Police Investigate Wireless Broadband ISP Kit Theft

13th February, 2014 (0 Comments)

The North Yorkshire Police (England) have launched an investigation after a wireless broadband server, which helped to provide Internet access to the local area, was stolen from a mast located close to Newton-upon-Rawcliffe on Sunday 9th February 2014.

BT Helped by £24.5m Northern Ireland Broadband Improvement Project

13th February, 2014 (5 Comments)

The Northern Ireland Executive (NIE) has announced a £24.5m project, which is part funded by BT and the Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) scheme, to make faster Internet speeds available to over 45,000 of the regions most remote rural homes and business premises by December 2015.

UK ISP PlusNet Cuts Unlimited Fibre Broadband and Calls Price to GBP12.50

13th February, 2014 (5 Comments)

Internet provider PlusNet has slashed the cost of its up to 76Mbps capable superfast ‘Unlimited Fibre Broadband and Calls’ (FTTC) package from £19.99 to just £12.50 a month for the first 9 months of service.

UPDATE Mass Exploit Hits Linksys E1000 and E1200 Wireless Routers

13th February, 2014 (0 Comments)

Consumers that own one of Linksys’s E1000 or E1200 Wireless-N routers (possibly other models too) should take note that the devices appear to be vulnerable to a mass exploit that compromises the router and then forces it to saturate all of the available bandwidth by scanning port 80 and 8080 as fast as possible.

BT Open Voluntary Redundancies Scheme for Staff in N.Ireland UK

12th February, 2014 (0 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT has opened a voluntary leaver programme for its business in Ireland and Northern Ireland, which some reports claim could result in the loss of 100 jobs. But this is arguably overshadowed by recent recruitment elsewhere.

Goonhilly Earth Station Deal Safeguards Avanti’s Satellite Broadband Premises

12th February, 2014 (0 Comments)

Satellite broadband ISP Avanti, along with several other space communications firms, can rest a little easier today after landowner BT agreed a new 999-year lease for the Goonhilly Earth Station, a large telecommunications site located at Goonhilly Downs on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall (England).

11 Year MTHR Study Finds No Danger from Wireless Mobile Phone Radiation

12th February, 2014 (16 Comments)

People concerned that wireless radiation from mobile services operating in the electromagnetic spectrum (radio), such as those used for Mobile Phones and Mobile Broadband (e.g. 900MHz and 1800MHz), can rest a little easier today after an 11-year long and £13.6m UK study found “no evidence” of biological or adverse health effects.

Better Broadband for Oxfordshire Project Names Next BT Fibre Upgrades

11th February, 2014 (1 Comment)

The £25m Better Broadband for Oxfordshire project, which aims to extend BT’s superfast broadband access (25Mbps+) to 90% of Oxfordshire in England by the end of 2015, has revealed the next batch of locations to benefit from the upgrade.

BT Denies Underspend on its GBP2.5bn UK GEA Fibre Broadband Rollout

11th February, 2014 (11 Comments)

BT has denied that its commercial investment of £2.5 billion, which is being used to make their superfast broadband (FTTC/P) network available to around 66% of the United Kingdom by Spring 2014 (19 million premises), will complete with significant underspend worth hundreds of millions.

Durham’s Phase 1 BDUK and BT Superfast Broadband Rollout Begins

11th February, 2014 (4 Comments)

The £24m Digital Durham project, which is working with BT to make superfast broadband speeds (FTTC/P) available to “around” 94% of local premises by the end of 2016, has finally begun the first phase of its deployment.

BBC, C4 and ITV Moot Internet Catch Up TV Service Freeview Connect

11th February, 2014 (4 Comments)

Who needs YouView (IPTV) anyway? The BBC, Channel 4, ITV and Digital UK appear to be considering a third bash at the Internet based catch-up TV game (aka – Freeview Connect) after their last attempt, YouView, ended up becoming more of a commercial customer retention tool for the big broadband ISPs (e.g. TalkTalk and BT).

Ofcom Propose to Allow 3G and 4G Mobile Broadband on Aircraft

11th February, 2014 (4 Comments)

It’s already possible to make 2G based voice calls on-board flights (note: not all allow it though) and Ofcom has now launched a new consultation that aims to extend this by enabling the use of 3G (UMTS at 2100MHz) and 4G (LTE at 1800MHz) based Smartphones and related devices on a licence-exempt basis while flying.

BT Openreach MD – Sorry for 6 Week Binfield Heath Broadband Outage

10th February, 2014 (0 Comments)

Don’t blame the hybrid fibre upgrade. The Managing Director (Service Management) of BTOpenreach, Warren Buckley, has apologise to residents of Binfield Heath in Oxfordshire, which last year raised £60k to help roll-out a superfast broadband (FTTC) service in the area (here), following an up to 6 week long broadband and phone outage.

25 More Areas to Get Superfast Broadband Under Connecting Shropshire

10th February, 2014 (1 Comment)

The £24.6m Connecting Shropshire project in England has revealed a new list of 25 telephone exchange areas that will benefit from an upgrade to BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network, which should be expanded to reach 93% of local premises by the end of Spring 2016 (excluding the separate Telford & Wrekin).

Many Broadband ISP Consumers Suffer in Silence Rather than Complain

10th February, 2014 (3 Comments)

Everybody has a right to complain to their supplier when something goes wrong but a new Consumer Action Monitor report from Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) provider, Ombudsman Services, claims that 40 million complaints (all sectors) went unaddressed because many people chose to “suffer in silence“.

North Lincolnshire UK Begins BDUK and BT Superfast Broadband Rollout

10th February, 2014 (0 Comments)

The state aid supported £9.6m Northernlincs Broadband project has named the first communities to benefit from the roll-out of BT’s “high-speed fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network, which aims to cover 92% of North and North East Lincolnshire in East England by spring 2015.

BT’s Struggle to Upgrade Broadband in Costly Deep Rural Parts of the UK

10th February, 2014 (12 Comments)

Competition concerns with the Broadband Delivery UK project have again been raised after BT’s Programme Manager for the £94m Connecting Devon and Somerset scheme in England, Laurent Boon, rejected a call for the parish of Upottery to receive a “fibre broadband” upgrade, which it said would cost the equivalent of £2,000 per property.