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Entanet Outlines UK ISP Migration Plan After O2 Wholesale Closure

7th November, 2013 (5 Comments)

Communications provider Entanet, which supplies a number of UK Internet providers with broadband services, has this week become the latest operator to publish plans for moving their existing O2/BE Wholesale based unbundled (LLU) lines away from that network and onto their BT-based platform.

Hull ISP KC Calls UK Broadband Speed Demand Study a Dangerous Red Herring

7th November, 2013 (5 Comments)

The Hull-based incumbent telecoms provider KC, which covers part of East Yorkshire in England, has advised the UK Government to ignore an “unambitious” new study by the Broadband Stakeholder Group after it suggested that a “median household” might only require bandwidth of 19Mbps (Megabits per second) by 2023.

UPDATE ISPA Conference to Discuss Future of the UK Internet and Broadband

6th November, 2013 (6 Comments)

The 8th annual ISPA Conference, which will be held on Wednesday 27th November 2013 (9:15am – 4pm), has set out quite an interesting agenda and one that intends to look at the state of national broadband provision (both now and post-2015) as well as what ISPs might look like in ten years’ time.

Virgin Media UK Scrapes Upwards to Reach 4.48m Broadband Subscribers

6th November, 2013 (5 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has today published its latest Q3-2013 (calendar) results and confirmed that their total broadband ISP subscriber base has crept upwards by +13,600 in the quarter to total 4,488,600, which follows a slight fall of -15.5k during the prior Q2 period. Network coverage has also improved.

Right Holders Seek to Stop Geographic Internet Address Masking

6th November, 2013 (14 Comments)

Not content with tackling Internet piracy it now looks as if some Copyright Holders want to stop people from accessing legal content in other countries by blocking services that allow you to go online via the Internet address (IP) of a different location (e.g. such as when you use a VPN to view UK online TV content from the USA). Satellite ISPs take note.

UPD2 BT Openreach FTTC Superfast Broadband Modems Break VPN Access

5th November, 2013 (2 Comments)

The Director of broadband ISP Andrews & Arnold (AAISP), Adrian Kennard, claims to have discovered a fault with the superfast broadband FTTC (VDSL) modems that BTOpenreach distributes to new subscribers, which can affect “almost anyone running any sort of VPN” (Virtual Private Network) Internet service.

BSG Claims UK Homes to Only Need 19Mbps Broadband Speeds by 2023

5th November, 2013 (104 Comments)

The Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG), which advises the Government on broadband matters, has published a new report that claims to outline a “new way for measuring and forecasting demand for bandwidth in UK homes“. The research concludes that the “median household” will require bandwidth of 19Mbps (Megabits per second) by 2023.

ISP Direct Save Telecom Slash the Cost of New UK Phone Line Installs

5th November, 2013 (0 Comments)

Budget communications provider Direct Save Telecom has cut the one-off price for new residential line installations by around 40% from £49.95 to only £29.95, which is of course subject to the customer taking out a service linked to an 18 month contract term.

Ofcom Start Publishing Raw UK Fixed Line Broadband ISP Speedtest Data

5th November, 2013 (0 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has decided to publish some of the raw data that’s used to construct their bi-annual fixed line broadband speeds report (e.g. the August 2013 Report) and have made it available to the public via XLS (MS Excel) and CSV format.

Gigaclear to Deploy 1Gbps Fibre Broadband to 3 More UK Rural Villages

5th November, 2013 (7 Comments)

Fibre optic ISP Gigaclear has confirmed that broadband speeds of up to 1Gbps (Gigabit per second) should soon become available to 1,500 homes and 4 business parks in Farmoor and Stanton Harcourt (Oxfordshire, England) alongside Underriver and its surrounding villages in Kent.

EE Begin UK Trial of Ultrafast 300Mbps 4G LTE-A Mobile Broadband Speeds

5th November, 2013 (6 Comments)

EE (4GEE) has confirmed that its first trial of ultrafast 300Mbps (Megabits per second) capable 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband speeds should get underway in East London (Tech City) today, although the full commercial roll-out isn’t due to begin until summer 2014; once more end-user hardware is available to support it.

UK Next Gen 5G Mobile Broadband Development Centre Gets a Timetable

4th November, 2013 (3 Comments)

Ofcom has revealed that the UK government’s £35 million+ investment to setup a 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) at the University of Surrey, which will be used to develop the next (5th) generation of ultrafast Mobile Broadband technology, is due to be completed by the start of 2015.

CityFibre and ISP Gigler Bring 1Gbps Packages to Bournemouth UK Firms

4th November, 2013 (0 Comments)

The CityFibre backed ISP Gigler, which supplies a 1000Mbps (500Mbps uploads) capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network to 21,000 premises in the south coast city of Bournemouth (England), has today launched a range of new business packages for local firms.

ISPreview Study Finds Dissatisfaction with UK Telecoms Engineers

4th November, 2013 (12 Comments)

A new survey of 1,534 ISPreview.co.uk readers has found that 89.4% of respondents have at some point needed to call out a telecoms engineer (such as those dispatched by BTOpenreach or Virgin Media) to help resolve a broadband or phone issue. Sadly the majority (75.7%) said they were often dissatisfied with the final outcome.

UPDATE2 UK ISP TalkTalk Prep New Broadband Super Router with Ultrafast WiFi

4th November, 2013 (16 Comments)

Broadband and phone provider TalkTalk appears to be preparing to take on rival ISPs by upping its game with the forthcoming launch of a new “Super Router“, which will be based off the latest Huawei HG635 hardware and appears to feature the most recent Gigabit (1000Mbps+) capable wifi wireless networking specification (802.11ac).

Vodafone UK Funded Report Blasts Ofcom for Allowing Excess BT Profits

4th November, 2013 (3 Comments)

A new Vodafone UK commissioned report from consulting firm Frontier Economics has accused BT of being in breach of its regulatory commitments by allegedly making profits of nearly £5bn more than the level that Ofcom is claimed to deem acceptable.

UK Fibre ISP Gigaclear Calls for More Predictable and Useful BDUK Contract

4th November, 2013 (19 Comments)

Gigaclear, which specialises in deploying ultrafast 1Gbps capable fibre optic (FTTP) networks into rural areas around the United Kingdom, has told ISPreview.co.uk as part of our exclusive interview that the Government needs to create a more “predictable and useful” Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) scheme that allows more than just BT to bid for contracts.