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UK Holiday and Campsites Need Better FREE WiFi Internet Access

29th June, 2013 (3 Comments)

A new survey conducted by outdoor accommodation site Pitchup.com has reported that just 17% of holiday and campsites listed on its site offer a public wireless internet (wifi) connection and only 8% support free internet access.

UPDATE North Lincolnshire UK Signs £5.7m BT Fibre Broadband Rollout

28th June, 2013 (1 Comment)

The North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire Councils have today signed a new state aid supported £5.7 million contract that will see BT expand the reach of its “high-speed fibre” broadband (FTTC/P) connectivity to cover 89% of local homes and businesses by the end of Spring 2015. But how many of the 89% will be “superfast” (25Mbps+)?

Devon and Somerset UK Confirm First BDUK Areas for BT Fibre Broadband

28th June, 2013 (4 Comments)

The £94 million state aid supported joint Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) project to make BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) services available to “around” 90% of local premises by the end of 2016 (original news) has today confirmed the first towns and villages to be upgraded.

BT Vision Warns No Sky Sports TV Without Superfast Broadband.. Sort of

28th June, 2013 (22 Comments)

Some customers of the BT Vision TV (IPTV) service could this weekend lose access to the Sky Sports 1 and 2 TV channels unless they have a good standard broadband connection or take the operators superfast BTInfinity (FTTC) service alongside their package.

Satellite ISP Bentley Walker Launch UK Rural Broadband Survey

28th June, 2013 (2 Comments)

Satellite internet provider Bentley Walker has launched a new 2013 Rural Broadband Survey website in order to “investigate the gap in broadband internet performance around the UK“. But the survey appears to be limited in scope.

Criminals Knock Out Critical BT Broadband and Phone Services in Oldham

28th June, 2013 (3 Comments)

BTOpenreach has declared a Serious Incident (SI) after criminals cut through and damaged seven of its vital fibre optic and copper cables in the Oldham (Greater Manchester, England) area just before midnight on Wednesday, which is affecting broadband and phone services across the region.

Spectrum Internet Deploy Own Fibre Broadband to 700 Homes in Rural Wales

28th June, 2013 (4 Comments)

Cardiff-based ISP Spectrum Internet has announced that the rollout of its own Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) based superfast broadband (30Mbps+) network in South Wales has now passed more than 700 homes around the Gower (Swansea) telephone exchange area and for two villages in Monmouthshire.

UPDATE8 Gov Pledge 95% of UK to Get Fixed Superfast Broadband by 2017

27th June, 2013 (8 Comments)

The Chief Secretary to the Treasury for the United Kingdom, Danny Alexander, has today published full details of the country’s future infrastructure spending plans (‘Investing in Britain’s Future‘). Included in this is a £250 million commitment to ensure fixed line superfast broadband reaches 95% of the population by 2017 (99% by 2018 with wireless).

EE 4G Rollout Expands to Cover More than 55% of the UK Population

27th June, 2013 (1 Comment)

Mobile network operator EE (4GEE) has announced that its superfast 4G (LTE at 1800MHz) based Mobile Broadband network can now reach 55% of the United Kingdom’s population across 85 towns and cities.

ISP TalkTalk UK Trial New Huawei HG523a Firmware to Fix Router Lock-up

27th June, 2013 (4 Comments)

Customers of broadband provider TalkTalk, specifically those that use one of the ISPs Huawei HG523a based router modems, can now take part in a new firmware trial that offers several improvements and a fix for the intermittent “lock-up” issues that some have suffered.

UK ISP Direct Save Telecom Launch No-Contract Unlimited Broadband

26th June, 2013 (4 Comments)

Budget Internet provider Direct Save Telecom has today claimed to be the “first telecom provider in the UK to launch a no-contract unlimited family broadband” package, which costs £16.95 a month but a minimum term of 28 days is still attached.

Virgin Media UK Tweaks its Broadband Traffic Management Policy Again

26th June, 2013 (3 Comments)

As expected Virgin Media has once again tweaked its broadband Traffic Management policy, which many consumers already find to be quite confusing, to improve upstream (upload) speeds and flexibility in order to help make video streaming from home computers smoother.

UPDATE UK ISP EE Hit by Ofcom for Most Home Broadband Complaints

26th June, 2013 (0 Comments)

Mobile and Internet provider EE UK (Orange) has once again been shamed by Ofcom’s latest quarterly customer complaints report (Q1-2013), which highlighted their home broadband service as having the largest number of disgruntled customers among all of the biggest ISPs. But they did improve from Q4-2012.

UK Government Detail Connection Vouchers to Fix Urban Broadband

26th June, 2013 (0 Comments)

The government has today launched a new consultation that reveals how its troubled £150 million “Super-Connected Cities” (Urban Broadband Fund) programme will go about improving business broadband connectivity in selected cities now that EU state aid concerns have forced them to scrap their infrastructure development. But some homes might still benefit.

BT Confirm UK Superfast Broadband FTTC Vectoring Trial for Late July

26th June, 2013 (35 Comments)

BTOpenreach has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that the first trial of its new VDSL Vectoring (ITU-T G.993.5) technology in the United Kingdom, which could help ISPs to deliver better FTTC broadband speeds over longer copper lines, is now set to begin at the end of July or early August 2013.

The Government Could Spin Off its National Broadband Delivery UK Project

25th June, 2013 (0 Comments)

The secretary of state for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), Maria Miller, has reportedly called for a radical overhaul over the Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) office to improve how it’s run and re-focus on tackling the final 10% of poorly served rural areas.

FTTC is Key Risk for UK ISP TalkTalk as Citigroup and Morgan Stanley Differ

25th June, 2013 (2 Comments)

Global financial services firm Morgan Stanley and banking giant Citigroup (Citi) have both warned that new TV (sport) and broadband offers from BT and Sky Broadband (BSkyB) will put pressure on TalkTalk’s future, yet while one has downgraded its expectations the other has done the opposite.