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National Broadband Delivery UK Scheme Passes 273,731 with BT Fibre

28th January, 2014 (9 Comments)

The Government’s Broadband Delivery UK programme, which hopes to make superfast fixed line broadband speeds of 25Mbps+ available to 95% of the population by 2017, claims to have successfully passed 273,731 premises on 31st Dec 2013 with BT’s FTTC/P network (estimated to now be sitting at 300,000).

BT Openreach Hike the Price of Already Expensive 330Mbps Fibre on Demand

28th January, 2014 (40 Comments)

In a surprise move BTOpenreach has advised us that its FTTP on Demand (FoD) product, which makes their “ultra-fast” 330Mbps (30Mbps uploads) fibre optic broadband ISP technology available to premises on FTTC capable lines, is now going to become even more expensive due to higher than expected deployment costs.

Ofcom Find Decline in UK Satisfaction with Reliability of Broadband

28th January, 2014 (1 Comment)

The communications regulator has today published its annual Consumer Experience Report (2013), which among other things reveals that consumer satisfaction with broadband service reliability has fallen from 88% in 2012 to 83% in 2013 and this is highest for those who live in rural areas where poor connectivity is more common.

Akamai – Global Internet Download Speeds Average 3.6Mb as UK Top 9.1Mb

28th January, 2014 (2 Comments)

Akamai has today published its latest quarterly State of the Internet Q3 – 2013 report, which reveals that the world’s average Internet download speed is now 3.6Mbps (up 10% from 3.3Mbps in Q2-2013). Meanwhile the United Kingdom scored 9.1Mbps (up 8.9% from 8.4Mbps) but still fell from 10th to be ranked 14th fastest.

Gigaclear Scrap FTTP Plan for Rural Wiltshire Areas Due to BDUK and BT

28th January, 2014 (7 Comments)

Fibre optic broadband ISP Gigaclear (Rutland Telecom) has scrapped its tentative plan to build a 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in the Dun Valley or Tytherleys (Wiltshire, England) after the local state aid funded Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) and BT project confirmed that it would also be doing them using slower FTTC.

Broadband Delivery UK Again Push Councils to Publish More BT Map Data

28th January, 2014 (6 Comments)

The latest Public Accounts Committee event, which saw BT’s Group Strategy Director (Sean Williams) receive another grilling by Margaret Hodge MP, has revealed that the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) office is once again writing to councils in the hope to securing a greater publication of viable broadband coverage data.

Worcestershire UK Name First BDUK and BT Fibre Broadband Rollout Areas

27th January, 2014 (6 Comments)

The state aid fuelled £20.75m Superfast Worcestershire (England) project has today revealed which communities will be the first to get access to BT’s “high-speed fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network, which aims to pass 90% of local premises by the middle of 2016.

Ofcom Moot FREE Broadband Ceases for BT Lines in UK Rural Areas

27th January, 2014 (28 Comments)

The communications regulator has today posted a further consultation for its on-going review into the UK’s Wholesale Broadband Access (WBA) market, which among other things examines the impact of BT’s FTTC/P deployment in rural areas and also proposes free cease charges.

UPDATE2 UK ISP Sky Broadband Shield Blocking Critical jQuery Website

27th January, 2014 (1 Comment)

Customers whom enable Sky Broadband’s Shield (Parental Controls) service, particularly if they select the blocking option for “malicious or phishing websites“, will also find that the often essential jQuery (http://code.jquery.com) JavaScript CDN site also ends up being restricted (this is used by many websites).

Lancashire UK Expand BDUK and BT Fibre Broadband to 10 More Communities

25th January, 2014 (12 Comments)

The £62.5m Superfast Lancashire project in England has revealed the names of a further 10 communities that will gain access to BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) network by the end of March 2014. On top of that some 52% of the county can now access the service (total of 350,000 premises passed).

UK Government Publish Baseline Broadband Impact Study Report

24th January, 2014 (2 Comments)

The Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has today published a baseline report for its UK Broadband Impact Study, which aims to ensure that there is a good understanding of the impact that their Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) programme is having.

BT Invests GBP50m to Extend its Fibre Broadband Across Over 30 UK Cities

24th January, 2014 (22 Comments)

BT has today announced that it plans to invest a further £50 million into their commercial roll-out of fibre optic based broadband (FTTC/P) technologies, which will be used to improve connectivity across more than 30 cities and thus benefit an additional 400,000 UK premises.

UK MPs Demand Prison Sentences for Repeat Internet Pirates

24th January, 2014 (17 Comments)

A debate on the United Kingdom’s Intellectual Property Bill has caused controversy after several MPs and the Prime Minister’s own Intellectual Property Advisor, Mike Weatherley (Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade), backed calls for persistent pirates to lose their “Internet rights” and suffer “some sort of custodial sentence“.

Arieso Claim 0.1% of 4G Mobile Broadband Users Gobble Half of All Data

24th January, 2014 (3 Comments)

Analysts working at Arieso have warned of an “explosive growth in mobile data usage“, fuelled by the latest generation of LTE based Mobile Broadband services, where just 0.1% of 4G customers were found to be “data hogs” that consume more than 50% of all downlink data (globally). iPhone5s owners were also named as the hungriest for data.

ISP Tesco UK Has Prepared a Superfast FTTC Fibre Broadband Package

24th January, 2014 (26 Comments)

Consumers interested in signing up for Tesco’s Broadband and Home Phone service might like to know that the ISP appears to be hiding a Fibre Broadband (up to 38Mbps) package under the hood of their website, which we spotted by accident while conducting one of our database update sweeps.

South Gloucestershire and Wiltshire UK Name 13 New BT Fibre Rollout Areas

23rd January, 2014 (1 Comment)

The joint £35.6m superfast broadband roll-out project between South Gloucestershire and Wiltshire in England has today announced another batch of local communities that can expect to receive an upgrade to BT’s “fibre broadband“(FTTC/P) network from summer 2014.

UPDATE UK ISP Sky Broadband Stop Offering Line Rental Saver Discount

23rd January, 2014 (8 Comments)

Customers might now have one less reason to sign-up with Sky Broadband (BSkyB) after the operator quietly withdraw their pre-paid Line Rental Saver service, which reduced the cost of renting a fixed telephone line to the equivalent of £9.95 per month when paying 12 months in advance (£119.40).